Airliners linked world through sky passenger liners
London plans envision giant airships two miles up linking London with North America with stops at New York and Chicago. Each ship would carry 100 passengers, speed 60 mph, four day London to San Francisco, and fares about 65 percent higher than steamship rates. Supporters cite safety, weather resilience, and vast cargo capacity with proposed mooring towers, passenger cars, and rapid refueling amid visions of a global air route network.
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Thugs Return Hero Medal After Street Robbery
In Connellsville Pennsylvania a robbery on West Penn Street near the Gemas home saw a Black man and a Black woman seize Mrs. Annabelle Gemas. They searched her, took her pocketbook with about $80, and returned a gold service medal awarded by the late George Genus for Spanish American war service.
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Romantic Rhodesia ruins and Victoria Falls wonder
The article surveys Zimbabwe ruins near Victoria in southern Rhodesia and the dramatic Victoria Falls. It notes Rhodesia’s romantic appeal, Rider Haggard’s novels like King Solomon’s Mines, Livingstone’s naming of the falls, and Cecil Rhodes's railroad bridge plan to showcase the cataract’s spray to travelers.
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Rider Haggard
Allan Quatermain
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Grand Canyon
Colorado
Livingstone
Cecil Rhodes
Zambesi
Rhodes
Harriman
Great Salt Lake
Night Drive and Fatherhood in Edmund Vance Cook’s Poems
In a Leslie's poem fragment Edmund Vance Cook explores the surge of emotion a father feels while driving through a storm with his sleeping boy. The speaker reflects on intimate tenderness, the pride and strength drawn from parenthood, and a hope that future weariness may still yield the Great Tenderness.
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Edmund
Vance Cook
Leslie
Firefly Light Mystery Solved by Princeton Researcher
A Princeton physiologist claims to have solved how fireflies glow. He explains the luminous substance burns in oxygen like fuel but forms unique combustion products that revert to the original substance when not exposed to air, allowing repeated burning. The test tube experiment produced light without heat when agitated.
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Princeton
Women Excel in Banking Roles Across Boston
Women take sweeping strides in banking with Boston banks employing over a thousand women as clerks and in other responsible posts. Bankers note women show strong accuracy and attention to detail, qualities crucial to banking, marking a rapid, notable shift in a male dominated field.
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Boston
Goblin Master Thoughtfulness Teaches Selfishness Lesson
A goblin named Master Thoughtfulness visits a boy and girl and a courier at the House of Secrets. He explains how messages and memory reveal selfishness and how thinking of others improves memory and kindness. The trio discusses forgetting, reading messages, and the cost of excuses.
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House of Secrets
Master Thoughtfulness
Eatonic Promises Relief For Stomach Distress
Mrs Dora Williams recalls a year of ill health, saying Eatonic aided her recovery from severe stomach trouble. The ad claims Eatonic relieves indigestion sourness heartburn belching and stomach gas by reducing acidity after meals with a money back druggist guarantee.
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Dora Williams
Eatonic
Dr Pierce’s In Valids Hotel Trial Package Offer
A short advertisement invites readers to mail 10 cents to Dr Pierce’s In Valids Hotel in Buffalo New York for a trial package and free confidential medical advice, promoting a quick consult through the mail.
Unclear dialogue from art critic and Vanderlop exchange
A fragmentary line shows an art critic asking about being done in oil and Vanderlop replying about steel, suggesting a metaphorical or humorous aside within a presumed interview or debate about media and craft.
Head Stuffed From Catarrh Or A Cold
Instant relief promises open air passages and eased breathing as Wly's Cream Balm is applied in the nostrils. Fragrant antiseptic formula claimed to penetrate swollen mucous membranes and relieve nasal congestion quickly. Ad claims require dollars to access final set.
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