Wright fund ends while aviation progress continues
The Guggenheim fund for the promotion of aeronautics ends February 1 after four years. The Wright led committee notes the aviation prize was won by a safer design, while warning no plane can be truly foolproof. It highlights evolving safety devices like automatic leading edges, floating ailerons, shock-absorbing landing gear, and stable independent wheel forces as signs of ongoing improvement.
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Guggenheim Fund
Orville Wright
Conjedt
International highway planned from Canada to Argentina
The article outlines a proposed five car journey from Los Celes to Panama to discuss a transcontinental highway. The plan envisions a route from British Columbia to Mexico across the Americas to Rio de Janeiro and beyond, with Mexico's President Rubio backing good roads and officials along the route supporting a coordinated, long term project.
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Rio
Los Celes
Panama
British Columbia
Estern
Mexico
America
Andes
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Buenos Aires
Twenty Years Ago Local Journal Clippings March 7 1910
An itemized digest from the Journal files recalls events dated March 7 1910 in Corry Warren Meadville and surrounding areas. Highlights include a Mozart City concert in the Congregational Church organist Mrs G A Histon a fatal accident near Meadville a Bessemer locomotive collapse a gas engine order for Corry Castor Co and various injuries and illnesses among local residents along with a fatality on the Brokenstraw trestle near Youngsville as Train 92 passed.
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Mozart City
George Bosworth
G. A. Histon
William Loveland
Billy
Youngsville
Loveland
Daily Lessons in English: Diplomacy in Conducting Negotiations
W L Gordon outlines usage tips for diplomacy and agreeable language. Explains phrases to avoid misfit prepositions and common misspellings. Encourages vocabulary growth with daily word practice and notes diplomacy as tact in negotiations.
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W. L. Gordon
Questions and Answers from a Timeworn Quiz
A reader asks five trivia prompts covering historical predictions about President Harding, fuel types on Navy ships, the term rakire, deer antler shedding frequency, and the capital of Sweden plus a series of miscellaneous items including a note about the sterling mark and a few city and river references.
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Harding
Tr S
Sweden
Cooper and Crowe Firm Dissolved in Union City
On Main Street a business change announced Saturday shows Mr. Cooper retires from Cooper and Crowe with Mr. Crowe continuing operations. The firm began December 2, 1923, and has served local customers, with Cooper pursuing other locations while the future remains undecided.
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Union City
Mar
Main Street
Cooper
Guggenheim Named American Ambassador to Guba
Harry P Guggenheim becomes the United States ambassador to Guba after a long history of American business and aviation interests. He helped Chile Copper organize ventures and aided New York University in aeronautical fundraising. His family wealth traces to Meyer Guggenheim and mining fortunes shared with Charles Lindbergh.
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Harry P. Guggenheim
Guba
Souther Neighbors
Togper Ie Ucles
Chile Copper Company
New York University
Guggenheim de
Amd
Daniel Guggenheim
Meyer Guggen
America
Societe Switzerland
Lindbergh
Guggenheim Mining
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Jonal
Fred Kimball, Inc
W. 46Th St
New York
iTribline Tower
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Corry
Imowa
Hudson
FORD
Ike New
ESSEX
Oakland
Hudson & Essex
Franklin Street
Wesley Steveng
Corry and
Chlumbus
Millvale
N. Y
Fred Par?ee
Hertzel
Warren
Bessemer
Meadville
J. Augustus Jones
Corry Castor Company
Ajax Iron Works
Second Avenue
Sapds
St. James Hotel
A. H. Mahle
Prank Sweet
Ajax
Bulldog
Chicago River
Cooper and Crowe
Frank C. Chapin & Sons
Wollar Vay
North Center Street
Jamestown
Brie
Cleveland
Ashtabula
Kane
WE Ridge
Hotel Corry
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