Top of World 50 Miles and the Air Ceiling
The piece discusses attempts to reach higher than Major Schroeder and Lieutenant MacReady, noting the limits of the atmosphere and the declining buoyancy with altitude. It explains why higher flights have limited scientific value and outlines twilight-based methods for estimating the air’s upper boundary, concluding a 48 mile height where twilight is still reflected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
MacReady
Schroeder
Terra Firma
Stewart's Life Romance Bared In Riverhead Will Case
Surrogate court records in Riverhead reveal the late John IX Stewart used the alias Terence O'Brien. The Chicago millionaire founder of Stewart Manufacturing and Stewart Warner had two wills filed. records outline his past as a West prospector and horse clipping machine inventor met in Seattle with the Conlon brothers.
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Chicago
John IX. Stewart
Stewart Manufacturing Company
Stewart-Warner Speedometer Company
Riverhead
L. L
Terence O’brien
O’brien
Seattle
Arthur
Michael Conlon
John K Stewart speedometer tale of wealth and mystery
A tale of O'Brien later known as Stewart who patented a flexible shaft speedometer later profited massively. He acquired wealth, moved from the West to Chicago, buying a Sheridan Road home and an Island mansion. A sprawling estate and mysterious deposits revealed in safety vaults and a hotel suitcase with cash and checks exposed mismanagement and a romance surrounding the family fortunes.
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O'Brien
Stewart
John K. Stewart
John K
O’brien
West
Chicago
Sheridan Road
Center Point
L. I
Marion
Jean
Speedometer Company
H. la Chance
Stewart- Warner’ Speedometer Company
Aiken
Robert B. Honeyman Jr
New York City
Robert B. Honeyman
New York
Nebraska State News Roundup Highlights City and County Affairs
Nebraska observers report on a wide array of events from December shows to court verdicts and fire costs. The Central Nebraska Poultry Association sets York show dates while Hastings hosts a Hereford sale totaling 20810 dollars.
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Central Nebraska Poultry Association
York
Gaudréault & Sons
Hastings
Dan B. Butler
Omaha
John M. Matzen
Nebraska
Ray A. Lower
Valparaiso State Bank
Wahoo
Harry Hauster
Minden
Binderup
Dawson
Buffalo County
Lincoln
Bureau of Publicity
J. J. Barker
Ralph Rosell
Martin Estergaard
Grand Island
Fullerton
John Nelson
Wakefield
Pawnee City
Tecumseh Band
City Opera House
John Fiala
Nebraska City
Josephine C. Keeler
Broken Bow
Herman
Fenton
Nebraska Penitentiary
Tipton
Hugh @. Marsh
Iowa
McKelvie
Senate
Lee Stuhr
American University Union in Europe selects Pratt Judson as chairman
Harry Pratt Judson president of the University of Chicago will lead the American University Union in Europe for the coming year. The board of trustees announced his election as chairman. The union brings together 50 leading American colleges and universities with activity centers in New York London and Paris.
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Harry Pratt Judson
University of Chicago
American University Union
Europe
Board of Trustees
Judson
John Grier Dibben
Princeton
John W. Cunliffe
School of Journalism
Pulitzer Foundation
Columbia University
Henry B. Thompson
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard
W. A. Shanklin
Wesleyan
Anson Phelps Stokes
Yale
The
New York
London
Paris
Cunliffe
Gore May Regain His Eyesight After Thirty Years in Darkness
Ex Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, blind for more than three decades, undergoes treatment in Boston hoped to restore sight. He longs to see his wife first, then his daughter and son, and to view the world and his Washington library, farm village, and the many changes since losing his sight.
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Thomas P. Gore
Oklahoma
Boston
Washington
Gore
Thompson at Arms Conference Leader Thompson of Yonkers Born 1869
William Boyce Thompson of Yonkers New York, adviser to the American delegation, financier and educator, served as head of the American Red Cross mission to Russia in 1917 and director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He proposed an export tax for Americans abroad and was discussed as a possible ambassador to Germany. He donated a bronze trophy for the American-British fencing matches.
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William Boyce Thompson
Yonkers
N. Y
Montana
Phillips Exeter
Columbia University School of Mines
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
American Red Cross
Russia
Kerensky
Europe
America
Germany
Thompson
Washington
New York
Virginia Boy 7 Arrested as Horse Thief
Roanoke Virginia seven year old Russell Smith was arrested on a horse theft charge and turned over to probation officer E Watson. It is the youngest offender arrested here in twenty years, according to reports.
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Arthur Cornins
Lodi
Bureau of Markets
State Department of Agriculture
Nebraska
Federal Bureau of Markets
L. M. Mack
College View
QS Beatrice Electric Company
J. W. Cook
Robert
Beatrice
Julig Petersen
Blair
Far Finance Corporation
North Platte Valley
Chamber of Commerce of
Scottsbluff
Virginia Boy
Roanoke
Russell Smith
E. Watson
Diamonds Lost in Tarentum Recovered by Owner
Five thousand dollars worth of diamond rings were kicked about Pittsburgh street by Tarentum residents two days before Joseph DeNante recovered the bundle in Center street. The jewels belonged to Mrs. Joseph Klein of Tarentum who had offered a three hundred dollar reward.
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Pittsburgh
Tarentum
Joseph DeNante
Center Street
Joseph Klein
DeNante
Expedition to study sleeping sickness in tropical Africa
Four physicians and two veterinary scientists organize a two and a half year expedition under the Tropical Diseases Prevention association. They aim to study on site treatment for sleeping sickness starting in Uganda and later Congo and Rhodesia, seeking government support and eventual vaccination to immunize arrivals. The disease, linked to a tsetse fly parasite, has plagued Congo and Uganda for a century.
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Africa
London
Tropical Diseases Prevention Association
Soam
Uganda
Belgian Congo
Rhodesia
Sudan
West Africa
Congo
Kings and Royals Shift as Belgrade Crown Is Announced
News notes rapid royal changes with King Alexander of Serbia crowned in Belgrade after distancing from abdication talk. Paris stay cited for health and romance with Princess Sophie. marriage prospects strained by religion. Former Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary dethroned and exiled to Madeira. Rupprecht of Bavaria seeks Bavarian kingship amid monarchist echoes.
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Alexander
Serbia
Belgrade
Paris
Peter
Sophie
Immanuel
Duke of
Vendome
Alencon
Karl
Austriaa- Hungary
Sapsburg
National Assembly
Budapest
Madeira Island
Atlantic Ocean
Morocco
Pri
Rupprecht
Bavaria
Luxemburg
Ludwig
Wheeler First Nonofficial Member At Anti Beer Conference
Wayne B Wheeler of the Anti Saloon League of America became the first private citizen to sit in a conference of both senate and house members on the anti beer bill. The move sparked heated debate over enforcement search and seizure as Wheeler, though affable and influential, faced denouncing critics. Wheeler helped shape prohibition legislation, drawing significant influence in recent years.
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Wayne B. Wheeler
Egunsel
Anti- Saloon League of America
United States
Senate
House Representatives
House
Wheeler
Cigent Wheeler
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D. M. Amsberry
Walthill
Winnebago
George Koster
State Division of Fish and Game
State General Fund
Lincoln Telegraph and Telephone Company
State Board of Control
Kearney
Disabled American Veterans of Foreign Wars
State Tuberculosis Hospital
L. C. Oberlies
Woodson Spurlock
George M. Spurlock
University of Nebraska
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England
Plattsmouth
York Public
York High School
New Mexico
Red Cross
Cheyenne County
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Silas A. Toolcomb
Gus. Lorentz
Loup City
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Dan Melcod
Schuyler
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Pierce
Charles E. Black
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Henry Pfeffer
Butte
State Seal Commission
MckKelvie
Shelton
BF. C. Horth
Nebraska Irrigation Association
Bridgeport
Westesen Sisters
O. KE
National Bank Examiner
Eleventh
Federal Reserve District
Dallas
Tex
George Dorn
Rudge & Guenzel
F.S. Shoemaker
Charles N. Dean
Norpartisan League
Hartington
George W. Marsh
Lester J. Mabeus
St. Helena
Neb
Maria Hahn
France
W. F. Bryant
Bayard
University Union In Europe
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