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Cromwell Dixon Flies to Boston in Dirigible Mislanding Church
Cromwell Dixon, 18, from Columbus Ohio, flies a dirigible from Squantum Field to Boston. He lands on a vacant lot at Norway and Hemenway streets after mistaking the Christian Science Church dome for the State House. His mother Mrs Cromwell Dixon is hurt in a Dorchester auto crash but survives.
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Cromwell
Dixon
Boston
Christian Science Church
State House
Huntington Ave
Cromwell Dixon
Columbus
Squantum Field
Atlantic
Norway and
Hemenway Streets
Freeport Street
Dorchester
Otter’s Bridge
The
Arty
C. C. Parsons
Brookline
Parsons
Joseph MacDougall
Elm Street
Thomas Williams
Thomas Burke
William Foss
Walter Davis
Taft
Hallahan
Heston Common
Post
Hemenway Street
the State
Mother
Davis
Mrs. Dixon
Boston Common
Dixons
Norway Street
Trafalgar
Curtiss Machine
Cromwell Dixon, Sr
Williams
Mechanicians
Mr. Parsons
Mr. Duncan
Norway