Racing Car Girls Take Aim at Speed Records
The racing car girl era unfolds as Miss Dahlgren Miss Wetherill and Miss Thornton plan high speed duels aiming to smash records and push women into prominent auto racing roles. Aimed at speed triumphs the group seeks 1000 mile hour feats with each driver at the wheel and a personal mechanic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Man
Miss Dahlgren
Miss Wetherill
Mary McArthur
National Federation of Women Workers of England
Sheepshead Bay
New York
America
Miss Thornton
Stockbridge
Was Charles XII a Woman The Sex of a Famous King Questioned
The article reports Ernest Aurell a Stockholm born former university instructor now in New York presenting a study claiming Charles XII of Sweden was a woman. It cites exhumations in Sweden and various historians noting features hair and lack of beard while detailing his life including flight to Turkey and disguise as a woman to survive.
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Elizabeth
Charles XII
Ernest Aurell
University of Stockholm
New York City
Aurell
Gustavus Adolphus
Charles
Voltaire
Charles XI
Prince Hardy
Sweden
Poltava
Turkey
Demotila
Austria
Bavaria
Palatinate
Westphalia
Mecklenburg
Stralsund
Frederikshall
Largest Radium Producer in Europe Cited by Austrian Writer
The Austrian government says the largest European producer of radium yielded 2014 milligrams of radium salts in 1911 and 1698 milligrams of radium element in 1913. Production for 1914 is not yet known, with efforts to raise output in 1915 and 1914 likely not exceeding past years. The note adds there may be as many as 240 methods of preparing potatoes.
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American Automobile Association
Middle West
England
Woman’s Legion
Devil Dahlgren
Massachusetts Highways Commission
George Turnure, Jr
Dare-Devil Dahlgren
Eric B. Dahlgren
John Dahlgren
Joseph Drexel
Katherine Dahlgren
Frances
Thornton
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