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1907. June 1.
Tribune New York
18 Mar 1903

BANKER TO TAKE BALLOON TRIP.

The balloon ascension which Alfred N. Chandler, President of the Aero Club of Philadelphia, was to have made to-day at Philadelphia, has been postponed until next Saturday. When the ascension is made Mr. Chandler will be accompanied by Al [[??]] Hawley. The Philadelphia club has arranged for the construction of a balloon shed, which [[??]] is the first of its kind ever constructed in [[??]] country. It will be finished in about a month.

Tribune New York
16 Mar 1907.

WOMEN BALLOONISTS.
Some Who Have Won Distinction as Aeronauts.

A remarkable feature in the present revival of interest in ballooning is the enthusiasm with which women are taking to the new sport.

The fact is, however, that for more than a hundred years women have gone in for ballooning, and several of the fair sex have won positive distinction as aeronauts.

People who say a balloon is "no place" for a women either are not familiar with the really brilliant part women have played as balloonists, or else choose to ignore it.

English women have from the beginning been ardent aeronauts. The first balloon that ever ascended in England, in 1784, held a woman passenger, one Mrs. Sage. And the first woman to make the aerial voyage across the English Channel was another English woman, Mrs. Griffith Brewer, who performed this feat more than a hundred years after the pioneer. Mrs. Sage took her courage and her life in her hands.

Crossing the Channel one finds that a Mme. Blanchard in France displayed such masterly control of the balloon as to attract the admiring attention of the great Napoleon. In a fit of anger Napoleon actually dismissed the famous expert, Garnerin, and appointed Mme. Blanchard "directress of ballooning" in his place—an office in which she is said to have displayed consummate skill and to have justified amply the choice of her great master.

In more recent times another French woman achieved prominence by her courage and the miraculous escapes which marked her adventures. She was Mme. Durnoff. She left Calais one day in 1874, apparently expecting the wind would carry her inland. But on striking a high altitude she was caught in a contrary current blowing out to sea. Finding herself being swept over the North Sea, she released the gas, which caused the balloon to sink till it floated on the top of the water, and the poor woman had all but consigned herself to death when a Grimsby fishing smack  hove in sight and rescued her from her precarious position.

Women aeronauts one and all laugh at the armchair critic who asks if ballooning doesn't make them seasick. It amuses them when some one suggests: "But suppose it should burst?" They won't admit that it is even dangerous.

"Ballooning used to be dangerous," they will tell you, "but that was in the early days when ascensions were made with defective equipment and in ignorance of scientific principles. But when certain precautions are taken, which are applicable to all means of locomotion, ballooning is said to be perfectly safe. Of course, you mustn't go up when your barometer is falling fast, and you mustn't tie up the 'neck' of the balloon, or you will be pretty sure to come to an untimely end."

Captain H. J. Coningham, writing on this subject in "The Ladies' Field," compares ballooning with [[??]]

on the level in some portion of the [[?? - Moda]] Katahdin region, the deer can scoot through it like a streak and find all he feed they want outside the yards it that in the yards is not so plentiful."

Tom—If, as you say, Pearl is such a jewel, why don't you marry here?

Jack—I'm afraid there is a flaw in the mother-of-pearl,—Chicago News. 

Saturday at Baddeck  32
Chronicle Chicago, Ill
17 Mar-1907

France, being in alliance with   have placed her advances in mil     ing at the service of the latter.    of wonderment, too, that the    Japanese nation, so forward in    pertains to warfare by land    ingly indifferent to the possibility     bomb practice, though their    loon at Liao-Yang for reconn    have been but preliminary to    as an offensive agent.

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revolting brutality, in the S    Essen. She had been staying     of a journalist named Keina    nounced her intention of retu    land within two or three days    day afternoon she had been in    Essen with another English   ing finished their shopping, th    for home on foot. They separ    Lake, disregarding the warnin   anion, decided to take a fo    hrough the gloomy Stadtwald    of Bredeney. It was in this    from the Langenbrahm mire,    was found. Her purse, contain    was found on the body, so it    clear that robbery had not sup    tive for the crime. But there    signs that the unfortunate yo    had a fierce struggle with her    desperate grip had left distinct    arm and the print of his finger    throat, showing that he had    throttle her. She had, however,    the effect of terrible wounds o    ples. Miss Lake, who was bet    0 years of age, was the daughter    officer and resided at Sheen Park    Surrey. She was described as hav    winning manner and as being    church worker.

DAUGHTER FOR KUBELIK
Famous Violinist Is Disappoi    He Has No Son.
[Special Cablegram.]

ABBAZIA, Austria, March 16.—J
    the famous violinist, is the father    daughter, born here two weeks    day. Mother and daughter are rep    doing well.

This is Kubelik's fourth daug    he wedded Countess Czaky-Szell    ein, Hungaria, Aug. 25, 1903.

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$40.00  fine quarter-sawed golden oak Dining Table. pedestal base, extends to [[??]] 

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