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...slot-machine and vending business in which it was placed under the terms of Artemus Ward's will, filed last March, in which the late Artemus Ward bequeathed to Harvard the business of Artemus Ward Inc. The advertising company, which controls the merchandising and newsstand privileges of the Inter borough Transit Company, has recently been purchased by Barron G. Collier...
...Stepney Borough Council (London) decided that certain Limehouse slums must go. The Condemnation Commissioner went to have a look at the squalor-stricken old houses, where finnan haddie has been smoked for the past 150 years. He was met with a storm of opposition. Nobody wanted nice, new, sanitary homes, not even the large families sleeping six and more in a bedroom. "How would our homer pigeons find their way back?" they asked. "Could fish be cured on stone landings ?" "Could wireless aerials be strung across asphalt courtyards?" Limehouse now has its blues...
...hundred churches has the borough of Brooklyn, and six hundred preachers in their pulpits rising, every Sunday morning, preach like Henry Ward Beecher, and lead the good burghers in the way of salvation. So this holy borough is known as "The City of Churches." There are 105 books explaining why this is so. There is a list of famous preachers to justify it: Beecher himself. Lyman Abbott, Samuel Hanson Cox. and a score of others such as Farley, Loughlin, Carroll, Storrs, Davis, Littlejohn, Hall, Darlington, Talmage, Cuyler, Kinsolving...
...effort is being made "to change the name of New York to Manhattan." Manhattan is a borough; New York is a city composed of five boroughs ; TIME endeavors to be specific wherever practical...
...Bronx (Borough of New York City north of the Borough of Manhattan) is published a sheet less widely known than the Graphic, "but held in esteem by its readers. It is the Bronx Home News. Its editors are enterprising. They read of Macfadden's contest. They knew that innumerable Graphic readers were doing likewise. They knew that these readers would puzzle long to fill in the checkered squares and would appreciate any information that would help them in so doing. Every evening, the editors of the Bronx Home News studied the Graphic puzzles. Every morning they published, for the enlightenment...