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Complete records of the case in which Thomas A. Edison was sued for half his fortune by an early business associate have just been received by the Business Historical Society. They were compiled and thoroughly annotated by R. W. Hale '92, son of the lawyer who defended Edison against his former benefactor and the latter's colorful attorney. Benjamin F. Butler...
Photostatic copies of the original papers reveal that Edison, as a struggling young inventor, signed over half rights in all his future inventions in return for $40 each. Years later the holder of this contract entered suit against Edison for $30.000. After a short time the plaintiff retained Benjamin F. Butler, Civil War general and one-time presidential candidate, who made a dramatic entrance into the case by immediately raising the amount of the suit to $230,000. The case was finally settled out of court at the figure...
...airmailing this from Mexico City to lose no time in congratulating Mrs. Blaisdell on her censorship of "religion" as an implement of education. Had the minds of Edison, Franklin, Burbank and thousands of other original thinkers been sufficiently crippled by belief in and reliance on "divine power" and "life after death," they would have passed to the limbo of unaccomplishment with the rest of the orthodox millions...
...India and Polynesia, and Chemist Greville Williams had just discovered that rubber and isoprene were polymers. Then a Frenchman and an American made the plant almost indispensable and the War set half a dozen, nations to work trying to find a way to produce rubber within their boundaries. Thomas Edison boiled up native U. S. weeds, found goldenrod promising. And last week was written a new chapter in rubber's polysyllabic history...
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...