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Died. Thomas Alva Edison, 84; of uremic poisoning, Bright's disease, diabetes and stomach ulcers; in Llewellyn Park, West Orange...
...Memphis, he thought up his first invention?a telegraphic repeater. Jealous, the manager of the Memphis office discharged Inventor Edison. Edison, because he had no money, walked back to Louisville...
president of Bowman Biltmore Hotels Corp., in Manhattan, following an operation for gallstones; William Henry Meadowcroft, 78, longtime assistant and confidential secretary to the late Thomas Alva Edison (see p. 52), in West Orange, N. J.; Brand Whitlock, 62, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, in Brussels, of pleurisy; Charles A. Penn, 62, vice president of American Tobacco Co., in Manhattan, of a gall bladder complication contracted at Reidsville, N. C., whence he was removed in a private car with two specialists and nurses; John Rushworth, Earl Jellicoe, 71, commander of the British Fleet at the Battle of Jutland...
Thomas Alva Edison died last week. His practical intelligence was a monument in his century. Thousands of obituaries were published. Some facts about Thomas Alva Edison...
...Once he planned to sail for South America. When he reached New Orleans, the boat had gone. Edison returned to Cincinnati, there perfected his first patented invention?a chemical voting record machine for the House of Representatives, which Congress never used...