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News Lubaire Detroit
10 March 1907.  Mich

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LETTERS BY AIRSHIP

  Letters by airship is the latest novelty of the French postal system.  A short time ago a party of miitary aeronauts ascended from Meudon and steered for the war office at Paris.  When over the building the airship was brought to a halt, and a letter addressed to the minister of war, Gen. Piquart, dropped from the car.  Through their glasses the aeronauts watched the missive in its decent, and, as soon as it had been secured, turned the aerostat and made their way back to Meudon.
  A very ingenious method is emplolyed to facilitate the delivery of letters to the Islands of the Tonga group in the Pacific.  These island guarded as they are by dangerous rocks and breakers, are difficult and hazardous of near approach, and would often, were the ordinary routine of delivery employed, have to go letterless.  To obviate this the steamer that carries the mails is supplied with sky-rockets, by means of which letters are projected across the danger zone on to the shore. 
  During the winter, when St. Kilda had no direct communication with the main land, the inhabitants deposit their letters in small buoys of a peculiar shape.  These are then thrown into the sea and are by the currents carried to the mainland where they are rescued by the waves and their contents taken to the nearest postoffice.  A floating postoffice, consisting of a painted cask, is attached by chains to the rocks at the extreme point of Terra del Fuego.  To this strange office, which is under the joint protection of all nations, every passing ship sends a boat to post and collect letters.
  J.A. O'Shea, in his "Leaves from the Life of a Special Correspondent," relates how Bazaine, during the siege of Metz, sent a message through the enemy's lines.  A young Posener, who volunteered for the difficult task, had one of his teeth drawn and an artificial one, in which was a hollow, substituted.  In this was placed a quill, within which was a dispatch in cipher reduced by photography to microscopic minuteness.
  Then, disgised as a beggar, he left the town, the sentries, to give color to the ruse, discharging blank cartridge at him as he fled.  Taken prisoner by the Germans, he was brought before those in authority, to whom he told such a woeful tale of his sufferings at the hands of the French that he was released, with many expressions of condolence.  He duly executed his mission.

Herald. New York
     10 Mar 1907.

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AMERICA HAD FIRST DIRIGIBLE BALLOON

Announcement of a Flight Half a Century Ago To Be Made at Aero Club Dinner.

  Surprise as well as interest will be caused by an announcement to be made at a dinner of the Aero Club of America to be given on Thursday evening at the St. Regis' of a successful test of a dirigible balloon in this country half a century ago, long before Santos-Dumont was born.  It is known that the Brazilian aeronaut was by no means the first man to try to steer a balloon, but this is the first pulic intimation that the credit for the first attempt in this direction belongs to America.

Friday at Baodeck.
 American New York
    10 Mar. 1907

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  The amount of prizes, cups and cash offered for airships, aeroplanes, balloons, and heavier than air machines, is simply astounding, and the fact that they are so large encourages the belief that in most cases the donors of the prizes  [[the rest of the text is covered with an image]]

Citizen Brooklyn
    10 Mar 1907

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rich and handsome Reuben-forever at her side professing his affection for her, and begging for a little of that love which she knew in her heart was wholly given to Will Martin, the steady, matter-of-fact,


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