New Curtiss Engine Aims to Beat Grahame White for Boston Light
Curtiss installs a 65 horsepower Indian motor in a new biplane at Harvard field hoping to lower Grahame White’s Boston Light record and win the $10,000 prize. Grahame White plans a second attempt, while amateurs like Harmon and Brookins prepare for contests and field visitors watch the aviation meet unfold amid guard and repairs.
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Curtiss Machine
Grahame-White
Springfield
Curtiss
Grahame- White
Boston
William Hilliard
Clifford B. Harmon
Harmon
United States
Farman
C. Bh. Harmon
James Barr
Marie Campbell
Campbell
Harvard Aviation Field
Sydney MacDonald
Roe
Harvard Aeronautical Society
James V. Martin
Burgess Fliers
Sil Mard
Stratton
Hilliard
Glenn Curtiss
Burgess
A. M. Herring
Mr. Hilliard
John G. Stratton
Santos Dumont Demoiselle
Uhilliard
Urges College Airship Course in Aeronautics
Rev. Allen Stockdale urged making aeronautics a college department in a sermon on The Aviator Age at Union Congregational Church. He praised aviation as a marvel, a force for peace, and a driver of serious study, noting aviators inspire heroism and demonstrate mastery over space. Electric cars to Neponset and Quincy were crowded yesterday.
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Gramaine-White
Allen Stockdale
Tnion Congregational
Neponset and
Quincey
Birdmen Flight Meet Drags On Second Week
The aviation meet enters its second week as winds favor cautious rest for aviators. Grahame White and Harmon crews test Farman and Curtiss machines amid repairs, new motors, and crowd watch.
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Zephyrs
Jupiter Pluvius
Olympus
Paris Offers 20000 Prize for Paris Brussels Flight
The municipality of Paris will award $20,000 to a French aviator who makes a Paris to Brussels flight with a passenger and returns. The prize commemorates the city fathers visit to Brussels on September 26.
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Paris
Brussels
Captains of the Air No 10 Cromwell Dixon
Cromwell Dixon born in San Francisco 1892, a pioneering balloonist and aviator. He flew a self built Skycycle at 15, crossed the Mississippi in a dirigible, learned planes in Montreal, and plans to tour as a professional aviator from Columbus, Ohio.
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Cromwell Dixon
San Francisco
Cromwell Pratt Dixon
Western
St. Louis
Thomas Baldwin
Dixon
Mississippi River
Forest Park
Venice
Count de Lesseps
Montreal
Columbus, O
Aviators in War Games Use Wireless Dirigible System
French army maneuvers open with aviators arriving as dirigible Bayard-Clement tests a new light wireless apparatus enabling 56 mile communication radius. An automobile machine gun designed to counter aeroplanes arrives as operations focus on scouting and reconnoissance.
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Grandvilliers
France
Picardy
Compeigne
Engineer O Rourke to survey Maine wreck for salvage plan
John F. O Rourke, president of the O Rourke Engineering Construction Company of New York, arrived on the Merida at Havana to survey the battleship Maine and assess the feasibility of lifting the wreck.
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Havana
John F. O'Rourke
O'Rourke Engineering Construction Company of
New York
Merida
Maine
Target Practice Delayed By Southern Storm
The Atlantic fleet battle target practice, set for tomorrow at the Southern drill grounds, will be postponed by a Southern storm and may extend beyond one day. Try Adamson's Balsam for that rasping graveyard cough. It is a sure cure.
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Washington
Adamson
Rakeman Dead in Freight Yard Accident
John McNamara 238, married, of 2 Valley Avenue Everett was killed in Beacon yards Allston when struck by a freight train while signaling his departing train. He was a brakeman employed by Noweli and H. R. railroad.
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John McNamara
Valley Avenue
Everett
Noweli & H. R
Beacon Yards
Allston
McNamara
Columbia Professor in Legion of Honor
Paris sees William M. Sloane, Seth Low professor of history at Columbia University New York, decorated with the Legion of Honor for his prolific writings on French history.
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Paris
William M. Sloane
Seth Low
Columbia University
New York
Sloane
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