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phere and several other things, when his children are taken before the county' court.The rest of th#) city is envious of the Spring Lakers with their private bathing beach. It m«Bt he sold that some of those who go In for bathing there have passed the Btago of “springers. It's worth the price of admission to sco Frank Dick do a double somersault In the water, or the Apollo-like form of Banker Singleton as he wades into the algea.If the wcnlher man doesn’t hold down that temperature in the next few days ho la going to have a mad humanity telling him just wbat he la.(BY THE MAN ON THE STREET.)We get it coming and going these days. In summer it is the ice man and in winter it is the coal man.All “watering places” are exclusively so; the bars are gono.Sam Baldwin says there is no dangor In cleaving the atmosphere several miles above terra firma in a balloon. Take your word for it, Sam,*I)ry” Humor.We pannot tell the old Jokes!The dear old Jokes are dead— The one about tho ailing friend,” The “morning-after head.”Tho quaint “revolving lamp post'* And tho undulating door— Alas for all the dear old jokes! s We’ll never toll them more!A; husband’s Sunday morning , grouch is usually just,the result of a mixture of underdone .muffins and original sta. •J A cynic Is a person who believes that ,women, are nothing/but non-essentidls,' art,is nothing. but “Junk,”. goodness.nothing but stu-That little talk on aeronautics made by Sam Y. Baldwin before the Lion's club Wednesday noon was one of tho most interesting addresses beard by the members for a long time. Ho said ono thing that was very true, and that brought out still another truth. He told the story of a traveling man being up in Iowa some years ago where there was to have been a balloon ascension, but for somo reason tho aeronaut could not make the ascension. He said he did not 'remember, but he thought it was Dick Hackman—tho traveling man, not the aeronaut When it was learned that tho aeronaut was unable to go up somebody romnrkdd that thoro was a man from Quindy in lho grand stand. Of course, at was taken for granted, that evopy-body from Quincy was an aeronaut and knew all about balloons aqd ballooning. So tho,Quincy man was sought out and was asked to mako tho ascension. -Ho rofuscd, of course, and told the people that ho know nothing about going up In a balloon, or running one,- “And do you know, said Baldwin, “he had the hardest kind of a.time,to convince those people that he did not 1 know'Anything About aeronautics.Why, they simply imagined that anybody from Quincy would know all about ballooning.”It is a fact that 20 years ago tho Baldwin brothers, Sam of this city, and .Major Tom, now of tho regular army, advertised this city more than any other person or project that has ever been devised. They made Quincy the home of the balloon. and it was known as such. It is now about 30 years ago since Thomas Baldwin made his first parachute descent in San Francisco. He came direct here after tho first one and made his second. Ho !•made Quincy tho headquarters for ballooning and parachuting, and was ably seconded by his brother Sam. Tom made two trips around the world and was feted by kings and potentates in all tho prominent courts of Europe, Asia and Africa. In England bo made a jump for Queen Victoria and was made a member of tho Boyal Aeronautio Engineers and was presented with a gold medal for his .achievements.For several years, ballooning languished, but the war. has-again brought out'the great-possibilities which may be. accomplished by; tho big gas bags, and the Baldwins are again.coming Into their otax.; v c,-
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Quincy Daily Journal
Quincy, Illinois, US
Thu, Jul 31, 1919
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