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way out to pick up Ann I got a speeding ticket doing 32 miles an hour, I got a suspended sentence, I can remember the name of the motorcycle cop (Mosher) the Judge was Harry Miller, the Court was in the Town Hall, Jamaica Ave. and Parsons Blvd. Jamaica. About 1897 Mother and Dad bought seven acres on the north side of Merrick Road in Springfield about a quarter of a mile west of Laurelton Theatre, there were no streets across Merrick Road at that time there was Compton’s lane on the south side and Dubons lane on the north which ran on the east side of the hotel, there were farms all around our place, in 1898 Dad had a big Hotel, bottling house and stable built, it was a big improvement what he had in Elmont. Dad went to the City by train several

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