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...Thomas Alva Edison approached Death's door last week at Llewellyn Park, West Orange, N. J. as another great citizen of that State, Dwight Whitney Morrow, passed suddenly through. All summer he had been failing. At 84 he suffered from diabetes, Bright's disease, uremic poisoning and stomach ulcers. As those ailments of age dragged him down, he repeatedly spurted away from them, repeatedly got back at his work. Last week he became mentally drowsy, sank rapidly. On Monday, his physician could not promise his six children and Mrs. Edison more than two days before a crisis. The Pope twice...
...Apia, two stewards from the yacht Alva, on which William Kissam Vanderbilt & friends are touring the South seas, complained to a Samoan court of ill treatment. The court cleared Yachtsman Vanderbilt, found the stewards "prohibited immigrants," fined them £100 each. They could not pay, were jailed for six months...
John Edison Sloane, 12-year-old grandson of Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, found a 24-oz. meteor near his camp in Maine, said he would present it to Harvard University...
...Died. Alva Clymer Dinkey, 65, one-time president (1903-15) of Carnegie Steel Co., president of the Midvale Co.; after three months illness; at Wynnewood, Pa. Brother-in-law of Charles Michael Schwab who married Emma Eurana. one of his three surviving sisters, he started as a water boy in the Carnegie-owned Edgar Thomson Steel Works...
Inventor Thomas Alva Edison having abandoned his annual intelligence tests for high school graduates,* the Central Press Association-aided by Instructor Sabina Hart Connolly of Yale's Department of Education-undertook last month to select the nation's six brightest boys. Before being sent on a trip to Italy last week, the boys were received at a Manhattan banquet by Senator Royal Samuel Copeland of New York. To see how smart they were, Senator Copeland began popping questions. "Who is Adolf Hitler?" the Senator asked Prizewinner David Englander of Brooklyn...