EDISON’S YOUTH
Quite early in life Thomas Alva Edison gave proof of astute flnancia ability. . He was newsboy on a railway, and during the Civil War he bought, a thousand copies of a paper. containing important war news. Gaining a little time on his rivals he sold the papers at an exorbitant price, and with the profits he bought chemicals and fitted up a laboratory in a disused compartment of a train.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 30, 29 October 1932, Page 19
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72EDISON’S YOUTH Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 30, 29 October 1932, Page 19
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