Airship Set for New York to Chicago and St Louis Route
A two million dollar airship is being built for travel between New York City and St Louis with possible Chicago routing. Backed by wealthy investors including Oscar B. Bergstrom Arthur Lewis James H. Rob erty Walter G. Allison and others the 1000 foot long steel vessel uses a buoyancy chamber filled with hydrogen and 11 to 13 propellers for 30 to 40 mph. Inventor Edward J Pennington envisions automatic rudders and compass assisted guidance to reach destinations without constant steering.
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New York City
St. Louis
Chicago
New York
Lewis Nixon
Staten Island
Heria
Edward J. Pennington
Pennington
Nixon
Count Zeppelin
Mr. Pennington
Puzzle Causes Household Commotion Over Christmas Puzzle
Daniel Farnsworth quarrels with wife and after hours puzzles, scolding Albert for playing with a large cut out puzzle. He delays dinner and his report for directors, works late, then angrily lashes at a lingering puzzle and keeps his wife awake. The disturbance ends with he forbidding further puzzles in the house.
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Daniel Farnsworth
Albert
Mr. Farnsworth
Mrs. Farnsworth
Little Albert
Daniel
Tramps Shun Town as Policeman Clears Streets
Burlington New Jersey. Policeman Joseph McCormick earns praise by solving a tramp problem single handed. He took two weeks off to plan actions then returned to train tramps to clean streets, escorting applicants for meals to supper, then morning broom duty. The approach emptied the town of tramps and spread through the state.
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Burlington
N. J
Alhail
Joseph McCormick
Horatius
McCormick
Jersey
Winner Gets Divorce in Tripp County Land Draw Case
Mrs. Messer, who won the No. 1 spot in last fall’s Tripp county land drawing, was granted a divorce on grounds of desertion. She stated she had not lived with her husband since June 1907 and had supported herself, while federal officials decide if her 40,000 dollar prize affects her eligibility.
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Meliser
Spooner advert reveals odd housekeeper job in Carbondale
In Carbondale Pa a local ad seeks a girl or woman to wash iron bake cook and serve meals for two people eight rooms and a bathroom with wages four dollars every Saturday night plus one afternoon off each week Sundays after noon and evening but the employer reserves supper every other Sunday the ad permits a gentleman friend on seven nights a week from 7 30 to 11 and notes a 24 hour weekly spooning period before matrimony.
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Carbondale
Meanest Joke of All Involves Civil War Veteran
New York correspondent tells of Robert Morgan a Civil War veteran and G A R member who suffered public humiliation in a restaurant when a stranger invited him to dine and then denied knowledge of the old man upon the bill. A police lieutenant, moved by the veteran’s plight, paid the minor charge at the station.
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New York
Robert Morgan
G.A.R
Betsy the hen yields Revolutionary treasure in Vermont
Ezra Burt of Tyson Vermont owned a scrawny hen that laid one egg in two years. The shell bore a raised waterline map to a buried gold stash from Ezra’s great grandfather. A trance by a gypsy supposedly pointed to treasure, and Ezra finally unearthed a descolored copper kettle filled with gold after following the map. The mortgage is paid and the Burt family now lives in comfort.
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Tyson, Vt
Burt
Corhers
Betsy
Ezra
Jeremiah Burt
Burts
Hzra
Hera
Remarkable Aorta Surgery Extends British Soldier’s Life
Richard Wheaton, a retired British soldier at Los Angeles County Hospital, underwent a delicate operation to reinforce a ruptured aorta with twenty feet of silver wire. Dr. D C Barber led the procedure to treat an aneurysm, threading wire through a needle to form a spiral support for the artery. The patient is recovering.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Richard Wheaton
D. C. Barber
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Betwein
United States
Oscar B. Bergstrom
Arthur Lewis
Standard Oil Company
James H. Roberty
Walter G. Allison
Philadelphia
H. W. Denison
Allis Chalmers Company
George A. Taylor
John Chisman
Clarence H. Bennett
T. R. White
George Kennedy
Boston
Arthur Scofield
Frank Damron
Bridgeport Realty and Trust Company
Bridgeport
Ala
George Howard
Washington, D. C
J.hy
Underwood
Buenos Ayres
J. Lamair
Lemair Construction Company
Charlow Wead ‘Barnes
Ross
Hawaii
Cinodinut
Liliuokalani
House Committee On Claims
Washington
Shun
Stear
Burlington, N. J
Land Office
Cook
OCEAN
George Washington
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