Edison Hears Board Deliberations Through Morse Code Wink
Thomas Edison, deaf since youth, used Morse tapping and eyelid signaling with Miller Hutchison to follow Washington naval board talks. Hutchison tapped Morse at 30 words per minute, relaying discussions to Edison who presided as head of the board, even winking for dots and dashes when apart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Orange
N. J
Thomas A. Hdtson
Washington
Naval Consulting Board
Edison
Wilson
Navy
Daniels
Mr. Edison
Miller Reese Hutchison
Mr. Hutchison
Trousers For Suffragette In Mexican Demo
In Reynosa Mexico near Brownsville a unique suffrage protest led by Luisa Cabillo featured women in trousers a soldier style outfit. Authorities resisted but a compromise used suffrage flags to allow the display, marking the first such northern Mexico demonstration.
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Brownsville
Tex
Luisa Cabillo
Mexico
Reynosa
Miss Cabillo
Youth Hikes Round Globe From Australia to California
Alexander Grunwaldt, seventeen, began a walk around the world after leaving San Francisco on July 26 1912 bound for Australia. He crossed by sea to Calcutta then walked 1200 miles to Bombay and 2000 miles from Alexandria to Cape Town. He reached New York March 25 and now walks 8358 miles back to San Francisco. He funded the journey by odd jobs and selling photos.
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Sacramento
Cal
Alexander Grunwaldt
San Francisco
Australia
Calcutta
Bombay
Africa
Alexandria
Cape Town
New York
Drunk Man Asked to Walk Chalk Line Stuns Crowd
Nashville Indiana Justice Calvin tests sobriety by drawing a forty foot chalk line in the store. Lenville Copenhaver is arrested for drunkenness and walks the line without a misstep then balances on his hands at the end before being dismissed amid laughter.
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Nashville
Ind
Justice of the Peace Guard
Calvin
Marshal Reed
Lenville Copenhaver
Copenhaver
Groom Funds Honeymoon Car Breaks Down in Iowa
George Garrett of Elkhart Indiana and his bride reached Muscatine on their honeymoon in a large seven passenger touring car. A string of mishaps drained their funds and he had to pawn his extra suit to buy gas. The couple was billeted at a local hotel by a charity relief group.
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Muscatine
George Garrett
Elkhart
Ind
Seymour
Garrett
Golden wedding pair return to old home in West Virginia hills
Peabody Kansas couple Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Lowther celebrate fifty years of marriage by visiting their old West Virginia homestead in Richie County. They met during the Civil War era and reconnected after the war before settling in Kansas. They find the log cabin and original initials still standing.
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Peabody
Kan
A. S. Lowther
West Virginia Hills
Kansas Prairies
Santa Fe
Emporia
Marion County
Lowthers
Richie County
Mrs. Lowther
West Virginia
Mort
Mr. Lowther
Hen Lays Peanut Egg in Indianapolis Hen Coop
In Indianapolis Robert Arnold found an egg unusual in shape resembling a peanut and about two inches long. The egg's owner suspects a strange bird would have hatched from it, but the egg was eaten. Arnold jokes the hen would have produced a wasp waist fowl.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Robert Arnold
Arnold
Wife Sues for Divorce Over Watchful Husband and 63 Lady Friends
Cincinnati court records reveal Mrs. Ethel Redmond Moegling seeks a divorce from Richard E. Moegling alleging she could not keep him at home on rainy evenings. She claims he stood on downtown street corners watching crossers and using a cipher system to track sixty three women she named.
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Cincinnati
Ethel Redmond Moegling
Richard E. Moegling
Over 240 New Game Laws Enacted by U S
Washington reports a vigorous federal state campaign for game protection. In 1915 more than 240 new game laws were enacted, the highest total since 1911, with California Connecticut Maine New Jersey Oregon Pennsylvania and Wisconsin each recording substantial counts. Several bills were vetoed and states moved toward harmonizing migratory bird regulations with the federal law.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Arizona
Georgia
Nebraska
North Carolina
California
Connecticut
Maine
New Jersey
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
Idaho
Washington State
Michigan
New Hampshire
Tennessee
West Virginia
Illinois
New Mexico
North Dakota
Delaware
Ohio
Rhode Island
Supreme Court of the United States
Massachusetts
Nevada Divorce Ignored in Connecticut Custody Case
Bridgeport superior court hears motion to strike an amended reply in Rudolph E. Tiedemann v Gertrude E. Tiedemann. The real question is whether a Nevada divorce validly issued for custody and alimony affects Connecticut action. Judge Case reserved decision on whether the Nevada decree is valid due to lack of residency.
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Greenwich
Conn
Bridgeport
Rudolph Ernest Tiedemann
Gertrude Eleanor Tiedemann
Connecticut
Nevada
Tiedemann
Reed Dreams Inspire Accident At Read Printing
John W. Reed of Read Printing in Kansas City told of a dream in which he cut off his hand. The next day he slipped at a paper cutter and severed his left hand at the wrist, as coworkers recalled the dream and delayed calling a doctor by about ten minutes.
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Kansas City
John W. Reed
Read Printing Company
Lost Girl Crawls Miles Before Rescue In Desert
Louise M. Pearson of Oakland was stranded in the Mohave desert after her horse threw her ten miles from Ludlow. With a severely sprained ankle she crawled on her hands and knees through the night until a railroad engineer found her unconscious on the tracks while she was searching for a mine in the Old Dad mountains.
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Needles
Cal
Louise M. Pearson
Oakland
Mohave Desert
Pearson
Ludlow
Old Dad Mountains
Owl Smash In Car Crash Injures Driver
Peru Indiana Marion Dillman and friends were driving near Chili when an owl struck Dillman in the face. He released the wheel and the car left the road hitting a fence. No one was hurt but Dillman’s face was scratched by the owl’s claws.
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Peru
Ind
Marion Dillman
Chili
Dillman
Some Forms of Rheumatism Curable
An old advertisement extols Sloan's Liniment as a cure for rheumatic pains. It lists acute and chronic rheumatism and related conditions and claims rapid relief by penetrating to the seat of trouble. It promotes a 25 cent bottle for emergency use.
Living Models to Highlight Eight National Apple Show
During the Spokane Apple Show November 15 to 20, 8 to 12 living models will display women’s fashions nightly on the main stage in the apple auditorium. Cloak and suit departments from leading Spokane stores will present a fashion panorama each evening with assigned nights for Palace Kemp Hebert Whitehouse Princess Apple Blossom and her court Culbertson Grote Rankin Crescent. The event, described as the greatest of its kind in the northwest, is led by Robert H. Kipp, chairman of the trustees.
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Spokane
Apple Auditorium
The
Palace
Kemp & Hebert
Whitehouse
Princess Apple Blossom
Culbertson - Grote - Rankin Company
Crescent
Northwest
Robert H. Kipp
Hort Students to Judge Apples
The eighth National Apple show offers a trophy and a $25 cash prize to the top apple judging team from any agricultural college at Spokane, November 15 to 20. The cup, awarded for one year, becomes permanent if a school wins it three times in a row. Open to colleges with regular horticulture courses. Any undergraduate agricultural student is eligible. Each team has three members.
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Agricultural College
Spokane
Hunters and a California buyer order steamship
The Boston Journal notes that deer hunters still enter Maine woods while a California man has ordered a steamship for Pacific trade, illustrating ongoing risk taking and investment in shipping.
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Maine
California
Boston Journal
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Wireless
Naval Board
Inventor
Thomas A. Edison
American Press Association
Grunwaldt
Justice
Moegling
U.S
Agricultural Department
Printer
Runaway
Tower
SOWER
A.J. Tower Co
P. A. Snyder
Elliott Bldg
Attorneys AT Law
Fred Kemp
E. L. Baker
Wenatchee, Wash
N. A. Pearson
Elliot Blk
Leavenworth, Wash
G. H. Hannan
Wenatchee
DE. G. W. Roxley
DR. J. Stillson Judah
Leavenworth Hospital
Chelan County
Chelan County Abstract Co
J. A. Gellatly President
W. W. Gray
Wenatchee, Wase
Knights of
Pythias
Valentine Franklin
D. C
A. R. Brown
Echo Office
Diogenes
S.H. Knowlton
Elman Hotel
W. E. Tomlinson
Prop
Chamley & CO
Valencia St
FBI
Cn Aer
Seattle
Third Ave
Cherry ST
Crollard & Crollard Lawyers
B. J. Williams
A N.corbin
Williams
Corbin
Lewis J. Nelson
Elliott Block
J. B. Adams
E. WH. Fox
Eight St
Weeler’s Rop
Leavenworth
John E. Porter
Attorney At Law Notary Public
Columbia Valley Bank
Wenatchee Wash
Wenatchee Abstract Company Incorporated
R. W. Vermilya
Mgr
Columbia Vally Bank
Ee City Drag Line
Rainier Beer
Lee J. Howerton
Echo
Zarthan Lodge No
Masonic Temple
Jack Ruth
W.M
A. G. McKeown
Lecy
A. K
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