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Show A GREAT PUBLISHER PUBLISHER DIES . Cyrus CJTUS H . . K . Cm Cuifcis Curtis tis of Philadelphia , who started hisbusiness his his'business hisbusiness ' . cents of capital capi- capi capital - - business career at the age of 12 with three capi capital ' \ and became one of the world's worlds world'sgratest world sgratest tal as a sheet street ne newsboy ne\\osboy ne osboy \ tisboy \ , gratest publishers , , died a :1 1 : few days ago at the age of 83 . . . Born in 111 Portland , , Me , in m 1850 , , Mr . Curtis recmve received receivedonly only a common school education . . His first publIshmg publishing publishingventure publishingventuie . Philadelphia at the age of 26 26when , ventme venture \ was \ > as launched in 1I1 when he became publisher of a small periodical caned called calledthe canedthe calledthe ' the Tribune and Faimer Falmer . Later he established Ladles Ladies Ladies'Home LadiesHome Rome home Journal , and afterwaid afterwald afterward became head o of the great greatCurtIs greatCurtis greatCurtis Saturday Sat- Sat Saturday Sat Saturday whose magazines magaZl11es include mclude - CurtIs Publishing Company , urday Evening Evenmg Post , , The Country Gentleman andLadies and andLadles andLadies Ladles Ladies ' Home Journal . . He purchased the Philadelphia Public Ledger in m1913 1913 , and the New York Evening Evemng Post in 1923 , and was wasthe wasthe wasthe the active head of all these important publications until untilhe untilhe untilhe he was strICkenVlth stricken \ with \Vlth Vlth heart disease about a year before beforehis beforeIris beforehis his Iris ; death . . He was widely known as a philanthropist , although althoughhis althoughhis althoughhis his benefactions were bestowed without ostentation ostentation.His ostentationHis . . I HlS His only daughter became the wife of the late famededitor famed famededItor famededitor edItor , Edwaid Edwald Edward Bok , who was associated with Mr . . Curtis Curtisfor Curtisfor Curtisfor for many years . Few men who started to make their way with limitededucation limited limitededucatIOn limitededucation educatIOn and no capital capltal have ever traveled farther than thanCyrus thanCyrus thanCyrus Cyrus Hel Heimann mann Kotzschmar Curtis . |