Ocean craft achieves mile a minute speed surge
Expert engineers marvel at the near incredible pace of a small model ocean craft. Predicts 100 mile ocean voyages.
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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1907
Page
11
Expert engineers marvel at the near incredible pace of a small model ocean craft. Predicts 100 mile ocean voyages.
New York July 19 reports Peter Cooper Hewitt has built a gliding water craft claimed to skim above waves at 38 miles per hour and possibly reach 55 miles an hour with larger vessels. Experts foresee New York to Liverpool in thirty hours if propeller tech advances.
In Kokomo Indiana July 20 the habeas corpus case over Mina Ballew was postponed after the defense moved to challenge stepmother Mrs Arthur Ballew as unfit to care for the girl. Grandparents John and Sarah Downey allege miseducation and improper environment. The child, seventeen months with them, sat in court amid strangers.
Harry A. Wiebke reports from Philadelphia that John K. Tener has accepted an invitation to attend the dedicatory ceremonies of the Fort Wayne Elks temple. Tener, once a famed baseball player with Captain Anson’s world tour, is now a banker living in Charleroi Pennsylvania.
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