Invents Device While Sick in Bed

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Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 1/21/2009 at 06:39:50

Ottumwa Courier; Feb. 14, 1913

INVENTS DEVICE WHILE SICK IN BED

NEWTON, Feb. 14--While bedridden in Chicago and Des Moines hospitals, suffering from cancer which he long thought to be incurable, Harry L. Ogg of Newton invented a new electric lighting system for automobiles, completed a demonstrating model of the device, and now appears to be in a fair way of securing a fortune from the invention.