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Title: Edison : his life and inventions
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Dyer, Frank Lewis, 1870-1941 Martin, Thomas Commerford, 1856-1924
Subjects: Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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every morning in the seasonthey would load up with onions, lettuce, peas, etc.,and go through the town. As much as $600 was turned over to Mrs. Edisonin one year from this source. The boy was inde-fatigable but not altogether charmed with agricult-ure. After a while I tired of this work, as hoeingcorn in a hot sun is unattractive, and I did notwonder that it had built up cities. Soon the GrandTrunk Railroad was extended from Toronto to PortHuron, at the foot of Lake Huron, and thence toDetroit, at about the same time the War of theRebellion broke out. By a great amount of persist-ence I got permission from my mother to go on thelocal train as a newsboy. The local train from PortHuron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles,left at 7 A.M. and arrived again at 9.30 p.m. Afterbeing on the train for several months, I started twostores in Port Huron—one for periodicals, and theother for vegetables, butter, and berries in the season.These were attended by two boys who shared in the 30
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EDISON WHEN ABOUT FOURTEEN OR FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE BOYHOOD AT PORT HURON profits. The periodical store I soon closed, as theboy in charge could not be trusted. The vegetablestore I kept up for nearly a year. After the railroadhad been opened a short time, they put on an expresswhich left Detroit in the morning and returned inthe evening. I received permission to put a news-boy on this train. Connected with this train wasa car, one part for baggage and the other part forU. S. mail, but for a long time it was not used. Everymorning I had two large baskets of vegetables fromthe Detroit market loaded in the mail-car and sentto Port Huron, where the boy would take them tothe store. They were much better than those grownlocally, and sold readily. I never was asked to payfreight, and to this day cannot explain why, exceptthat I was so small and industrious, and the nerve toappropriate a U. S. mail-car to do a free freight busi-ness was so monumental. However, I kept this upfor a long time, a

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