Omaha to Host First International Aero Congress
Omaha Nebraska unveils plans for the First International Aero Congress to run November 3 4 and 5 1921 at Omaha Field. The program includes the Pulitzer Trophy Race Acrobatic contests commercial derbies and bombing and parachute events with substantial prize money and national figures invited.
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Omaha
Nebraska
America
Congress
Holt
Harding
Marshal Foch
Orville Wright
Glenn Curtiss
K. M. Landis
Fort Omaha
Kansas City
American Legion
The
Aero Club of America
World’s Board of Aeronautical Commissioners
Aircraft Manufacturers’ Association
Army and
Navy Air Headquarters
Gutzon Borglum
James Hanley
New York
Mitchel Field
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Mosely
Army Air Service
Detroit
International Aero Congress
Aero Club of Omaha
Federation Aeronautique Internationale
Omaha Field
Calhoun
Loveland
Towa
Ralph Pulitzer
New York World
Des Moines
Iowa
Curtiss Field
Courcelay
Canton woman claims power to cure the dying
Mrs. Lila Taylor, a Scotswoman living in Canton Ohio, declares she is a divine healer with powers to raise dying people from their beds. She says her grandfather had greater power and promises to extend her abilities by age thirty, while offering a pigeon heart tuberculosis treatment cited by followers and dismissed by others as fantastic.
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Yanton
Ohio
Goa
Lila’ Taylor
Two Men Conspire in Wyoming Bank Robbery Plot
Adolf Pfinder and Herman J. Kusel confess to a wartime inspired plan to rob the state bank of Chugwater Wyoming. Pfinder fled 110 miles in 26 hours to Bushnell Nebraska where authorities captured him. Kusel, a Swiss exile, was captured after earlier being branded an enemy alien and his property seized.
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Heyenne
Wyo
Germany
Chugwater Flats
Adolf Pfinder
Chugwater
Herman J. Kusel
America
Kusel
Pfinder
Bushnell
Neb
United States
First Theft of Airplane in History in Evanston Illinois
Frank Strand of Sioux City Iowa stole a police department airplane from Evanston on Dempster street and Perry road. The aircraft crashed on the Evanston Golf Club course during a 1200 foot flight. Strand was captured at Randolph and Wabash after treatment at Iroquois hospital and Evanston. He claims he planned barnstorming but had no money.
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Congress
America
Erica
Rudyard Kipling
United States
Cleveland
Chicago
Omaha
San Francisco
Aero Club F
Earl W. Porter
Aeroub of
Porter
Vanston
Ill
Evanston
Charles Heinz
Strand
G. W. Barry
Hinman Avenue
Burmeister
Charlies W. Leggett
Detective Bureau
Randolph and
Wabash
Iroquois Hospital
Grand Jury
Pony Theft Leads to Express Shipment Alarm
A Des Moines firm calls an East Twenty fourth street auction house late to stop a pony sale. The brown pony with blaze and white hind leg was shipped to Altoona Iowa to satisfy a $200 charge for pickup. The boy owner vanished. the father fears a breakdown and seeks to recover the pony.
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Express
Henry Gifford
Altoona
Iowa
Rock Island
Gifford
Mr. Fiss
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Aero Congress
Onderwood Underwood
Ftane
TieGe Nees Pais
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Evanston Golf Club
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