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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1910
Page
9
Glenn Curtiss finished behind Peter Grahame White in a high speed air race where White’s Blériot and his own biplane battled for supremacy. A. V. Roe crashed his triplane later, escaping serious injury, as Wilbur Wright announced plans for a faster machine.
Curtiss, cheerful after the Harvard-Boston meet, expresses one regret about not fastest lap for the course. He notes his time of 1:57.25 for the mile and three quarters and congratulates Graham-White on his performance. He hopes to return to Boston, may enter the New York international meet, and thanks locals for wonderful treatment.
City of Boston announces registration and registration deadlines for state primary and election. Registration hours run 6 to 10 PM on specified dates at ward and city locations including Emerson School, City Hall, Booths, and multiple ward rooms. Central Office and additional sites listed for convenience.
Summer fades but freckles linger for a woman with delicate skin. The ad touts Othine double strength as a guaranteed remedy to remove freckles, offering an ounce package from Houghton & Dutton with money back if it fails.
Gardiner Green Hubbard, aviator and aeroplane designer, trained as an architect, studied in Paris, and practiced in New York. He built a monopron and flew it in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, then worked on a new monoplane for the Harvard Ipswich meet amid episodes of near-disaster. He praised backers and the press for support in his bid to win the speed prize for Old Glory.
A woman with severe widespread inflammation over seven years recounts exhaustive doctor visits and hospital care with no relief until using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills. After two sets she is cured and praises the treatment. Endorsed by Morris Sachs and noting product availability from Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. Offers free 32 page book.
Boston social hierarchy hinges on owning bombs signed by Claude Grahame White as aviation fever mounts after a Harvard aero meet. Miss Marie Campbell started the craze by obtaining a Grahame White autograph on a plaster bomb, prompting a field scramble for signatures by officials, Mayor John F. Fitzgerald, and many others. The hunt spread to Beverly and Dayton as Wrights plan for Belmont Park and an international meet.
Wilbur and Orville Wright secretly prepare a two propeller monoplane racing machine said to feature a Wright engine designed for light bulk and high power. Aviator Ralph Johnstone predicts it will eclipse all prior flights and outperform the Bleriot. Walter Brookins is named to fly the new craft, leaving Boston last night.
The meet was the climax of all aeronautical exhibitions in the country and a financial success. It set a pace so high that the energy, ability and skill of the world’s greatest aviators will be required to duplicate it.
Martin declares the Boston Harvard aero meet the greatest of its kind in the country and Europe. He notes attendance and flights surpass foreign meets, praises keener competition, and says the event was a success with no major accidents besides a minor injury to Roe. The Harvard Aeronautical Society expects a clean financial result with limited profits.
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