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...group of earnest business men met last week in an upholstered committee room in the Woolworth Building. They were members of the Manhattan Merchants' Association-a Special Committee on the Simplification of the Calendar. They discussed the various inconveniences which the world has been compelled to put up with since the days of Julius Caesar because of the clumsy time-divisions with which that dictator encumbered civilization...
...little group, assembled in the offices of his magazine in the Woolworth Building, Manhattan, stirred uneasily. Each phrase read by Editor Wright came from one of 284 epistles which were being expertly opened by Publisher Orson D. Munn...
...First 139 mediums tried for the money, but to none of them had the dead Mrs. Gilbert communicated the password. More letters began to come in. Dr. Gilbert asked the co-operation of Editor Wright. The strange abracadabras that the editor read aloud in the hushed room in the Woolworth Building were the attempts of 284 mediums to prove that they had talked to a dead woman...
Carey & Cooke. Horizons broadened. Buffalo grew. The Marine Trust Co. became a mighty institution. The red-fronted bazaars of F. W. Woolworth began to make annual fortunes. Mr. Coote, in the fullness of years became chairman of the board of the former, a director of the latter. B. F. Keith's theatres prospered at the chief railroad junctions. Cornell University acquired international fame. Mr. Cooke is director of the former, trustee of the latter...
...Eight feet higher than the Woolworth Building...