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Manhattan-born in 1791 of English stock, shrewd, self-made Peter Cooper pioneered in iron manufacturing, built the first U. S. steam locomotive ("Tom Thumb"), promoted the first transatlantic cables, built one of the first big U. S. fortunes. An industrialist and inventor of genius, he won his most lasting fame by founding Manhattan's great free educational centre, Cooper Union. His creed...
Mother's Story, Born Maryon Andrews, Mother Hewitt has since 1902 been married successively to a rich California doctor, a Manhattan broker. Inventor Hewitt, a British baron, a Newark, N. J. lawyer. She has lost one husband by death, two by divorce, two by annulment. After her divorce, year ago, she resumed the name of Hewitt. Last week she was registered in a Manhattan hotel as "Baroness d'Erlanger." To her daughter's monstrous charges against her, Mrs. Maryon Andrews Bruguiere Denning Hewitt d'Erlanger McCarter replied with a blanket denial of everything except the fact...
Method and reason of a brand new precaution against hemorrhage of childbirth were last week succinctly set forth by the inventor, Physiologist Maurice B. Visscher of the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Said Professor Visscher: "Taken from the patient during the last stages of pregnancy, when she has stored UP a healthy surplus of rich blood, the reserve blood is treated with sodium citrate to prevent clotting and preserved by electric refrigeration for possible use at any time before, during or after childbirth The principal advantage of the banked blood method obviously is one of speed in supplying immediate...
...have been listed in the various print societies' Best-Prints-of-the-Year selections. He once sold 32 pictures at a crack to Archer M. Huntington. He is one of the few U. S. painters whose works are included in the great collection of irascible Albert C. Barnes, inventor of Argyrol. His pictures are generally as admired by the art world as they are unknown to the U. S. public. Yet the most important fact about Painter Max Kuehne is that he has paid his bills, kept off relief, put a son through college and furnished a comfortable Manhattan...
Died. Dr. Francis Le Roy Satterlee, 54, U. S. pioneer in x-ray photography and research, inventor of many a radio reception device; of heart disease and x-ray burns for which he had undergone 44 skin-grafting operations and amputations; in Montauk...