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Show SERIOUS ILLNESS MADE HIM AN ARTIST PHILADELPHIA, April 23.-John J. Boyle, 18 years old, who for a number of years was a resident of Germantown, has been, according to private advices received here, elected a member of tho National Society of Fine Arts of Pari3 on account of a painting which was this year exhibited in the salon. Boyle, until he was 12 years of age, worked as a breaker boy In the anthracite anthra-cite regions. He fell a victim to spinal trouble and waB taken up by a philanthropic philan-thropic citizen of Scranton. This aid enabled him to develop his talent for painting. |