March 4, 1908

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Above, I am always a sucker for stories about religious cults … Below, in fraternal lodge news, two chapters of the Knights of Pythias merge–perhaps the last time the organization appeared in a Times cover story … The Times describes a mother, grieving over the loss of her child in a custody suit, as "a tall, heavy-boned woman who looks like a Swede. She is of the tragic type–intense, repressed, introspective and melancholy"  … And the soup kitchens are closing up because men are finding jobs putting in streetcar tracks …

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