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...Paris, a group of French stamp collectors posted an offer of one million francs ($40,000). for an envelope that held a message to U. S. citizens signed by George Washington and was the sole cargo of an experimental balloon flight on Jan. 9, 1793 from a Philadelphia prison courtyard to Woodbury, N. J. where Balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard delivered it to Woodbury's Mayor. The letter, of which the whereabouts are unknown, is called the "first letter ever sent by air mail...
...Terminal, Brooklyn, last week she had made the 10,000 mi. voyage in 25 days 19 hr., knocking a day off the previous record. By being first ship in port with 266,000 cases of new Arabian dates she added 1½? per Ib. to the value of her cargo, making the crates in her hold worth...
...from Hoboken to New Orleans in six days for half the rail fare. The Shipping Board handed down a last-minute decision while Seatrain New York was fidgeting in New York Harbor: Seatrain Lines Inc. will be suffered a six-month trial period. The vessel cleared South with a cargo of cotton manufacturing machinery, paper, beans, steel, olive oil, whale oil, soap grease, soap stock, cement...
Other New Yorkers who happened to be near the East River at 135th St. one morning last week told of seeing the 44-year-old excursion steamer Observation push off from her pier with the usual cargo of workmen going to their jobs on a new-penitentiary on an island in the river. Next instant, deafened by a water-boiling explosion, they saw a great cloud of smoke spouting a horrid spray of bodies, fragments of wood and metal, fragments of bodies over a 200-yard area of land and water...
With window glass and chinaware, barbed wire and cutlery, fox traps, shotguns, steel work and woolen goods, out of Liverpool steamed S. S. Pennyworth (Dalgliesh Line) for the three-month port of Churchill on Hudson Bay. It was a test cargo, first shipment of goods into Canada's upper interior through the trade mouth that she opened last year to disgorge her Saskatchewan. Alberta and Manitoba wheat to European markets (TIME, Sept. 14). Last year's two test shipments of wheat out of Churchill, totaling 500,000 bushels, were wholly successful. The S. S. Farnsworth, first test ship...