31 Aug 1911
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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1911
Page
1
Airman Atwood finishes a 1265 mile journey in 12 days breaking long distance records. He flies from St. Louis to New York, completing an unprecedented cross country flight.
The flight covered 1265 miles direct and 1365 miles with detours, starting August 14 at 8 05 a m from St Louis and ending August 25 at Governor's Island 2 30 p m The entire trip took 28 hours 31 minutes over 20 flights averaging 63 14 miles per leg, beating the prior world record by 101 miles though the flyer disputes the extra 100 miles for detours Final leg began Nyack N Y 25 miles north of Forty second Street at 1 53 p m and ended Governor's Island at 4 2 38 p m Flying time for the final route was 46 4 F minutes
Harry N. Atwood, Boston aviator, lands safely on Governor's Island after a 1265 mile heavier‑than‑air flight from Nyack New York. He completes the journey in 28 hours 31 minutes, hailed as America's greatest aviator. He may retire from aviation, and notes only $10,000 prize with a $4,000 forfeiture to backers for missing 20 cities.
A Lehigh Valley passenger train No. 4 struck a spread rail on a trestle near Manchester New York causing two day coaches to plunge 40 feet. At least forty were killed and over eighty injured many veterans from the G A R encampment at Rochester. The disaster is the worst in the line’s history with a fourteen car train derailed and two engines pulling it.
Secretary of State Knox writes Congressman Brantley of Georgia praising his push for cotton relief and notes the department will seek full information from European ports on tare practices. The missive stresses the need for fair bale weight and urges reform of American baling methods to deter foreign discrimination against cotton growers.
Representatives of 60,000 farmers from Virginia and North Carolina allied with the Farmers' Educational and Co operative union met in executive session in Greensboro to pool the 1911 tobacco crop until a price of not less than 15 cents per pound is secured in any section.
The first session of the Sixty-second Congress ends after 121 days with a quiet adjournment. President Taft vetoes the cotton tariff revision bill again, provoking Democratic laughter and Republican applause in the House. Leaders praise or criticize the session, while the Ways and Means Committee will take up the veto matter again next session.
A conference of seven cotton states led by Senator Williams and Representative Burleson urged farmers to hold cotton at 13 cents. They called for state banks to back resistance to speculators and warned of a bearish market as they critiqued New York exchange activity and current cotton stock estimates.
President Taft, on the eve of a 40 day campaign swing, denounces reform nostrums as demagogic and theoretical. He warns the nation faces a bloodless but lengthy battle over concentrated wealth and urges ratification of arbitration treaties with Great Britain and France. He notes Southern bond repudiations predate the treaty and asserts the accord covers future cases only.
A moving picture show panic in Canonsburg Pennsylvania caused 26 deaths by suffocation and 25 serious injuries as a crowd surged toward a narrow exit. Bolusz Dubrowski among the dead toppled near the stairs as a boy shouted fire. Coroner Herran organized an inquiry.
In Middletown Connecticut an express train on the New York, New Haven and Hartford line derailed after rails spread. Sixty people were injured, eight seriously, as the engine and cars plunged into a sand bank and embankments. The engineer was trapped in the cab and later released with a dislocated hip and bruises.
Washington Postmaster General Hitchcock designated fifty more first class post offices as postal savings depositories including Montgomery Alabama Texarkana Arkansas Athens Georgia Paducah Kentucky Shreveport Louisiana Jackson Mississippi Greensboro North Carolina Greenville South Carolina Bristol Tennessee Austin Texas and Petersburg Virginia The New York Chicago St Louis and Boston offices opened August 1 and had aggregate receipts of about 250000 by the end of three weeks.
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