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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Varsity harriers dropped their title of intercollegiate Cross Country champions to Manhattan College yesterday in the I.C.4A. meet in New York yesterday, when they finished sixth in the team scoring. The race was won by George Barker of N. Y. U., who finished in the record breaking time of 28 minutes and 58 4-5 seconds, while Arthur Foote '33, captain of the Varsity harriers, crossed the line in fourth place...
Died. Moe Mark, 60, pioneer cinema showman; of a cerebral hemorrhage while en route from a Clifton Springs (N. Y.) sanitarium to his White Plains home; in Utica, N. Y. With his brother Mitchell H., he first showed moving pictures with Thomas Alva Edison's kinetoscope (1894) in a Buffalo dime museum. In 1903 he showed a first film of fire horses answering an alarm. In 1905, in Lynn, Mass., a colored film of the Oberammergau Passion Play was sensational. In 1914 the Brothers Mark opened the first million-dollar Broadway cinema palace, the Mark Strand. Impresario...
Died. William Tarbell Ransom. 86, president of Niagara Textile Co.; in Lockport, N. Y. Told that the U. S. climate was unfavorable to linen weaving, doubting Ransom in 1899 started a mill and the U. S. linen weaving industry (now about 8,000,000 sq. yd. yearly...
...Benson, N. Y., Walter D. Canfield, 80, saw a deer, intently aimed, fired, fell dead as his bullet sped neatly into and killed the deer...
...Howard Beach, Queens, N. Y., George Hoffman, 3, prize baby in Rockaway baby parades, pulled the trigger of a shotgun, instantly killing his uncle, Frank 0. Hoffman...