Padre Hubbard Reports Terrifying Volcano Flight Over Aniakchak
Father Bernard J. Hubbard describes a near disaster during a Santa Clara University relief flight above Aniakchak, Alaska. The crater’s shifting center and new pits smoke as the plane dodges collapse while natives pray for safety on the Holy Cross mission.
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Santa “Clara
Calif
Aniakchak
Bernard
J. Hubbard
Alaska
Santa Clara’ University
Harry Blunt
Father Hubbard
Queen of Angels
Blow Not Kill Terrier After Fateful Blow
In St Louis a fox terrier named Babe fell ill during a heat wave. Mr and Mrs Otto Walkenhorst called police. An officer struck Babe on the head and her body lay under a carpet. The next morning she was lively and recovered, prompting the owners to say the blow revived her.
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St. Louis
Babe
Otto Walkenhorst
Frogs and Tadpoles Reported After Local Storm
Residents describe pools filling with live amphibians during a recent shower in Columbia Pennsylvania. Observers collected rain water containing frogs and tadpoles and delivered samples to the Columbia News office.
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Columbia
The
Columbia News
Duck with Steel Trap Seen Flying Over Beaver Creek
A wild mallard duck with a steel trap on its leg was seen flying over Beaver Creek near Downingtown Pennsylvania. The injured bird appears unable to land and escapes further human handling.
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Harrisburg
Beaver Creek
Downingtown
Unsinkable boat invention tested by French naval officers
A 25 foot model of an unsinkable craft built of sheet steel weighed 1520 pounds and with 50 hull holes still remained navigable after load tests. Joseph Chartrain Clermont Ferrand refused to reveal methods while Admiral Fortant and others observed. The tests explored weight, hull space effects and potential naval and merchant uses.
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Vichy
Allier
Joseph Chartrain - Clermont- Ferrand
Admiral Fortant
Aeronautics ‘Commission
Gros
Esteva
Mayor Forty Years Fortes Danville Leader Wooding’s Long Run
Captain Harry Wooding, Civil War veteran and longtime Confederate cavalry officer, marks his fortieth year as mayor of Danville Virginia. First elected in 1892 under President Cleveland, he has served without interruption. He is eighty seven and reports no medical bills in forty years.
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Harry Wooding
Danville
Captain Wooding
Cleveland
Riding Reds East St. Louis Freight Passengers
Railroad men in East St. Louis estimate about 150 men daily pass through on freight trains labeled reds or underslung pullmans. Most travel west in search of work.
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East St. Louis
Inl
Ob Sinclair the Sugar Daddy of Broadway Falls From Grace
Empire upstate native Ob Sinclair, once a dairy fortune and Wall Street star, rises in New York as a famed sugar daddy to Mirabel Moneytoes. He sustains lavish parties, gifts, and a glittering world, yet betrayal by Mirabel ends his romance with her and leaves him adrift, still chasing the thrill of his title. Letty Leigh and the six photos on her dresser frame his lingering past and unresolved longing.
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Obidiah Sinclair
Letty Leigh
Empire
New York
Ol Sinclair
Metropolis
Wall Street
Broadway
Sugar Daddy
Angel
Mirabel Moneytoes
Ob Sinclair
Coney Island
Sinclair
Ole
Mirabel
Mirabel -Moneytoes
America
Mne
le Wenture
Gvernisht
Fittle- Mirabel
Theo
Gle Sinclair
Miss Letty
Leigh
Manchester Guardian reports police stance on a curious scene
A Manchester suburb scene shows a policeman speaking to several boys as he stands with hands apart. The narrator recalls thinking the law overzealous and notes the officer described a creature with funny-colored scales, noting its size.
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Manchester
Manchester Guardian
Army “battle wagon” speeds 60 mph with turret guns
The United States army debuts a three man armored car described as the battle wagon. It features a light turret with two machine guns and a low profile able to traverse rough ground at high speed.
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United States Army
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