Word: subways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Rabbi Leon Harrison, 62, of Temple Israel, St. Louis, Mo., famed leader of American Jewry, who, at the age of 21, delivered an oration at the funeral services of Henry Ward Beecher; by falling before a subway train; in Manhattan. Rabbi Harrison's vertigo and poor eyesight may have caused his fall, originally designated as suicide...
...subway accident at Times Square, Manhattan, last week, killed 16 people, mangled dozens more. Mrs. Jennie Lockridge, 56, onetime actress, heard the horror, saw the shambles, became hysterical. Four days later she was dead...
...Brooklyn last week, one Harry Kaufmann entered a subway train, sat quietly for a while, began to inspect a Mrs. Anna Prisco directly opposite him. Scorning the naked eye, he swept her with enormous binoculars, peered at her. Mrs. Prisco expressed annoyance. Peerer Kaufmann slapped her. Soon a chivalrous crowd attacked Mr. Kaufmann. Policemen saved him from massacre, jailed...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., one Nettie Friedman found a seat on a subway train, one afternoon last week. It was hot (84° F.) and fetid. People yawned and wagged their heads drowsily. Miss Friedman yawned. Nobody noticed anything wrong about her. At the end of ten minutes, she was still engaged in the same yawn, with her tongue hanging out a little farther. The lower part of her face and jaw were paralyzed. Several subway folk tried to help her, failed, then carried her off the train and called an ambulance. At the Jewish Hospital, a doctor massaged her face...
...remaining $2,000,000. He keeps a list of the old creditors on his desk, smiles sternly as he checks off names. He lives with his wife in a two-room hotel suite costing $1,400 a year, rides to work at 8 a. m. on the subway. He has no children, no partners. He swears he will tear up that list on his desk before he dies. That is why he wants to live to be 85, 95, a century. . . . Citizens recalled a younger broker, whose firm failed in 1905 and who has paid all debts with interest...