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...days do not know quite what to make of Lawyer John Francis Neylan who lives in luxury among San Francisco's millionaires but who retains the simple bluntness of the Arizona teamster; who likes to haggle with dealers over fine books; who plays golf every Wednesday afternoon at Menlo Country Club or at Burlingame; who lunches at the Palace Hotel's "cabinet table" with local bigwigs; who is a regent of the University of California; who helped Hiram Johnson drive the Southern Pacific Railroad out of power 25 years ago but who now appears to be an archConservative...
...could be private secretary to Mr. Edison." Johnson promptly wrote a letter of recommendation to Edison. The same letter came back to London with a scrawl across it in Edison's writing: "Send him over." In February 1881, Insull sailed; 14 days later he arrived after dark at Menlo Park. Edison began dictating at once, finally stopped at midnight and said "You'd better get some sleep. I'll need you again at six in the morning." Thus began Insull's U. S. career. For a time he bought Edison's clothes, wrote his checks...
...Menlo Park, Calif, last week Leon F. Douglass, inventor, proudly told the Press a shocker. He had wanted someone for an acting job. The job was to play opposite a 12-ft. octopus in an underwater "death" struggle which he wanted to film with his "inverted periscope" cinecamera. Inventor Douglass' pretty daughter Florence, 17, volunteered. First time she dove into the tank the octopus was unimpressed. Next time the monster, as desired, slithered its eight long tentacles around her body, glued them tight with each one's double row of suckers. Father Douglass filmed breathlessly, finished his reel...
Phar Lap was buried last week in the horse cemetery of the Ed Perry Ranch at Menlo Park, Calif...
Although he had been closely guarded ever since someone tried to shoot him near Melbourne two years ago, there were rumors last week that Phar Lap had been poisoned, murdered. The police of Menlo Park ordered his oats examined. For three days, Government chemists analyzed samples of grass and leaves which Phar Lap might have nibbled. Then W. W. Vincent, chief of the Western District of the Food & Drug Administration, announced that tests on grass from a plot whence Trainer null had pulled green fodder for his charge showed .01 grains of arsenic per pound. The poison could have been...