Santos-Dumont and the coming airship era in America
The article previews Santos-Dumont arriving in the United States for experiments before the St Louis exposition and a $200,000 prize for airship success. It notes Langley and Chanute organizing the event, the push for practical dirigibles, and doubts about relying on fragile gas balloons for sustained flight.
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America
Santos
St. Louis
Langley
Smithsonian Institution
Qedave Chanute
Chicago
Listers
St. Leas
West Virginia
Santos Dumont
Bane
Santos-Dumont
P. Langley
Washington
Flying Machines Attract $200,000 Prize Race
The piece reviews competing aerial concepts. Santos Dumont faces dangers of balloon flight while Langley pursues a winged airship with a compact engine and large fixed wings. Maxim also experiments with an aeroplane style craft aiming for safer, sustained flight.
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Vlach
bEarnsley
Professor Langley
Santos Dutont
Avsico Ue
Langley
Smithsonian
Phin
Stephen Phillips Wins With Ulysses In London Stage
Stephen Phillips author of Ulysses the dramatic and poetic success of the season in London has written a play that can be acted. At thirty four he is a typical Englishman and cricketer popular in English clubs. His mother inspired his poetry lineage from Wordsworth and Coleridge.
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Stephen Phillips
Ele
Tle
Mr. Platips
Wordsworth
Lloyds
Charles Tiual
bin Coleridge
Christakel
Laws
Queen Victoria
Phillips
Enghind
Dowager Queen Margherita of Italy to Visit America
Rumors say Margherita, widow of King Umberto, will travel to the United States to meet Americans at home. The queen is drawn by American women’s beauty and frankness and by praise of the new world. Mrs. Miro advised the education of the queen and aided conversations with the Austrian tutor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
United States
Margherita
America
Wumbert
Ristori
Miro
Mareh Heing
Maple Sugar Scarce and Prices Rising Across New England
The article notes a maple sugar shortage with production down from 25 000 tons to about 4 000, mainly in Vermont and Ohio as the season shortens due to cold weather. It explains tapping, sap flow, evaporation, and how sugar and syrup are produced, including the Vermont maple sugar exchange to prevent adulteration and the threat from artificial sugar made with hickory chips.
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Vermont
Ohio
New York
New England
Oil King of Texas James Hogg Builds English Oil Trust
Ex Governor James S Hogg, famed Texas oil figure, travels to London to organize an English oil trust for Beaumont fields. Reported capital stock 15 million dollars. Hogg denies ties to Standard Oil while noted for wealth from Beaumont operations. He is a widower with several schoolchildren. He rose from farmer and printer to attorney general and governor. He is portrayed as earnest, frugal, distrustful of trusts, and blunt in manner.
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James Stephen Hogg
Petas
Lone Star
Hogg
London
Beaumont
Standard Oil Company
Ogy
Texas
Standard Oil
Governor Hogg
Novel bridal trip private car designed by bride
Miss Marie Murphy stage name Marie Lamour plans to marry John Erhardt Muhlfield of Montreal. He will travel with her in a private car she designed interior to her taste. The couple's wedding is set for May in Danville Illinois.
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Werself
Marie Murphy
Danville
Ill
John Erhardt Muiilfield
Miss Murphy
Marie Lamour
Western Union Telegraph
St. Mary’s In the Woods
Terre Haute
Ind
Mr. Muhlfield
John Erhardt Muhlfield
Montreal
Grand Trunk Railway
Muhifield
Ata Tree Grows Into Tangle of Names
In a Harlem Life discussion Ned asks if Bnobleigh mentioned the family tree. Grace confirms the topic has become a dense chestnut of discussion about kin and origins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ata
Ned
Grace
Harlem
Women and Kidney Trouble Affects All Readers
A health notice explains kidney and bladder disorders harm both women and men, causing diminished vigor and misfortune. It promotes Swamp-Root as a remedy with sample offers and a pamphlet, urging readers to contact Dr. Kilmer & Co. in Binghamton New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Kilmer &Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Elixir of Life Promises Free Cure for All Ailments
Dr James William Kidd proclaims a universal life elixir that cures rheumatism neuralgia stomach and more. He claims free distribution to any sufferer with a request and asserts witnesses confirm remarkable cures and restored health.
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James William Kidment
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Paris
Eiffel Tower
G & Soc
SAS
St. Lewis For
Mediterranean
Jas
Ile
Brit Be
Lless
Ulysses
Stivten Phillips
Lac Jenner
OIL King OF
Horn
James W. Kidd
First National Bank
Fort Wayne
Panama
Kenwood
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