Army Birdman Finds Outsider Passengers at College Park Flight
Lieut Henry Arnold an Army aviator carried Kentucky Representative Ben Johnson as the first outsider passenger in an Army aero plane at College Park amid wind and rain. Arnold tested the weather with a short flight before taking the passenger, despite choppy air and wary spectators under canvas at headquarters.
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Frederick
College Park
Henry 1 Arnold
Ben Johnson
Kentucky
Chatman
Signal Corps
United States Army
Army
Paul W. Beck
P.M. Kennedy
Arnold
Jolngan
George P. Scriven
War Department
Representative Johnson
Wireless on Aeroplanes At College Park
Government wireless machines to be fitted on aeroplanes at College Park within weeks. Lt Olmstead of the Signal Corps and experts reviewed the plan to install one instrument per craft, test flights, and a tall tower to flash messages for pilots to receive and answer. Noise from engines is a challenge, with noiseless engines expected to fix the issue. The tests aim to enable wartime sky communications locating enemy camps.
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College Park
Olmstead
Signal Corps
War Department
Beck
San Francisco
Fortification Descriptions and Armies Postured for Enemy
Curated notes describe fortifications and keeping forces informed of enemy moves. Instruments weighing 100 pounds will be mounted on machines at College Park, heavy but feasible with driver and one passenger. Tests planned on the Wright biplane used in the Frederick flight, with Capt Paul Beek guiding the wireless setup. A tower will rise on the south end of the field, reaching seventy five feet.
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College Park
Wright
Frederick
Paul
Beek
Lkely
Warrant Officers in Navy Rank and Duties Described
The article explains warrant officers in the Navy, their ranks below midshipmen, duties of gunners and boatswains, pay scales by service length, and promotions to commissioned ranks. It notes responsibilities over ordnance, magazines, ship fittings, and crew summons, with historical context on promotions during and after the Spanish War. A separate item mentions Rev L W Kindley organizing a Sunday school campaign on the Eastern Shore.
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Secretary of the Navy
Siin
Thousands to Lose Jobs as Rail Retrenchment Spreads
The Pennsylvania Railroad plans massive layoffs by September 1 affecting 12 000 to 20 000 workers across East and West campuses. Executives ordered departments to cut expenses amid a business slump, echoing similar retrenchment by Union Pacific Canadian Pacific Southern Pacific and New York New Haven and Hartford.
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Pennsylvania Mail Road
Pittsburgh
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pennsylvania
Union Pacific
Canadian Pacific
Southern Pacific
New York New Haven
Startford
Foray
Asters and Tomatoes Flourish in Mr Keim’s Garden
Mr Maurice Keim of Telegraph Street tends a large aster bed covering one garden side and part of the other. He grows nearly a thousand plants in varied colors, all in bloom, creating a striking display. His tomato bed yields a good crop with some fruit weighing up to two pounds.
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Maurice Keim
Telegraph Street
Frederick Market Prices From Frederick County Farmers' Exchange
Quotationa furnished August 1911 corrected Wheat No 2 Red 83 Cen Corn Shelled 75e to 0e Ry eo to toe per bushel Oats 60e per bushel Barley 65 to Te per bushel Flour Winter Wheat 70 to 228 Spring Wheat 510 to Base Cornmeal 160 to 170 l ibs Mill Feed Bran 27 per ton Middlings 71 per ton Red Dog 220 to 230 per sack Dairy Feed 23 to 5 per ton Cotton Seed Meal 37 to 1 per bushel Clover 11 to 12 per bushel Baled No 1 Timothy 23 to 25 No 2 Timothy 22 to 24 No 1 Mixed 21 to 23 No 2 Mixed 20 to 22 Clover 18 to 19 Straw Baled Wheat 8 to 3 Baled Oats 5 to 3 Hay Not Baled 26 to 22 per ton
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Timothy
New and Old Game Laws Across U S and Canada
Comprehensive Farmers Bulletin 470 summarizes both new and existing game laws in the United States and Canada, updated for the present year. It lists state by state changes in shipment, sales, licenses, preserves, and bag limits, noting expansions of warden forces and restrictions on export, sale, and certain hunting practices.
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United States
Canada
Farmers
United States Department of Agriculture
Wilson
Lcense
Delaware
New York
North Dakota
Oregon
Wyoming
Montana
Idaho
Washington
Masachusetts
California
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
Missour
New Jersey
Wisconsin
North Carolina
Ty Statuys Am Cololaau
South Carolina
sulGata
MuseuCieulls
States enact new game laws in 1911 across eight states
Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Washington West Virginia and Wisconsin all made changes to game laws. The total number of new game laws passed in 1911 was about 230.
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Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Anl
Lime on the Farm Practices and lime sources for soil health
Farmers advised to test lime on small plots using twenty pounds per two square rods, with about one ton per acre as a general rate. Quicklime is cheaper and requires no water for slaking. slaked lime loses moisture. Sources vary, with marl and ground limestone or tannery refuse lime suggested as alternatives for light soils and cost efficiency.
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Brooks
Massachusetts Experiment Station
New England
Notable State News Roundup From Baltimore and Beyond
Former Governor Frank Brown and his son returned from Europe. A Rising Sun man’s son hanged himself. rope cut from his neck. Forty steers died in a B&O wreck at Great Cagon. Lynch & Jennings gain contiguing interest in Hagerstown Street Railway. Primary over, parties plan general campaigns. Baltimore wholesale sugar prices to rise affecting candies. Suffragists voted across Baltimore precincts, treated courteously. Attorney General Straus opinion aided vote counting. Calvin P. Gorman's Springlell home destroyed by fire. he and wife escaped. Annapolis Short Line and Washington Baltimore and Annapolis Railway merger talks held. Midshipmen officers announced at Naval Academy. Charles Spielman injured entering Cresco te farm stable. Road worker Henry Irley urged electric railways for Baltimore roads. Charles Schwartzhaupt, Baltimore’s longest-tenured tax official, dies. Tolchester county fairs open with strong entries. racing touted. David H. Brown plans Sept 24 statewide church services. Caroline county awards state road contract to Holt Construction of Federalsburg. Rough Apartment flood disrupts Ernest W Miller grocery below.
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Frank Brown
Europe
Rising Sun
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Great Cagton
Lynch & Jennings
Hagerstown Street Railway Company
Baltimore
Cieneral Straus
Calvin P. Gorman
Springlell
Brigade of Midshipmen
Gibbons
Naval Academy
Charles Spielman
Crescote Farm
Hagerstown
Irley
Baltimore County
Charles Schwartzhaupt
Kent
Queen Anne’s
Cecil County
Tolchester
David H. Brown
Men and Religion Forward Movement
Caroline County
Greensboro
Holt Construction Company
Federalsburg
Boy Kills For Girl's Love in Stroudsburg Tragedy
Stroudsburg Pennsylvania August 30 Pedre Bellis fourteen was shot and killed by Harvey Osborn fifteen The youth fled as County Detective John M Decker hunted him Both boys courted a girl staying with the Bellis family The shooting occurred as Bellis stood upstairs and Osborn fired from the bottom of the stairs Osborn son of David Osber lives with his grandfather Dim atick Detsick near Henryville resulting in a countywide manhunt for the suspect.
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Stroudsburg
Pedre Bellis
Harvey Osborn
John M. Decker
Bellis
Osborn
Henryville
David Osber
Dimatick Detsick
Women lead Polk county Missouri in court and county offices
In Bolivar Polk county Missouri four women hold key offices in the new county government. The roster includes a female county treasurer a deputy recorder a deputy county clerk and the superintendent of schools. Varying appointments by relatives are noted but praised as capable. Mrs Marguerite V Hall of St Luke's Hospital Baltimore comments on Verna Hyle death.
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Missouri
Bolivar
Polke County
New Court House
Polk County
Daisy Johnson
Joetta McKinney
Electa Cossins
S W. Cossius
Emma Mitchell
A P Mitchell
Marguerite V. Hall
St. Luke's Hospital
Baltimore
Verna Hyle
Verna
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Praise Letter
A Baltimore mother touts Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as curing her fifteen year old daughter Alice after pale appearance and weakness. The ad cites multiple customer letters praising the remedy for female troubles and urges girls with painful or irregular periods to seek relief from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Baltimore
Alice
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E.pink
L. A. Coreran
Rutland Street
Lynn
Mass
Satisfying Painting Offer Promises Quality Work
A local paint service touts fair pricing for satisfactory painting using top materials and skilled mechanics. They pledge the best job possible to preserve your tract, encapsulated in one word: satisfaction.
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Lincoln Beachey
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Vass
Lincoln Headhley
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Niagara Falls
Beachley
Heachley
Pennsylvania Railroad
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