Miscellaneous.
When* Edison, geniua and inventor that he is, had given two weeks of his valuable timo to going up and down on the New York Elevated Kailroad trying to discover what caused its noise and a cure for it, he gave up the job. Thpn a little woman took it. She rode on the cars three days, was denied a place to stand on the rear platform, laughed &t for her curiosity, and politely snubbed by conductors and passengers. Bat sho discovered what caused the noise, invented a remedy that was patented, and she was paid the sum of ten thousand dollars and a royalty for ever. Her name is Mrs. Mary Walton, and she lives in New York city.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1997, 25 April 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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121Miscellaneous. Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1997, 25 April 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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