Air Problems Demand Thought
Aviation issues face the Roosevelt administration as rapid advances in air tech outpace regulation. The government anticipates large civilian and military needs, with talks of cheap personal planes, new landing fields, and a push to expand the army air fleet despite budget cuts.
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Earl Godwin Ashington
Uncle Sam
Department of Compumerce
Aviation Wa
Regulation Inc
Aviation Hp
New York
San Franincisco
Department of Commerce
J. M. Johnson
Eugene Vidal
Air Commerce
Washington
Treasury
Little Park
Crowe
Pennsylvania Avenue
Pacific
Smithsonian
California
Rogers
Fire Escape Terror in Pittsburgh Office Blaze
Milto Auerbach recalls being trapped on the sixth floor of the Sauer Building during a January 7, 1919 fire in downtown Pittsburgh. Celluloid films exploded and nine people died as flames and smoke consumed the offices. Auerbach and a frightened colleague were saved when a fireman reached them on a ladder. a horse electrocuted by a fallen live wire died beside them as he descended. The woman he sheltered lay unconscious for months, but Auerbach escaped unharmed.
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Headine Bunter
Merc Auerbach
Atlantic City
N. J
Milt
Sauer
Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh
Mat Auerbach
Tne
Geors
Milt Auerbach
Svensen
Gwu
First Engineers and Early Steam Trials
The notes recount Horatio Allen as the first U S steam locomotive engineer on the Stourbridge Lion trial Aug 8 1829, Peter Cooper on the Tom Thumb trial Aug 28 1830, and Nicholas W Duureil on the Best Friend of Charleston Nov 2 1830. It also mentions Kansas Governor Lyman A Humphreys issuing the first Labor Day proclamation urging Sept 1 1690 observance for a public celebration.
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United States
Horatio Allen
Stourbridge Lion
Peter Cooper
Baltimore & Chie
Nicholas W. Duereil
Charleston
Lyman A. Humphreys
Kansas
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Prairie
Lady Candidate Helva Lockwood and Early Suffrage Pioneer
Helva Lockwood of New York twice ran for U S president on the Equal Suffrage ticket. The veteran attorney helped open the U S Supreme Court to women in 1882, after years fighting for access in the District court. She championed Negro lawyers and Native American rights, remaining active until her 1917 death at eighty seven.
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Helva Lockewood
New York
United States
Lockwood
Supreme Court of the United States
Lincoln Hall
Washington
Supreme Court of the District
United States Supreme Court
Europe
Greeley and the Liberal Republicans in 1872 Election
A historical recap of Horace Greeley’s 1872 presidential bid backed by Liberal Republicans and Democrats, the Cincinnati and Baltimore conventions, Grant’s landslide, and the Civil War era political shifts including southern disenfranchisement and the late death of Greeley before results.
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Horace Greeley
New York Tribune
Grant
Greeley
Missouri
Nationa
Cincinnati
Democratic
South
Lincoln
Hiis
Jefferson Davis
Baltimore
Louisville
Feld
Tme
Maryland
Georgia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Texas
Gresley
Why trees get struck by lightning say experts
Dr. W. J. Humphreys explains in the Kansas City Star that trees with extensive root systems such as locusts or deep tap roots like pines are likelier to be struck because they are better grounded and offer less electrical resistance, making them preferred paths for lightning.
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W. J. Humphreys
Kanaas City
Just a Little File Mirthful Scottish Dialogue
Fragmented Scots dialogue depicts a father asking about the cost of a girl and a son answering with figures, revealing a domestic scene. The clipped exchange hints at humor and social bargaining within a family, preserving local tone and cadence.
Quarrel Sparks Between Mrs Henpeck and Henpeck
A heated exchange erupts as Mrs Henpeck demands if the man is a mouse. Henpeck replies that he is a man and declines help. The dialogue hints at suspicion of theft tied to illness and Doster's alleged fault.
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Mrs. Henpeck
Asuen
Henpeck
Need of the Masses Park Orator Quote
A park crowd quote questions collective needs as the speaker asks what people lack most and an onlooker replies with a blunt call for a rubber neck, capturing a tense street scene and pointed social critique.
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Army Air Force
Flore
Army
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Representative Bankhead
Alabama
John O'Conner
Rules Committee
Specker Byrres
Bankhead
John O'Connor
Rayburn
O'Connor
House Committee
John Stankin
Mississippi
Power Trust
TVA
Veterans Committee of the House
Rankin
Canper
James Mead
Baytisle
Woodine
Virginia
New Deal
Glass
Byrd
Wertero Newspaper Union
Reid Death
Black Panic
Floyd Guns
Mar Who
Hinney
Rank
Hagimae
Scott Watson
Wertern Me
Brown
Doster
Mange
Marge
Glover
Denver
Salt Laxe
Temple Square
Ernest C. Rossiter
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