Fates of Missing PN-9 Plane Murky Off Hawaii
San Francisco dispatch reports no trace of naval airship PN-9 Number 1 after more than thirty six hours. A flotilla searches 300 miles off Hawaii for Commander John Rodgers and four crew. weather forces temporary downing of a patrol plane and postponement of a planned nonstop PB-1 flight to Honolulu.
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San Francisco
Pacific
Hawaiian Islands
Honolulu
John Rodgers
Ki Channel
Stanford E. Moses
Manderin
Moses
Ill Fated Airship Crash Kills Ten in Noble County
A damaged report says a dirigible wreck occurred in Noble County this morning. Ten men are reported dead. The craft closely resembled another airship seen near Columbus amid today’s state fair events.
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Noble ‘County
Columbus
Fall of Monster of Skies Described by a Lone Witness
BELLE VALLEY Sept 3 A cigar shaped airship resembling the Shenandoah disaster appears in dawn light as one of the few witnesses recounts a dramatic crash in Noble county. The main section allegedly remained aloft briefly before sinking, with wreckage strewn across a field and six passengers rescued from the gondola in precarious condition.
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Ohio
Belle Valley
Shenandoah
United States
Navy
C. L. Arthur
Arthur
Ava
Noble County
Fiel
Earth
Planned Pole Flights With the Great Airship Shenandoah
The Shenandoah, an American rigid airship sister to the ZR-2, was lost this morning during planned pole to pole flights. It featured a steel frame, goldbeater skin gas bags, and 60 to 70 mph engines, carrying 15 tons of gasoline and ballast in a cavernous main bay.
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Washington
Hull
England
Samted
Shenandoah
Roth
William
Moffett
Ohio Buckeye Special Transit hearing concludes
The state utilities commission finished its hearing on Buckeye Special Transit of Columbus seeking permission to operate motor buses statewide. Protests were filed by railroad electric interurban street railway and bus interests. James Ginnan of Athens testified for Athens Coach Company.
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Columbus
State Utilities Commission
Buckeye Special Transit Company
Ohio
James Ginnan
Athens
Athens Coach Company
Toa d Frog Eats 10000 Insects in Months
The Department of Agriculture states a toad frog will eat 10000 insects including worms slugs mosquitoes crickets bugs plant lice and other pests in less than mF months.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Coal strike tensions rise with price hikes noted
Fragmentary notes describe coal dealers raising prices amid a looming strike. References to mules hauled from mines and vague public reaction hint at tensions but contain garbled phrasing and unclear specifics.
Dirigible Disasters Through Early 1920s Claim Many Lives
Chronology of airship tragedies from 1914 to 1925 including the Vienna crash with nine dead, Wingfoot explosion over Chicago, ZR-3 over Hull with 64 dead, Roma explosion at Norfolk, Dixmude sinking off Sicily, and Shenandoah wreck with 13 killed.
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Helgoland
Vienna
Chicago Bank
United States
Hull
England
Norfolk
Coolidge ready to act if coal strike worsens
President Coolidge prepared to take a firm hand if the coal strike reaches a public crisis after a conference with Senator James E. Watson. Watson said he discussed the sit uation with the President but declined to reveal views. For now a hands off policy will prevail.
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Swampscott
Mass
Coolidge
James E. Watson
Indiana
Watson
Former Pal of Dead Men Here
F D Paine of Huntington West Virginia a former army aviator arrived here to interest the American Le
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F. D. Paine
Huntington
W. Va
Air Surgeons Hurry to Scene at Dayton
On September 3 at McCook Field an ambulance airplane with two flight surgeons aboard rushed toward the Shenandoah disaster scene. The crew prepared to proceed to the wreckage as reports of casualties emerged.
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Dayton
McCook Field
Tee
Leviathan of the Air Sets Speed Mark in Airship Trial
The Shenandoah, once BR-1, completed an 8,000 mile round trip from St Louis to Lakehurst and back. It reportedly achieved the highest speed yet for a lighter than air craft at 78 miles per hour. Built by Goodyear at Akron with Lakehurst engines. It can carry a 14 ton useful load plus crew of thirty. It features a heating system allowing adjustable temperatures via engine exhausts.
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Washington
Shenandoah
Lake Shore
S. Louis
Zakhurst
N. J
New Jersey Naval Air Station
Logan Man on the Shenandoah Disaster
Louis Allerty of Marion Ohio, a chief rigger on the Shenandoah, survived a fall in Noble county while the ill fated ship crashed. His mother awaits official news as authorities seek confirmation of his status after the wreck.
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Up Sera
Shenandoah
Shenandoah airship crew listed with long North American names
The article enumerates crew members and officers of the Shenandoah airship, with numerous addresses across Ohio, Texas, New Jersey, and beyond. It also recounts the airship’s crushed and drifting descent near Senecaville and Saraheville as the crew attempted to anchor it.
Pride of the American Navy Meets Windstorm Tragedy Near Ava
The Shenandoah airship, tasked with navigation near Noble County, is torn by a gale. A gust drives the craft into the ground near Ava, killing all crew members as the gondola separates and the ship crashes on a David farm two miles west of Ava.
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Noble County
Ava
Shenandoah
Davia Farm
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