Swift Sky Ship to Gross Ocean
German inventor proposes a thousand foot dirigible airship for transatlantic travel carrying 216 passengers and 102 crew at 67 mph with 5,000 horsepower and a 300 meter length, claiming safety from explosions and the ability to sail on water if needed. Prominent engineers endorse the design and a hangar site is sought on the European side of the Atlantic. Ernest Gunther Heusel plans New York visits to gauge landing sites as the project costs about 405000 dollars.
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Atlantic
Herr Borner
New York
Ernest Gunther Heusel
Paris
Europe
George von der Goltz
Airship Associatea
International Aeronautic Federation
Germany
E. Umbeck
Raoul Pictet
Brussels
Executioner of John Brown Dies at 79 in Alabama
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Gibson who oversaw the execution of John Brown at Harper's Ferry died on his plantation in Verona Alabama. He was seventy nine years old and had been an invalid for several years.
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John Brown
Joseph ©. Gibson
Jolonrown
Harpers Perry
Verbena
Ala
Piece of Bone in His Heart Kills 15YearOld Player
A fragment from a kneecap fractured during baseball entered 15 year old George Hayes’s bloodstream and lodged in his heart causing his death in Philadelphia.
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George Hayes
Philadelphia
Authors' Blunders: Amusing Slips by French Writers
Reme Amusing Slips Made by Famous French Writers. La Re vue de Paris details gaffes of Thiers Troplong Surcey Toussenel and others. Notes humorous miswordings show great men miscalling facts and twisting phrases in literature and criticism.
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Reme
M. Tibert Cim
la Revue de Paris
Francisque Surcey
Mlle. Ugalde
M. Toussenel
White Rainbows and Worn Russian Riddles
A collection of curiosities and anecdotes on rare white rainbows formed by fine rain and strong sun, a Hungarian inn score-keeping custom using rovas sticks, a clever legal quip in a bankruptcy court, and a quip about animal pain from Chicago records.
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Westminstern Gazette
The Man Under the Bed and Mrs Timid Dialogue
A fragmentary joke exchange recalls a prankish line about finding a man under the bed and a misdirected search. The dialogue pivots on mistaken burglars and a husband revealed in the bed, ending with a quip about silence versus speaking.
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Bluff
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