Casey Jones kinship sparks truth from song legend
Mrs. John Luther Jones of Jackson Tennessee asserts her husband was the original Casey Jones famed for the Illinois Central line between Jackson and Water Valley Mississippi. She recalls the 638 engine racing at sixty mph and the crash that killed him as the fireman escaped.
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John Luther Jones
Jackson
Tenn
Chicago Daily News
Casey” Jones
Casey
Illinois Central
Water Valley
Miss
Memphis
Canton
Sim" Webb
Vaughn
Casey Jones
Jones
Wallace Saunders
Fort Worth News Roundup From Monday Railroad Personnel Moves
Fort Worth headquarters notes sentry updates from Monday show Mrs. Ted Holden traveling to Shawnee Oklahoma due to her father’s serious pneumonia illness. Santa Fe staff changes include Winston Carter becoming demurrage clerk at Amarillo and Roy Brown resuming payroll duties after visiting Oklahoma and Texas. Denver and Waynoka assignments include F L Giles and Owen in Amarillo yard service and KE L Taylor resuming duty after leave, with other clerical and locomotive staff movements noted.
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Ted Holden
Shawnee
Oklahoma
Winston Carter
Amarillo
Panhandle
Santa Fe
L. R. Bell
J. R. Coffey
Pampa
F. L. Giles
Denver
F. L. Owen
M. Williams
Childress
Britain to Get Airship System by 1930
An International News Service report says Britain aims to launch a comprehensive airship transport network across the empire by 1930. Captain P. Fellowes leads a mission returning from Africa, Australia, India and New Zealand with recommendations to demonstrate and then link routes via airships.
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International News Service
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British Empire
PF. M. Fellowes
British Airship Development
England
Africa
Australia
India
New Zealand
Airship scheme eyed for colonies and dominions
A global airship program plan surveys Ceylon India and New Zealand routes with Cocos Islands and African coasts. Dominion governments are advised on construction and meteorology as experiments expand to tropical zones. The Il 100 and R 101 flights may aim at Canada and South Africa with possible New York run. Accommodation for 100 passengers is outlined in giant dirigibles nearing completion at Howden and Cardington.
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India
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Cocos Islands
Dominions
Zealand
Australia
Bethe
Canada
South Africa
New York
Howden
Cardington
Aerial hotel design lures passengers aboard giant airship
The article describes a revolutionary airship concept with an aerial hotel like mooring mast elevator boarding and a flexible gangway. Commander Burney and Hin desociates lead plans for vessels larger than R100 capable of Atlantic service carrying more than 50 tons payload. It notes Alfonso XII as Spain’s longest reign beginning in 1002.
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Hin Desoc
Alfonso XII of
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