Air mail test links New York and Chicago in one day
Belmont Park to Chicago test flight aims to prove a daily New York to Chicago air mail route. Curtis and Standard planes depart at 6 a m with landings in Lock Haven Cleveland and Bryan Ohio, timing 30 mph winds and 30 minute refuels. Return trip Sunday from Chicago.
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Woodrow Wilson
New York
Post Office Department
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Lock Haven
Cleveland
Bryan
Oalo
Grant Park
Edward
New York City
New York-Chicago
Postofice Department
Tang
Chinese Official Tang Hui Lung Killed in Victoria
Tang Hui Lung minister of education for China, killed outside the Chinese Club in Victoria, BC. Mah Chew, a Chinese barber, shot him with two revolvers and then killed himself. Tang had been in Washington on a secret mission for the Chinese government and had avoided San Francisco due to warnings.
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Victoria
Tang Hui Lung
China
Mah Chew
Homg
Tang
Washington
San Francisco
United States
Cripples at Meade forced into development battalions
At Camp Meade a large group of men deemed physically unfit for full military service are placed in development battalions. They suffer from flat feet weak ankles poor eyesight and other defects. Many earn civil wages while performing kitchen police and guard duties instead of combat roles.
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Camp Meadethere
Mende
Mera
Thrace refugees plan pan-Thracian congress in Athens
In Athens, over 4600 Thrace refugees met under the Union of Thrace to discuss the Greek government’s future policies. The chairman outlined a plan to address authorities and organize a pan-Thracian congress to prepare a memorial for the government.
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Athens
Thrace
Union of
Fire Mystery Damages Newport News Steamer and Wharf
Officials of the Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company investigate a mysterious blaze that damaged the steamer Newport News and destroyed the company’s offices and dockside facilities. Loss about 125000. vital parts intact. reconstruction to begin with no passenger service interruption.
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Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company
Newport News
William H. Callahan
Trafic
C O Abbott
Sea Plunge Kills Airman at Long Island Station
Walter P Talaski of Rochester New York, a student aviator at a Long Island aviation station, died when a hydroplane in which he was riding alone plummeted 300 feet into Great South Bay. Boaters reached the wreck, which lay in seven feet of water, but the body could not be extricated quickly.
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Bay Shore
Walter P Talaski
Rochester
Long Island
Great South Bay
Filer Lould
Business man dies. Jordan and family in England
Robert R Jordan a leading Washington antique dealer with stores on Seventeenth Street and F Street died after twilight at Georgetown University Hospital from typhoid fever. He was 42, lived at 1305 Thirtieth Street NW, and his wife and daughter have returned to England, with no relatives left in the United States. The hospital could not say what would be done with the body.
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Robert R Jordan
Washington
F Street
Georgetown University Hospital
Mr Jordan
Jis
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United States War Savings
Glen
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Norfolk' & Washington Co
Naval Operating
Hampton Roads
England
R. R. Jordan
Henry Fredericks
W. St. James Hotel
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ST. Louis, MO
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America
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