Aviator Charles Niles Inspires Friedman to Quit Death-Defying Shows
Max Friedman, once promoter of perilous aviators, vowed to give up managing dangerous air feats after the death of Charles Niles in 1915. Niles perished during a memorial flight in Japan after a career in Panama Exposition displays and prior losses including Masson, Davis, Cook, and Beachey.
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Charles Niles
Wisconsin
Max Friedman
Quincy
Friedman
Didier Masson
Jack Davis
Weldon Cook
Lincoln Beachey
Masson
Mexico
Carranza
Davis
Chicago
Coloado
Niles
Japan
Imperial
Tokio
Imperial Aero Club
Pacific
Lotus
Mfe
Imperial Palace
Commodore Perry
Newcomb
East
Berlin to seek 12 billion mark war credit
Advices from Berlin report a Reichstag bill will be presented to request a new war credit of 12,000,000,000 marks. The motion, received via Amsterdam and London, signals potential expansion of wartime financing. The proposal focuses on sustaining military operations and related expenditures.
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Amsterdam
London
Berlin
Reichstag
Aviator Niles Tops All Japan Exhibition Flights
Charlie Niles, under Max Friedman, captivated Japan at the Panama expo, winning county praise and royal honors from Baron Sakatani, Tokio’s mayor, and the emperor. After a fatal fall in Michigan last summer, Friedman vowed to quit aviation exhibits, calling it blood money.
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Charlie Niles
Lincoln Beachy
Max Friedman
Japan Commission
Friedman
Niles
Japan
Baron Sakatani
Tokio
Michigan
Fifty Thousand Traveled Upper Mississippi River This Season
The season closed with the steamboat Keokuk’s last Sunday voyage to Keokuk. Capt. A. H. Pennoyer says over 50,000 travelers used the upper Mississippi trips from Quincy to Keokuk and beyond. St. Paul, Quincy and Dubuque boats carried tourists on multi city itineraries up to 1,400 miles, with hundreds on daily river journeys.
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Mississippi River
Keokuk
A. H. Pennoyer
Diamond Joe” Streckfus Line
Quincy
Burlington
Davenport
St. Louis
St. Paul
Wonderland
Dubuque
Upper River
State Rooms
Quincy Steamboat Excursions Delight River Town Visitors
Throughout last summer Quincy saw daily excursion boats from nearby river towns, ferrying up to 2000 passengers to Washington park and other amusements. The G W Hill ran moonlight trips, with none of the major river accidents, occasional sand-bar delays aside. River men view the Mississippi as a scenic wonderland offering unique travel opportunities.
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G. W. Hill
Sidney
Louisiana
Hannibal
Quincy
Keokuk
Quincey
Washington Park
Mississippi River
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Hodgdon
Hodgdon Dairy Co
Home Loan Co
Mercantile Bldg
Salko
Reed
St. Louis- St. Paul
Seana
Clough-Reihm CO
18Th and Broadway
Buick
Hl. A. Geise
Adams County
Maine Street
W. N. Reynolds & Sons
Hampshire St
Toelsysten
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