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Hutchison is an electrical engineer, southern by birth and training. Since 1910 he has been associated with Thomas A. Edison; for several years he was chief engineer of the Edison Laboratories. In 1917 he formed the Miller Reese Hutchison Corporation to market his own inventions and to distribute the Edison storage battery under an agreement with Mr. Edison. During the War he gave his entire time to naval engineering work for the Government. He is the owner of more than 600 patents and is internationally known in engineering circles. His offices are on the 51st (top) floor of the Woolworth...
...usually been deemed the result of carrying the burdens of a nation at war on his shoulders, was nothing less than the result of indigestion-to be technically frank. Had Lincoln's doctors diagnosed his case correctly, had any of the now widely advertised remedies been on the market, Lincoln would not have sought diversion from his gloom at the theatre; he would therefore not have been shot; and, declares the writer, "without doubt the political history of this country subsequent to the Civil War, and perhaps of some other civilized countries, also, might have been greatly modified." The tragic...
...million people, men, women and children, are engaged in rearing silkworms and in spinning and weaving silk. The manufacturers in America could use, they tell us, twice as much raw silk as they can now obtain. If, therefore, the silk crop in China can be doubled there is a market already at hand and the wealth of the Chinese farmer can be greatly increased...
...Verbrycke, Jr., of Washington, D. C., has reported a death following infection with this bacteria. The patient was a widow, aged 67, whose infection had occurred from some market rabbits brought home by her son five days before her illness. These she had prepared for cooking. This is the first case reported in which the disease was contracted by the handling of infected rabbits for cooking. The other forms of infection thus far reported have been by the bite of a blood-sucking fly and by accidental infection in the laboratory...
Forecasting the weather or the stock market seems a relatively easy matter compared with foretelling the effect of a book on the minds of official and unofficial censors of literature here or abroad. According to a recent letter from Paris, Mr. Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio", which has been appearing in a French magazine, has been "suppressed" this in the capital where Mr. James Joyce's "Ulysses" first saw the light...