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Cranks Pestfr Edison

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
December
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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"Why, you talk about cranks," said Edison recently at Orange to a New York World leporter; "I have more of íhem come around here than any man in the country. They come out with all Borts of schemes which they want me to puzzle throug-h. These long-haired fellows, with dandruff on the shoulders of their coats, meander around here in shoals. One of tliem got in here the : other day, and he was a walker, too. t Hi} belonged out in Montana and got the idea that he was the first man who ever inventcd an elcetric light, and that I had robbed him of it. So he carne on here to make me give up half the proceeds, and he walked every foot of the way. You ought to have seen him when he pot here. "Some of the boys saw his trail downstairs and followed him up and told him I wasn't here but out at the mines, and ril be hanged if he didn't walk there. When he got out there the foreman - we'd posted liim - asked him if he hadn't invented the are light. The man from Montana said he had. Then the foreman told him that I had not invented the are light. but that it had been Invented by Thompson. The Montana man wanted to know where Thompson was right away, and the foreman told him Thonipson was down in Lynn, Mhss. " 'How do you get to Lynn?' asked the man from Montana. The foreman told him the road and he started to tramp down Hiere. I expect any day to hear of his raising the deuce there soraehow. Wc have 'em here all the time, but they don't bother me any."

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Ann Arbor Courier