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...Burns was born in Baltimore in 1861 and was brought up to be a tailor. But he grew interested in the detection of crime, and when he solved the celebrated "tally-sheet forgeries" in a State election, his fame become widespread...
...York to take up land grants in Russia amounting to three thousand acres, which they are to develop according to the most approved modern methods in hope of educating the Russian peasant by furnishing a good working example. The group includes a blacksmith, a teacher, a physician, and a tailor, so that the party will make a perfectly self-sufficing village. The project is sponsored by the Society for Technical Aid to Russia. All the members are Russian...
...Elliot Perkins, Chairman, Miss Elaine Sullivan; R. G. Hoolser, Miss Ella Snelling; L. B. McCagg Jr., Miss Katherine Winslow; Edward Ohe, Miss Gertrude Tailor; R. H., Thayer, Miss Maude Cabot...
...were observed on Mt. Auburn street Wednesday morning by Officer Wilson, who followed them because he surmised that they were strangers and suspicious characters. They first, entered B. Hyte's tailor shop and asked for a suit that had been pressed under the name of "Jackson"; failing to secure it, they later visited the Varsity Shop and attempted to obtain one under the name of "Stevens". Although Officer Wilson lost sight of one of them for a while, he eventually stopped the two as they were hurrying along together near Dunster Street and held them, assisted by a Cambridge police...
This tentative plan, for it has not yet become a law, has much to recommend it. We can all think of a residence district which some ten years ago was considered exclusive--some would have called it "high-brow". And then--the relentless march of fruit stores and tailor shops and lunch rooms, not to mention the red-front grocery. The "people of quality" fied. There followed a rapid decline in property value and a loss of much money. In the end, the locality was not good for much of anything...