London’s Dorigo and the first all steel ship
Jack London and his wife were aboard the Dorigo, a Bath Maine launched 1894 world’s first all steel ship. In World War I 1917 she was sunk by a German submarine.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1949
Page
12
Jack London and his wife were aboard the Dorigo, a Bath Maine launched 1894 world’s first all steel ship. In World War I 1917 she was sunk by a German submarine.
An American C-54 airlift plane with three crewmen crashed in flames about 53 miles northwest of Berlin in the Russian zone. The fate of the crew was undetermined as a search party began. Radio messages from other airlift planes suggested the ship exploded on impact.
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Channel lineups show afternoon to late evening programs across WNBW WTTG and WOOIC. Includes Judy Splinter Mary Kay and Johnny Roberta Quinlan News Caravan Olsen Johnson public hearing Lights Out and more with sports and news segments.
A detailed hourly programming grid lists network slots for CBS ABC NBC and others from 6:00 PM to 12:00 AM. It includes newscasts drama and mystery plays, variety shows, musicals, and kiddies hours with several repeats and cross-network titles.
The approximate bullion values of silver in United States coins at 7142 cents per troy ounce, 999 fine are: dollar 55 cents, half dollar 26 cents, quarter 13 cents, dime 5 cents.
Judge John Rice hears cases including Robert L. Miller on disorderly conduct and assorted drunks from Martinsburg Winchester Berryville and White Post with fines from 9 to 15 dollars and six months suspended for panhandling and drunk. Frank Miller Adams paid 42.75 for reckless driving.
Bluefield, W V, July 12. Union and operator negotiators resumed talks on a new southern soft coal contract. The existing pact expired June 30 and the United Mine Workers remain without a contract across the soft coal industry. Talks, ongoing since May 25, had been deadlocked. The union has not revealed its goals while standing firm on its proposals.
Kansas remained dry for 68 years until a repeal last November. Since 1937 the law applied only to intoxicating beverages, not beer. Movements to ban alcohol began with New Englanders, with a Maine Law raised in 1856 and a 1880 constitutional prohibition amendment passing 92 302 to 84 304.
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