Wellman Explains Cause of Trouble After Europe Air Ship Flight
Walter Wellman and five crew members landed in New York after abandoning the dirigible America during the first Atlantic crossing attempt. They blame the equilibrator for steering failure and gas management, reveal gasoline exhaustion led to abandonment, and express willingness to try again with a new method to control gas volume and stability.
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New York
Walter Wellman
Trent
America
Atlantic
Wellman
Sandy Hook
Melvin Vaniman
Europe
Atlantic Seaboard
Registration Falls Short of Suffragette Hopes in Chicago
Four hundred ninety women registered in Chicago for University of Illinois trustees elections, well below suffrage groups' goals. Enrollment occurred in 245 precincts, less than one fifth of the city’s 1,329 precincts, with wards Four th Eleventh and Sixteenth reporting no registrations.
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Chicago
Election Board
University of Illinois
Oregon Ballots Set to Stretch Six Feet Long
Klamath Oregon Oct. 26 The initiative and referendum give voters ballots that will measure six feet in length with state candidates and measures. Additions of county candidates and questions will push some ballots to eight feet, and Multnomah County may reach nine feet.
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Klamath, Ore
Oregon
Multnomah
Million Acre Mystery Tract In Texas Sparks Claim Battle
In El Paso county Texas a vast million acre land tract remains unclaimed by Texas and Mexico. Records vanished after a royal grant by the king of Spain over a century and a half ago. The state knows not if it owns the land and Mexican heirs are unclear, inviting potential litigation.
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San Antonio
Texas
el Paso County
Chihuahua
Mexico
Spain
RENUMBER 13TH FLOOR OF CHICAGO SKYSCRAPER
Chicago October 26 floor 13 in a downtown skyscraper has been changed to 12A. Building officials say the switch was to correct a construction error and not due to superstition though tenants cite bad luck on the 13th floor. Managers note many tenants avoid 13 in housing.
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Chicago
Night dialogue on the fourth estate and a quip about land
A teacher invokes the fourth estate and a shaggy haired pupil replies with a pun about a quarter section of land. The exchange conveys a humorously misheard concept of media and land parcels.
Public health urged to curb life wastes and disease
Yale professor J Pease Norton argues in Popular Insurance Magazine that 4 200 000 Americans are ill with tuberculosis and millions more suffer from preventable disease. He calls for federal action and greater protection of human life akin to agricultural health programs.
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New York
J. Pease Norton
Yale
Popular Insurance
Department of Agriculture
Norton
Nam
Cuba Endures Severe Hurricanes and Floods
The Havana dispatch reports Cuba hit by a two stage hurricane that brought light rains to start, then torrential floods and cyclonic winds across Matanzas Pinar del Rio and Havana. Officials fear multi million dollar property losses and thousands of homeless peasants. International aid may be requested.
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Havana
Cuba
Matanzas
Pinar del Rio
French murderer Adrien Pierrel guillotined in Vosges
Adrien Pierrel aged 50 who stole his mother's savings and killed her was executed by guillotine at Saint Die, Vosges. He wailed I am innocent as he was carried to the scaffold due to weakness, with a doctor using caffeine injections to aid his breathing. A presidential decree removed the bare feet and veiling requirement for matricides.
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Paris
Adrien Pierrel
Saint-Die
Vosges
Fallieres
25000 Colonists Seek Homes in California
Los Angeles traffic officials estimate that 65,000 people came to California during the colonist season, with 25,000 identified as colonists and 30 to 40 percent more travelers than previous years arriving on three transcontinental railroads.
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California
Los Angeles
Springs Sensation in New Mexico Texas Boundary Claim
Santa Fe New Mexico October 26 A boundary dispute expectation grows as the convention committee on boundary insists the 103rd meridian is the true line between New Mexico and Texas. The claim would yield 200 square miles now in Texas including Frex line and Farwell with millions in taxable property. Congress and a boundary commission likely to settle the dispute.
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Santa FE
N. M
New Mexico
Committee On Boundary
Texas
Frexline
Farwell
Congress
Boundary Commission
A Busy Holiday Tale of a Hard-Working Husband
Mrs Herlihy describes Tommy's tough new job with long hours and little rest. She recalls a past vacation where he did chores around the house and yard, helped with washing and wood, and always warned work would start again next day.
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Tommy
Mrs. Herlihy
Celia
Downfall of an Old Law
Dialogue vignette contrasts wisdom and nephew as the uncle warns that you cannot gain without cost while the boy claims to get something for nothing by starving himself, to the point of stomach pain. The scene highlights misapplied thrift and childish logic in a domestic exchange.
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Tommy
Tuberculosis in U S Cattle Reported by Bureau
The Federal Bureau of Animal Industry states that 3 percent of United States cattle are afflicted with tuberculosis.
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Federal Bureau of Animal Industry
United States
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Atlantic City
Engineer Vaniman
Jack Irwin
Irwin
Nantucket
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