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...years in engineering, only five in teaching. At 18, he was tapping a telegraph key for Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Six years later, a graduate of the University of Illinois, he joined the engineering staff of General Electric, where he worked for a time with the late, great Inventor Charles Proteus Steinmetz. No recluse, he served a term as Mayor of Scotia, N. Y., near G. E.'s Schenectady plant...
...grandfather, William Deering of Maine, was nearing 50 when he visited the Midwest, found his old friend Elijah Gammon struggling with throat trouble and a manufacturing concession for Marsh harvesters. Elijah Gammon told William Deering that his machine was better than any built by powerful old Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor of the reaper. William invested $40,000 in the concession, moved to Evanston, Ill., soon bought out his partner. In 1880 he soared to the top of the brawling harvester business with a twine binder which he picked up from one John F. Appleby. Twine binders did not cut into...
News to many a parent last week was this dictum by Mrs. Theodore Miller Edison, daughter-in-law of the late inventor: "In the minds of some, preparation for marriage too often is associated with the physical aspect of sex, whereas the philosophical and spiritual considerations are equally important. All three should develop together in the mind of the child. Erroneous [is the] belief that knowing the facts of life would destroy the innocence of their children. Certainly ignorance is a flimsy guaranty of innocence. Accurate knowledge can provide a much firmer foundation for a wholesome attitude toward life...
...bail. On the ground that she was mentally incompetent, Dr. Tillman advised and Dr. Boyd had performed an operation sterilizing Ann Cooper Hewitt, 21, great-granddaughter of the late great Philanthropist Peter Cooper, granddaughter of the late great Statesman Abram Stevens Hewitt, only child of the late great Inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt. The charges were an outgrowth of a $500,000 damage suit which Ann Hewitt, claiming she had been sterilized during an appendectomy because her much-married mother wanted control of a $3,000,000 trust fund left by her father, had brought against the physicians and her mother...
...English couple, stranded on the Riviera, go spookily senile. A self-styled inventor, he arranges elaborate booby-traps for duns; she collects cats. When the landlord sniffs a rat he finds the old man has been dead for days, the old woman pretending not to notice...