Sifting Through the Sands of Time from the Courier Archives
60 Years Ago October 2 20, 1949
In a discussion of the problem of displaced persons in Europe, Herbert. H. Lehman, former governor of New York and one-time director General of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, branded yesterday as fiction the contention that the United States was “so overcrowded that it can no longer absorb immigrants.” Full Story
Recorded in the Book of Li fe
All Hallow’s Eve
In a century from now, almost every human being now on earth will have died. His remains will have been disposed of. This deal - ing wi th the dead of our kind has been much the same since human beings appeared on this planet . Some t radi t ions bury thei r dead; others cremate them, others throw them into r ivers or the sea. Full Story
‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’
Installment Seven including a description of the haunted region of Sleepy Hollow
Brom Bones, however, was the hero of the scene, having come to the gathering on his favorite steed Daredevil, a creature, like himself, full of mettle and mischief, and which no one but himself could manage. Full Story
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