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November 2, 1896 |
Portland (OR) Oregonian |
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November 6, 1896 |
Stockton (CA) Evening Mail |
HAS THE EARTH AN ASTEROID? / The Singular Phenomenon Observed by an Astronomer. / And Its Possible Connection With the So-Called Meteor Seen Here Recently. |
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November 16, 1896 |
Ashland (OR) Semi Weekly Tidings |
NEW STYLE AIRSHIP. / Iowa Inventor Who Believes He Has Solved the Problem. |
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November 16, 1896 |
New York (NY) World |
Angelic Vision, or Paper Balloon? / A Floating Phenomenon Seen by a Score of Citizens in Several Wayne County Villages. |
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November 17, 1896 |
Sacramento (CA) Bee |
New Flying Machine |
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November 17, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Chronicle |
He Will Fly to California / Claim of Inventor in New York |
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November 18, 1896 |
Sacramento (CA) Bee |
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November 18, 1896 |
Sacramento (CA) Daily Record-Union |
WHAT WAS IT? / An Apparition Wandering Through the Atmosphere. |
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November 18, 1896 |
Sacramento (CA) Evening Bee |
VOICES IN THE SKY. / People Declare They Heard Them and Saw a Light. / AERIAL SHIP, GHOST STORY, OR METEOR -- AS YOU LIKE. / Anyway, the Light Was Seen, and It Acted Very Strangely. -- Carmen Told Cashier Lusk of What They Claimed to have Heard and Seen -- Nothing Heard Up to Date as to What the Object Is or Whence It Came. |
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November 18, 1896 |
Salem (OR) Oregon Daily Statesman |
THE WAR BALLOON HERE / Uncle Sam and His Monster Agents. / A Superb Signalling System Started. / The Country to Lead the World in Military Aeronautics -- The Colorado Station. |
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November 18, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) The Call |
CLAIM THEY SAW A FLYING AIRSHIP / Strange Tale of Sacramento Men Not Addicted to Prevarication. / Viewed an Aerial Courser as It Passed Over the City at Night. / Declare They Heard Voices of Those Aboard Joined in Merry Chorus. |
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November 19, 1896 |
Oakland (CA) Tribune |
That Bogie in the Air. |
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November 19, 1896 |
Sacramento (CA) Bee |
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November 19, 1896 |
Sacramento (CA) Daily Record-Union |
THAT MYSTERIOUS LIGHT. / Was It an Air-Ship or a Will-o'-the-Wisp? / Stories That are Floating Around Concerning the Supposed Floating Visitor. |
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November 19, 1896 |
Sacramento (CA) Evening Bee |
AIR SHIP, OR WHAT? / Various Views Expressed Respecting Tuesday Night's Queer Phenomenon. / ALL MEN LIARS? LOOKS THAT WAY! / But Then How Is That Fluctuating White Light in the Sky to be Accounted for? / BARWICK SAYS IT CAN'T BE A METEOR. / And if Barwick Doesn't Know, the People Who Gave Their Ideas May Be Pardoned for Entertaining Rather Riotous Fancies on the Subject. |
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November 19, 1896 |
Salinas (CA) Index |
Pacific Coast News |
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November 19, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Chronicle |
STRANGE TALE OF A FLYING MACHINE. / ROMANCE FROM SACRAMENTO / SAID TO HAVE BEEN SEEN BY MANY CITIZENS. / It Looks Like a Fake of Large Size -- Mysterious Light Seen at the Capital City. |
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November 19, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) The Call |
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November 19, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) The Call |
The Sacramento story of an airship seen flying over the city at night is not wholly creditable.. |
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November 19, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) The Call |
STRANGE CRAFT OF THE SKY / Sacramento Men Describe the Airship. / Claim They Saw Its Occupants and Heard Them in Conversation. |
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November 19, 1896 |
Stockton (CA) Evening Mail |
VOICES FROM THE UPPER AIR. |
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November 20, 1896 |
Marysville (CA) Daily Appeal |
A SACRAMENTO JOKE / There Are Some People Who Still Take It Seriously. / A SUTTERITE'S SOLUTION. / Says That It Was a Lighted Chinese Lantern Attached to a Sandhill Crane -- Other Deductions. |
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ovember 20, 1896 |
Sacramento (CA) Bee |
[ad] The Mystery Solved. |
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November 20, 1896 |
Sacramento (CA) Daily Record-Union |
AIR FANCIES. |
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November 20, 1896 |
Sacramento (CA) Daily Record-Union |
HAVE YOU SEEN IT? / That Is The Question Now. / The Latest News From the Aerial Mystery. |
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November 20, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Chronicle |
MORE OF A HOAX THAN AN AIRSHIP. / THE SACRAMENTO ENIGMA. / PROFESSOR DAVIDSON A STRONG SKEPTIC. / Some Think That a Clever Kite Flyer Was Having Fun. |
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November 20, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) The Call |
THAT PECULIAR NIGHT VISITANT / Many of Sacramento's Best Citizens Certain It Was an Airship. / Brilliancy of Its Light Caused Residents to Rush to Their Windows. / Many Theories Concerning the Strange Phenomenon, but the Mystery is Yet to Be Solved. |
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November 20, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) The Call |
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November 20, 1896 |
Selma (CA) Fresno County Enterprise |
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November 21, 1896 |
Eureka (CA) Western Watchman |
Singular Phenomenon. |
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November 21, 1896 |
Sacramento (CA) Bee |
HOW THE AIR-SHIP STORY WAS RECEIVED. |
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November 21, 1896 |
Sacramento (CA) Daily Record-Union |
THAT BOGIE IN AIR. |
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November 21, 1896 |
San Andreas (CA) Calaveras Prospect |
It Was Seen Here. |
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November 21, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) The Call |
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November 21, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) The Call |
THAT AIRSHIP AGAIN. / Sacramento People Once More See Mysterious Lights Passing Over the City. |
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November 21, 1896 |
Sausalito (CA) News |
San Rafael News. |
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November 21, 1896 |
Vacaville (CA) Reporter |
Suisan. |
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November 21, 1896 |
Winnemucca (NV) Silver State |
SACRAMENTO'S WONDER. |
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November 22, 1896 |
Portland (OR) Oregonian |
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November 22, 1896 |
Salem (OR) Oregon Daily Statesman |
A Strange Airship. / Startling Visitation Over the Capital of California - Sacramentoans Sorely Puzzled About the Strange Craft |
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November 22, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Chronicle |
A LAWYER'S WORD FOR THAT AIRSHIP. / George D. Collins Says It Flies. / IT HAILS FROM OROVILLE. / Safely Housed Now Near San Francisco. / The Attorney Says He Has Seen the Queer Craft and Promises an Exhibition. |
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November 22, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) The Call |
SAW THE MYSTIC FLYING LIGHT / Oaklanders Who Believe an Airship Hovered Over Them. / Say They Saw a Dark Body Above the Gleam. / It Was Headed for San Francisco and Seemed About to Come to Earth. |
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November 23, 1896 |
Ashland (OR) Semi Weekly Tidings |
Sacramento people are speculating... |
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November 23, 1896 |
Boise (ID) Idaho Daily Statesman |
PASSING OF AN AIRSHIP / The Sacramento Mystery Said to Be Solved. / IT WAS NOT A PHANTOM / Story of the Successful Operation of a Flying Machine in California - An Attorney's Story. |
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November 23, 1896 |
Colusa (CA) Daily Sun |
Leon, who is building a flying machine in Hoboken, N.Y.. |
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November 23, 1896 |
Cottonwood (ID) Report |
SAILED AN AIR SHIP / CLAIM A MACHINE HAS BEEN INVENTED AND OPERATED. / Mysterious Client Perfected a Ship and Navigated the Ether Above Sacramento. |
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November 23, 1896 |
Emporia (KS) Daily Gazette |
Floating through the atmosphere |
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November 23, 1896 |
Eureka (CA) Daily Humboldt Standard |
The Sacramento people claim that an airship with a great electric searchlight passed over that city.. |
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November 23, 1896 |
Galveston (TX) Daily News |
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November 23, 1896 |
Laramie (WY) Daily Boomerang |
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November 23, 1896 |
Los Angeles (CA) Record |
A PRACTICAL AIRSHIP. |
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November 23, 1896 |
Marysville (CA) Semi-Weekly Appeal |
A SACRAMENTO JOKE. / There Are Some People Who Still Take It Seriously. / A Sutterite's Solution. / Says That It Was a Lighted Chinese Lantern Attached To A Sandhill Crane. / Other Deductions. |
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November 23, 1896 |
Oakland (CA) Tribune |
The Airship Story |
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November 23, 1896 |
Oakland (CA) Tribune |
FLOATING IN THE AIR. / The Mysterious Bark Is Seen by Many Reputable Oaklanders. / ALL THE STORIES COINCIDE. / It Was Plainly Visible About 7 O'clock Last Night. / MANY RUMORS ARE AFLOAT. / Attorney Collins' Story Is Believed by His Friends. |
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November 23, 1896 |
Portland (OR) Evening Telegram |
THAT MYSTERIOUS FLYING MACHINE / SAN FRANCISCO CONTINUES TO SPECULATE REGARDING IT. / The Inventory of the Wonder Still Refuses to Allow His Identity to Be Disclosed. |
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November 23, 1896 |
Portland (OR) Oregonian |
THE CALIFORNIA AIRSHIP / Floated Over Sacramento Early Last Evening. |
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November 23, 1896 |
Sacramento (CA) Bee |
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November 23, 1896 |
Sacramento (CA) Daily Record-Union |
A GENUINE AERIAL SHIP. / So Says the Inventor's Attorney. / Its Lights Seen Last Night. / Said to be an Oroville Invention. / It Was Seen Over Oakland on Saturday. / Statement of a San Francisco Lawyer. / The Inventor is His Client. / Only the Lights Could be Seen Last Night. |
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November 23, 1896 |
Sacramento (CA) Evening Bee |
HAVE WE GOT 'EM AGAIN? / Not So Much of a Ha! Ha! After All, It Appears / OR ARE PEOPLE GOING CRAZY? / The Air Ship Inventor Hovered for a While Over the Cliff House and Lighted up the Seals -- San Francisco Gone Mad, Too? |
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November 23, 1896 |
Sacramento (CA) Union |
The Airship Light |
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November 23, 1896 |
Sacramento (CA) Union |
No More Doubt / Seen at San Jose |
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November 23, 1896 |
Salem (OR) Capital Journal |
Flying Machine. |
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November 23, 1896 |
San Diego (CA) Evening Tribune |
Saw an Air-Ship. |
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November 23, 1896 |
San Diego (CA) Sun |
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November 23, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Bulletin |
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November 23, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Chronicle |
COLLINS STICKS TO HIS AIRSHIP STORY. / He Directs Suspicion to Dr. E.H. Benjamin. / THE LIGHT IS SEEN AGAIN. / MISSION PEOPLE CLAIM TO HAVE WATCHED IT. /Thousands in Sacramento Noticed a Mysterious Object in the Sky. |
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November 23, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Examiner |
QUEER THINGS YOU SEE WHEN -- / A Mysterious Wanderer of the Skies Perplexes People. / The Sea Serpent Has Drawn in His horns and His Nose Is Out of Joint. / Now an Airship Appears in the Darkened Heavens and Causes Consternation. / POLICEMENT RING FOR THE WAGON. / Stories of People Who Saw Mysterious Bright Lights Moving Among the Clouds at Night Time. |
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November 23, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Examiner |
THE RESULT OF BEER. |
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November 23, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Examiner |
IT COULD NOT BE. |
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November 23, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Examiner |
PROBABLY DUE TO LIQUOR. |
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November 23, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) The Call |
A WINGED SHIP IN THE SKY. / It Cleaves the Air With Pinions Like a Huge Condor. / ALL SACRAMENT SEES THE NEW WONDER. / The Inventor's Lawyer Describes the Machine and Says It Is Genuine. / IT WAS SEEN SOARING NEAR SAN JOSE AT MIDNIGHT. / "The Call's" Exclusive Account of the Greatest Invention of the Age Is Now Corroborated by Thousands. |
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November 23, 1896 |
San Jose (CA) Daily Mercury |
MYSTIC AIRSHIP. / Said to Have Passed Over This City Last Evening. / FLYING LIGHT MOVING EAST. / Assertions That the Strange Visitor Sailed Across the Heavens in the Direction of Mount Hamilton. |
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November 23, 1896 |
Spokane (WA) Chronicle |
IS IT A HOAX? ? San Francisco Paper Claims a Successful Air Ship Is Invented. |
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November 23, 1896 |
Spokane (WA) Daily Chronicle |
[airship over Sacramento] |
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November 23, 1896 |
Spokane (WA) Spokesman-Review |
FLEW IN AN AIRSHIP / Claims That a Machine Has Been Invented and Operated / AN ATTORNEY'S STORY / Mysterious Client Perfected a Ship and Navigated the Ether Above Sacramento / CAN CARRY FIFTEEN PEOPLE |
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November 23, 1896 |
Tacoma (WA) Daily News |
MYSTERIOUS AIR SHIP. / The Science of Navigating the Atmosphere is Said to Have Been Solved. |
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November 23, 1896 |
Tacoma (WA) Daily News |
The air ship seems at last… |
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November 23, 1896 |
Virginia City (NV) Evening Chronicle |
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November 23, 1896 |
Winnemucca (NV) Silver State |
SACRAMENTO NOT IN IT. / People in Winnemucca Saw the Airship One Day Before Sacramentans. |
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November 23, 1896 |
Woodland (CA) Daily Democrat |
Capay Cullings. |
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November 23, 1896 |
Woodland (CA) Daily Democrat |
Davisville Doings. |
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November 23, 1896 |
Woodland (CA) Daily Democrat |
AERIAL NAVIGATION. / The Airship Said to Have Been Invented by Dr. Benjamin. / Formerly Resided in Woodland and Said He Had an Invention That Would Revolutionize the World. |
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November 24, 1896 |
Astoria (OR) Daily Morning Astorian |
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November 24, 1896 |
Bakersfield (CA) Daily Californian |
One or two papers, notorious for their faking proclivities… |
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November 24, 1896 |
Boise (ID) Idaho Daily Statesman |
MYTHICAL AIR SHIP. / Story from Sacramento Undoubtedly a Fake. |
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November 24, 1896 |
Carson City (NV) Morning Appeal |
There are thousands of people in California who believe that a flying machine.. |
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November 24, 1896 |
Chico (CA) Morning Chronicle-Herald |
THAT WONDERFUL AIRSHIP. / Many Chico People say they Saw It Sunday Night. |
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November 24, 1896 |
Colusa (CA) Daily Sun |
The airship or craft seen at Scaramento returned, passing to the northeast.. |
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November 24, 1896 |
Grass Valley (CA) Daily Morning Union |
Was It an Air Ship? A Strange and Startling Object Seen Sailing Through the Skies Saturday Night. |
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November 24, 1896 |
Los Angeles (CA) Times |
Is There an Airship? |
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November 24, 1896 |
Oakland (CA) Enquirer |
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November 24, 1896 |
Oakland (CA) Times |
That owl-like airship is everywhere and must travel like the wind.. |
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November 24, 1896 |
Oakland (CA) Times |
AIR SHIPS SURE ENOUGH. / Toy Balloons Captured Out in Berkeley. |
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November 24, 1896 |
Oakland (CA) Tribune |
A CLUE AT LAST / George Carleton Knows Who Made the Mysterious Airship. / A PLEDGE TO SECRECY. / He Insists Though That the Matter Is Thoroughly Reliable. / THE TALE OF THE TEST. / No One Reports Any Flights as Occurring Last Night. |
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November 24, 1896 |
Portland (OR) Oregonian |
THE STORY A FAKE. / Lawyer Collins Does Not Believe in Sacramento Airship. |
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November 24, 1896 |
Red Bluff (CA) Daily People's Cause |
A Singular Phenomenon. / Was it an Airship That Was Seen Tuesday Night? |
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November 24, 1896 |
Sacramento (CA) Daily Record-Union |
NO AIRSHIP LAST NIGHT. / It Gave the Capital City a Very Cold Shake. / Lawyer Collins Changes His Tune a Little, But He Still Has a Client. |
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November 24, 1896 |
Sacramento (CA) Union |
Think it a Canard / Chicago Inventors Do Not Believe an Airship Has been Made |
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November 24, 1896 |
Salem (OR) Capital Journal |
PUZZLED / The People of San Francisco / Over the Monstrous Mysterious Vessel. |
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November 24, 1896 |
Salem (OR) Daily Capitol Journal |
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November 24, 1896 |
Salem (OR) Oregon Daily Statesman |
THE FLYING MACHINE. / Again Tested, This Time in a Storm -- The Inventor Unknown. |
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November 24, 1896 |
Salem (OR) Oregon Daily Statesman |
THE NEW AIR SHIP. / The Story Is Not Credited in San Francisco. |
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November 24, 1896 |
Salt Lake City (UT) Deseret Evening News |
CALIFORNIA'S AIR SHIP. |
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November 24, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Bulletin |
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November 24, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Chronicle |
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November 24, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Chronicle |
COY MR. COLLINS AND HIS AIRSHIP. / The Attorney Hedges on His Story. / NOW HE NEVER SAW THE THING / STRANGE LIGHTS OBSERVED IN THE SKY. / Plenty of Good People Who Are Sure They Have Seen the "Seraph of the Air." |
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November 24, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Examiner |
HAVE YOU SEEN IT IN THE SKY? / The Light That Never Touches Land Nor Sea. / Last Night It Made a Visit to the St. Nicholas Hotel. / An Hour Later a Detective Saw Two Men Send Up an "Airship." / AERIAL LANTERNS FROM BLAIR PARK. / The Reputable citizen All Over the Coast Is Now Telling What He Sees When He Stays Out Late. |
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November 24, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Examiner |
[cartoon] AWFUL FATE OF AN AIRSHIP |
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November 24, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) The Call |
AERIAL NAVIGATION. |
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November 24, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) The Call |
THE APPARITION OF THE AIR. / Oaklanders Say Its Frame Was Like the Body of a Bird. / ATTORNEY COLLINS' TALE SUPPORTED. / Another Lawyer Who Was Informed of the Alighting of the Flier. / MOVING LIGHTS ONCE MORE MYSTIFY THIS CITY. / Dr. Benjamin Disclaims the Invention -- Mayor Sutro's Testimony and That of Other Reputable Citizens Offered. |
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November 24, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) The Call |
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November 24, 1896 |
Santa Barbara (CA) Morning Press |
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November 24, 1896 |
Santa Cruz (CA) Sentinel |
Local Jottings. |
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November 24, 1896 |
Spokane (WA) Spokesman-Review |
PROBABLY A FAKE / SAN FRANCISCO AIRSHIP STORY IS NOT GENERALLY CREDITED. / AN INVENTOR IS NOW AT WORK. / But His Machine Has Not Reached the Flying Stage -- Discredited at Washington. / PATENT ATTORNEYS UNINFORMED. |
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November 24, 1896 |
Stockton (CA) Daily Independent |
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November 24, 1896 |
Stockton (CA) Daily Record |
NOT THE AIRSHIP. / A Rumor Becomes Current Last Night That Sacramento's Aerial Visitant Flew Over Stockton. |
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November 24, 1896 |
Stockton (CA) Daily Record |
[mysterious work going on in Oroville] |
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November 24, 1896 |
Stockton (CA) Evening Mail |
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November 24, 1896 |
Stockton (CA) Evening Mail |
Last evening a report spread on the streets that the airship was circling the heavens.. |
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November 24, 1896 |
Walla Walla (WA) Daily Statesman |
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November 24, 1896 |
Woodland (CA) Daily Democrat |
WAS IT AN AIRSHIP? / Curious Phenomenon Witnessed by Two Reputable Citizens of Woodland. / Three Bright Lights Followed by a Brilliant Train Passed Directly Over This City. |
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November 25, 1896 |
Bakersfield (CA) Daily Californian |
It is reported that the Call's flying machine… |
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November 25, 1896 |
Carson City (NV) Morning Appeal |
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November 25, 1896 |
Chico (CA) Enterprise |
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November 25, 1896 |
Chico (CA) Morning Chronicle-Herald |
SEEN AGAIN. / Many People of Chico Gaze at the Supposed Airship. |
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November 25, 1896 |
Oakland (CA) Times |
LIGHTS ALOFT. / Seen in This Vicinity Several Evenings. / By Various People at Widely Separated Points. / As Yet However No One Has Had a View of the Nocturnal Visitor. |
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November 25, 1896 |
Oakland (CA) Tribune |
YOU CAN'T MISS IT. / Just Look at the Sky and You Will See the Airship. / SO SAY THE CREDULOUS. / It Was in Red Bluff and Also Oakland Last Night. / EXPERIENCES ARE RELATED. / All Sorts of Rumors Are Floating About the Town. |
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November 25, 1896 |
Olympia (WA) Morning Olympian |
THE STORY A FAKE. / Lawyer Collins Does Not Believe in Sacramento Airship. |
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November 25, 1896 |
Portland (OR) Oregonian |
San Francisco's Latest Sensation. |
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November 25, 1896 |
Portland (OR) Telegram |
AIRSHIP TOOK A SPIN LAST NIGHT / SEEN BY PEOPLE IN THREE CALIFORNIA TOWNS. / Several People Assert That the Form of the Monster Could be Plainly Discerned. |
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November 25, 1896 |
Sacramento (CA) Daily Record-Union |
THAT AERIAL MYSTERY. / Several Persons Confident They Saw It Pass Over This City This Morning |
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November 25, 1896 |
San Bernardino (CA) Daily Sun |
THAT FLYING MACHINE. |
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November 25, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Bulletin |
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November 25, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Chronicle |
MARS AND VENUS UNDER SUSPICION. / Planets Stay Out Late at Night. / AIRSHIP HUNTERS SEE THEM. / "Aluminum" Benjamin Throws Up The Sponge. / "Conjurer" Collins Explains the Reasons Why He didn't Do What He Did. |
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November 25, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Chronicle |
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November 25, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Examiner |
AIRSHIPS NOW FLY IN FLOCKS. / So Many That They Spangle the Void Air with Light. / Moreover, the Inventor Has Changed His Legal Advisor. / His Attorney Now is W.H.H. Hart, Who Has Two Airships on One String. / HOW MR. COLLINS TALKED TOO MUCH / General Hart Advises That the Ship Be Sold for Millions to Cuba and Used to Destroy Havana. |
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November 25, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) The Call |
YE EDITORS BID VALLEJO GOOD-BY / All Enjoy a Visit to the Mare Island Navy Yard. / That Airship Comes Up as a Subject Requiring Much Discussion. |
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November 25, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) The Call |
MISSION OF THE AERIAL SHIP / Will Probably Be Used to Destroy the City of Havana. / ITS DESTINY IN GENERAL HART'S HANDS. / Interesting Details of the Powers of the Mysterious Conquerer of the Air. / VAST FORTUNES IN EXPECTANCY FOR ALL CONCERNED. / Oakland People Claim to Have Seen Intricate Evolutions in Midair -- Venus and Jupiter as Fair Deceivers. |
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November 25, 1896 |
San Jose (CA) Daily Herald |
THAT AIRSHIP. / Passed Over Red Bluff Last Evening. / Statement of Credible Witnesses as to What They Saw. |
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November 25, 1896 |
San Jose (CA) Mercury |
SAILED OVER AGAIN. / Another Visit From the Supposed Airship. / SEEN BY SEVERAL PERSONS. / It Passed Over the Electric Tower About Eleven O'Clock and Was Visible for About Fifteen Minutes. |
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November 25, 1896 |
Santa Cruz (CA) Sentinel |
Several Santa Cruzians say they saw the airship sailing over this city Tuesday evening. |
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November 25, 1896 |
Seattle (WA) Times |
THAT AIRSHIP / Again Startles the People of Red Bluff. |
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November 25, 1896 |
Stockton (CA) Daily Record |
THE AIRSHIP SEEN. / It Passed Over Stockton Last Night. / Visible for Ten Minutes -- It Shot Through Space at a Rate of Sixty Miles an Hour. |
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November 25, 1896 |
Stockton (CA) Evening Mail |
Do They See Meteors? |
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November 25, 1896 |
Stockton (CA) Evening Mail |
The airship craze has broken out at Red Bluff.. |
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November 25, 1896 |
Virginia City (NV) Evening Chronicle |
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November 25, 1896 |
Virginia City (NV) Evening Chronicle |
A LOCAL AIRSHIP. / It Was Invented by George Cummings, Lately an Unsuccessful Candidate for Lieutenant Governor -- All Right, But Needs Fixing. |
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November 26, 1896 |
Alameda (CA) Daily Argus |
THAT AIRSHIP. / Justice Morris Is Sure He Saw the Machine. |
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November 26, 1896 |
Albany (OR) Weekly Herald-Disseminator |
The flying machine craze has given some news fakir in San Francisco.. |
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November 26, 1896 |
Carson City (NV) Morning Appeal |
AIR SHIP OF WINNEMUCCA. |
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November 26, 1896 |
Chico (CA) Enterprise |
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November 26, 1896 |
Grass Valley (CA) Morning Union |
THE ALLEGED AIR SHIP. / Numerous People Saw a Strange Light in the Heavens. |
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November 26, 1896 |
Los Angeles (CA) Record |
What with mysterious airships lighting the nights in Central California.. |
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November 26, 1896 |
Los Angeles (CA) Record |
SAW THAT AIRSHIP. / Some of the Witnesses Were on Cars and Some on Skates. / Can be Been to the Best Advantage From Col. King's Observatory or From Bob Kerns'. |
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November 26, 1896 |
Los Gatos (CA) The Mail |
The New Air Ship. |
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November 26, 1896 |
Marysville (CA) Semi-Weekly Appeal |
A Plain Ordinary Fake. |
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November 26, 1896 |
McMinnville (OR) Telephone Register |
Tuesday night several of the boys about town... |
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November 26, 1896 |
McMinnville (OR) Telephone-Register |
Tuesday night several of the boys about town saw the Sacramento air ship sail over this city.. |
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November 26, 1896 |
Portland (OR) Oregonian |
Red Bluff and the Airship. |
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November 26, 1896 |
Roseburg (OR) Plaindealer |
The Mysterious Flying Machine. |
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November 26, 1896 |
Salinas (CA) Index |
Local Brevities. |
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November 26, 1896 |
Salinas (CA) Index |
Sacramento people have been somewhat worked up... |
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November 26, 1896 |
Salinas (CA) Index |
A mysterious flying machine... |
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November 26, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Chronicle |
THE AIRSHIP CRAZE FADING AWAY. / STAR-GAZING HAS CEASED. / "ALUMINUM" BENJAMIN RISES TO EXPLAIN. / Bemoans His Unfortunate Lot and Says the Reporters Are Shortening His Life. |
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November 26, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Examiner |
TIME FOR A REST. |
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November 26, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Examiner |
[editorial] |
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November 26, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) Examiner |
THE SCARECROW FLY-BY-NIGHT. / The Thunderbird preparing to Throw Eggs at Weyler. / Airships Come Not in Single Spies, but in Battalions Invading the Blue. / Plenty of Authority, but Most of It has Filtered Through Three or Four Generations. / SCIENTIFIC MEN PRONE TO SCOFF. / Every County in the State Has One or More Fiery Monsters Careening Up and Down the Universe. |
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November 26, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) The Call |
THE AIRSHIP. |
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November 26, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) The Call |
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November 26, 1896 |
San Francisco (CA) The Call |
HART STANDS BY HIS SHIP / A Confession of the Story Received from Sacramento. / THE MYSTERY AGAIN SEEN AT THE CAPITAL. / It Makes Its Appearance in the Company of the Deceptively Brilliant Venus. / JOKERS MAKE GENERAL PURCHASES OF FIRE BALLOONS. / More New and Interesting Particulars Regarding the Local Invention Given by the Ex-Attorney-General. |
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November 26, 1896 |
San Jose (CA) Mercury |
Los Gatos News. / MANY SEARCHERS FOR THE MYSTERIOUS AIRSHIP. |
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November 26, 1896 |
San Jose (CA) Mercury |
SAW THE AIRSHIP. / Description of the Mysterious Craft by a San Josean. |
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November 26, 1896 |
Santa Barbara (CA) Morning Press |
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November 26, 1896 |
Snohomish (WA) Eye |
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November 26, 1896 |
Stockton (CA) Daily Record |
THE AIR-SHIP EPIDEMIC. |
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November 26, 1896 |
Stockton (CA) Evening Mail |
Some Successful Liars. / From the Fresno Republican. |
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November 26, 1896 |
Stockton (CA) Evening Mail |
RED BLUFF HAS 'EM, TOO. / That Nocturnal Airship Crossed and Recrossed the Range. / Associated Press Dispatch to the Mail. |
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November 26, 1896 |
Stockton (CA) Evening Mail |
ANOTHER NOTE FROM THE SKY / Dated "Off the Earth, November 25th." / The Occupants of the Airship Send a Communication to the Mail -- Riding on Rain-Clouds. |
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November 26, 1896 |
Susanville (CA) Lassen Advocate |
Probably a Hoax. |
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November 26, 1896 |
Tacoma (WA) Daily News |
THE TOURIST OF THE AIR. |
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November 26, 1896 |
Vancouver (WA) Register |
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November 26, 1896 |
Visalia (CA) Tulare County Times |
The men who think they saw an airship passing over Sacramento a few nights ago.. |
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November 26, 1896 |
Visalia (CA) Tulare County Times |
THAT AIR SHIP AGAIN. / It is Seen in This County Near Tagus by a Man Who Drinks Water. |
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November 26, 1896 |
Visalia (CA) Weekly Delta |
THE AIR SHIP. / IT WAS SEEN BY VISALIANS TUESDAY EVENING. / E.O. LARKINS TELLS ABOUT THE AERIAL VISITOR. / The Inventor's Interests Now in the Hands of Ex-Attorney General Hart -- The Ship Will be Used in Destroying Havana. |
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November 26, 1896 |
Weiser (ID) Signal |
SAILED AN AIR SHIP / CLAIM A MACHINE HAS BEEN INVENTED AND OPERATED. / Mysterious Client Perfected a Ship and Navigated the Ether Above Sacramento. |
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November 27, 1896 |
Albany (OR) State Rights Democrat |
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November 27, 1896 |
Albany (OR) States Rights Democrat |
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November 27, 1896 |
Bakersfield (CA) Daily Californian |
That Air Ship. |
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November 27, 1896 |
Chelan (WA) Leader |
It is claimed… |
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November 27, 1896 |
Colfax (CA) Sentinel |
Alta. |
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November 27, 1896 |
Colfax (CA) Sentinel |
The Local News. |
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November 27, 1896 |
Colusa (CA) Daily Sun |
Nearly every town in northern California has had a visit from the aerial "what is it?" except Colusa.. |
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November 27, 1896 |
Eugene (OR) Register |
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November 27, 1896 |
Ferndale (CA) Semi-Weekly Enterprise |
Bob Roberts and Tack Francis swear they saw the airship.. |
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November 27, 1896 |
Idaho City (ID) Idaho World |
The San Francisco Chronicle of a recent date... |
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November 27, 1896 |
Medford (OR) Mail |
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November 27, 1896 |
Napa (CA) Register |
A "mysterious wanderer of the skies," as the San Francisco papers write it.. |
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November 27, 1896 |
Oakland (CA) Tribune |
The Phantom in the Air. |
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November 27, 1896 |
Red Bluff (CA) Daily People's Cause |
The air-ship craze has subsided. |
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November 27, 1896 |
Sacramento (CA) Bee |
A Coincidence Merely |
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