Baldwin the Dean of Aeronautics and Balloon Pioneer
Capt. Thomas Scott Baldwin, renowned as a dean of American aeronautics, devoted 30 years to aerial navigation. He conducted thousands of air exhibitions, built for the U.S. Army, and completed the first successful parachute jump from a balloon at Golden Gate Park. Despite a San Francisco workshop loss, he continues relentless experiments and global flights.
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Washington
Thomas Scott Baldwin
Baldwin
Capt
Losa
Capt. Baldwin
Signal Corps
United States Army
San Francisco
Golden Gate Park
Americain Aeronautics
Europe
Australia
China
Japan
Egypt
Ancient foot ferry links Virginia and Maryland shores at Alexandria
The hand ferry between Alexandria and the Maryland shore persists as a capacious link across the Potomac. W. H. Wheatley, a lifelong river man, operates the boat hourly from a slip near two major Alexandria wharves to Fox's Ferry on the opposite side, where Fox once ran a busy chain ferry before steam era.
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Richmond
Alexandria
United States
Chesapeake Bay
Neiher
Virginia
Maryland
Potomac
Potomacs
Washington
W. H. Wheatley
I’ox
Fox
Terry
Goodrich Becomes Senior Officer of U S Navy
Rear Admiral Caspar Goodrich, commandant of the New York navy yard, becomes senior officer on the active list after Admiral Evans retires. He first saw service at 17 aboard the Macedonian while pursuing Confederate destroyers and had a storied career across two wars including Cuban cable destruction, coast signal service, Naval War College leadership, and Pacific squadron command aiding San Francisco quake victims. Born in Philadelphia in 1847, he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1864.
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Washington
Caspar ¥. Goodrich
New York Navy Yard
United States Navy
Evans
Coast Signal Service
Naval War College
Pacific Squadron
San Francisco
Admiral Goodrich
Philadelphia
Naval Academy
Bridge to Moses Cradle spans the Nile at Rodah island
Engineers completed a 1740 foot Nile bridge from Cairo to Rodah island. The 65 foot wide structure includes 14 spans with a central 298 foot span that opens to allow a 70 foot clear channel. Three years in construction, it carried cars and carts totaling a heavy load before the first crossing.
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Moses
Egypt
Cairo
Rodah
Nile
Conductor Lets Passes Slip In Amusing Card Mixup
A New York Central train scene ends with a light touch as an elderly vice president misplaces his tickets and a stern conductor, keeping decorum, graciously proceeds. The piece shifts to Railway Apprentice Schools noting nine programs, 400 pupils, and a yearly $17,000 operating cost.
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Ginger
Gaznob
New York Central Railroad
Railroad Project Between Taft and St Joe Estimated Cost
G P O Neal right of way agent for the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railroad states the Taft to St Joe line six miles long will cost 11400000 dollars. The segment will include thirty five tunnels along the route.
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G. P. O'Neal
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
Taft and
St. Joe
Railroads Expect Heavy Fall Traffic From Western Lines
Western railways report equipment in prime order and anticipate a robust fall season. Union Pacific Burlington and Northwestern managers say crops and demand will drive heavy traffic, with renewed car and repair work and no retrenchment.
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Western
Missouri River
Omaha
New York Herald
Union Pacific
Burlington and Northwestern
Mohler
George W. Haldrege
Arlington Lines
Burlington
Nebraska
Walter
Northwestern Lines
Misscouri
Locomotive Salvage and Extreme Train Ride News
A wreck recovery tells of lifting a sunken locomotive from 30 feet of mud by divers and rigging with sheer poles. A Grand Trunk flyer becomes a runaway before a fireman halts it. the engineer suffers serious injuries but may recover. Also notes a claim of the steepest railway near Hozen Tyrol with a 70 in 100 grade using an electric wire rope system.
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Capt. Santt
Capt. Scott
F. Hopkinson Smith
Everybody’s Magazine
Charles Strang
Battle Creek
Mich
Nichols’ Hospital
Hozen
Tyrol
Mend_s
Canada’s Railroad Building Progress Report
Canada’s great rail project enters its second transcontinental phase as the Grand Trunk completes the prairie link from Winnipeg to Edmonton. The remaining 700 miles to the coast will take about three years given the rugged terrain and high costs involved.
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Canada
Dominion
Grand Trunk
Winnipeg
Edmonton
The Wandering Fledgling of the Wickershams
An old Grass Valley tale traces Thomas and Robert Wickersham in Kansas and later Colorado. A dream of golden tree at Aladdin Creek spurs a joint search, revealing family ties, a fated ax clash, and decades of longing that finally unite the brothers through shared memory and a river of years.
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Thomas Wickersham
Grass Valley
Kansas
Aladdin Creek
Fever River
Eldorado
Wickersham
Rammed Jack
Nebraska
Salathial Wickersham
Mississippi
Illinois
Louisa Ellen
Robert
Thomas
Salathiel Wickersham
Tommy
Tommny
Colorado
Salathiel
Louisa Elien
Larathie
Louise Ellen
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Government Signal Corpa
T. S. Baldwin
Rear Admiral
Cauper F Goodrich
Ced
By Shannon Birch
Bo. Co
Nuggeton
Guiches
Bob
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