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A Successful Author

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
April
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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Jacob A. Riis, author of that successfnl book "How the Other Half Lives," was born in Denmark. He carne to America twenty years ago, and had a hard time to make a living in New York. After a while he left the big city, and f or a time worked as laborer in Pennsylvania and New York. Later he was employed as a reporter on The New York Times. From hishard experiences as a wage worker he gathered the material for his unique book, which deals with the poorer classes of New York.

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Ann Arbor Register