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...Union City, N. J. Laura del Vecchia, 4, tapped on a neighbor's plate-glass window with a stick. A Mrs. Intermaggio, wife of the owner of the window, rushed out and scolded Laura del Vecchia. Laura's grandmother hurried up, scolded Mrs. Intermaggio. Laura's father bustled up, scolded Mrs. Intermaggio too. Intermaggio arrived; he and Laura's father fought, grappled, crashed through the plate-glass window, had to be taken to a hospital, were arrested, locked up in jail...
...Coup d'Etat whereby Editor Benito Mussolini became Dictator, he decreed, last week, inauguration of the following recently completed public works: new "Palace of Justice" in Messina, Sicily (cost some 20.000.000 lire); new Ministry of Marine and Ministry of Education buildings in Rome; new "Port of Rome" at Civita Vecchia (45 miles from the Capital); and two new commercial air services?respectively Rome-Syracuse-Tripoli and Rome- Genoa-Marseilles-Barcelona-Las Palmas, both routes served by 2,000 h.p. four-motored German super-Wahl seaplanes...
Lately Mr. Delia Vecchia reached a new conclusion about his seventh-day labors. Last week he sought out a printer's shop and soon his hundreds of patrons in Red Bank received, or beheld in the four Delia Vecchia taxicabs, an unusual announcement...
...first Sunday of each month hereafter, said the cards, let any person call the Delia Vecchia garage and a Delia Vecchia cab will promptly call for him and take him, free of charge, to "the first mass only...
Asked if his offer was good for Catholics only, generous Mr. Delia Vecchia replied: "Catholics and Protestants, alike. And I will continue this service as long as I can afford it, because I believe in helping along the churches all I can." Last Sunday was the first Sunday of the new month. Mr. Delia Vecchia received no call for free church rides. Said he: "I don't understand the people of Red Bank. They are either too lazy to get up and go to church, even with free taxi service, or think that there is something crooked or strange...