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...three attending doctors at Victoria Cottage Hospital in Sidmouth, England assisted a young mother in a difficult labor by passing his hand into the uterus to bring down a leg. During this maneuver, reports Dr. P.M.G. Russell, the three physicians heard "a clear, remote cry very like a baby crying in the next room, but close below our heads." When a nurse returned to the room, disappointed at having missed the event, the infant obliged with another cry so loud that a doctor put his ear on the mother's abdomen to confirm beyond doubt that the cry came...
Died. Sir Ambrose Fleming, 95, one of Britain's foremost electrical scientists and pioneer in radio's development, inventor of the diode valve (predecessor of the radio tube), designer of the wireless signal apparatus for Marconi's first transatlantic message in 1901; in Sidmouth, England. In 1933, when he was 83, stately Sir Ambrose took a 34-year-old bride, six years later emerged from retirement to attack scientific theories of evolution, affirmed his belief in the miracles and prophecies of the Bible...
...Pellow was the eldest son of Henry E. Pellow, who is a cousin of Viscount Exmouth and brother-in-law, as well as cousin, of the present Viscount Sidmouth. His mother was a sister of John Jay. He was born in England in 1860, and was educated in this country, first at St. Paul's School, Concord, and later at Cambridge. He was graduated at Harvard in 1880, and three years later took his degree at the Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar. He was afterward admitted to the New York bar. but soon turned...
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