Wright Brothers Airship Wreck Near Kill Devil Hill
Norfolk May 15 Wright brothers Wilbur and Orville tried a landmark flight at Kill Devil Hill North Carolina. A steering gear error sent the aeroplane downward and it smashed, eight miles flown in seven minutes forty seconds, Wilbur unhurt except a scratch and the machine ruined. The brothers packed their effects for Daytona.
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Norfolk
Wilbur
Orville Wright
Kill Devil Bil
North Carolina
Wibur Wright
Wright Brothers
Daytona
Wrights
Kill Devil
Wilbur Wright
Hartier
Furnass
Bones Found In Guinness Farmhouse Cellar In La Porte
Portions of human jawbones and a skin fragment with hair traces were found in the Guinness farmhouse cellar during debris removal before mining work. Doctors will report to the coroner to confirm human origin, affecting defense claims about identity after a fire, with two watches also recovered among ten pieces. A separate Pittsburg incident notes Thomas Morris’s arrest for defending a drowning rat, and Joseph H. Smith receiving a fine and workhouse time after a fight.
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Guinness House
la Porte
Ind
Guinness
Smutzer
Louis C. Schultz
Pittsburg
Thomas Morris
Joseph H. Smith
Morris
Smith
Renwick Ewart
Brady
Robbers Take $35,000 In French Depot Heist
Three bandits flee north of French New Mexico with 35000 dollars after breaking into the depot at French, binding the station agent and guard, and blowing open the safe. Bloodhounds pursue them as they ride toward rugged mountain passes along the Santa Fe railway.
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el Paso
Tex
French
Las Vegas
N. M
Santa Fern Road
Wright brothers discuss airship plans and secrecy
Wilbur and Orville Wright, Dayton natives, describe their early glider experiments in North Carolina, their preference to keep design details private, and their aim to demonstrate a practical two passenger airship. They predict future autos with airship capability and note costs, safety, and prospects.
Evidence of Fraud in Metallic Furniture Contract Trial
Pennsylvania prosecutors finish preliminary fraud testimony in the metallic furniture contract case for the state capitol in Harrisburg. The defense hints a nondefamatory error in the invoiced square footage but argues no intent to defraud as they challenge the contractor’s measurements and invoices.
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Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Commonwealth
George C. Keim
Department of State
Keim
Keint
Shumaker
John E. Stott
Board of Public Grounds and Buildings
James M. Shumaker
Snyder
Pennsylvania Construction Company
Department of Secretary of Commonwealth
Cunningham
Gary
Postmaster Fined Four Hundred Dollars in Riverton Case
Riverton postmaster Ogden H. Mattes was fined 400 dollars by Judge Lanning in a U. S. court for falsifying post office reports on stamp sales to raise his pay. The case centered on altered figures for stamps sent from Philadelphia. Dr O Brien reports paresis germ discovery at the American Medico-Psycho logical Association meeting in Cincinnati.
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Trenton
Ogden H. Mattes
Riverton
X. d
Lanning
United States Court
Ofice Department
Faltes
Phiadelphia
Mattes
Poestmary CT
Massison
Althoush Trembers
Arete
John PD. O'Brien
Ohio State Hospital
O Brien
American Medico-Psychological Association
Cincinnati
Bryan's Daughter to Take Stump in West States
In Omaha Nebraska May 33 Mrs Ruth Leavitt daughter of William J Bryan will stump for his Democratic crate nomination if he receives it She plans to campaign in Colorado Wyoming and several western states with woman suffrage in those areas.
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Bryan
Omaha
Neb
William J Bryan
Ruth Leavitt
Wim
Colorado
Wyoming
Leavin
Hair and scalp treatment offer described in ad copy
A promotional notice urges immediate action for dull hair and unhealthy scalp. It touts a single treatment as the remedy and warns not to wait as conditions may worsen.
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Woodbury
Baby Kills Mother with Rifle During Playful Moment
In Pottsville Pennsylvania on May 15 a four year old boy who had just seen his mother, Mrs Albert Major of Ellangowan near Shenandoah, take up a desert rifle and point it at her pulled the trigger. The bullet struck her heart and she died instantly.
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Pottsville
Albert Major
Ellangowan
Shenandoah
Prominent Editor Dies From Pistol Wound in Pennsylvania
O He ws Sturgis, 58, noted editor and writer, died from a personal safety related pistol wound near Union City, Pennsylvania. Cornerstone for a new 210,090 naval yard building at Norfolk, Virginia, funded by Joan B. Rockefeller, was laid on Thursday. Rear Admiral Rodley B. Evans and family arrived in Washington on Thursday evening from San Francisco.
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O. Sturgis
Unionican
Naval Y. Ke
Norfolk
Joan DB. Rockefeller
Rodley B. Evans
Weshington
San Francisco
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Orville
Dayton
Sand Hill
Mwe
Ory
Will
Darton
Burt
Daston
United States
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Wight
Woodbury Institute
Pearre
RELIA
Frederic
LE Pharmacy
S. Market Street
Cleveland
Reserve Trust
Reserve Trust Company
Superior Savings & Trust Company
American Savings Bank
Philadelphia
Minnie
Isadore Jaffin
South Second Street
Mt. Sinal Hospital
Louis Jaffin
Jatin
Isadore
Sanoe
Urbana
John W. Frits
Jrr
William J. Abbott
Westfield
Walf
Antas
N. J
John Morrissey
Barnum
Bailey's Circus
Bartholomay Brewery Cos RodiesiSy Noy
WH. H. SH Phone Dreders EN MP
W. P.S
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