Cuban flier wins parachute honor in Havana event
Lieutenant Guillermo Martell, Cuban aviator, earned a military merit medal after the July 4 parachute jump from a Cuban army airplane. Havana newspapers launched subscriptions for a fund to buy him a house. He initially sought authorization to jump from an obsolete plane on Independence Day but President Machado declined. he then obtained approval to jump from a plane piloted by another, and landed in the Gulf of Mexico at about 4 060 feet with a swift rescue arranged by offshore craft.
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Horse Show attracts record entries at Royal Dublin event
Dublin reports 916 entries for the Royal Dublin Society horse show during the first week of August. Despite rising auto popularity, harness horses draw growing interest and Bloodstock sales show over sixty horses entered.
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Dublin
Royal Dublin Society
Coffman Appointed to West Virginia Public Service Board
The Elkins Inter-Mountain reports F. Waas Coffman is named secretary of the West Virginia Public Service Commission. The note praises Coffman’s efficiency as district clerk in the northern district, and expresses warm wishes as he joins the commission. Also discussed is Lt. Marcellus Marshall’s return from London with international prison reforms, advocating humane treatment and rehabilitation in the United States.
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West Virginia
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Wade
Aoman
Caffman
Coffman
West Virgina
Cutman
Servies
Hubert BR. Bernheim
Le 10
West, Virginia
St. Marcellus Marshall
Glenville
London
Wheeling
Marthlus Marshal
Gere
Paris
Hagland
Washington
Marshall
Great Britain
United States
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England’s prison reforms offer a path for American justice
The author contrasts English and American systems, praising swift trials and clear punishment in England. He urges adopting prison reforms and improved police and court operations to curb crime, stressing prompt justice and humane treatment alongside reform.
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America
Marshall
England
Eastmates Report Half of Mail Tobbers Recovered
Government figures indicate that 33 and one half percent of all mail Tobbers Inputly recovered with the era on September 1860 reaching California in March 1851 by the overland route.
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California
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