Firefighters Survive Intense 1903 Explosive Warehouse Blaze
In Cooper Square a four alarm fire at the Boston Excelsior Works warehouse traps No. 11 crew led by Joe Dooley. They push inside through a truck driveway and crawl amid blazing excelsior until a floor collapse drops two teammates and narrowly misses Dooley. He frees himself after crawling under fallen timbers and reaches safety, continuing service until 1918 retirement.
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Joe Dooley
Adventurers’ Club
Joseph Dooley
Brooklyn
N. Y
Joe
East Houston Street
Old No. 11
Cooper Square
Boston Excelsior Works
No. 11
No. 11 Company
Hook and Ladder Co. No. 9
No. 9
Excelsior
Rass
Transatlantic Air Travel Advances Include Zeppelin Hindenburg Plans
The piece surveys evolving transatlantic travel with airships and airplanes. It highlights the Zeppelin Hindenburg on its American maiden voyage, plans for regular North Atlantic service, and comparisons to faster heavier-than-air craft, noting weather, routes, and key figures like Eckener and Laemmle.
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New York
Europe
Zeppelin
Los Angeles
Hindenburg
James McVittie
Hugo Bekener
Ernest Lehmann
Kaiser’s Cavalry
America
North Atlantic
Ilindenburg
Friedricshafen
Charleston
S. C
Azores
Bermuda
Bermudas
New York Weather Bureau
James H. Kimball
Pacific
Atlantic
Doctor Kimball
Ocean
Witl E Imperial Airways
Great Britain
England
Canada
Pan American Airways
Tadio
Bere
Eckener
United States
Akron
Macon
Western Newspaper Union
Germany
Dr. Eckener
Gypsies in a Reservation and Ohio State Flag History
The article discusses attitudes toward gypsies, noting worldwide prejudice and moves in Czechoslovakia to register and confine them pending reserves. It also describes Ohio’s unique pennant shaped flag adopted in 1902, with swallowtail field, blue canton, white circular O, red disk, and seventeen surrounding five point stars.
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Europe
Czechoslovakia
The
Washington Star
Ohio
Buckeye
Union
Now What Excuse Does Prof Suppose Senior Will Use
A Minnesota senior explains his missing theme due to a broken typewriter. Professor Howard Weaver recalls similar excuses, joking that the student will say his house burned down next. Firemen later confirm the house did burn down.
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Fred Lemmer
University of Minnesota
Alf
Howard Weaver
Lemmer
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Metro
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Sally Eilers
Harry Joe Brown
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Radio City
Aquarium
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Kay Francis
Florence Nightingale
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Zep
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W. C. Fields
Poppy
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Uncle Sam
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Clarendon Mfg. Co
Clarendon, Va
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Dr. Hitchcock
Natures
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