Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Black Crook. It was on Sept. 12, 1866, that The Black Crook entered Niblo's Garden in New York. Buxom young ladies appeared in tights which revealed not only their ankles but their hips. In those days people believed with Queen Victoria in the theory that women had no understanding whatever. Next day James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald commended the city to the fire and brimstone of Sodom and Gomorrah. Sunday after Sunday pulpits boomed denunciation. Soon at Niblo's Garden there was only standing room...
Last week in Manhattan, the Presbytery of New York appointed five "divorce counsellors."* One of these must be consulted by all Presbyterian ministers before they may marry divorcees. The Presbyterian Church recognizes only infidelity and desertion as divorce grounds...
Wall Street used, of course, to be the centre of New York City and near it stand the oldest landmarks. St. Paul's Chapel (Manhattan's oldest) where George Washington and New York's first Governor, George Clinton, worshipped, is five blocks from Wall Street. St. Peter's, Manhattan's oldest Catholic church, rises in the shadow of the Woolworth Building. In 1766, in John Street, the first U. S. Methodist-Episcopal society opened its first chapel. Daily services are still held in John Street...
...irresistible is the Mona Lisa, it happened again last week, when an unframed Mona Lisa by Mrs. Elizabeth Tinker Elmore, New York copyist, was stolen from the fourth floor parlors of the public library in Birmingham...
...last week from Woods Hole, Mass., where the Government maintains a fish hatchery, to Jamaica Bay, L. I. There they were dumped into the coast waters to hatch and grow. In three years, the new flounders will be big enough to catch and eat. The ocean around New York Harbor is too filthy for flounders to breed naturally...