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...shrill and crackling hail greeted Herbert Hoover when he and Mrs. Hoover joined Thomas Alva Edison's 82nd-birthday party at the Edison estate near Fort Myers, Fla., early last week. It was deaf Mr. Edison yelling: "Hello, fisherman...
Then there was a general shaking of hands and a few posings with Mr. Edison standing between his cronies, Motor-Man Henry Ford and Tire-Man Harvey Samuel Firestone, his hands affectionately around their shoulders. Mr. Hoover, sauntering across the street to telephone, saw a group of little girls looking sad because, they thought, they were not permitted to dance at Mr. Edison's party. Mr. Hoover opened Mr. Edison's gate and sent the children in. On Mrs. Edison's ample table was a big green-&-yellow pound cake. This the old gentleman sliced with skill...
...usual at his parties, Mr. Edison had an aphorism and a statement to make...
...acre plantation near Savannah, Ga., and on it he is cultivating some of his friend's rubber plant selections. Mr. Ford has a rubber tree plantation newly started in Brazil. Mr. Firestone has his own plantation going in Liberia. These and other intimates of Mr. Edison possess little chunks of spongy brown material-Edison's first rubber from U. S. weeds...
Another feature of Mr. Edison's birthday was a gesture of generosity by Mr. Ford. At Dearborn, Mich., Ford's factory town, stands the Edison Institute of Technology and the Museum of American Industries, dedicated to Mr. Edison. Mr. Ford last week endowed institute and museum with $5,000,000. The museum contains all Mr. Edison's tools and contrivances, in working order...