"The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company is going to retire Alonzo J. Brown next month and thereby remove Ithaca''s pedal ingest person from the streets."
"...he came here from Columbia, S.C. as a young man in 1915."

B.M. Clarey, "Alonzo J. Brown, Messenger for Lehigh, to Retire," Ithaca Journal, September 14, 1949, 2.