Sensational High Flying Captures Early Aviation Feats
The article describes the allure of high flying as aviators rise in spirals to great heights then dive tests. Brookins breaks the world record by reaching 6,200 feet at Atlantic City, with a 56 minute ascent and eight minute descent. Monoplanes like the Rheims Lathem display dramatic ascents to 5,540 feet. Captain Dickson Drexel and others are noted for skill in aerial maneuvers.
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London
Earth
Aeria F
Brookins
Atlantic City
Wright
Rheims
Latham
Morane
Bournemouth
Dickson
Vol
Drexel
Bourney Mouth
Hobble skirt origin traced to American roots and satire
A humorous note argues the hobble skirt did not originate in France but in the United States via Horace Greeley and his green umbrella. It jokes about New York men opposing hobble skirts near the Flatiron Building and parades for woman suffrage being hindered by the style.
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New York
France
Horace Greeley
Mr. Greeley
America
Flatiron
Paris Surgeon Proposes Electric Amputation Method
A French professor, D Arsonval, proposes painless high frequency electric currents to cause limbs to fall away with no cutting. He cites animal tests where temperatures rise without pain and where stumps heal without complications. He notes some parts burned while animals showed no distress.
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Paris
D’arsonval
Naked Swiss colony at Waidberg seeks natural living
In Zurich region a small group named Lienbluftheim lives openly naked or minimally clothed to honor nature. Residents, including men women and children, follow a daily routine of sunrise exercises, open-air baths, sunning, simple meals, and twice daily meals, aiming for health and simplicity.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Waidberg
J. P. Muller
Dansh
Viegtian
Herr Muller
Carl Glock
Waidbergers
Waldberger
Waidberger
Katzensee
Election Widow Page Shows Local News And Notices
Local items describe injuries at a mine, church sermons, visits, moving, schooling, and farm life. Notices include Bellevue Coal Company claims, nonresident divorce suit, and court deadlines in Sullivan County Indiana with dates in 1910.
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Bellevue Coal Company
Sullivan Circuit Court
Joe T. Akin
Sullivan
Indiana
Arthur E. Debaun
Commissioner Sale of Real Estate in Sullivan County Indiana
Sullivan County Indiana commissioner in case 14177 Milligan vs Crow offers private sale of 38 acres plus portions totaling 26 acres in section 15 township 8 north range 11 west at his Sullivan office. Cash bids accepted until 2:00 p m December 17 1910.
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Eiveret A. Lassiter
Walter F. Wood
Sullivan Circuit
Everet A. Lassiter
Indiana
Sullivan County
Arthur BE. Debaun
Sullivan Circuit Court
Virginia N. Milligan
Wilbur C. Crow
Section
Township 8
Range
Sullivan
Said County
Baby Drowns In Bucket In Sapulpa Oklahoma
Mrs T B Scobey wife of a Frisco brakeman found her year old child had fallen head first into a bucket of water and drowned the tragedy leaves her mentally troubled authorities report the incident occurred in Sapulpa Oklahoma.
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Sapulpa
Okla
T. B. Scobey
Frisco
Ham Sandwich Mine Blessed by South Africa Discovery
Macon News reports on the discovery of a new diamond field in South Africa and imagines a hypothetical ham sandwich mine near Macon for local children to work in, expressing exaggerated pleasure at the prospect.
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South Africa
Macon
Macon News
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