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Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 70, editor of various national magazines, including the Atlantic, who introduced literary realism to adolescent fiction, 19 March 1907.

Henry Brown Blackwell, 84, editor, with his wife Lucy Swope, of the national woman's suffrage paper, the Woman's Journal, 7 September 1909.

Henry Chadwick, 83, the first baseball writer for The New York Times and the Brooklyn Eagle, 20 April 1908.

Francis Pharcellus Church, 66, editor of the Galaxy (1870-1895), a New York answer to the Atlantic. He also wrote editorials for the New York Sun, including one with the immortal line, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus," 11 April 1906.

Peter Collier, 59, founder in 1888 of the weekly that bore his name. In 1895 he changed its emphasis from fiction to public affairs, 1909.

Stephen Crane, 28, war correspondent,...

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