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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1901
Page
1
John Richard Hudgin of Sheffield proposes a steamship named Yours Truly to cross from Southampton to New York in two days. The craft uses 60 feet between 14 propellers, angled entries, and electric propulsion. He predicts speed, reduced rolling, and on board phonographic entertainments.
Samuel Reinert of Shoemakerville Virginia plans a full setup for his wife’s funeral, including pallbearers and sermon text, after building a granite grave seven feet long and four by five feet for 2280 pounds of stone. The piece notes Reinert’s view of a prepared final resting place. It also reports Captain Joshua Slocum’s Spray voyage reaching New York after a 44,000 mile world circumnavigation begun in 1898, with stopovers from Cape Canaveral to Uruguay and Newport arrival in 1804.
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