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Born. To Senator Guglielmo and the Marchioness Maria Cristina Marconi: a daughter. Name: Maria Electra Elena Anna. Godmother: Italy's Queen Elena. She is the first child of the Marchioness, there being three other Marconis (a son, two daughters) by the inventor's first wife...
...life of service to science, the arts, and humanity." While newsmen, photographers, waited after the ceremony he told a story: a man who suffered from a liver complaint went to Los Angeles for cure, recovered, started a sanitarium of his own. "Eighteen years afterward, the man died," declared Inventor Edison, "but before they could bury him his liver had got so strong they had to kill it with a club...
...Inventor of and apparently chief investor in this new industry is Garnet Carter, the mild, easygoing, drawling owner of Fairyland Inn on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. About a year ago Mr. Carter did what many a U. S. hosteler had done in the past-installed a miniature putting course on his lawns. Finding guests used this more than they did his $340,000 regular course, he made improvements. Tunnels, bunkers, miniature traps were added. Then he invented a putting green made of cotton seed hulls, sure to wear long and well...
Thus ended Inventor Claude's second effort at Matanzas Bay. He charged that bungling was due to "wilful disobedience of orders by a party or parties not in sympathy with the success of the experiment." Of his next attempt he said...
...irrevocably lost inspirations which flashed through his mind's ear and away before he could capture them on paper. Last week came news of an invention to enable affluent pianists to compose at ease, to capture transient beauty before it eludes memory. The device: "Music Writer." The inventor: Dr. Moritz Stoehr, professor of bacteriology at Mount St. Vincent College, N. Y. The principle: same as the typewriter. Dr. Stoehr has labored on his invention for twelve years, earning at last the praise of no less a maestro than Josef Willem Mengelberg...