Curtiss Wins Air Race With Paulhan
In Los Angeles the closing hours of the first international aviation meet in America featured Curtiss and Paulhan. Curtiss won the 30 mile speed race after eclipsing Paulhan, who flew 64.4 miles in about 90 minutes. The Curtiss machines swept speed and precision prizes of the event.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Dominguez Ranch
America
Charles K. Hamilton
Hamilton
Curtiss
Paulhan
Louis Paulhan
Paulhan Dominates Aviation Meet With Multiple World Records
Air meet awards show Paulhan winning cross country and endurance prizes, breaking altitude and distance marks. Curtiss wins several events but no world records, Hamilton close behind in many categories. An odd parade winds from Ezra Meeker to aerodrome displays, with Hamilton aiming for altitude records in San Diego.
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Paulhan
Curtiss
Hamilton
Willard
Ezra Meeker
Oregon Trail Fame
Paulban
Charles K. Hamilton
San Diego
Cross-country race prizes and winners noted
Event awarded multiple prizes for endurance and speed. Hamilton topped earnings with $5000, Curtiss earned $4250, Willard won $250, and other prizes totaled $19,000 across three laps with a passenger and time measurements.
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Charles K. Hamilton
Glenn H. Curtiss
Paulhan
Hamilton
Curtiss
Mies
Charles F. Willard
Lincoln Beachey
Willard
Woman Seeks Trust Fund in Divorce Suit
Helen D. Robeson of Cambridge wife of Rodman Robeson sues for divorce in Superior Court to recover $600 in trust fund payments. Trustees William Hayes II and Andrew Robeson hold the fund under Mary A. Robeson’s will. Robeson seeks to restrain payments to her husband and have the income of $600 directed to her while noting her husband sailed from San Francisco.
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Helen D. Robeson
Cambridge
Rodman Robeson
William Hayes
Andrew Robeson
Mary A. Robeson
Tiverton
R. I
James Kane Fined in Somerville for Obstructing Track
Yesterday in Somerville Police Court James O Kane a teamster of 13 Broad Way Somerville was found guilty of obstructing the street railway track on Union Street on December 29. He was fined $15 by Judge Wentworth.
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Somerville
James O. Kane
Broadway
Union Street
Wentworth
Drunk on Car Fined in Court in Dorchester
Louis G. Diebure, 44 Payson avenue Dorchester, was fined in South Boston District Court by Judge Fallon for drunkenness on a street car. He was arrested after a police man was called by a Boston elevated conductor.
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Louis G. Diebure
Payson Avenue
Dorchester
Fallon
South Boston
Boston
Pomeranian Fails to Save Bengore Head Off Newfoundland
The Allan Line steamer Pomeranian lost her prize seven miles off St John on January 20 after a third hawser broke while towing the disabled Bengore Head. Bengore Head now adrift with about 40 crew. three steamers departed St Johns to assist and seek salvage money. The Pomeranian had left Halifax bound for Havre and London with passengers and cargo.
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ST. John’s, N.F
Allan Line
St. John’s
Rock-Girt
Newfoundland
Havre
London
St. John
N. B
Flairfax
Marysport
England
Vessels Towed Through Dangerous Seas To St Johns
On a Sunday two days out from Halifax near the Newfoundland coast the Pomeranian under Captain Henderson aided the disabled Bengore Head after Bengore Head sent distress signals. A tow line repeatedly broke and near-collisions occurred, yet the two ships pressed toward St Johns with a final hawser securing them seven miles from the harbor entrance. The wheelman on the Bengore Head was praised for saving both vessels.
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Halifax
Newfoundland
Henderson
Pritchard
St. John’s
Hirgin
Steamer Adrift Sparks Hunt for Prize Freighter
Head's agents receive word of the steamer in trouble as the Pomeranian steams toward the harbor. The Allan liner arrives and towlines part, the last line tangling in the Pomeranian’s propeller. Wobun Boothic and Bonaventure join the search to sight the freighter before it wrecks.
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Head
Wobun
Boothic
Bonaventure
Second Wife Fights First
In New York on January 20 the counsel for Ai mee Steinberger Guggenheim asked the Supreme Court for a permanent injunction to stop Grace B Wahl from continuing Chicago divorce review proceedings aimed at setting aside the decree. Samuel Untermyer labeled the Chicago action blackmail, and Justice Gerard indicated possible jurisdiction if warrants.
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New York
Aimee Steinberger Guggenheim
William Guggenheim
Supreme Court
Grace B.wahl
Grace B. Guggenheim
Guggenheim
Chicago
Samuel Untermyer
Wahl
Gerard
Mrs Minnie Kunz Dies After Charlestown Bridge Accident
Mrs Minnie Kunz died from injuries sustained when an electric car struck her on the Charlestown bridge Wednesday evening. She passed away early yesterday at the relief hospital.
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Minnie Kunz
Charlestown Bridge
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Rarner
Pyane Pire
Upter
Price
Worth Ice
Aise
Ed Buck
Inc
Ine
Union Har Co
EME
Ee Sce
Ete
Baroness Kersanson
WOMAN
Burke & Co
School Street
Washington Street
Harvard Square
VIA
Pennsylvania
Rodney Macdonough
Bromfield Street
Capell
Riker-Jaynes
Hunt
Hawser
Bengore Jtfiead
Hanover
Eim
Vorenberg
Bell & Poole
Els
Dietz Bros
Tancy
Washington, Hanover and
Elm Sts
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