Aerial battleships and flying machines predicted by Bell
Alexander Graham Bell foresees air power transforming warfare with practical heavier than air craft and aerial battleships. He predicts Americans will lead in perfecting aerial battleships and plans experiments at Cape Breton island to propel kites with a fifteen horsepower engine. He notes Wright brothers solved air navigation and expects rapid commercial aviation growth.
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Wright Brothers
Cape Breton Island
The Home Life of America by Baron de Constant
Baron de Constant argues American home life is the world’s most charming, crediting American wives with feminine superiority. He claims women shape husbands and men through sweetness and tact, asserting women are born with an intuitive knowledge of how to command respect and indulgence from men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baron D'Estournelles DE Constant
Senate
France
Assaults Continue as Mob Attacks After Baseball Clash
In New York August reports describe a spasm of mob violence triggered by a baseball dispute. A white man and a colored man fought, sparking a riot that injured about 40, with nine prisoners taken by police and two deaths likely. Victims include Miss Ellen Bulger beaten in the Bronx and others assaulted amid foreign-quarter fears and vigilante anger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ellen Bulger
Bronx
Miss Bulger
George Kestner
Hylo Saloda
Louis Concongla
Sketh Street
Fifth Avenue
John
Fife
Troy
Boys killed in mines shock report from department
A state mines department report for 1906 records 62 young workers aged 13 to 20 killed within anthracite and bituminous mines in Pennsylvania and 16 to 21 killed outside mines. Additional minors, from 11 to 24, died in bituminous regions or were fatally injured, with three miners' sons aged 14 to 16 among the fatalities. Foremen hiring underage workers face imprisonment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Mines
Tharedsbure
State Department of Mines
Pennsylvania
Multiple Aug. 5 6 Aug. 6 incidents span many towns
A sweeping roundup of regional briefs from Ohio Pennsylvania and West Virginia reports fatal accidents sudden deaths floods and labor actions. Events include the death of Elmer W. Acker in Tifton Ohio. Mrs Mary Hamill of Hamilton Ohio from a chicken scratch. Daniel Johns injured in Greenville Pennsylvania printing incident. Fred Kline from Chicago surviving a 150 foot fall. Sharon Steel Hoop Co. signing the Amalgamated wage scale. a rail yard engineer killed in Euclid Ohio. a general strike by caulker and ship carpenters along the Monongahela. Fred Schad fatally hurt in an American Tire Company incident. two brothers drowned in the Ohio River. Alderman Sarver of Monongahela jailed on a serious charge. a collision near Shreve Ohio killing a horse. remains of Benjamin L. Stewart found near Portsmouth Ohio. Judge Nesbitt dismissing graft charges against Charles J. Schuclz. a boarding house raid in New Castle with multiple arrests. Williams County Pomona Grange backing prison parole. a Pennsylvanian conductor E G Cooper injured but expected to resume work. fence rights sale dispute in Gallia County. tensions flare over regional prohibition battles between wet and dry towns.
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Tifton
Elmer W. Acker
Hamilton
Mary A. Hamill
Greenville
Daniel Johns
Toledo
Fred Kline
Chicago
Sharon
Sharon Steel Hoop Company
Butler
Robert Scott
Bessemer & Lake Erie
Euclid
Elizabeth
Caulkern
Monongahela River
Zanesville
Fred Schad
American Tire Company
Sewickley
Shem Walker
Wilbur Walker
Ohio River
Glen Osborne
Washington
Alderman Sarver
Monongahela
Sarver
Wooster
A. B. Schaff
Lloyd Miller
Shreve
Schaff
Portsmouth
Benjamin L. Stewart
Goodhope
Fayette County
Wheeling
W. Va
Frank W. Nesbitt
Charles J. Schuclz
Ohio County
New Castle
Domenico Costellese
Bryan
Williams County Pomona Grange
Board of Managers
Ohio State
Homerson
Williams County
E. (. Cooper
Mahoningtown
Pennsylvania
A. Butler
Gallia County
Bell
Cven
Chatham
Ontario
Ecloe
Marlon
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The
Indiana Publishing CompAny
Walter H. Jackson
Plank
New
Gazette
Bulldog
Carpenter Avenue
Tedlana
Indiana
Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone
America
Tam
the Home Life of
Bagh Chad Rooms
the Clymer M
Water Street
T. S. St. Clair
Aera
Engle
Blacklick
Peddier
Gali
North Ninth &c
North Josephine
Will Engle
Egg
John W. Stewart
Will Bogle
RBS Lt
Old Country
Marino
Engle, Blacklick
SALM
Milla
Roy Laughlie
Marion Center
Bash
W. Smith
Barr House
A. P, Watson
Seventh Street
John F. Steving
Carnival of Crime
Prom
Ind
John Lundergen
Wellman
Spitzbergen
Tromsoe
Wellman Polar
Dal
Tristate News
Pallatelphia
Rome
Sarbelintay
Viviana
Williem
Sant
Atanioekin
Aenehoass
Mayehon
Hadsdeus
Nerthim
Hans
Baing
Aba Thind Society
Sumidsburg
Harvey Cron
Dmingimans
Price County
Bonmantin Courtright
Courtright
Flatbrookville
Ite, Pa
James F. Doteherty
St. Vincent's Hospital
Norristown
Hugh Ward
Edward Gallagher
Plymouth Township
Montgomery County
American Magneala Works
Steubenville
Toronto
Wellsville
Egat Liverpool
Hag
Oughry’s
Panama
W. R. Loughry & CO
J. F. Steving
John F. Steving & CO
Silas C. Streams
Crex
Philadelphia Street
PENNA
Buffalo School Furniture
American Seating Go.’S
Wallace Dry Goods Co
J.C. Wallace & Son
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J. B. Younkins
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