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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1869
Page
7
A San Francisco Atlas report describes the Avitor balloon at the Shell Track in San Mateo County. The craft, a long cigar shaped airship with a light boiler and small engines, failed to gain propulsion due to insufficient power and design flaws.
A Verm ont Tailrond train failed to stop at Centralwiand station in the early morning. A woman with two small children boarded as the car doors waited, and she used a red shawl as a signal prompting a bystander to improvise a walking stick as a protest emblem. The scene sparked laughter among passengers and highlighted woman’s rights. Albany Argus notes Tonawanda resident Peren Ousmernas drowned recently and towed a host for completion of a song in 1825, with annual appearances since.
Wide ranging notes include Henry Warp Dezonen departing for a California lecture tour on French Folks at Home, a St Louis betrothal threat, an Austrian court sentence, rail-bound strawberry shipments, and Paris press merges. Reports touch American prisons, European royals, Sonora mining, and Manitowoc tragedy.
Summary of varied items from the British and Spanish spheres including Lords Irish Church bill votes, Cuba fighting, American diplomacy, cable advances, and notable appointments. Also reports on Erie railroad disaster, Cuba and Spain, and U.S. political and social notes.
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