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William Thomas Stead: Quick Facts

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Born July 5, 1849 • England
Died April 15, 1912 (aged 62)
Founder “Review of Reviews”
Notable Works “If Christ Came to Chicago: A Plea for the Union of All Who Love in the Service of All Who Suffer”

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William Thomas Stead, c. 1890.
Color-coded map of Chicago's Nineteenth Precinct, First Ward, from 1894, highlighting brothels in red, pawn brokers in gray, saloons in green, and lodging houses in white.
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Novikov, Nikolay Ivanovich
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Samuel Johnson
English author
Steele, detail of an oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1711; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Richard Steele
British author and politician
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Filipino diplomat
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Carl Schurz
German-American politician
Henry Luce and Clare Boothe Luce
Henry Luce
American publisher
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American journalist and editor
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Stojan Protić
Serbian statesman
Görres, oil painting by Joseph Anton Settegast
Joseph von Görres
German writer
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Alicia Patterson
American journalist and publisher
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Ishibashi Tanzan
prime minister of Japan
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Sayyid Shaykh bin Ahmad al-Hadi
Malaysian writer
Schickele
René Schickele
German writer
Joseph Medill, detail of a lithograph by J.O. Ottomann Company, 1893.
Joseph Medill
American publisher
William Allen White
William Allen White
American journalist
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Antanas Smetona
president of Lithuania
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American journalist