ON THIS DAY IN 1946, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “New York today gave the arriving delegates to the United Nations General Assembly a rousing welcome. Along the built-up canyons of lower Broadway as the delegates drove by in a long cavalcade of cars, they were welcomed by the cheering New Yorkers, who lined up eight and ten deep along the sidewalks of Broadway and tossed ticker-tape from high buildings, in the traditional manner of New York welcomes to honor the visiting delegates. Then they were officially welcomed on the plaza in front of City Hall by Deputy Mayor Thomas L.J. Corcoran on behalf of the City of New York, and by Warren Austin, himself a General Assembly delegate, head of the U.S. delegation, on behalf of the United States. Mr. Corcoran, in his address of welcome, expressed New York City’s wish to see the United Nations established in New York as its permanent home.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1860, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published the following advertisement: “Grand Kings County Demonstration — A meeting composed of one Delegate from each of the Clubs in Kings County opposed to the election of Lincoln will be held at the Club rooms, over Gastons hat store [on] Fulton Street, opposite Myrtle Ave., on Wednesday evening, Oct. 24th inst., at 7 1/2 o’clock, for the purpose of making arrangements for a Grand Torch Light Demonstration in this County, on the evening of the 1st of November. City and County clubs will please send delegates.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1897, the Eagle reported, “The exercises attending the formal unveiling of the bronze bust of Mozart, which was won by the United Singers of Brooklyn at the recent great Saengerfest at Philadelphia, are being held in Prospect Park this afternoon as the Eagle goes to press. The Germans and their friends and a number of several thousand are taking an active part in the formal presentation of the prize to the City of Brooklyn … Prior to the unveiling there was a monster parade of the German singing societies through the principal streets of the city.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1916, the Eagle reported, “Mrs. Margaret Sanger conducted her birth control clinic at 46 Amboy street today unmolested by police in uniform, detectives or any other representative of the department which was supposed to be looking for her to arrest her on an alleged charge of violating the penal law. The clinic and its location were described in yesterday’s Eagle. Not only did the little woman work unmolested, but she did a ‘rushing business.’ During the morning, before 11 o’clock, she had no less than forty women visitors, all of whom went into the clinic with babies in their arms. Mrs. Sanger was an exceedingly busy woman trying to keep pace with the Department of Health baby station across the street, and it must be reported that practically all of the women who visited that station also visited her.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1929, the Eagle reported, “Another devastating wave of selling spread over the stock market today and broke stocks badly to record low levels for the year. Losses ranged up to nearly 20 points in such representative stocks as General Electric and American Telephone, while Radio, U.S. Steel and others were off as much as ten. The tickers were again unable to keep up with the big liquidation and were far behind the trading on the floor. Prices on the tape were often-times 5 points above the actual prices. The depression spread to other exchanges. Wheat broke 4 cents a bushel to the lowest level of the year and cotton was hammered down.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1939, the Eagle reported, “Altadena, Cal., Oct. 23 (AP) — Zane Grey, noted writer and sportsman, died suddenly today at his home of a heart attack. He was 64 years old … Grey attained fame and fortune through writing colorful novels of the West, most of which have been produced many times as motion pictures. His hobby was deep sea fishing and he spent many months in recent years following this sport in the South Seas … Within 35 years he published more than 50 novels, most of them with heavy sales. Several of his books, such as ‘Riders of the Purple Sage,’ ‘The Rainbow Trail’ and ‘The Heritage of the Desert,’ have become standards of Western fiction … The prosperity that came with ‘Riders of the Purple Sage’ enabled Grey to gratify his craving for travel and he came to know the Great American desert, the mountainous wilds of western America, the Grand Canyon country and the islands of the South Seas as well as any other writer.”
