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BIGGEST BICYCLE EIDER,” FAMED ON TWO CONTINENTShome,” and let tlie dizzy world go to.Mr. Wright has become convinced that lie never opens his mouth without putting his foot in it. lie insists that Ills best efforts have been made to appear unworthy. He believes that there is only one solution of the problem that confronts him—that is silence.And so. if the citizens of this rural community will let him alone the last chapter in this peculiar love story is written. He has amply provided for his wife and family, and they will not molest him and his affinity.Evidently none of the Blade-and Ledger readers swore oil” the habit of reading these popular papers Jan. i. Last week was the biggest one in their history. We’ve got to “speed up” our fast presses now that the million-a-week mark is passed.ACCUSED OF ANOTHER MURDERChicago Police Believe Dr. Webster Slew Mrs. Mize.Efforts to link Dr. Ilarry Elgin Webster. under indictment for tin* murder oflii.s third wife. Bessie Kent Webster, at Dixon, 111., with the murder of Mrs. F. 1*1. Mize, who was shot by a highwayman near the Del Prado Hotel. Chicago, in ISO;, are being made by Lieut. JospehThomas of the Chicago police.Thomas announced that ho would submit the information which lie had obtained to the state's attorney of Ogle County, 111. Webster will be put on trial at Oregon, 111., January 22, for tlie murder of Bessie Kent Webster, which crime has been fully detailed in past editions of the Blade.Mrs. Mize was a guest at the Del Prado Hotel and was killed the night of Aug. 22. 3 905, in front of 5748 Washington avenue. Many suspects were arrested soon afterward, but all were released.Lieut. Thomas said the information in his possession was supplied by Mrs. Le-titia Moulton, 150S East Fifty-fifth street,who conducted a rooming bouse in 1905at 6312 Madison avenue. Dr. Websterwas a roomer the: • at the time of the Mize muider.“ Baby Bliss,” Who Was Found Deadin His Home.BLOOMINGTON, ill., Jan. 11.—Leonard(Baby”) Bliss, reputed to be the largest { man in the world, was found dead in hisj home here. IJo hud not been seen aboutthe piece for several days and neighbors i who made an investigation found hisfrozen body in a chair, lie waJ? in hisnight clothes and gas was escaping from a gus stove. It is believed he arose several nights ago to. get warm and in some way accidentally opened the jet.Baby” Bliss was born near this city. May 4, 1865. His dimensions were as follows: Height. 6 feet- I inches; waist.72 inches; hipr* S6 inches; chest, 66inches; thigh, 41' inches; calf, 27 inches;size .of collar, 21lt;-im^^'.; size of hat, 7%;size of socks, (-(^^■ize of shoes, 12; weight, 540 pounds.^^PBliss was well known in America and•Europe, having toured both continents as salesman for a bicycle factory, sixteen years ago. He was also at various times with circuses and last summer spent several weeks on the road with a fat men’s’’ ball club.Don’t put it off till next week. Answer that Want Ad XOW. It’s on Page Four. Remember the million circulation of the Blade, and act before the other fellow.ROOSTER IN A U. S. MAIL BOXANOTHER BIG IMPROVEMENT.Now that the weekly circulation of The Saturday Blade lias passed the 1,-000.000 mark, Blade readers are going to enjoy another advantage. Blade Want Ads are to be made stronger and stronger, and this will be a big thing for our readers. The big city papers print as many as fourteen and sixteen pages of “Want Ads.” and tlieir readers live in cities, where they are close, to each other, and meet daily. The big family of Blade readers need “Want Ads” more than any city people, and we are. going tlt;» give, them to our readers. You ought to read them every week on Pago Four. We did not. have any a few weeks back. Now we have a column. We hope to give you a page of them before long. Every want ybu have can he supplied through reading these ads. Country readers need these ads ton times as much as city people, and. 'as wc have told you, the city papers carry page after page of these ads all the time. Every Blade reader, man or woman, boy or girl, can find something of interest in the Want Ads’’ on Page Four. Read them every week. You will always find them in the same place.Placed There by Boys, It Scratches Open Bushels of Envelopes.WACO. Texas, Jan. 11.—There was a surprised mail carrier here when W. F. Chambers opened a mail box of the largeHE WILL ABANDON THE WORLDArchitect Wright Wants to be Left Alone With Affinity.SPRING GREEN. Wis., Jan. 11.—Here is the final decision of the much harassed Frank Lloyd Wright, impressionist in architecture, beloved .of Alamah of the Hills,” who was Mrs. Edwin H. Cheney of Chicago, and who is the idol of a countryside that deals less in pasts than presents, or* possible futures.Mr. Wright is going to tear out the telephone, stop his subscription to all newspapers,' picket the blue hills about bis $30,000 bungalow to keep off “tarring parties,” put out the sign “not atsize to find in it a rooster. The rooster had scratched and torn open a bushel of envelopes and packages. Boys had placed the rooster in the box.TURC0-IT ALLAN TRUCE NEARArmistice Expected This Week; Rome to Pay $10,000,000.LONDON, England, Jan. 11.—Announcement of an armistice in the Turco-Ital-ian war is expected to be made this week. It was learned here from n
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Chicago Saturday Blade
Chicago, Illinois, US
Sat, Jan 13, 1912
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