Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About 38 years ago, a young man from Vermilion County, Ill., just graduated from DePauw University, went up to Chicago to practice law. He was a stocky, cheery, vigorous lad and got along very well. Before long he met one of the bright young men who had been associated down East with Thomas Edison in his electric-lighting companies. This young man, a short, brisk little Britisher named Samuel Insull, organized a Chicago Edison Company. The lawyer from Vermilion County, whose name was Roy Owen West, became Mr. Insull's attorney and put some money into the company. When...
...there be light," says the light company; and wiry candles glitter in all the cities of the world, bulbs of light blossom in the street, lights are in the houses, there is gaiety behind bright windows and darkness, enormous, hungry and patient, is compelled to crouch under the ocean or in the corners of closets. All this is expensive and Lawrence F. Jones, a radio dealer, decided that the Brooklyn Edison Co. had charged him too much for lighting his shop. Accordingly, he refused to pay their bill...
Last week, Lawrence F. Jones was suing the Brooklyn Edison Co. for $50,000 alleging malicious persecution. He stated in court that he had kept his store bright and cheery with storage batteries charged in another shop. A jury awarded...
...long, and if it is getting longer, so that its shadow falls on some bright colors, it may be a pity, but it's still Art. The part of the Dramatic Club in this extension seems to be to call attention to its play among other things...
...Vice-President John Bright Garrison of West Newton. John White Hallowell of Readville. Edward Henry McGrath of Brookline. Philip Howell Watts of Morristown, New Jersey...