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This year's is the 25th annual seal in the U. S. In 1904 a Danish postal clerk named Einar Holboell suggested selling seals to finance a children's hospital in Copenhagen. The late Danish immigrant Jacob Riis suggested U. S. adoption of the idea. At Wilmington, Del., Emily Perkins Bissell, Red Cross and social worker, wanted $300 for a tuberculosis shack on the Brandywine. She persuaded the Philadelphia North American to publicize a small seal sale. She realized $3,000. That was in 1907. The National Red Cross snapped up the idea. Until 1919 the Christmas Seals...
...Paris, Maine, which she calls "Right-of-way" and where she pleases herself by writing semi-religious poetry. Two years ago she published Happiness & Other Verses, giving the royalties to Christmas Seal campaigns. Although her seal work has had national effect, her personal activity has remained localized in & about Wilmington. Her sole decoration : a medal from the local Kiwanis Club...
...save for $28,000 to three old employes). The children of his first marriage (to Mary G. Stilwell, died 1884) are Mrs. Marion Estelle Edison Oser of Norwalk. Conn., relict of a German officer; Thomas Alva Edison Jr., consulting engineer to Edison industries; William Leslie Edison, 53, inventor, of Wilmington, Del. The children of Mrs. Mina Miller Edison, who is mentioned in the will as having been "adequately provided for," are Charles Edison, 41, president of Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; Mrs. John Eyre Sloane of Llewellyn Park, N. J.; and Theodore M. Edison. 35, research chief in his father...
Soon as the will was filed, Son William L. Edison, who lives modestly in Wilmington tinkering electrical inventions, announced he would contest the codicil on the grounds that his brother Charles and the stepmother had brought undue influence to bear. Though he hinted that he would "not be alone" in the suit, he received no public promises of support from the family. Mrs. Oser called the codicil "unfair...