Chicagoan aims for Atlantic airship crossing next year
Joseph Brucker, former editor and Illinois Staats-Zeitung figure, plans a four day Atlantic crossing by airship powered by wind currents, not gasoline. He will choose his dirigible at Frankfort exposition and expects Zeppelin’s aid and meteorology to guide a submarine styled car from Cadiz to a West Indies landing.
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Atlantic
Joseph Brucker
Chicago
Frankfort-on the-Main
Mr. Brucker
Count Zeppelin
Cadiz
Spain
West Indies
Cuba
Barbados
Martinique
Mr. Wellman
North Pole
Brucker
Pittsburgh to raise largest flag in world for Independence Day
The city plans an 80 by 160 foot flag weighing about a half ton to hang between the courthouse and the Frick building. Captain Howard B. Oursier leads the effort with Mayor Magee. $800 to $900 total cost and $200 already pledged. Sections may be sewn by local women's groups. fundraising notes issued with certs and dedication cards.
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Pittsburg
Frick
United States
Liberty
Independence
United States Army
Howard B. Oursier
Magee
Ouarsier
Pittebury
Oursier
Women’s Patriotic Societies
Ladies of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
Daughters of 1812
Captain Oursler
Reproduction Halve Moen to sail for Hudson parade
The Halve Maen a replica Henry Hudson ship is nearing completion at Amsterdam navy yard It will be 63 feet long about eighty tons and crewed by twenty It features three masts antique cannons and sails and is to be shipped to the United States for the Hudson celebrations in New York with a September 27 entry at Sandy Hook.
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Henry Hudson
Navy Yard
Amsterdam
Holland
Netherlands
America
New York
Atlantic
Bandy Hook
Labor saving device for farm homes proposed
A Washington cor respondent to the Kansas City Star reports on a cooperative laundry idea for farm families. A dairy barn powered laundry with stationary tubs washer and wringer could serve multiple households for a small fee. Estimated cost about 140 dollars with yearly upkeep about 19 dollars plus 10 cents weekly gasoline for the engine.
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Washington Cor
Kansas City Star
Rubber aprons and heels issued for women at Bureau
Secretary MacVeagh approves rubber aprons for bureau women and rubber heels for shoes after a committee from the National City Federation of Women inspected the bureau. The group recommended the change in dress to improve safety and health.
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Secretary of the Treasury
MacVeagh
Ralph
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Bureau
National City Federation of Women
Cannon Aide: Cannon to Stay on Job and Be Buried at Public Expense
Speaker Joseph G Cannon and a delegation of congressmen were hosted in Winchester Virginia by Mrs Shirley Carter. Cannon said his constituency will keep him in office and he plans to stay on the job until death, with burial expenses covered by the public.
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Congress
Cannon
Winchester
Shirley Carter
Record of Pennsylvania railroad accidents 1908
Reports show the Pennsylvania system carried 141,659,643 passengers in 1908 with no passenger deaths from train accidents. The system carried 11,344,418 fewer passengers than 1907, a 7.4 percent drop, while injuries from train accidents totaled 102, down 452 or 81.6 percent from 1907.
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Pennsylvania
Winsted Man Sealed Into Tub By Fresh Enamel
John Sharp of Winsted Connecticut sat in a bathroom tub of hot water just after it was enameled. He became stuck to the bottom and required four hours to peel the enamel from his body with his wife’s help after she forgot the tub had been re enamelled.
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Ella
John Sharp
Winsted, Conn
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