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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1909
Page
26
London May 15 report describes a new aeroplane skirt for women designed by a London inventor with Miss Katharine Wright endorsing. The three quarter length skirt features a drawstring at the bottom to secure the garment during flight, aiming for comfort and safety aboard aerial planes.
A fragmentary diary style piece depicts a poet in a press room, fingers dancing over a typewriter as divine inspiration flows and editors interrupt with sports and technical interjections. The scene blends Parnassus imagery with newsroom banter, ending with the poet turning to his knitting.
Huntley Gordon, driving a 60 horsepower car, cut Los Angeles to Ventura in 3 hours 10 minutes, beating a 200 minute record but twice arrested along the way. He paid $140 and then $100 in fines, faced a Ventura court, and was sent south by an officer as the city weighs stricter anti record making and financing to curb the practice.
The Target contract for road improvements around the Crown Point Lowell circuit aims to transform the macadam into a boulevard for a June racing carnival. F. J. Lewis Mfg. Co. of Chicago will spend $30,000, with completion by June 9, under a $500 daily penalty for delays and 20 percent withheld until performance. More than two dozen entries loom for Buick cars, with Strang Britain and Chevrolet among drivers. General Executive Frank H. Trego led talks with manufacturers as seat sales rise and reserved spots sell out.
A Louisville event plans a major automobile race meet next month at Douglas Park in tandem with city entertainment. $1500 in prizes, a contract with Homer George as manager and referee, sanction sought from the American Automobile Association, and entries from Daytona New Orleans Vanderbuilt cup and Savannah meets.
An OCR fragment advertises cheap training in modern systems and four APAs in bookkeeping, typewriting and typography. It mentions gradual lessons, a weekly schedule, and a phantom date in 1978 with an address or contact code. The readability is limited but indicates a low cost course with disparate subjects.
Special Dispatch New York May 15 récit of a living tragedy centering on Mrs. Chas T Yorkes widow of a Chicago London traction magnate and her entangled circle. The tale follows Emilie Grigsby as Yerkes ward, a wealth of furniture and high society, a dying wife, legal battles, and a move of power between luxury rooms on Fifth Avenue and a Pugh street mansion.
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