Toddler run over by car, killed


One hundred years ago today … Two-year-old Joseph Mardento was hit by a car and and killed in front of his East Harlem home. The News kindly illustrated the incident in the next day’s paper.

Daily News,  20 November 1920, p. 8. Chronicling America.

Daily News, 20 November 1920, p. 8. Chronicling America.



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— POSTED BY JONATHAN GOLDMAN, NOVEMBER 19, 2020

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