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Married, Stephen Henry Horgan, 80, inventor of the halftone process of reproducing photographs; and Miss Delia Van Houten, 74; in Nyack, N. Y. Mr. Horgan made his first newspaper halftone, a picture of Manhattan, for the defunct Daily Graphic in 1880. In 1924 he was the first man to telegraph a color photograph, a three-color portrait of Rudolph Valentino...
Died. "Mom," 92, biggest female elephant in the U. S., property of Dr. Pierre A. ("Oom the Omnipotent") Bernard; of cardiac rheumatism; in Nyack, N. Y. Circus Romancer Courtney Ryley Cooper sped to Nyack to attend her last moments...
...Briarcliff Manor, not far from Nyack where lives Oom the Omnipotent, onetime "love cultist," The Groups had an international house party. Glib, bright-eyed Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, "soul surgeon," arrived on the S. S. Aquitania with a party of 22 "experienced" members of The Groups, many of whom had met with him at a house party in Geneva last January (TIME...
...South Nyack, N. Y. Mrs. Ida Barrett Wheaton, 55, relict of a War veteran whom she met by mail, heard that her new War-veteran-correspondence fiance, one Warren Harris, was weakening in his resolution to marry her. She packed her bags, hailed a taxi, directed the driver: "Walkerton, Indiana. Step on it!" At Walkerton she found her fiance was only 36 years old. Also she disliked her prospective mother-in-law. Therefore she directed the chauffeur to drive her back to South Nyack. Distance covered: 1,778 mi. Fare...
...breeches jumped out. Bystanders looked casually for the pilot to follow him. None appeared. The boy, Joseph Sheehan Jr., 12, of Suffern, N. Y., had made his first solo flight, sitting on a soap-box and two air cushions to reach the controls. Next day Henry Bierds, 17, of Nyack (near Suffern) soloed after 100 min. instruction...