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...glad Mr. Ford is alive and will reap the joy of righting the almost unforgivable wrong he visited upon the Jewish people."?Rabbi Isaac Landman, editor of the American Hebrew...
...poor miller who dabbled in philosophy and science, Isaac Hudson Maxim was born in Orneville, Me. In his youth he pitched hay and won fame as wrestler at county fairs; but at home his sister, Lucy, four years older, could throw him with ease. The Maxims were a hardy clan. After an elementary study of chemistry at the old Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Hudson went into the printing business, soon invented a color process for the Evening Journal of Pittsfield, Mass. This newspaper was the first in the U. S. to print a daily edition in colors...
...before the Civil War. Isaac Merritt Singer (1811-75) was a Yankee peddler hawking notions through Connecticut when he came across the lock stitch sewing machine that Elias Howe (1819-67) had invented in 1846. Peddler Singer made some modifications, upon which he got a patent in 1852. There were law suits, in which Edward A. Clark, Manhattan lawyer, represented Singer. Lawyer and client formed the Singer corporation. Mr. Hopper was their bookkeeper at $20 a week. To him they came. Said Singer: "Clark won't let me be president, and I swear...
Last week Canadians and Labradorians jabbered so widely and intensively over the new settlement that one Rabbi Isaac de la Penha of Montreal rose up and told the press that a quarter of Labrador belongs to him by an ancient royal grant which he cited glibly but was unable to produce...
This afternoon Professor Selig Brodersky, of the University of Leeds, England, will speak on "Sir Isaac Newton." The lecture will be delivered at 4.30 o'clock in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum...