Collier's New Encyclopedia

A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

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JACOB AUGUST, an American author; born in Ribe, Denmark, May 3, 1849, came to the United States in 1870, and was for many years a reporter on the New York "Sun."

He was identified with many charitable and social movements in conjunction with Theodore Roosevelt. He wrote "How the Other Half Lives"; "The Children of the Poor"; ; "Out of Mulberry Street"; "A Ten Years' War"; "The Making of an American "; "Theodore Roosevelt" (1904); "The Old Town" (1909); "Hero Tales of the Far North" (1910); "Neighbors" (1914).

He died in 1914.

RIMINI American poet; born in Greenfield, Ind.,

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