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Upon the chairs sat notables, upon a platform more notables. Across the boulder rippled two U. S. flags, behind which, fixed in the stone, a bronze tablet mutely announced: "On this site-1876-1882-Thomas Alva Edison began his work of service for the world. . . . This tablet is placed by the Edison Pioneers...
Near Mr. and Mrs. Edison on the platform was John W. Lieb of the New York Edison Co. He dedicated the tablet and presented it to Governor George S. Silzer of New Jersey as a state monument, the latter accepting after Mrs. Edison had unveiled it. President John G. Hibben of Princeton then perorated, with interruptions by a rumbling freight train and a youthful Edisonian who leapt to the fore to declare he would never go to college.*Samuel Insull terminated the speechmaking...
...Insull, when he came to this country from England in 1881, became the private secretary of Mr. Edison...
Married. Theodore M. Edison, son of Inventor Thomas A. Edison, to Miss Anna M. Osterhout, daughter of Prof. Winthrop J. V. Osterhout, Professor of Botany at Harvard University; in the Appleton Chapel at Harvard...
Thomas A. Edison, Harvey S. Firestone and Henry Ford give, at inter- vals, a thought to the production of rubber in the U. S. Last week, Mr. Firestone gave an interview. His points...