Balloon Voyage and Battle Above Versailles
A dramatic account of a balloon voyage over Paris and Versailles with a crew including Frank N Page and Henriot as they evade pursuing forces and Uhlans. The unstable ascent, gunfire, ballast drops, and a rope failure lead to a crash nearly costing lives amid a perilous air duel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Root
Chaney
Kessel
France
Fay
Nemy
Frank N. Page
Ian
Ami
Hen
Page
Versailles
Ifearlot
Boeing Army
Henriot
Bane
Uhlana
Germany
Glently
Ballant
Enriot
Hot
Ring Found in Whitefish by Toledo Fisherman
Giles Busby, a Toledo fishmonger, finds a diamond ring hidden inside a whitefish. Julia Lennox of Chicago confirms ownership. the ring originally belonged to her fiancé in 1869 and was lost in 1871 on a Pullman car near the St Lawrence river. Lennox pays Busby a $100 reward for honesty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago News
Giles Busby
Toledo
Gy. A. B
Chicago
Busby
Julia A. Lennox
Lennox Place
Ihs
Bennett
Mr. Lennox
Lennox
St. Lawrence River
Montreal
Lawrence
Man Gives Up Damp Seat For Old Lady
A Boston Post reader recalls a scene on an open streetcar where a public school boy in a drill cap yields his dry seat to an umbrella carrying elderly woman. He had sat there to keep it dry, saying he kept it dry by sitting on it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Younes
Sir Walter
Ashington Street
Sir Walter Ralech
Queen Elizabeth
Boston Post
Edwin Booth
van Bilea
Albany
Albany Journal
Pierce
Yoeeoe
Golden Medical
Parlor Anecdotes and Notices From Various Pages
A collage of short items and anecdotes references autograph pranks, a church pulpit swap joke, a San Francisco druggist praising St Jacobs Oil, superstition about feathers and birds, a Baltimore cemetery sexton cured by St Jacobs Oil, a Moxie rights fight noted with doctors and professors, Omaha Type Foundry news, Ignatius Donnelly Shakespeare Bacon book update, and a brief elderly New tonville resident report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick Murray
Sexton St
Patrick's Cemetery
Baltimore
St. Jacobs Oil
Omaha
Chicago
Ignatius Donnelly
Hannah R. la Forrest
Newtonville
Mass
Lightning Strikes this Time Among Our Own People
Excitement in Pleasants County as May Louisiana Lottery drawing reveals Ticket No. 15766 won the Capital Prize of 150000, with one tenth held by Deer Lick residents. Names include A Fruny and others from Letart Deer Lick School House Run Parkeraburrummer Parkersburg figures. Next drawing June 14 offers 300000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fount Pleasant
W. Va
Register
Jones
Deer Lick
A. Fruny
First City Bank
Pomeroy
Ohio
Charles
Andrew Click
Nathan Sayre
Lafe Roush
Thad, Bush
George Howell
P. Shields
H. Woodward
Jonas Friend
Ned
Frank Higgins
T. A Prichard
Parkeraburrummer
Bert Sayre
Dan Sayre
Homer Varian
W. Higgins
Letart
This County
School House Run
Jackson County
Parkersburg
Also Mentioned on This Page
Uhlan
Hal
Anak Uaa
Ely
Daeorapit
Novaary
Tollie
John Carrick
San Francisco Chronicle
W. H. McAlister
Pacific Coast Agency
Star Tobacco
Front Street
San Francisco
Cal
Artara
United States
Carter
Scott
Knights of Old
Dr. Dix
Trinity Church
New York
Hanscom
Oshkosh
Wis
Cole
Queen Victoria
Mrs. Thurber
Nick
Castoria
Ashe
Miss
Henry Irving
Southampton
Zang
Ben Johnson
Louis Ragger & Co
Washington, DC
Isaac Thompson
Anson
McCook
J. DM. Suites & CO
Fhofrietonm
Rene
Ile Beans
St. Lesis
Beltzer Health
Pris
Couns
Pacificmang
ST. Louis
Omaha Type Foundry
Omaha, Neb
Bena
Ideal M
New Haven
Cons
der A.V. Banes
Peats
St. Joseph
Missouri
A. V. Banes
Joseph Gillotts
Chichester
Chichester Chemical CO
Madises Square
Phiinda
Drucelste
Emer Ettefara
Kidder
Tomance
Bantford
tohnatoRe
Sam Ris
Circular Free, Co
Hox
Neb
de. J. Stephens, Petanon
DH. F. KB. Golley
Milwaukee, Wis
Wizkio Oil Company
Chiceap
SOHN
Davis’ Rons
Bend
Davenport
Iowa
Abex
Stewart Nealing
Tallard Gall
Gata Vauue Arms Co
New Law
Ksdrece Porter
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