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“Jane Hanrahan Missing”

26 Thursday Mar 2020

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The Evening World reported the disappearance of one of the Newsboys’ Lodging House employees on March 26, 1894:

 

Jane Hanrahan Missing

Cut Her Hair and Placed It on a Bed Before Leaving.

Jane Hanrahan, a chambermaid, twenty-one years, employed at the Newsboys’ Lodging-House, New Chambers and Duane streets, has been missing since 5.30 o’clock this morning. Her mother, Kate Hanrahan, of 12 1-2 Washington street, called at Police Headquarters this afternoon and asked to have a general alarm sent out for her. Her mother thinks she has become suddenly insane.

Before she went out this morning she cut off all her dark hair, and doing it up in a newspaper left it on the bed in her room. She wore a dark cape, thrown over her head, in place of a hat, and a dark skirt and buttoned shoes.

“‘The Evening World’s’ Guests”

12 Wednesday Oct 2016

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From The Evening World on October 12,1887:

“The Evening World’s” Guests.

Probably no playhouse walls ever inclosed a more appreciative audience than that which filled the People’s Theatre to overflowing last evening. Every one of the 3,247 newsboys and newsgirls who accepted THE EVENING WORLD’S invitation to witness a special performance of “Harbor Lights” will remember it as a red-letter occasion. They evinced an enthusiasm and a zest of pleasure that the chronic critic has long outlived. And with it was a discrimination worthy of the veteran theatre-goer. No good point of dialogue or scenery was missed by their alert eyes and ears. The tumultuous applause came in where it belonged. The heroine had their active encouragement. The villain was in imminent danger of being mobbed. At the happy denouement their joy was unconfined. THE EVENING WORLD takes pride in its 3,247 newsboy and newsgirl guests.

“Begging Boy’s Honesty Proven.”

08 Thursday Sep 2016

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From the September 8, 1902 edition of the Evening World:

Begging Boy’s Honesty Proven.

He Found a Pair of Valuable Opera Glasses in the Street and Gave Them to the Police.

Patrolman Barber, of the West Thirtieth street station, arrested a sharp-eyed German of seventeen years, named Otto Gries, on Fifth avenue. He said the boy was begging. The lad says his parents live in Hesse-Darmstadt, but that he left home to see the world, landing first in London, then in Ecuador and then in New York.

A man who recognized him knew him as a boy who had refused money a few nights ago because he wanted to go to the Newsboys’ Lodging-House and said he did not care to beg. Sergt. Fuchs also recognized the lad as the boy who a month ago had found a pair of valuable opera glasses and given them to a policeman.

The sergeant said he then told the boy to come in and see him if he stood in need, but the boy’s first visit to the station-house afterward was when under arrest.

“‘Uxtry’ Pie for Newsboys.”

10 Wednesday Feb 2016

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From the February 10, 1905 edition of the Evening World:

 

“Uxtry” Pie for Newsboys.

Special Feast at Their Lodging-House on Lincoln’s Birthday.

Lincoln’s Birthday will be celebrated by the boys at the Newsboys’ Lodging House, No. 14 New Chambers street, on Saturday night by a special dinner given by F. Delano Weekes, one of the trustees of the Children’s Aid Society.

Several prominent bankers and brokers from the Wall street district have been invited. There will be an amateur orchestra of fourteen pieces, moving pictures, and 150 newsboys will sing popular and other songs to the accompaniment of the orchestra.

Jig and buck dancing, boxing, Indian club swinging and other features will be included in the entertainment.

Mr. Heig, the superintendent, has been very busy all the week buying turkeys, chickens and pie.