Novel factors enter air race
Milwaukee May 23 Balloon race odds tilt on luck says McKibben and Von Hoffman of St Louis who endured the Gordon Bennett race setback in Brussels last year They describe near disaster crossing the North Sea and the English coast before landing off Ireland as luck determined their fate in distance not speed.
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Milwaukee
Wis
J. S. McKibben
Bernard von Hoffman
St. Louis
Brussels
Dahbhiin
Balloon Race Pioneers Compete While Wind Breaks Luck
The article profiles pilots in an endurance race, noting Dubie and McKibben as entrants. A disqualification for landing in the ocean is cited as a luck factor beyond control. McKibben has raced since 1910 and von Hoffman comes from a ballooning family with flight beginnings at age ten.
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Dubie
Mé¢Kibben
von Hoffman
Albert
Milwaukee
McKibben
Weaves Magic Spell IVE Brings Bedridden Man Home
Occupation therapy at The Reconstruction Hospital New York uses tasks like weaving and light work to distract patients from illness and restore function. Dr William V Healey notes old ward confinement bred gloom and inactivity while therapy today encourages smoking light work and self confidence aiding recovery for industrial disability cases.
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William V. Healey
Reconstruction Hospital
New York
Ido
al H
Sweden Americans seek closer ties via foundation event
The Sweden America Foundation marked its anniversary with a push for closer US Sweden ties. Plans include a high power radio station on Sweden’s west coast, expanded student exchanges, more travel routes, and ongoing cultural and scientific cooperation led by figures like R A Nordvall and Svante Arrhenius.
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Stockholm
Sweden
United States
Sweden- America Foundation
Ify
America
Sweden-America Foundation
Dmertea
Moe
German housewives face ereicle lt problem in 1914 prices
BERGIN May 23. A weekly civil servant paper presents a table showing what one to 1000 prarks could buy in 1914 versus current paper currency. The page highlights inflation effects on daily goods for German households.
Real estate deeds filed in Greensboro records detail several sales
Deeds filed yesterday with Register of Deeds R. H. Wharton in Greensboro show one large sale, Irving Park Company to Ralph K. Dawson for about 16000 dollars for a house and lot on Meadowbrook terrace. Other transfers include Barnes to Amos for 6000 on Fifth street High Point, Harris to Harris for 500 on Peach Street Gilmer township, Yall to Dry for 500 on Ward street Greensboro, Yow to Gates for 500 on Greensboro High Point road, Rankin to Craven for 7410 in Gilmer township, Lee to Ora Lee on Market street Greensboro for 350, Floyd to Hicks for 70 on Snow street.
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R. H. Wharton
Greensboro
Irving Park Company
Ralph K. Dawson
Meadowbrook Terrace
H. A. Barnés
J. H Amos
Fifth Street
High Point
John W. Harris
C.S. Harris
Peach Street
Gilmer Township
M. C. Dry
Ward Street
Major Langford, 102, Civil War Vet, Dies at Home
Major Joseph Samuel Langford of Petersburg Virginia died Sunday afternoon at his home. Born in Norfolk on September 15 1819 he was 102. He attributed his long life to abstinence from intoxicants and tobacco.
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Tangford
Petersbe
Joseph Samuel Langford
Norfolk
Colonel Nunnerlyn Dies Confederate Veteran
Col James K Nunnerlyn aged 86 1 member of an old Southern family and Confederate veteran died at his Jacksonville Florida home Sunday He was a South Carolina native and a longtime resident of the region
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Jacksonville
Fla
James K. Nunnerlyn
South Carolina
Prewar price contrasts and theater review at the Orpheum
The article notes dramatic cost increases in German towns comparing prewar to postwar prices, with items like flour, potatoes, bacon, and 100 pounds of potatoes. It also praises a theater program at the Orpheum highlighting a Hawaiian specialty act, Mr. Gardner, and a vaudeville schedule including Tom Mix in "Sky High" with a planned program change tomorrow.
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Oder
Bremen
Kearisruhe
Lubeck
Lidwigshafen
Schwerin
Worms
Fulda
Faust
Jis
Dews
Gardner
Hennan
Orpheum
Tom Mix
Si ypdner's Jontee tevue crowd draws full houses
An incomplete line from a theater listing notes strong turnout for a performance titled Jontee tevue and says last week’s show played to full houses.
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George
Jontee Tevue
Former Durham Boy Prowned
Herbert W. Chappell aged 24 of Orlando drowned after seizure while boating at Crystal Springs near Ocala on Sunday afternoon. He formerly lived in Durham North Carolina, but moved to Orlando last fall. His body was recovered.
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Durhan
Ocala
Fta
Ferbert W. Chappell
Orlando
Crystal Springs
Here
Durham
N. C
Scarlet robe sought as council debates hat change
In Stamford England on May 22 the town council, after a three day rebate, proposed replacing the silk hat and scarlet robe with a peaked hat claiming economy. The move follows the errant decision to omit ceremonial attire in favor of simpler garments.
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Stamford
Eng
Errer
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