Ford builds giant pulverized coal boilers in Detroit plant
In a Detroit Ford plant eight massive boilers are being installed to showcase pulverized coal power. Cars were loaded into the boiler setting and hoisted to the second floor for testing. The system feeds coal in suspension, with all handling done by mechanical means, promising high efficiency and no hand contact from mine to ash. Master Walter Ray Payne celebrated his eighth birthday with a party for friends Kenneth Smith and others.
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Detroit
Mich
Boiilers
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Henry Ford
West Virginia
Kentucky
Walter Ray
Payne
G. A. “Payne
Ayne
Kenneth Smith
Fred Kennedy
Allen Hale Haggard
Billie ‘Plumer
Glenn “Curto
Phillip, Lish
Richard Bailey
Teddy Boardman
Geo. White
Paul Peck
Red Tape and a Missing Navy Waste Basket Tale
A Navy tale shows red tape stretching from a missing waste basket to a campus of paperwork. A captain seeks a replacement while a navigator along a Pacific coast cruiser complicates the audit with endless endorsements. The final payoff, a new basket, arrives with the old one’s torn papers creating a symbol of Bureaucratic delay.
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Navy Yard
O. K
Washington
Elx
Jones
Early American Aviation Roots from Balloon Experiments
The piece traces 19th century air power, noting Wright and Curtiss as individuals while arguing national aviation strength extends back sixty years. It recounts Professor Lowe’s Balloon of 1801, his controversial pay, and Union Army aerostats with crude tech, hot air inflation, and dangerous operations over Confederate lines.
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Wright
Curtiss
Washington ~Inn
Lowe
Capitol
Young Lowe
Johnny Red
Sic Semper
Europe
Confederate Pilyon
Editor’s Wry Reply On Out-of-town Circulation
San Diego’s Frank C. Spalding recounts a Missouri editor’s reply to an advertiser’s concern about out-of-town circulation. He says the ad goes to Kansas City Chicago St Louis Detroit and sometimes to hell, illustrating skeptical humor about reach.
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Frank C. Spalding
San Diego
Missouri
OWS
Kansas City
Chicago
St.Louis
Detroit
San Diego Union
Prisoner Glad After Guilty Verdict In Moon Shiner Case
The trial of a notorious old moon shiner ends with a guilty verdict and a 36 year sentence. The judge admonishes the defendant for his long record while the prisoner remains stoic and quips that the judge was not angry at him. The article then notes the push for standardized, uniform accounting in education funded by financiers.
Relative’s Rich Donation Delayed by Patience Worn Thin
A puzzled observer jokes that waiting for a wealthy relative’s windfall tests patience beyond endurance. The quip hints at social expectations surrounding sudden fortune and the strain it places on relatives awaiting a promised gift.
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East Railroad Ave
Gallup, New Mexico
THE
Gallup Cleaners
Wurm
Dia
Num
Agency For
Edigon
2Nd and
Coal Avenue
Christ
Sterling and
United States Navy
AIR Credit
Klim
Gallup
Davis Cash & Carry
Groceteria Merrell-Soule Sales Corporation
R.R. St. Flagstaff
Merry Christmas
J. M. Jacobson
E. Parke Sellard
Post Office
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