Word: forli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas Alva Edison in a fringed muffler, Mrs. Edison, four servants, a dozen laboratory assistants and five carloads of laboratory gear & raw materials, all rolled southward last week from New Jersey toward Fort Myers, Fla. Through the press rolled headlines. For Inventor Edison, having celebrated the golden jubilee of his...
Chief Laboratory Assistant Frederick Ott is the sturdy mechanician who for 43 years has supervised experiments on Inventor Edison's ideas. The man who has for 19 years tried to keep the ideas from public garbling is a precise, British-born lawyer named William Henry Meadowcroft, 76. Last week...
In Elizabeth, N. J., Sang Wah, laundryman, disappeared. For three weeks frantic customers tried vainly to obtain a total of $1,000 worth of laundry while annoyed policemen, unable to decipher the orange tickets, were unable to decide which laundry was whose.
In Brooklyn, Mrs. Ella E. Morris rented rooms in a house located in a section supposedly restricted to one-family dwellings. Neighbors complained that Mrs. Morris was cheapening the neighborhood, took court action. Mrs. Morris retaliated with a large sign posted on the front of her house: "FOR SALE OR...
In Fayettesville, Ark., Bernie Reed Beck, four, was adjudged the nearest perfect baby in town. Baby Bernie does not live with his parents. Reason: Mrs. Beck is serving a life term in Arkansas State Prison for killing Mr. Beck.