Edison as I know him, by Henry Ford, in collaboration with Samuel Crowther.

EDISON As I KNOW HIM
fought with a heavy list of dead and wounded.
He had been selling a hundred newspapers on his
regular trips. He decided to buy a thousand and
arranged with his telegraph-operator friends to
post bulletins at each station giving the bare news
of the battle. This is what happened:
"The first station, called Utica, was a small
one where I generally sold two papers. I saw a
crowd ahead on the platform, and thought it
some excursion, but the moment I landed there
was a rush for me. Then I realized that the telegraph was a great invention. I sold thirty-five
papers there.
"The next station was Mount Clemens, now
a watering place but then a town of about one
thousand. I usually sold six to eight papers there.
I decided that if I found a large crowd there I
would correct my lack of judgment in not getting more papers by raising the price from five
cents to ten. The crowd was there, and I raised
the price. At the various towns there were crowds.
"It had been my practice at Port Huron to
jump from the train at a point about one-fourth
of a mile from the station, where the train gen86