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Encompassed by a certain block on Bruton Street, Mayfair, stand The Coach and Horses (a public house), the business establishments of a tailor, corsetiere, photographer, beautifier, decorator, and the residence of Claud George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore...
...When Abraham Lincoln, with a bullet in his head, crumpled slow ly into his chair in Ford's Theatre one April night, three men carried him across the street to a little house opposite. It was the house of William Peterson, a tailor. The President lay there all night, and all night his blood seeped into the square feather pillow under his head...
Peterson, the tailor, is gone but his pillow exists yellow with age and crusted still with the fatal stains. Last week the will of Tailor Peterson's daughter, Mrs. Pauline Peterson Wenzing, was probated. This Mrs. Wenzing was a girl of 13 on the night when her mother turned from the lamp and her father got up from his stitching to answer a wild knock ing at the door. It was in her own bed (on the ground floor) that the men who came tramping into the house laid their long, gaunt, helpless burden...
...Family. Since It Pays to Advertise and The Tailor Made Man, Grant Mitchell has had lean luck. His undoubted but somewhat restricted talents have not been fitted into a suitable play. This one is about an outsider who married into a Massachusetts household of the aristocratic Adamses. A fair idea but most blunderingly handled...
...certainly deserves immediate attention. We part time citizens of this lively neighborhood of tooting horns and screeching brakes have often wondered that so intelligent a community should be so unheedful of its health, for this corner is not unique in the Cambridge Boston traffic tangled. Time and again the tailor across from the Lampoon has been obliged to remove pieces of automobile from his window and shop. Indeed he is now building new steps to withstand the assaults of duelling autoists. The old ones supported many a truck in its expiring moments. No Sunday passes without leaving its tell...