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NY Times Ellis Island Keepsake

If your ancestors came to the U.S. through Ellis Island the NY Times has created a unique way to commemorate your past. The Times/Ellis Island Legacy Keepsake includes the passenger record, with your relative's name and arrival date, personalized text that displays your ancestors name, a photo of the ship on which they arrived (or a picture of the Statue of Liberty if the ship image is unavailable), and the front page of the New York Times on the date of arrival. The piece measures 32" across x 27" high and is framed in gold with a Liberty-Ellis Foundation brass plaque. It sells for $495.

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The Pet Murphy Bed

by Anne Metz (RSS feed) —

William L. Murphy could never have foreseen this.

When Mr. Murphy patented his so-called "Murphy bed" in 1916, he intended it to be used as a space-saving measure by people of limited means and limited floorspace. Like a trundle bed (and, for that matter, tuberculosis and polio), the Murphy bed was an emblem of the early twentieth century.

Times change, however. Now that you've made it safely into the early twenty-first century, you can relive your nostalgia for that era by purchasing the Pet Murphy Bed by Midnight Pass. With the Pet Murphy Bed, your dog or cat (or ocelot or pot-bellied pig) can re-invent him- or herself as an immigrant, recently arrived from Ellis Island and now living in a small apartment on, say, the Lower East Side of Manhattan ... all for a mere $199.95 (plus shipping and handling).

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