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...Cincinnati, Alva Wonnell, 59, high-school teacher famed for his penmanship, hanged himself in his basement. His salary had been cut. He feared dismissal...
...Fifty years ago last week the late Thomas Alva Edison started the first generation of the first central station system in the world. The current lit 400 lamps in Manhattan's financial district...
President Hoover did his best to look easy and informal but it was photographically plain that he got no fun out of his politically necessary antics. An amused onlooker was Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison...
...Garden," a ballad, was composed by Mrs. Idabelle Smith Firestone, wife of Rubberman Harvey Samuel Fire stone. Mrs. Firestone is a mother of six, grandmother of three (who call her "Banny"), a longtime friend of Mrs. Henry Ford and Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison. Grey-haired, distinguished-looking Mrs. Firestone is fond of birdsongs, buggy-riding, playing on piano and organ. Improvising casually for her family several years ago, she played a melody which she said was inspired by her garden. They urged her to write it down. Arranged by Radio Orchestra Conductor William Merrigan Daly, with lyrics by one Lester...
Birthday. Frank Julian Sprague, 75, "father of the trolley car." Celebration: a tribute meeting at the Engineering Societies Building, Manhattan, with hundreds of celebrities present. An Annapolis graduate, Scientist Sprague specialized in electricity, was for a year affiliated with Thomas Alva Edison. He organized Sprague Electric Railway & Motor Co., tried to get Jay Gould to electrify Manhattan's steam-powered elevated lines. During a demonstration, a fuse blew out, scared Financier Gould out of all interest in electric cars. Later in Richmond, Va., Mr. Sprague successfully constructed an electric surface line. Within two years 200 other U. S. cities...