Hawker and Grieve saved in mid ocean after failed flight
Harry Hawker and Mackenzie Grieve were rescued at sea after attempting a nonstop flight from St Johns to England. A tramp steamer Mary picked them up 800 miles from their goal when a water filter clogged the radiator feed. They were forced to descend and later reported the rescue by wigwag.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawker
Grieve
Harry Hawker
Mackenzie Grieve
Great Britain
St. Johns
N. F
England
Mary
Lewis
Coast Guards
Congress Faces Need for New Financing Plans
Washington May 28 Congress weighs new financing to cover requests totaling about 8 billion dollars. Fresh plans are considered as the Victory Loan balance shrinks and monthly expenditures exceed 1.4 billion. Officials eye an over the counter bond sale to avoid another large public loan, with deficits looming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
House
Treasury
Moore
Pennsylvania
Glass
Yankees First To Cross Atlantic By The Air Lanes
Lieutenant Commander A. C. Read led the NC-4 a historic sea to air lanes crossing from Rockaway Beach New York to the Azores and Lisbon Portugal. The voyage ended beside the warship Rochester as celebrations erupted with whistles and bells. Read praised the engines for performing perfectly throughout the journey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockaway Beach
N. Y
A. C. Read
England
Lisbon
New York
Ponta del Gada
Azores
NC4 Flight Distances and Times Between Key Ports
The NC4 reports two long distance legs with measured distances and flight times. From Ponta Delgada to Lisbon the leg covers 800 miles in 9 hours 43 minutes at 82.2 knots. From Trepassey to Lisbon the distance is 2150 nautical miles with a 26 hour 45 minute flight and an average speed of 80 nautical miles per hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ponta del Gada
Lisbon
Americans Ready for Lisbon to Plymouth Atlantic Hop
Lisbon May 28 United Press Americans who flew across the Atlantic prepare to begin a 700 mile hop from Lisbon to Plymouth England completing their historic air voyage. The leg will test endurance and navigation as the crew presses toward the finish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lisbon
United Press
Atlantic
Plymouth
England
Ohio Veterans Seek Referendum on Dry Laws
The Ohio Home Rule Association has petitions ready to circulate asking a referendum on dry enforcement measures. Circulating the petitions would delay the dry bills from taking effect until voters decide at the polls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio Home Rule Association
British Warships Sink Russian Battle Flagship Fight May 18
Washington reports British warships sunk the Bolshevik battleship Novik and forced the dreadnought Andrea Pervozvany to retire from action in flames after a May 18 battle. details arrived via cable from the state department on May 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BOSS
Washington
Andrea Pervozvany
State Department
Cable Today
Engineers Back New York Arrive with Roma
The transport Roma arrived in New York with the 505th Engineer Service Battalion aboard. The arrival marks a unit deployment in the ongoing mobilization, with troops disembarking and beginning post-arrival duties in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
505 Engineers
New York
Roma
Engineer Service Battalion
Albany Boy Earns Ohio State College Scholarship
Carl W. Vandervort from Albany High School won a four year scholarship at Ohio State University through a statewide competitive exam. He ranked second highest among twenty two counties in Ohio’s twenty two counties per district. The award strengthens his plan to complete the agriculture course.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Carl W. Vandervort
Albany Hi
College of Agriculture
Ohio State University
Vandervort
Ohio
Ohio State
Memorial Services at Clarks Chapel Sunday
Memorial services will be held at Clarks Chapel next Sunday afternoon at 2 o clock. Prof W H Cooper of Ohio University and Pastor Rev Bowden will speak. Graves of Civil War and other veterans will be decorated with flowers as a large crowd attends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarks Chapel
W. H. Cooper
Ohio University
Bowden
Woman badly hurt again in runaway spill near Salem
Mrs. Charles Carter of near Salem sustained serious head injuries after a buggy horse bolted and struck a well curb at Gheer farm, while two children escaped unharmed. This follows another runaway accident about a month earlier near the fair grounds that badly bruised both her and her husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Carter
Salem
Dr. Henry
Baughman
Mayor and council jailed over mufflerless town pump engine
In Leverne California the town's constable arrested the mayor and city council for operating the engine on the town pump without a muffler, prompting a rare local political upheaval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leverne
Cal
Miss Walsh rejects $50 for a single kiss
Providence R I May 28. Miss Josie Cupie Walsh declares kissing a rude public custom and refuses a $50 offer for one kiss at a Salvation Army drive rally, insisting on decorum and propriety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
R. L
Josie
Cupie) Walsh
Allied governments suspend Hungary blockade on stable government
Paris May 27 allied and associated governments said they will lift the blockade against Hungary once a stable government is established. The report notes the decision was officially announced. If you gave your money your money may save you.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Hungary
Tax Relief Bill Faces Possible Veto In Ohio House
Columbus May 28 The Ohio House prepared to vote on a joint tax relief bill aiding near bankrupt cities and school districts. It would allow bond issues with voter approval to cover deficits through 1919 1920, with an August 12 vote date and possible changes if emergency clause fails.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
House
Joint Taxation Committee
Senate
Cox
Beetham
Krum Kaler Tops Student Leadership at Kirksville
George Krum Kaler of this city attends the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville Missouri and leads student life there He has been elected treasurer of the class of 1921 and president of the student council which oversees all student activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Krum) Kaler
American School of Osteopathy
Kirksville
Support of the Navy Program Half Promised
Senator Poindexter says Secretary Daniels' proposal to abandon the biggest navy may gain Republican backing as an economic measure. He argues the League of Nations has no U S commitment and Great Britain and Japan will not halt naval growth. Daniels to appear before the House naval committee again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Daniels
League of Nations
Poindexter
Senate
Naval Affairs Committee
United States
Great Britain
Japan
Butler
House Naval Committee
Daniel
Fiume and reparations not in peace treaty
Paris dispatch notes Fiume and boundary issues will be reserved for later by the Big Four. The Austrian reparations burden will shift to new nations, and military terms not yet included. Germany’s counter proposals include league of nations entry. Kolchak not recognized pending more info.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred
Ferguson
United Press
Paris
Fiume
Italy
St. Germain
Austria
Europe
Berlin
Germany
League of Nations
Admiral Kolchak
Orsk
United States
Britain
France
Kolchak
Pay Delay Halts Mines 209 210 Sugar Creek
Miners at Sugar Creek Mines 209 and 210 did not work Tuesday due to payroll delays and a missed pay day on May 26. Mine 211 suspended but expects resume June first. Pay delays cited as invalid by mine committees after a temporary layoff. crews returned to work Tuesday as operations slowly pick up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sugar Creek
Express
Columbus
Cholmeley-Jones Named Director of War Risk Bureau
Col. R G Cholmeley Jones appointed director of the war risk insurance bureau succeeding Col Lindsley who resigned after a controversy with Secretary Glass Lindsley had recently become head of the American Legion and Cholmeley Jones helped organize the war risk section in France
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col
R. G. Cholmeley-Jones
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Colonel Lindsley
Lindsley
American Legion
Organization of World War Veterans
the Treasury Glass
Cholmeley- Jones
France
President Wilson considers industrial conference and labor accord
President Wilson weighs a national industrial and economic conference to draft a bill of rights for capital and labor and a long running conference of conservative leaders to ease industrial and domestic strife. War Labor Board members draft a plan for a general industrial court with public presiding officers. Taft and Manly back a successor body as Wilson urged a helpful board in his final congress message.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Washington
Wilson
America
War Labor Board
Capital and Labor
Taft
Manly
Congress
PEACE LEAGUE SPECIAL TRAIN SEEN IN ATHENS
Ex-President Taft and party including Stephen S Wise T G Chamberlain A Lawrence Lowell and Anna Howard Shaw rode the Peace League Special through Athens before noon Tuesday en route to Columbus for a convention address. The unannounced visit drew no demonstrations at the station as the train passed. The man who thinks it necessary to spend most of his time defending his honor usually hasn't any.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Stephen S. Wise
T. G. Chamberlain
A. Lawrence Lowell
Anna Howard Shaw
Athens
Peace League
Columbus
General Strike in Winnipeg Threatens Political Crisis
Winnipeg faces a potential political crisis as a general strike over rising living costs halts city functions for nearly two weeks. Editors report non unionists join strikers while Ottawa and Montreal debate wage, price issues and the broader threat to labor rights, with nationwide sympathy action planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Man
United Press
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fmyrso
Uncle Sam
Yankees
Chas. Carter
Dunn
Omsk
the War Risk Bureau
By Robert J. Bender
James T. Kolbert
United Press Staff
Corres
Montreal
Que
Amalgamated Society of Engineers
International Association of Machinists
Ottawa
Ontario
Canada
Toronto
Edmonton
Calgary
Lethbridge
Brandon
Regina
Saskatoon
Moose Jaw
Saskatchewan
G. D. Robertson
Borden
Citizens’ Committee
Christopher Sovereig
Vic
Bh. C
Port Arthur
Vancouver
A. J. Andrews
Citizens League
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!