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which will change all steam power on railroads to electric power. “Prof.” Bidwell announces in
the ad. that he is the inventor of the Trolley Car System, the Railway Car Telephone system, the
Bidwell Cold Motor, and the Water Electric Generator. He says he has made millions of dollars
for people and will make millions more. And speaking of his latest patent, the Cold Motor, he
says:
“The one great drawback the railroads have had in changing over to electricity has been
that no motor, as at present made, can be run 150 miles at 60 miles an hour without buring out. It
would melt the very wires.
“By using the Bidwell Cold Motor a train of cars could be run from New York to San
Francisco without a stop at the rate of 60 to 80 miles an hour and not even warm up, and without a
hitch.
“Besides running faster they would be more safe and sure than steam, cost less to operate
and would last longer than any other motor now known.”
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, September 8, 1905]
BIGAMIST AT MACY
Special to the Sentinel.
Macy, Nov. 27th: -- A case of bigamy was brought to light here Saturday, the bigamist
being John Everard, an Advent, living west of town on his farm known as the old Fair ground.
Forty-five years ago he married Miss Malissa Belt, a sister to Raymond Belt, of this place, and
Wm. Belt of Rochester. It is charged by a daughter that he had a wife and two children in
Michigan, and passed here as a single man, no one knowing anything to the contrary until
Saturday, when this daughter came from Michigan and exposed the affair. Her mother had also
remarried, without obtaining a divorce. Her supposed husband recently died, leaving her destitute
with eleven children to care for, besides the two by her first marriage. Mr. Everard’s last wife is a
good christian woman and entirely innocent. When she asked him if it was true, he abused her
promptly and ordered her to leave his home. The county sheriff took him to Peru Monday noon.
He and his supposed wife have no children. A good many people will be involved, as he and his
second wife had signed deeds to property which they had bought and sold.
Everard is the inventor of the celebrated Macy mole trap and has always been recognized
as an upright citizen.
[Rochester Sentinel, Tuesday, November 28, 1905]
NEWS OF THE DAY
George P. Keith has a newly designed railway crossing that acts like it is alive and is
surely wonderful. It is operated by air and electricity and it solves the question of expensive
overhead crossings for trolley lines by being so constructed that there would not possibly be a
collision of trains at the crossing. Railway engineers will be here in a few days to look at it and it
will surely impress them as a wonderful piece of mechanis m.
[Rochester Sentinel, Thursday, December 6, 1906]
NEWS OF THE DAY
Frank Crim has invented a combination tumbler pad lock which is something new in the
way of locks. It is a very ingenious article and would present a hard problem even to the modern
burglar. Frank is trying to interest Uncle Sam as they would be just the thing for mail sacks which
are now secured with common pad locks.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, January 30, 1907]
KEITH’S NEW PATENT
George P. Keith was in Chicago Friday, where he exhibited his new patent railway
crossing to the Frog & Crossing company there. They have taken it under advisement and seemed
highly pleased with it. The president of the board said that there was no question about its
practicality so Mr. Keith has returned in high hopes that it will be adopted and become a money