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THE MYSTERY AIRSHIP LOG - November 27th, 1896 through December 3rd, 1896
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THE MYSTERY AIRSHIP LOG

NOVEMBER 27TH, 1896 - DECEMBER 3rd, 1896


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DATE, PERIODICAL AND HEADLINE

  November 27, 1896 Sacramento (CA) Union    
  November 27, 1896 Salubria (ID) Citizen According to telegraphic dispatches,...    
  November 27, 1896 San Diego (CA) Sun    
  November 27, 1896 San Francisco (CA) Chronicle GRISER SMASHES UP HIS AIRSHIP. / YEARS OF TOIL FOR NOTHING. / WAS A MACHINE THAT WOULD NOT FLY. / Recent Reports Were Discouraging to His Hopes and He Abandoned the Scheme.    
  November 27, 1896 San Francisco (CA) Chronicle KITE TAKEN FOR AN AIRSHIP. / A.H. Babcock Causes a Little Excitement in Oakland.    
  November 27, 1896 San Francisco (CA) Chronicle THE AIRSHIP HOAX.    
  November 27, 1896 San Francisco (CA) The Call AS LARGE AS A WHALE / W.H.H. Hart Tells of the Length of the Airship. / ANOTHER WILL BE BUILT. / It Is to Be Used to Destroy the City of Havana for the Junta. / TEN MILLIONS IS DEMANDED. / No Trouble to Navigate the Sky Now That a Perfect Storage Battery Is Invented.    
  November 27, 1896 San Francisco (CA) The Call Viewed the Airship.    
  November 27, 1896 San Jose (CA) Daily Herald AIRSHIP "BUSTED". Proprietor Dow Gives the Whole Snap Away. / Sent Up Lighted Balloons At Night. / The True Facts in regard to the Airships. / The Snap Given Away.  
  November 27, 1896 San Jose (CA) Mercury SAW MOVING LIGHTS. / Another Visit From the Stranger of the Skies. / MANY PEOPLE SAW THE SIGHT. / All of the Firm Belief That the Airship Passed Over San Jose Last Night.  
  November 27, 1896 Selma (CA) Fresno County Enterprise The airship has appeared at Visalia and at Fresno..    
  November 27, 1896 Shoshone (ID) Journal THAT FLYING SHIP. / Conflicting Stories... in San Francisco    
  November 27, 1896 Stockton (CA) Daily Record FIRST APPEARED HERE. / The Airship an Old Friend of Stockton's and Was Taken for a Meteor Weeks Ago.    
  November 27, 1896 Stockton (CA) Evening Mail THREE STRANGE VISITORS. / Who Possibly Came From the Planet Mars. / Seen on a Country Road by Col. H.C. Shaw and a Companion -- They Boarded the Airship.    
  November 27, 1896 Tacoma (WA) Daily Ledger WHAT WAS IT? / Wonderful Apparition Seen Over Tacoma.    
  November 27, 1896 Virginia City (NV) Evening Chronicle    
  November 27, 1896 Visalia (CA) Daily Times Out Again Last Night.    
  November 27, 1896 Wilbur (WA) Register CALLED AN AIR SHIP / CLAIM A MACHINE HAS BEEN INVENTED AND OPERATED. / Mysterious Client Perfected a Ship and Navigated the Ether Above Sacramento.    
  November 27, 1896 Winnemucca (NV) Daily Silver State This and That.    
  November 27, 1896 Woodland (CA) Daily Democrat The supposed airship may be one of Flammarion's shooting stars…  
  November 27, 1896 Yreka (CA) Journal The Air Ship Mystery.    
  November 27, 1896 Yuba City (CA) Sutter County Farmer Nicolaus News.    
  November 28, 1896 (CA) Contra Costa Gazette HAS THE AIRSHIP BEEN CONCEALED IN THIS COUNTY?    
  November 28, 1896 (CA) Contra Costa Gazette The recent reports from Sacramento and other points that an air ship with strange lights had been seen..    
  November 28, 1896 Antioch (CA) Ledger A Strange Phantom.  
  November 28, 1896 Arcata (CA) Union [snowy owls in the area]    
  November 28, 1896 Arcata (CA) Union Superstitious people and religious cranks are just now giving themselves much concern about a meteor, or some light in the air..    
  November 28, 1896 Auburn (CA) Placer Herald The Flying Machine.  
  November 28, 1896 Auburn (CA) Placer Herald The foolkiller is getting the drop on a great many aeronauts this year…  
  November 28, 1896 Colusa (CA) Daily Sun Who saw the airship last night?    
  November 28, 1896 Dayton (NV) Lyon County Times Brief Mention.    
  November 28, 1896 Downieville (CA) Mountain Messenger Considerable excitement has been created down below, by a supposed airship..  
  November 28, 1896 Emmett (ID) Index Dispatches from San Francisco state...    
  November 28, 1896 Eureka (CA) Daily Humboldt Standard THE AIR SHIP.    
  November 28, 1896 Eureka (CA) Daily Humboldt Times IS THE MYSTERY SOLVED? / Has the Noted Air-Ship Paid a Visit to Our City. / STORY OF AN INTERESTED PARTY. / One of Eureka's Residents Claims to be on the Inside -- Can It be True?    
  November 28, 1896 Eureka (CA) Western Watchman That Mysterious March.    
  November 28, 1896 Folsom (CA) Weekly Telegraph A Fake.    
  November 28, 1896 Los Angeles (CA) Record    
  November 28, 1896 Monterey (CA) Cypress TOWN TOPICS  
  November 28, 1896 Nevada City (CA) Daily Transcript The Airship at Grass Valley.    
  November 28, 1896 New York (NY) Journal SURELY AN AIRSHIP.    
  November 28, 1896 Oakland (CA) Times AIRSHIP LITERATURE. / Librarian Peterson Makes a List of Books and Articles.    
  November 28, 1896 Redwood City (CA) Times-Gazette MENLO PARK MATTERS.  
  November 28, 1896 Sacramento (CA) Bee The Air Ship Heard From    
  November 28, 1896 Sacramento (CA) Bee STILL THEY COME. / The Air Ship Said to Have Voyaged from Near Oak Park to Arno.  
  November 28, 1896 Sacramento (CA) Evening Bee SHIP AT OTHER PLACES. / Some Suggest Our Whisky. Some Take It Seriously. / SAW THE LIGHT, BUT NOT THE FLAPPING WINGS. / In One Town the People Get Mad When You Mention It -- Fresno Envious of the Quality of Our Beverage -- The Story Spreads Beyond the State's Border.  
  November 28, 1896 San Andreas (CA) Calaveras Prospect THE FLYING MACHINE AND THE PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE. / Two Great Inventions of the Age Just Perfected.    
  November 28, 1896 San Andreas (CA) Calaveras Prospect THE AIR SHIP.  
  November 28, 1896 San Francisco (CA) Chronicle THAT IMMORTAL PHANTASY / A Small Additional Crop from the Old Field of Airship Yarns.    
  November 28, 1896 San Francisco (CA) Examiner [editorial]    
  November 28, 1896 San Francisco (CA) Examiner WITH HERE AND THERE A GLEAM OF FAITH.    
  November 28, 1896 San Francisco (CA) The Call    
  November 28, 1896 San Francisco (CA) The Call IT FLITTED OVER SAN JOSE. / Aerial Lights Cross the Vision of Prominent Residents. / THEIR APPEARANCE MOST VIVIDLY DESCRIBED. / General Hart Takes Some of His Professional Friends Into His Confidence. / ATTACHES A BALLOON TO THE WARSHIP OF THE AIR. / The Public May Be Given an Aerial View of the Great Mystery of the Day at a Prearranged Time and Place.    
  November 28, 1896 San Jose (CA) Daily Mercury LIGHTS MOVED FAST / Prof. H.B. Worcester and Party Saw the Supposed Airship. / SEEMED INTELLIGENTLY GUIDED. / Traveled With Great Velocity in Apparently a Regulated Manner -- Disappeared on the Horizon.    
  November 28, 1896 Santa Cruz (CA) Sentinel The Airship.    
  November 28, 1896 Santa Rosa (CA) Sonoma Democrat AN ECCENTRIC STAR. / It Stirs the Curiosity and Credibility of Our Quiet Citizens.    
  November 28, 1896 Sausalito (CA) News San Rafael News. (From the Marin Journal.)    
  November 28, 1896 Seattle (WA) Post-Intelligencer SHIP FOR THE AIR. / A SEATTLE INVENTOR CLAIMS TO HAVE PERFECTED ONE.    
  November 28, 1896 Sonoma (CA) Index-Tribune County Gleanings.    
  November 28, 1896 Tacoma (WA) Daily News The Tourist of the Air.    
  November 28, 1896 Tacoma (WA) News The Tourist of the Air.    
  November 28, 1896 The Dalles (OR) Times Mountaineer CALIFORNIA'S FAKE.    
  November 28, 1896 The Dalles (OR) Times-Mountaineer CALIFORNIA'S FAKE.    
  November 28, 1896 The Dalles (OR) Times-Mountaineer Last Saturday night the people of Sacrament discovered what they thought to be an airship..    
  November 28, 1896 Vacaville (CA) Reporter Wonder if the airship described in the Sacramento Bee is in any way connected with the advance agent of prosperity..    
  November 28, 1896 Vacaville (CA) Reporter Suisan.    
  November 28, 1896 Visalia (CA) Daily Times AIRSHIPPERY. / Some of the Queer Imaginings of Queer People.    
  November 28, 1896 Winnemucca (NV) Silver State The Airship Again.    
  November 28, 1896 Woodland (CA) Daily Democrat MORE AIRSHIP STORIES. / A Well-Known Lawyer Sees an Electric Light in the Skies. / If It Was a Mechanical Contrivance a Man on the Ground Could Not Have Operated It.    
  November 28, 1896 Yreka (CA) Siskiyou News [ad] Look Out for the Air Ship    
  November 28, 1896 Yreka (CA) Siskiyou News J.D. Gagnon is sojourning in San Francisco and will no doubt be able to see the airship..    
  November 29, 1896 Boise (ID) Idaho Daily Statesman The latest story about California's airship..    
  November 29, 1896 Eureka (CA) Daily Humboldt Times Has It Visited Arcata? / A Strange Light Observed by Residents of That Place. / Was It the Airship?    
  November 29, 1896 Grass Valley (CA) Morning Union BUILT AN AIRSHIP. / A Haywards Chicken Rancher as an Inventor.    
  November 29, 1896 Portland (OR) Oregonian THE KITE AS A MOTOR.    
  November 29, 1896 Portland (OR) Oregonian An Oakland Airship.    
  November 29, 1896 Portland (OR) Oregonian THE LAIR OF THE FAKER    
  November 29, 1896 Salinas (CA) Daily Sentinel Two Airships.    
  November 29, 1896 San Francisco (CA) Chronicle STILL ANOTHER INVENTOR. / THIS TIME IT IS A HAYWARDS MAN. / Says He Has Solved the Airship Problem, and Takes a Ride.    
  November 29, 1896 San Francisco (CA) The Call    
  November 29, 1896 San Francisco (CA) The Call [ad]    
  November 29, 1896 San Francisco (CA) The Call THREE AIRSHIPS, SAYS HART. / Over His Signature the Attorney Tels of His Client. / THE WHY AND HOW OF THE MYSTIC LIGHTS. / And Again the Brilliant Shafts Are Sighted Speeding Above the Bay Counties. / INTELLIGENT TESTIMONY OF STAID CITIZENS. / Spectators in Hayward Insist on the Aeronautic Theory -- Professor Cross, the Linguist, Adds His Evidence.    
  November 29, 1896 San Francisco (CA) The Call HART'S INVENTOR HAS THREE AERIAL FLIERS. / A Full Statement Made Over the Signature of the Attorney for the Alleged Cuban Filibuster.    
  November 29, 1896 San Jose (CA) Daily Mercury SAW THE AIRSHIP. / PROFESSOR M.S. CROSS TELLS OF THE STRANGE MOVING LIGHT. / The Dean is Positive What He Saw Could Not Have Been a Balloon.    
  November 29, 1896 Santa Barbara (CA) Morning Press THE CALL'S AIRSHIP.    
  November 29, 1896 Santa Cruz (CA) Sentinel Santa Cruzians are said to have seen the airship..    
  November 30, 1896 Bakersfield (CA) Californian THE AIRSHIP. / Bakersfield People Who Are Sure They Saw It.    
  November 30, 1896 Bakersfield (CA) Daily Californian The Call continues to add to its list…  
  November 30, 1896 Colusa (CA) Daily Sun The wild hurrah about airships was followed by the football craze..    
  November 30, 1896 Eureka (CA) Daily Humboldt Standard Local Odds and Ends.    
  November 30, 1896 Eureka (CA) Daily Humboldt Standard It has been proven almost beyond a doubt that the air ship entered Abe Abrahamson's store room..    
  November 30, 1896 Eureka (CA) Daily Humboldt Standard Sellers' Air-Ship.    
  November 30, 1896 Fresno (CA) Semi-Weekly Expositor THEY ALL SAW THE AIRSHIP / General Impression That the Thing is a Fake / A Hot-Air Balloon with a Bengal Light and Slow Fuse / Suspicion that Certain Newspaper "Fakirs" are Sending Up the Balloon For Sensational Purposes in Various Counties  
  November 30, 1896 Jacksonville (OR) Democratic Times Sacramento people have been somewhat worked up...    
  November 30, 1896 Oakland (CA) Tribune EITHER MARS OR VENUS. / Professor Burckhalter Tells of the "Airship's" Light. / HE LAUGHS AT THE TALES. / The Astronomers, He Said, Have Not Noted Anything Unusual. / WHAT THE WATCHERS SAW. / He Says the Present Theories Are All Pure Fakes.  
  November 30, 1896 Olympia (WA) Morning Olympian AN AIR SHIP CLAIMANT.    
  November 30, 1896 Roseburg (OR) Plaindealer COINCIDENTS.    
  November 30, 1896 Sacramento (CA) Bee Another Slap at Sacramento. / (From the Marysville Appeal.)    
  November 30, 1896 Sacramento (CA) Union Nunan and the Airship    
  November 30, 1896 Sacramento (CA) Union Another Version    
  November 30, 1896 San Francisco (CA) Examiner This Ought to Settle It. / From the Hanford "Sentinel."    
  November 30, 1896 San Francisco (CA) The Call AN AERIAL ELOPEMENT.    
  November 30, 1896 San Francisco (CA) The Call HART'S ROUTE CONFIRMED / Aerial Lights Seen Flitting in San Fernando Valley. / SIMILAR PHEMONENON SEEN IN ALAMEDA. / Brief Review of the Remarkable Developments of the Past Week. / SAGE REFLECTIONS MADE BY MAYOR DAVIE. / Sees No Cause for Surprise in the Claim that Aerial Navigation is Possible.    
  November 30, 1896 Seattle (WA) Post-Intelligencer Aerial Navigation Solved.    
  November 30, 1896 Seattle (WA) Times A REAL AIRSHIP.    
  November 30, 1896 Woodland (CA) Daily Democrat DAVISVILLE DOINGS / That Mysterious Light.    
  December 1, 1896 Bakersfield (CA) Daily Californian THE AIRSHIP. / Still More People Who Are Sure They Saw It.    
  December 1, 1896 Colusa (CA) Daily Sun OBSERVATIONS.    
  December 1, 1896 Eureka (CA) Daily Humboldt Standard    
  December 1, 1896 Ferndale (CA) Semi-Weekly Enterprise Was It An Air-Ship?    
  December 1, 1896 Los Angeles (CA) Daily Times THE AIRSHIP ROMANCE. / PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY HAVE SEEN THE REAL THING. / Some of Them Mistake Mars and Venus for the Flying-machine. A Los Angeles Man Engages in Airship Building.    
  December 1, 1896 Los Angeles (CA) Times THAT AIRSHIP AGAIN.    
  December 1, 1896 Marysville (CA) Daily Democrat The Air Is Full of Them.  
  December 1, 1896 Oakland (CA) Tribune SAYS HE SAW IT. / Cass Gilson Gives a Graphic Description of the Airship. / HE WATCHED IT MOVING. / It Was About 1500 Feet Above the Level Ground. / SIDE PROPELLERS WORKED. / It Was Cigar Shaped With a Tail Like a Fish's.  
  December 1, 1896 Portland (OR) Evening Telegram ACROSS THE OCEAN IN A BIG AIRSHIP / VERACIOUS NARRATIVE OF A SAN JOSE ELECTRICIAN. / He Sailed to Honolulu and Back Again, All in a Single Night.    
  December 1, 1896 Portland (OR) Telegram THAT CALIFORNIA AIRSHIP. / HAS BEEN FLOATING OVER THE CITY OF TACOMA. / It Slid Over Portland in the Fog, and Was Not Visible to the Naked Eye.    
  December 1, 1896 Red Bluff (CA) Daily People's Cause Wonder where the air-ship landed?    
  December 1, 1896 Riverside (CA) Enterprise A TRIAL TRIP. / Constable Westerfield Sails Over San Bernardino in His New Airship.    
  December 1, 1896 Sacramento (CA) Union General Hart is Here    
  December 1, 1896 San Bernardino (CA) Daily Times-Index THE WONDER OF WONDERS / Mysterious Air-Ship Appears Over San Bernardino. / SEEN BY MANY WITNESSES / [ ] of the Air An Assured Success [ ] Turns and Sails Away in [ ] Direction of Riverside County.    
  December 1, 1896 San Diego (CA) Evening Tribune Gen. W.H.H. Hart, ex-Attorney-General for California..    
  December 1, 1896 San Diego (CA) Sun A bright light was thrown landward from the ocean last night..    
  December 1, 1896 San Francisco (CA) Examiner [editorial]    
  December 1, 1896 San Francisco (CA) The Call SAILED OVER LOS ANGELES / Three Strange Lights Seen Above the City of Angels. / BACK ON THEIR COURSE / Hart Tell Why His Client's Airship Takes to Great Altitudes. / IS MUCH EASIER TO OPERATE / The Attorney Gives an Account of a Wonderful Electric Storage Battery.    
  December 1, 1896 San Jose (CA) Daily Mercury YARN OF THE AIR. / Sensational Story Told by an Electrician. / CLAIMS HE RODE IN THE SHIP. / Startling Assertion That He Passed Over the Hawaiian Islands and Returned in Two Days.    
  December 1, 1896 Seattle (WA) Times The inventor of the new airship…    
  December 1, 1896 Stockton (CA) Evening Mail Champion airship story of the season.    
  December 1, 1896 Tacoma (WA) Daily News THE FLYING MACHINE / Champion Airship Story of the Season. / A NIGHT'S RIDE TO HONOLULU / Distance is Marked by Degrees, Not Miles -- Motive Power Neither Steam or Electricity.    
  December 1, 1896 Woodland (CA) Daily Democrat Venus is very luminous these December evenings…  
  December 2, 1896 Bakersfield (CA) Daily Californian [Horen]    
  December 2, 1896 Boise (ID) Idaho Daily Statesman TOURING AMONG THE STARS / ANOTHER AIRSHIP STORY FROM CALIFORNIA. / Brother Patentee Given a Two Day's Cruise Through Space - Says He Saw the Lights at Honolulu - Vague Description.    
  December 2, 1896 Colusa (CA) Daily Sun Saw the Airship.    
  December 2, 1896 Eureka (CA) Daily Humboldt Standard The two mysteries of the day -- the air ship and the white owls -- ..    
  December 2, 1896 Eureka (CA) Daily Humboldt Times An Airship.    
  December 2, 1896 Grass Valley (CA) Morning Union Whatever became of the airship?…    
  December 2, 1896 Marshfield (OR) Coos Bay Gazette The story of the flying machine, which is supposed to have been hovering over San Francisco at night..    
  December 2, 1896 Marshfield (OR) Coos Bay News    
  December 2, 1896 Marysville (CA) Daily Appeal OROVILLE. / FLYNN'S FAIRY TALES.    
  December 2, 1896 Marysville (CA) Daily Democrat BEATS THE AIRSHIP. / A Shower of Birds Drops From a Clear Sky In Louisiana.  
  December 2, 1896 Oakland (CA) Times And now a man has been found who took a trip on the airship..    
  December 2, 1896 Portland (OR) Evening Telegram AN AURORA BOREALIS LAST NIGHT / SMALL EDITION OF ONE FURNISHED BY "SPARKING" TROLLEYS. / Pretty Electrical Display in the East Side Suburbs -- Wasn't an Airship Searchlight.    
  December 2, 1896 Portland (OR) Oregonian NOT AN AIRSHIP. / But a Celestial Visitor Shooting Across the Sky.    
  December 2, 1896 Portland (OR) Oregonian THE AIRSHIP AGAIN. / San Jose Man Tells the Natives a Startling Tale.    
  December 2, 1896 Portland (OR) Telegram YOU MAY NOT BELIEVE THIS / AN EX-PORTLANDER WRITES ABOUT THE AIRSHIP. / Says It is Operated by a Combination of Compressed Air and Electricity.    
  December 2, 1896 Riverside (CA) Daily Press THE AIR SHIP / Sailed Over Box Springs Last Night / Who Saw It?    
  December 2, 1896 Sacramento (CA) Bee    
  December 2, 1896 Sacramento (CA) Bee Navigating the Air / An Immense Capital    
  December 2, 1896 Sacramento (CA) Daily Record-Union HE SAW IT. / A Michigan Bar Boy's Air-Ship Contribution.  
  December 2, 1896 Sacramento (CA) Union Probably a Tule Fire    
  December 2, 1896 Salinas (CA) Daily Journal It is a wonder that the airship should create so much comment on the part of the press..    
  December 2, 1896 San Diego (CA) Sun [Oregon inventor goes insane]    
  December 2, 1896 San Diego (CA) Sun San Diego had a bright light on its own account Monday night..    
  December 2, 1896 San Francisco (CA) Chronicle Not an Airship / Only a Meteor that Plunged into Sea    
  December 2, 1896 San Francisco (CA) Chronicle A New One from San Jose    
  December 2, 1896 San Francisco (CA) Examiner PIERCING THE VOID, OR ON TO HONOLULU. / A Story in One Chapter Narrating the Marvelous Adventures of John Horen. / Being a Faithful Account of a Trip by Night Amongst the Clouds and Over the Sea. / TO WHICH IS ADDED A SEQUEL. / The Last Making It Clear That It Remains Easier to Talk Than to Fly, Even in California.    
  December 2, 1896 San Francisco (CA) The Call [ad]    
  December 2, 1896 San Francisco (CA) The Call SAW THE AIRSHIP AT CLOSE RANGE / One of the Most Startling Tales Yet Told of the Mystery. / DESCRIBED IT IN DETAIL / Seen by a Son of Professor Gilson of the Normal Training School. / STANFORD BOYS IN THE SWIM / Treated to a View of What They Believe Was the Light of the Midair Cruiser.    
  December 2, 1896 San Francisco (CA) The Call THE AIRSHIP.    
  December 2, 1896 San Jose (CA) Daily Herald A PRACTICAL JOKER. / John Horen and His Voyage on an Airship. / His Wife Says He Made the Trip While in Bed Sound Asleep.  
  December 2, 1896 Santa Barbara (CA) Morning Press The airship has found local adherance at the San Julian Rancho..    
  December 2, 1896 Spokane (WA) Chronicle ONE MORE AIR SHIP YARN. / San Jose Man Tells a Real Nice Fairy Story.    
  December 2, 1896 Spokane (WA) Spokesman-Review OVER TO HONOLULU BY AIRSHIP. / Story of John Heron, an Electrician of San Francisco.    
  December 3, 1896 Albany (OR) Weekly Herald-Disseminator    
  December 3, 1896 Albany (OR) Weekly Herald-Disseminator The fake news man in San Francisco seems to have attained the acme of terrestrial glory..    
  December 3, 1896 Anaheim (CA) Weekly Gazette THAT AIRSHIP. / AWFUL EFFECT OF THANKSGIVING TURKEY UPON AN INSANE EDITOR. / From the Santa Ana Blade.    
  December 3, 1896 Bakersfield (CA) Daily Californian There are about 200 people in this town…    
  December 3, 1896 Bakersfield (CA) Daily Californian Most of the airships that are now being watched of nights…    
  December 3, 1896 Carson City (NV) Morning Appeal    
  December 3, 1896 Colusa (CA) Daily Sun COUNTY NEWS.    
  December 3, 1896 Eureka (CA) Daily Humboldt Standard Ferndale News.    
  December 3, 1896 Fresno (CA) Semi-Weekly Expositor IS THERE AN AIR SHIP? / An Old Friend of the Supposed Inventor Talks. / HE CLAIMS THE FLYING MACHINE EXISTS. / The World Will Know of It in a Few Weeks -- A San Jose Citizen Claims to Have Been Aboard the Aerial Craft. / From Tuesday's Daily.    
  December 3, 1896 Lakeview (OR) Lake County Examiner [ad] Take the first airship that passes your place..    
  December 3, 1896 Lakeview (OR) Lake County Examiner One would imagine from the airships that are sailing around over Sacramento..    
  December 3, 1896 Marysville (CA) Daily Democrat STRANGE LIGHTS IN THE SKY. / Some Marysville People Who Have Witnessed Them.  
  December 3, 1896 Marysville (CA) Daily Democrat SAW THE AIRSHIP. / A Sutter County Farmer Who Gazed Upon the Winged Puzzle.  
  December 3, 1896 Marysville (CA) Semi-Weekly Appeal Down in Los Angeles they have it even worse than in Sacramento. ..  
  December 3, 1896 Marysville (CA) Semi-Weekly Appeal NEWS FROM NEARBY TOWNS.  
  December 3, 1896 Merced (CA) Star THE AIRSHIP.    
  December 3, 1896 National City (CA) News LOCAL MENTION.    
  December 3, 1896 National City (CA) News As might have been expected from such a machine as the alleged successful airship..    
  December 3, 1896 Nevada City (CA) Daily Transcript Got 'Em Bad.    
  December 3, 1896 Oakland (CA) Tribune The air ship is still exploited in some of the San Francisco papers..    
  December 3, 1896 Reno (NV) Evening Gazette The Airship. / It Was Seen Floating About Southwest of Town Last Night    
  December 3, 1896 Riverside (CA) Daily Enterprise INDIO'S NEW AIRSHIP / Will Set Sail in Almost One Month. / A Trip Will Be Made From a Desert Point to Riverside Via San Jacinto and Murrieta.    
  December 3, 1896 Salinas (CA) Index That Airship Again.    
  December 3, 1896 Salinas (CA) Index That Air Ship Again.    
  December 3, 1896 Salinas (CA) Index [Horen]    
  December 3, 1896 San Francisco (CA) Examiner Too Much Airship. / An Oregon Man's Mind Is Deranged by the Stories and He Is Sent to an Asylum.    
  December 3, 1896 San Francisco (CA) The Call THE AIRSHIP DESCRIBED BY FISHERMEN / Say That It Landed on the Beach Near Pacific Grove. / SEEN AT SHORT RANGE. / The Men Assert That They Conversed With the Three Aeronauts. / ABOUT SIXTY FEET IN LENGTH / The "Call" Correspondents Will Visit the Place to-Day for Corroborative Evidence.    
  December 3, 1896 Santa Barbara (CA) Morning Press AIRSHIPS.    
  December 3, 1896 Santa Cruz (CA) Sentinel Aerial navigation is to be discouraged..    
  December 3, 1896 Seattle (WA) Times A REAL AIRSHIP.    
  December 3, 1896 Stockton (CA) Evening Mail Members-elect of the Legislature are hopeful that the airship omen may be significant..    
  December 3, 1896 Visalia (CA) Daily Times [ad] The Airship Has Been Seen in Tulare..    
  December 3, 1896 Visalia (CA) Daily Times Several parties were out with fields glasses last night..    
  December 3, 1896 Visalia (CA) Tulare County Times Tulare Locals (from Friday's Daily Times)    
  December 3, 1896 Visalia (CA) Tulare County Times THE AIR SHIP AT TULARE. / Many Reputable Citizens See the Nocturnal Wanderer.    
  December 3, 1896 Visalia (CA) Tulare County Times CAUGHT AT LAST. / Mayor Craycroft of Fresno Captures an Airship. / The Queer Craft Found Stranded in a Weed Patch at Madera. / A Complete Explanation of the Strange Lights Seen in the Heavens the Past Two Weeks. / (From Monday's Daily Times.)    
  December 3, 1896 Visalia (CA) Tulare County Times Strange lights are being seen in different portion of the State at night by large numbers of people..    
  December 3, 1896 Visalia (CA) Tulare County Times ANOTHER "AIRSHIP" CAUGHT. / It Resembled Clearly the Article Captured Near Fresno. / (From Tuesday's Daily Times.)    






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