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| Date: | Wed, 10 Dec 2014 12:22:35 -0500 |
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LITTLE FALLS — It all began with a mistake.
It was 1892, and Anna Mocko, originally of Myjava, Czechoslovakia — now
Slovakia — had just finished a year of service in Minnesota that paid for
her ticket to the United States.
Eager to meet up with her friends in Little Falls, New Jersey, she headed
to the train station, only to find the staff there couldn’t understand her
speech. Determined, she penned “Little Falls, N.J.” instead, and soon she
was on her way.
When she arrived, though, her friends weren’t at the station. In fact, she
wasn’t in New Jersey at all. The staffer mistook her “N.J.” for “N.Y.”
<http://www.littlefallstimes.com/article/20141207/NEWS/141209600>
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Bob Sullivan
Schenectady Digital History Archive
<http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/>
Schenectady County (NY) Public Library
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