Word: personal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...there is no suspicion as to the identity of the thief, if indeed the act was committed by one person. The strength of the bar of iron which was wrenched apart makes it a matter of doubt whether one person could readily have done it unassisted...
...will of Thomas O. P. Burnham, the Boston second-hand bookseller, who had a bookstall for so many years under the Old South Church. On the outside, at least, his bookstall was a most unpretentious affair, out of which it seemed possible that a thrifty person might get a modest living; but Mr. Burnham found more in it than that, for his estate exceeded $600,000,- all left for charitable or for public uses...
...impossible to find terms strong enough to condemn the theft of the Louisburg Cross from the University Library. Whether the person who committed the act was aware of the peculiar value of the cross, or not, the offence is an unpardonable one, and the penalty, in case the thief should be discovered, ought to be severe. Supposing, what is by no means certain, that the act was committed by a student, it will reflect seriously upon the University if many days are allowed to pass without either the return of the cross or the apprehension of the man who took...
...needs of the Post Office can plainly be seen in the following statements, the truth of which any person may ascertain for himself...
...There is a serious lack of space for delivery windows. On Sunday morning as many as twelve hundred person call for mail and there is a constant line of people waiting to be served. There is so little space that persons waiting at the window used for the delivery of letters and sale of stamps, cannot help being in the way of those who wish to mail letters or to go to the lock-boxes, and vice versa...