March 26: ON THIS DAY in 1943, million pounds of beef to boost city supply
ON THIS DAY IN 1911, the Eagle reported, “A unique search for blind men and women who are following unusual trades and professions in the United States, Europe and Canada is now being actively pursued by the exhibition and executive committees of the coming Blind Workers Exhibit. The purpose of the search is to get these unusually expert blind workers to attend the coming exhibit at the Metropolitan Opera House from April 26 to April 30, and to demonstrate their skill in various handicrafts … In and around New York, the committee, according to Miss Winifred Holt of the New York Association for the Blind, has already located expert blind workers in over forty lines of trade and also in many unusual callings. The home market supplies a blind barber, several skilled blind masseurs, a blind painter, a wireless operator, at least two blind inventors and a blind man who climbed Mont Blanc.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1939, the Eagle reported, “Dr. Frederick A. Cook, first to claim discover of the North Pole, was an unexpected guest at the reunion of former students of Public School 37, S. 4th and Berry Sts., as former classmates at that school renewed acquaintances and retold old stories last night at a dinner in the Hotel Granada. Dr. Cook, alumnus of the institution, was recently located by Dr. Daniel M. Driver, Brooklyn dentist, who was instrumental in gathering the group as chairman of the dinner committee. Dr. Driver had been seeking Dr. Cook for some months, and finally was successful when a patient in his office happened to remark that he knew a man in Toms River, N.J., who was acquainted with Dr. Cook. Dr. Driver was enthusiastic in his praise of the Old Timers Page of the Brooklyn Eagle, by which practically all of the 150 old Williamsburg students at the dinner last night were located. ‘The Old Timers Page is something new, and has proven to be highly interesting to old residents of Brooklyn,” Dr. Driver said. “Over in Williamsburg in former times, we were practically a community in ourselves, and everyone knew everyone else. If it hadn’t been for the Old Timers Page, we could not have contacted all those persons.”
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View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.