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Procter & Gamble today operates seven factories: Ivorydale, Ohio; Dallas, Tex.; Macon, Ga.; Port Ivory, Staten Island, X. Y.; St. Louis, Mo.; Hamilton, Ontario; Kansas City, Kan. Largest factory is in Ivorydale, near Cincinnati; the new Baltimore plant, whose three-storied boilers can boil 9,000,000 Ib. of soap (300 carloads) at one time, is intended to guide ventures in the East and Southeast. Similar to this factory is a now-being-planned $5.000,000 plant at Long Beach, Calif...
...Staten Island, Mrs. Margaret Colliton, returned with her husband from a late, exciting party. She tried to sleep, could not, took the family car for a drive. The medical examiners think she drowsed at the wheel, for she smashed the car into a pole, killed herself...
...much richer New York institution for sailors is Sailors' Snug Harbor, old men's home on Staten Island. It leases part of its Manhattan land to Wanamaker's department store for almost $1,100,000 yearly...
...later, walked in the streets. Simultaneously with the battleships an enormous naval air fleet visited New York City. From the carriers Lexington, Saratoga and Langley lying miles away in Hampton Roads, via Washington where President Hoover stood at attention as they passed, 134 planes flew to a rendezvous at Staten Island, then swept up the bay over towered Manhattan. They flew in tight, three-plane V-formations which in turn formed larger Vs, a shining flock of metal hawks that filled the city's canyons with the hammering roar of war. At the head of the formation...
...usual to attend the daily "lineup" of suspected criminals before the detective force. Two police detectives, Frederick Opperman, 25, and John Foran, 34, reluctantly mounted the little stage. The charge against them was that they had tried to extort $25 from the proprietor of a small speakeasy on Staten Island...