Plane crosses channel with nine aboard in 25 minutes
A large British airplane carried nine passengers across the channel on a windy day in 25 minutes. The travelers said they enjoyed the flight and felt as safe as in a railway coach.
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1918
Page
5
A large British airplane carried nine passengers across the channel on a windy day in 25 minutes. The travelers said they enjoyed the flight and felt as safe as in a railway coach.
English girls now work as stable boys riding horses at Newmarket track. They are seen daily guiding race horses training, riding astride and earning praise from trainers.
In Paris during a bombardment a YMCA secretary sheltering in a mud filled dugout stepped out as a shell landed close by. A soldier then reminded him of a carriage sign warning it is dangerous to stick your head outside. The sign was readposted in the dugout.
Irene Salvino and Mary Pesce, both eight, canvassed their neighborhood on Sunday and collected 4.05 dollars, turning the money over to The Star for the Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund.
Five bandits robbed the Argo state bank near Chicago and fled with 25000 dollars. Police pursued in rifles ready, believing the getaway car sped toward Joliet. Details of the holdup remain unclear.
A dense list of marriages with names and residences across Seattle Beattie Tacoma and other locales plus births and deaths in September. Entries include Thomas Wilson and Beattie Ellen Drake at Beattie John Carroll and Margaret Weyrich Seattle and many others with ages and locations. Also includes divorces filed and deaths in local hotels and homes.
Frank Marco, of Puget Sound, was asphyxiated Thursday afternoon by a gas leak while preparing coffee. His roommate Giley Dinello, also overcome, is in improved condition at the city hospital Friday.
Dyspeptic stomachs crave relief through a bisulated magnesia internal bath. Physicians cite excess acid as the cause and recommend a teaspoonful in water before each meal to neutralize acidity, ease digestion, and curb sourness, gas, and heartburn. Bisulated magnesia is non laxative and safe in powder or tablet form.
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