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...dated April 16, 1861 to Dr. Charles Jackson (another claimant) said: "The discovery of the fact that the state of anesthesia is a safe one and thus available in practice is due to Morton. James Watt did not originate the steam engine. George Stephenson did not first introduce the railway...
...York Times, covered Parliament's acrid session on Chamberlain's failure in Norway, told his office he was leaving for his country home at Cobham. In an inky blackout, Miller's train gathered speed out of Clapham Junction station. He opened the door of his railway compartment-or somehow it came open-and Webb Miller pitched out to his death on the railway tracks...
...terminals of twelve* western roads, in 135 cities, Railway Extension, Inc. opened a train-auto service. Sponsored by the roads (which put up no funds but gave terminal facilities for booths and parking spaces, telephone & telegraph service), Railway Extension was designed to persuade travelers to leave their cars at home, cake their journeys by rail, rent cars for use at their destination...
Author, president and top dog of Railway Extension is a husky, happy-go-lucky, talkative automobile dealer named Ed O'Shea. Weary of turning away potential customers who came to his Lincoln, Neb. agency from the next-door bus depot and the nearby railroad station to ask whether they could rent a car for a few hours, Dealer O'Shea worked out Railway Extension, took it to the railroads. At present his agency operates its own cars (500) in some 35 cities, has contracts with local drive-yourself agencies in the others...
...arranging a hook-up with local drive-yourself agencies in 55 cities. Their rates, reduced for train passengers only: $3 a day plus 5? a mile ($4 a day, 6? a mile in New York City). Free taxis to the agency are included. Hope for their plan (and for Railway Extension) was advanced by the experience of the New Haven, which pioneered the idea on a limited scale in 1938, has found it adds about 50 passengers a month in nine New England cities...