Thomas Alva Edison approached Death's door last week at Llewellyn Park, West Orange, N. J. as another great citizen of that State, Dwight Whitney Morrow, passed suddenly through. All summer he had been failing. At 84 he suffered from diabetes, Bright's disease, uremic poisoning and stomach ulcers. As those ailments of age dragged him down, he repeatedly spurted away from them, repeatedly got back at his work. Last week he became mentally drowsy, sank rapidly. On Monday, his physician could not promise his six children...
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