How Ethel Is Linked to One of the Greatest Inventions

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Let us today give a nod to a centenary anniversary that no-one else will remember - anyway, that's what I'm betting. So here goes.

Forget the 100th anniversary of Baden-Powell founding the Boy Scouts. Forget the launching of the liner Lusitania - whose sinking would bring America into the Great War. You can even forget that On the Road to Mandalay, a song later murdered by Sinatra, was heard for the first time a century ago.

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How Ethel Is Linked to One of the Greatest Inventions

Remember instead that 1907 was the year a shy young girl joined the London office of an American patent medicine firm, unwittingly wandering into a tragedy to fill the world's front pa...

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