ON THIS DAY IN 1912 , the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The White House had a washing yesterday for the first time since Cleveland was President. As Congress made no appropriation for painting the Executive Mansion this year, the District Fire Department was called upon to put the building in shape for the return of the President and Mrs. Taft. A detachment with an engine spent the day on the job.”

***

ON THIS DAY IN 1920 , the Eagle reported, “The Rev. George Tyson, curate at St. Thomas Aquinas R.C. Church, Flatbush and Flatlands aves., addressing the delegates attending the fall quarterly meeting of the Diocesan Union of the Holy Name Societies of Brooklyn, held yesterday afternoon at the church, declared that ‘the laws of Italy warrant the belief that there will never be an Americ

See Full Page