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...Cities to hear the Don Cossack Chorus: Troy, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Detroit, Ann Arbor, St. Louis, Chicago, Minneapolis, Madison (Wis.), Pittsburgh, Akron, Indianapolis, Dayton, Cincinnati, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Hartford (Conn.), St. George (Staten Island). Baltimore, Washington...
Sholom Asch, No. 1 Yiddish novelist, was born (1880) in Kutno, near Poland's Warsaw. In 1910 he came to the U. S., lived for five years on Manhattan's Staten Island. Few of his novels (Uncle Moses, Kiddush Ha-Shem) have been translated; one of his plays (God of Vengeance), though several have been produced by the Yiddish Art Theatre, Manhattan. In 1919 Sholom Asch returned to Europe, lives in Paris. Son Nathan (The Office, Love in Chartres), now in Paris, lives in Manhattan, writes in English...
...Public Administrator of Staten Island, James W. Hennessey, had been indicted for a $35,000 deficit in his accounts...
Archibald Roosevelt, third son of the late great President, set out with two friends by night in a Samoan canoe to cross New York Bay from Staten Island. A steamer's wake capsized, a lighter rescued them...
...young, high-bred Holstein bull, en route from Pennsylvania to Porto Rico (object: paternity), arrived last week on the Staten Island shore of New York Harbor in a big strong crate on a motor truck. The truck went aboard the ferryboat Nassau. The motion of the ferry excited the bull. It hooked at the crate's slats, then hurled its 1,200 lbs. against the end boards, burst through, charged the truck driver and the ferry's brass-buttoned mate. All passengers and the mate fled to the top deck, leaving the bull snorting and plunging below. Came...