My father , James J. Hesson, Jr. told the
story that during the Depression, he tried to get a job at the Yellow
Taxi Cab Company. They wouldn't hire him because he had red hair
and everyone knows red heads have a temper, so my dad took shoe
polish and blackened his hair. He was hired. However, the polish
wore off and he was fired. Couldn't get away with that today! (The
Hessons and the Boyles lived in Newark around 1910 on)
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