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A Sheepshead Bay patrolman bulldogged a runaway milk-wagon horse this morning near the intersection of East 9th Street and Avenue S. Patrolman Joseph Ryan of the 61st Precinct was on duty at the crossing of East 9th and Avenue P about 8:30 this morning when he saw the horse galloping the driverless wagon down East 9th. Failing to stop the animal on foot, Patrolman Ryan commandeered a private car, and chased the careening wagon for five blocks until he got a block ahead of it. As the horse passed Avenue S, Ryan made a flying leap from the running board of the car and attached himself to the animal's neck, bringing him to a stop within ten feet. Neither the patrolman nor the horse were injured.
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The Eagle left out that the headline to this story from 1910 is "Now Showing at a Nickelodeon Near You."
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In Teaneck, New Jersey, a policeman confronted and killed a chicken hawk that attacked a
woman after crashing into her house. Mrs. Alice Snyder of 363 Briarcliffe Road heard the bird hit the side of the house, and when she went outside to investigate the bird flew at her, bruising her right hand. Mrs. Snyder knocked the infuriated bird into a rubbish can, clamped down the lid, and called the police. When Teaneck Patrolman Robert Diaz arrived at the scene, he opened the can, and when the bird rose to attack, he struck it over the head with his nightstick. Patrolman Diaz says he plans to have the hawk stuffed.
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The Eagle left out that the headline to this story from 1910 is "Now Showing at a Nickelodeon Near You."
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An appeal agent for Local Draft Board No. 233 says he has no idea why a soldier would walk up to him and punch him in the face, but that's what happened to lawyer A. E. Robert Friedman early yesterday morning aboard a BMT Brighton local at the DeKalb Avenue station. Friedman says he wasdozing in his seat near the exit door around 2:30 Sunday morning when a young soldier walked over, and, according to witnesses, said "this is what I've got for you," before punching him in the nose. The soldier then forced the door open and exited the car before the train left the station. Friedman told police the whole incident happened so quickly he didn't see the man who hit him, nor could witnesses offer any clear description other than that the man wore the uniform of an Army private. "I don't know why any soldier would want to hurt me," he commented, wiping the blood from his injured nose.
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It takes all but no imagination to think of a scenario where a solider would be angry at an appeal agent for a draft board.
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(So much for the football season...)
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Maybe Brooklyn could join a table tennis league and name its team The Dodgers. If Brooklyn tries enough sports, a Dodgers team will eventually win a championship in something.
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(Don't look so smug, Mary. Remember that phony colonel you almost married.)
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"The pleasure was more than half ours..."
Apparently, Mary measure out the fun of an evening carefully, as so much for the trite but polite "the pleasure was all ours."
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"C'mon, at least it'll give us something to do."
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"Mr. Tracy! Mr. Tracy can you hear me! This is Frizzletop and I'm right outside! I can open the door and let you all out, but I thought you might first want to let me know if you decided yet if you are going to start paying me a salary or not. No pressure, I can wait right here."
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"At once sir. We have Milky Way, Snickers, Oh Henry, Mounds...no, wait, a lot of men don't like coconut. And those Milky Ways are rough on the men with false teeth, that caramel makes a real mess. And you'd be surprised how many people don't like peanuts. Do we have any Clark bars, or did they not show up yet?"
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I have no doubt you are right, Lizzie, but in all the pictures and references that I remember seeing (therein lies the flaw), it is always Hershey bars or generic blocs of chocolate that were being distributed to the troops. Did all these other candy companies also have WWII contracts for the troops?
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Carpet Admirals.
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I believe that quote is actually an intercept from the Japanese Navy High Command after Midway.