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Pele shirt sells for $4.9m as New York chokes on wildfire smoke days before the World Cup final
A 1958 jersey worn by Pele cleared $4.9m at Sotheby's in New York, while officials across the metropolitan region issued an air quality alert days before the World Cup final, a coincidence that put the host city's two competing identities on the same front page.
Desk note: Monexus treated the auction and the air-quality alert as a single front-page cluster only because they shared a city, a date and a wire cycle; the underlying stories are mechanically unrelated and have been reported as such.
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