Balloon Race Disaster Ends With Narrow Escape
A dramatic balloon race near Berlin drew 80,000 spectators as Forbes and Post aboard the American Conductor survived a 4,000 foot descent after a tear in the envelope. The parachute-like collapse slowed the crash. both men escaped with minor injuries. The mishap followed an earlier start by Forbes in the Conqueror, with the day featuring 23 participating balloons from multiple nations.
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Berlin
A. H. Forbes
Augustus Post
Great
Britain
France
Germany
United States
Switzerland
Italy
Belgium
Spain
Forbes
Conqueror
A. Holland
Post
Iis
Nightly parade and fires amid a string of tragedies
Nov. 3 reports from multiple cities recount a mix of accidents and incidents. A high school student from Dudley Wilson, 6, was shot during Halloween in Burgettstown. Bry Mawr Lawrence Maple, 6 feet tall, accidentally killed Charles Kerwin, 11, in Philadelphia. Aloys Aime belh, 16, died after an accidental stomach wound from a hunting companion Claude Woodruff. A large fire in Philadelphia destroyed timber yards of R.A. J. J. Williams, with losses around 760000. In Youngstown the First National Bank of Niles received permission to pay 40 percent dividends after closure. Other items note a suicide in Greensburg, physician changes in Uniontown, a mass parade in Wheeling, a balloon ascent in Cincinnati, and expansions of electric interurban plans from Pittsburgh to Wheeling. Observances include Mitchell Day in Wilkes-Barre and widespread coal strike reverberations in Scranton areas.
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Peis
Nor
YauMoek
Hte
Wits
Auib Widitalan
Pili
JeThs
Dudley. Wilson
Siziween
Schodt
Philadelphia
R.A
J. J. Williams
Youngstown
Tillinghast
First National Bank of Niles
Altoona
John Stine
Claysbore
Greensburg
Pay
Wlliam H. Morrow
Evening ‘Press
Irwin Standard
Witmerding News
Manor
Uniontown
Carter Wright
African Methodist Episcopal Church
New Haven
Wheeling
W.va
Miothar Hubbard
Cincinnati
Norman. Kenan
Leslia Haddock
Walter Collins
Chester
W. Va
Navy
Panhandle Electric Company
Pittsburg
Carnegie
West Virginia
Ohio River
Harrisburg
State” Health Department
War time postal rider recalls 1864 raid and baby rescue
Captain Alex and H. Lacy recalls a midnight dream of guerrillas during a Missouri mail run in 1864. He describes bushwhacker attack near Hunnewell, a woman shielded by offering her infant to him, and a daring ruse to save the journey as bandits looted gold dust and a gold watch, while soldiers and passengers pretended illness.
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Alexandst H. Lacy
Westells
Missouri
Fils
Maco
Captain Lacy
St. Joe
Bill Anderton
Major Johnson
Q@entralia
Harris
Bill Anderson
Itha Elyi
Ant
Hunnewell
Walting
Secret Service
Uncle Sam
Grant
Elcl
Ghostly phone calls haunt old city mission in Philadelphia
The Protestant Episcopal City Mission in Philadelphia reports a spectral visitor, a ghost supposedly answering the phone and moving through the Third Street building. Rev H Creason McHenry and staff, who found doors and desks undisturbed, saw a figure vanish up the stairs after lights-out. No trace of occupancy remaining when searched.
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Protestant Episcopal City Mission
Philadelphia
Paul
Third Street
McHenry
Andrad
Wireless Wonders of Sperry Fleet Reach Pacific
The article describes Rear Admiral Sperry's mid Pacific voyage aided by a wireless chain including the Glacier Panther Yankton and Vermont. News travels via cable to Vancouver while ships relay wireless dispatches across hundreds of miles from Suva to Pago Pago. The Pago Pago harbor and Tutuila island host American naval presence as battleships pass and exchange signals with the Annapolis and Connecticut.
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Tonch
Sperry
San Francisco
New Zealand
Australia
Honolulu
Yokohama
San Fran
Elsco
Jack
Honolus
Glacier
Suva
Wil! Islands
Vancouver
B. C
Suya
Samoan
Panther
Yankton
Positon
Vermont
Dhe
Navy Department
Washington
Pacific Ocean
Auckland
Mid
Connecticut
Annapolis
Atieen
Tututia
Adiutea
Pacific
Tutuuls
Three Mileg
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Halbreadth
Nee Bennett
Bryan'ayGabbage
Henry Zern
Pennaburg
Bryan
Taft
John H. Prout
August Belmont
Belemont
Columbusy
Gell
Board ‘of Wealth
Ohio
Cleveland
Cleveland News
Prin
David
Credmer
Wilkesbarre
Kingston Coal Company
Toollierias
Corry
Sherman
N. Y
Clymer
Rachel Foster Avery
Swarthmore
Stephen
Foster
State Convention of Women's Clubs
Mitchell
Piitebarg
Gough
Philip B. Gelbach
Butler
Alexander
Welfing
Galeton
Potter County
Ba Bea
Ghost
Wireless Wonders
Pagopago -Karbon
Sperky
unLigsa
Iana
Victor Roller
David Ellis & Sons
Indiana
Penn Roller Mills
Pennsylvania
Jamestown
Wallace Dry Goods Co
J. C. Wallace & Son, Proprietors
Philadelphia St
John A. Scott
M. Jack
Robert M. Wilson
Treas
J. Wilse McCartney
Asst
Wood Clark
Lucius W. Robinson J
Elder Peelor
Geo, T. Buchanan
John S. Fisher
Seame
Henry Hall
Os. WM. Vvamm
Jas, N. Stewart
the Savings & Trust Co
PENNA
Wood
Boston
Rea
Vohn F. Steving
Bell
American Union
Phila
Chopra
Aulditon
Notlesy Hoveby
Caeset
Tidiaua
Richar
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