"The Islamic State claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the bombing at Manchester Arena, the deadliest terrorist assault in Britain since 2005, as the death toll rose to 22."
RIP, Saffie Rose Roussos.
TIME MACHINE
May 23, 1911
106 years ago
Page 11 WILL STOP PIANO FOR SICK BOY'S SAKE
"John Roth of the New York Fire Department made his second appearance in Yorkville Court yesterday to answer the complaint of H. W. Stout, who had told the court that his son was dying of heart disease in the Stout apartment next door to that of the Roths at 1,504 Second Avenue, and that little Edna Roth, 10 years old, continued to play on the piano even after her father had been told that with each note the sick boy was made worse."
The Magistrate then pleads with Roth, ending on this -- er -- note:
"Magistrate House explained that three years ago he was dangerously ill. He lived near the Subway. The noise from that did not worry him, nor did the street noises.
'But,' he added, 'the instant a note was struck on a piano, I became fairly crazed. My physician requested that the playing be stopped. It was stopped immediately.'"
That's a lot of piano-averse stuff for such a small sample size.
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