Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inventor of Weed nonskid tire chains was not dead, as reported; nor had his wife died "penniless after husband's fortune went to his stenographer," as reported. Wealthy Col. Harry D. Weed was alive in Bridgeport, Conn.; and, if the conciliatory tone of the Herald Tribune was indicative, he was not only alive but "kicking...
Readers wondered how the errors had ever reached the Herald Tribune pages. Those acquainted with the facts of newspaper life mourned for a reckless correspondent in Jackson, Mich., who had collected false facts at the wrong* Mrs. Weed's funeral and had wired them on as truth; mourned also for a telegraph editor who had sent the story to a busy copy desk without verification; mourned too for a night managing editor whose function it is (no matter what the shortcomings of his underlings) to edit and put out a perfect paper...
From the office of Frederick S. Duncan, for more than 20 years counsel for the Weed Chain Tire Grip Co. and its successor, the American Chain Co., came loud and speedy protest. He stated facts: The "Weed" tire chain was named after its inventor, Harry D. Weed, of Canastota (near Syracuse) N. Y. Under license agreement from him, the company produced Weed chains and paid all royalties therefrom for many years, later buying the patent rights. Colonel Weed is vigorously alive in Bridgeport and retains a close consulting connection with the American Chain Co., successors to the Weed Chain Tire...
...Weed is also decidedly alive; by no means penniless. They have a home at Syracuse, another at Southport, Conn.; frequently stop at the Stratfield Hotel, Bridgeport. Their son, Robert F. Weed, married Martha Lashar, daughter of Walter B. Lashar, president of the American Chain Co., and cousin of famed Thomas Lashar, onetime (1916) Yale coxswain...
Died. Alice Weed, widow of one Beverly Weed, whom erring news despatches a fortnight ago asserted had invented "Weed" tire chains; at Jackson, Mich. Lieutenant Colonel Harry D. Weed, who invented and patented the tire chain and organized the Weed Chain Tire Grip Co.† in 1904, lives at Bridgeport, Conn., with his family...