30 May 1910
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1910
Page
1
A fragmented report notes a new record speed of sixty miles an hour for a sustainee event. It mentions names and places obliquely and lacks full context due to OCR damage, but records indicate a breakthrough in sustained speed testing. Further details are unclear from the readable text.
Glenn Curtiss shatters international air speed records by flying from London to New York with a solo crossing. Paulhan and other rivals set pace at shorter legs but Curtiss completes the dramatic flight in record time, landing at Spuyten Duyvil and Governors Island to a citywide rapture.
Barings Aviator wins tithe title amid air racing action. Crowds watch as pilots compete for crown in the King of the Air event. details on location and entrants are reported.
An eyewitness account recalls Charles A. Lindbergh era moments at an airfield where Curtiss exited the biplane after landing, shook hands with Major Holt and Brigadier General Walter Mowe, and watched troops roll the craft into the aerodrome amid a subdued crowd. The scene includes Mars Curt and Mrs Curt, with photographers present as the moment passed.
John Daug of the J Young Packing Company and Harry Wheatley, a noted local musician, were killed when the speeding car they rode in struck a concrete abutment of a bridge on the Monongahela. Charles Babbitt the electrician was injured. The fatalities occurred after a banquet in Moon at Marianna. Mrs Daug had feared the trip would be fatal. The car traveled about fifty miles per hour before impact.
May 30 Bartin reports Emperor William I suffers a minor right hand bite from an insect causing irritation and no serious danger. Court physicians treat the wound to prevent blood poisoning while the Emperor delegates signature duties to Crown Prince Frederick William and notes urgent decrees will bear royal signs.
A long list of charges and corporate schemes emerges from a Philadelphia fraud case centering on misapplied funds at the American Trust Company. Officials allege bond misappropriation, stock transfers, and interlocking loans connected to the Kanawha coal venture and other trusts, with investigations leading to prosecutions under colonial statutes.
Unclear OCR fragment hints at a death incident and a boy named Renka Fa Ale Rae near Mount Klaco with an implied wound. Details are fragmentary. no clear dates, locations, or official actions are readable. Further readable context is needed to form a precise summary.
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