Looking Back

100 years ago

Cody – Three months ago Loe Nau’s lower jaw was destroyed when he accidentally discharged a shotgun. Now he has a new jaw. Nau, who is seventeen, has returned from Chicago, where he was the subject of remarkable bone, skin and flesh grafting. The surgeons built up a new sub-maxilliary (sic) on the ruins of the natural one, grated flesh to this, and skin to the flesh. Hardly a scar shows.

Chicago’s Christmas cost nearly $20,000,000, making it the most prosperous in the city’s history.

The little cottage in the Bronx where Edgar Allen Poe once lived, is to be bought by...