…before I close out this lead story, I came across this obituary for Edward Angly in the Dec. 8, 1951 edition of The New York Times. Note that this clip also features the funeral notice for New Yorker founding editor Harold Ross. * * * Name Your Fears Irish writer and critic Ernest...
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According to Ryall’s obituary in the New York Times, he adopted the nom de plume Audax Minor in a nod to Arthur F. B. Portman, who wrote about racing in England under the name of Audax Major. Ryall’s writing was so entertaining that many of his readers had never even been to a...
Chronicling an ever-changing city through faded and forgotten artifacts A portrait of the stylish shop girls flowing en masse through turn of the century New York City March 3, 2025 When Ashcan School painter William Glackens created this 1900 image of a group of shop girls moving with energy...
Mortimer’s younger brotherAlvin and his wife Marjorie,who had been living in Wilmington, Delaware, when they married in 1936, were living in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, by 1940. Alvin was still working for the same company, Neisner Brothers, owners of a chain of variety stores, that he’...
The New York, Ontario & Western was a regional system linking Weehawken, New Jersey with Scranton, Pennsylvania and Oswego, New York. It shutdown in 1957.
1990: Obituary, 'Cause of Death' In a highly competitive year as death metal continued to explode, Obituary immediately distanced themselves from the crop, taking obvious influence from Celtic Frost and Hellhammer. Forgoing blast beats entirely, Obituary’s ‘Cause of Death’ was predicated on ooz...
Crucially, President Trump has a lead of 48 percent to 43 percent in the swing states Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin which would put him back in the White House with an electoral college tally of 309 to Biden’s 229. Specifically, in Florida Trump has a 47...
1990: Obituary, 'Cause of Death' In a highly competitive year as death metal continued to explode, Obituary immediately distanced themselves from the crop, taking obvious influence from Celtic Frost and Hellhammer. Forgoing blast beats entirely, Obituary’s ‘Cause of Death’ was predicated on ooz...
On an invitation from a close friend, we decided to take a weekend trip to Bethlehem in the state of Pennsylvania. The road travel was a pleasurable one on the I-78 highway and it took just under one and a half hours even though there was a drizzle. ...