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Combatting Winter with Coal, Gas, and Whiskey

January 31

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Amy Jacques and the Negro Factories Corporation

January 30

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Prohibition raids of private homes

January 29

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Arnold Rothstein meets Meyer Lansky

January 28

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When oysters became delicacies

January 27

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A deadly flu epidemic, and dangerous ice and snow

January 26

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Marcus Garvey speaks at Liberty Hall

January 25

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Deadly Conditions at Ellis Island

January 24

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The American Hebrew and Jewish Messenger’s take on prohibition

January 23

“The best known Jew in the country”

January 22

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Caruso and Ponselle in La Juive at the Met

January 21

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Baby found in Swapped Luggage

January 20

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The ACLU begins in Greenwich Village

January 19

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Mary Pickford at the Rivoli

January 18

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Prohibition:

no joke

January 17

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A Shoot-out at Manhattan Savings Bank

January 16

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Saks and Co. Fur Coats

January 15

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FP Adams’s “Conning Tower” & the Parker Affair

January 14

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Plans for Parks in Manhattan, the Bronx, and staten island

January 13

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The Daily News and the Vanderbilt Mansion

January 12

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DOROTHY PARKER gets FIRED

January 11

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A HARLEM SCHOOL AND ITS STAFF

January 10

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Emilio de Gogorza: A Brooklynite Sings in Brooklyn

January 9

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New York State Assembly Expels Socialists

January 8

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Harry Frazee, New Yorker

January 7

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Of Beer and the Babe

January 6

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The Babe Ruth Deal

January 5

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AdS for Abraham & Straus in BrOOKLYN NEWSPAPERS

January 4

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The New York Age and the Harlem Renaissance

January 3

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THE PALMER RAIDS

January 2

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The Sun: “It Shines for All”

January 1