Sept. 30, birthdays for Marion Cotillard, Fran Drescher, Elie Wiesel
Brooklyn Today
Good morning, Brooklyn. Today is the 273rd day of the year.
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ON THIS DAY in 1904, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “A Dr. Jekyll at Night and a Mr. Hyde by Day.” The article focused on a man named Elwood Sievers who allegedly collected $3,000 worth of Harlem gas bills. “The Manhattan police are of the opinion that they have secured the man who has been collecting gas bills for the past three months and the companies assert that their losses during this time have amounted to thousands of dollars, more than $3,000 of which had been collected in Harlem alone,” the Eagle reported.