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Deflation. In Teaneck, N.J., homeless Fireman Fred Fadar heard the town council would sell a six-room house if the buyer would move it, bid $1 just for the laugh, learned the house...
Died. James Henry ("Jimmy") Hare. 89, veteran news photographer of the flash-powder era who took the first aerial picture of Manhattan, made closeups of five wars (Spanish-American, Russo-Japanese, Balkan, Haiti-Dominican Republic, World War I); in Teaneck...
Citizen Fixit. In Teaneck, N.J., John Daddy, 50 and suspicious, watched a man open an automobile door and take out a package, expostulated, got no explanation, promptly fractured his jaw. In police court. Daddy learned that the man was Cornelius Graham, the car's owner...
Travel. In The Bronx an eleven-year-old boy returned home from ten-mile-distant Teaneck, N.J., where he said he had walked in his sleep, wakened in a tangle of fishing tackle in a parked car. In Memphis an eleven-year-old runaway from St. Louis, 300 miles away, appeared at his girl friend's home for a date. He brought her a doll. In Camden, N.J., police obeyed the instructions of a twelve-year-old Kansas City runaway's parents who refused to send him the fare home: they released him, told him to hike...
...Manhattan newspaperman, "Red" Gallagher, then of the Post, went to Teaneck to get the story, was struck by Jessie's beauty and her lovely hands. Back he went to Manhattan, saw some friends in the commercial photography business. He knew advertisers frequently used pictures of hands, faces. One photographer who was interested was Hal Phyfe. Phyfe called, asked Jessie if she would model for him. She would and did. With her hands and face, Jessie earned enough money to buy artificial legs...