… Abraham was selling newspapers on the dock …
Abraham Isaac Blumenthal was an immigrant from England who came to America with his family in 1902. Abraham was selling newspapers on the dock alongside of the Chicago River on July 24, 1915. He was responsible to pay the newspaper company for each and every newspaper, even those he could not account for. Without concern for the money he might owe for missing newspapers, and as the Eastland Disaster unfolded right before him, he threw down his newspapers and jumped into the river to help pull people out.