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Stock Brokers Ball Game (N.Y. - Boston), Manager N.Y. team J.F. Carlisle, also C.R. Runyon, and Ira Richardson (LOC)

Auto rides for crippled children, New York (LOC)

  • swanq said:
    According to P. 7 of The evening world (New York, N.Y.), May 19, 1908, (Final Results Edition)
    - www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030193/1908-05-19/ed-1/?sp=7&amp...
    the event was on May 25 1908

    "Last May, Wyckoff, Church & Partridge took the little ones
    ones from the Industrial School for Crippled Children
    of West Fifty-seventh street, to Luna Park. Conev Island,
    island, in Stearns cars.
    On Monday. May 25, twenty to thirty Stearns cars will again call at the Crippled Children's School at 10 A. M and give these unfortunates their second annual outing. The Crescent Athletic Club, of Brooklyn, will throw open its beautiful summer clubhouse at Bay Ridge, where the cripples will be served with lunch at noon. From Bay Ridge the trip will be continued to Coney Isiand.
    Frederick Thompson has thrown open the Luna Park attractions, and the little ones will be given the treat of seeing all the shows In full operation."

Open-air Mass, Brooklyn Navy Yard, 69th Reg't, Percy Nagle, New York (LOC)

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    Crowd at Mass in Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York (LOC)

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