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...first the countryside communities leafed and budded with the homes of the well to do, who could afford to come and go by the seasons. By the turn of the century, U.S. Suburbia was flowering with permanent residents. Freed from the city by the trolley and rapid-transit services, and then by the automobile, hoisted gradually by a strengthening economy, the new middle-income families swept beyond the gates to buy homes of their own, from which they could commute to their jobs. When World War II ended, the sweep to the suburbs turned into a stampede. The veterans came...
...Trolley. In Jacksonville, Thomas H. Callahan explained to Judge John Santora that he was really waiting for a streetcar when the cops picked him up for vagrancy, got ten days in the clink anyway because there has not been a streetcar in town for 20 years...
...News-Post out of the doldrums by sending in a top troubleshooter. Managing Editor William Townes, 50. Ahead of the prosperous Sun papers in circulation, the News-Post had long played second fiddle in advertising revenue, as advertisers shunned a paper addressed almost exclusively to the city's trolley travelers. Townes vastly improved the paper, but was pulled out after two years-much too soon to have any permanent effect...
Died. Dorothy Wyndham Paget, 54, onetime British debutante who gave up sports-car racing for horse breeding, in her lifetime spent close to $10 million (from a horsecar and trolley fortune inherited from her grandfather William C. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy in Grover Cleveland's Cabinet), saddled the winners of 1,532 races, including the peerless Golden Miller, winner of the Grand National in 1934; of a heart attack; in Chalfont St. Giles, England...
...ensuing flare-up, one police car had its license plates and windshield wiper taken, and three of its tires deflated. A trackless trolley attempting to get through the Square had its trolley poles removed by students; and more than 50 policemen answered calls to the Square to quell hand-to-hand fighting...