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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brethren, members of the National Electric Light Association, were beginning last week to assemble in Atlantic City, N. J., for their annual convention and, incidentally, an electrical 75th birthday party for the city...
...seen never before. That will be the high moment of the Golden Jubilee. The dimming of the lights will have been signaled by a push-buttom from Inventor Edison seated once more in his old time laboratory, every stone and splinter of which has been moved from Menlo Park, N. J., to Dearborn, Mich...
...group of natives from Niagara Falls, N. Y., approached Mr. Adams about organizing a power company. Three such projects had already failed; $800,000 had been thrown away. Mr. Adams said that if he could have a six-month option, he would see what could be done. He consulted mechanical engineers, notably Dr. Coleman Sellers of Philadelphia. He cabled to Inventor Edison, who was having a triumph in Paris: "Has power transmission reached such development that in your judgment scheme practicable...
...Cleveland Plain Dealer, said Co-Publisher Thomason, was approached by him. It refused an offer of 21 million dollars. The Plain Dealer was not for sale, Mr. Thomason was told. With many another journal he had the same success. But in three newspapers (Chicago Journal, Tampa Tribune, Greensboro, N. C. Record) owned by Bryan-Thomason, International has an interest...
Muriel McCormick, daughter of Chicago Capitalist Harold Fowler McCormick, last week established residence in Rochester, N. Y., intending study at the famed Eastman School of Music...