Patents Models Debate From Pre-1880 Era Prompted by Congress
The article argues that pre 1880 patent models are essential records that should not be destroyed. It explains how models illuminate inventor work beyond drawings and how their loss could enable monopolistic firms to misuse patented ideas. It notes legal and fiscal pressures to dispose of them and cites past actions by Commissioner Moore and legislative directives.
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General’ Land Office
Cunningham
Patent Office
Congress
Secretary of the Interior
Moore
Morac
National Museum
House Offree
Apopriations Committee
Rha
Jamad
Isis
Thera
Dommertiu
Westinghouse Air Brake Company
Wahéuan
Electrical Combination
United Shoe Machinery Company
Appropriations Committee
Shoals
Yost
Jenner
Beach
New York
Rockville Society Notes Show Local and Regional Ties
A roundup from Rockville highlights community activity with a Presbyter ian synod meeting in Wilmington and residents Mrs. Edmonds and family returning from Washington. Dr and Mrs George Edmonds attend the event while Joan J Higen assists at Farmers Bank. Prescott Abbe returns from West Virginia with civil engineers and a Rockville spelling bee draws local participation led by Laura Higgin g and Mrs Lloyd Brewer. Former State's Attorney Robert S B Peter recovers from typhoid and takes short walks.
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George L. Edmonds
Rockville
Washington
John J. Brunett
Ita
Joan J. Higeins
Farmers’ Banking and Trust Company
Prescott Abbe
West Virginia
Corps of Civil Engineers
Seco Hall
Laura Higging
Lloyd Bréwer
The Baby Carriages Woman Sews a Living From Repairs
A young woman in a eastern city recounts repairing and renting baby carriages. She describes charging 19 cents per delivery, $1 extra monthly storage and repair, with a total of $2 for full service. She notes five customers paying $2 monthly, plus others delivering and collecting carriages daily. She emphasizes care, cleanliness, and keeping cushions fresh, and mentions hiring help.
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Gale
Thomas Hardy Declines Large Offer for Manuscripts
The Brooklyn Eagle reports novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, a justice of the peace in Dorsetshire, declined a substantial bid by J Pierpont Morgan for his original novels manuscripts and has returned them to possession.
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the Hardy
Brooklyn Eagle
Thomas Hardy
Dorsetshire
J. Pierpont Morgen
Hardy's works praised as universal yet rooted in Wessex
A British assessment lauds Thomas Hardy as a universal reader favored by the English-speaking world while noting his deep ties to Wessex. At 71, his life’s work is seen as complete, with his original manuscripts expected to grow in value for British collections, preserving his status as a cosmopolitan artist rooted in place.
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G. W. Buck
Hoke-Smith
Georgia
Washington
Cleveland
Atlanta
Huxley
Hardy
America
Tess
England
Balzac
France
Hawthorne
Thomas Hardy
The Germless Egg Study at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientists at MIT under Prof. W T Sedgwick convert part of the biology lab into a hen yard to test producing eyes free from bacilli. Research aims to prove the hypothesis with utmost caution and secrecy until data are fully peer reviewed in two months.
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Benton Dispatch
New York ‘Tribune
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bes Irving
Moftern
W.T. Sedgwick
Sedgwick
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