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...largest purveyors of finance news and ticker service, publishers of the Wall Street Journal) and of Financial Press Co. (Barren's Weekly, the Philadelphia. Financial Journal, the Boston News Bureau); apparently by his own hand (coal gas poisoning); in Cohasset, Mass. A medical examiner said Bancroft entered a blacksmith shop on his estate, sealed the doors and windows, lighted a fire in the forge...
...Charles Dickens were indignantly disgusted, but Arch-Critic John Ruskin put his seal of approval on them, and the Pre-Raphaelites were made. From Oxford came Edward Coley Burne-Jones and William Morris to follow the new star. Morris was so enchanted with medievalism that he got an Oxford blacksmith to forge him a suit of armor. When he lowered the helmet's visor it stuck and he had to be extricated; but the coat of mail he wore the whole day and would not even take it off for dinner. The Brotherhood's enthusiasm was sometimes greater...
...bald, old man doggedly fighting for a physical and political comeback. Then he announced Nebraska's new Senator - white-haired William Henry Thompson, a good party friend whom he had put on the State Supreme Court. Born in a Ohio log cabin 79 years ago, son of a blacksmith, Senator Thompson had served on the commission that built Nebraska's new $10,000,000 Capitol...
...overcoat outside of which he arranged his long, curly white beard, and had taken an early train to New York from his boarding house in Fanwood, N. J. In Allen Street he let himself through his door, descended a long ramp to what had once been the basement blacksmith shop of the stables of his father's large drygoods store. Before 1901, when the firm sold out, E. A. Ridley & Sons had done $6,000,000 worth of business a year. Down another flight of stairs to a dank subcellar aged Mr. Ridley would go. The air smelled like...
...injury caused such a severe loss of blood that humane officers were forced to kill the animal. The blacksmith and his assistant were each fined...