Word: mich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oakland, Calif., for the first takeoff, and the race was on. At intervals behind him rose John W. Frost flying the Golden Eagle; Capt. W. P. Erwin flying the Dallas Spirit; J. Auggy Pedlar flying the Miss Doran (carrying with him Miss Mildred Doran, school teacher from Flint, Mich.); Goebel; and Jensen. Pabco Flyer and El Encanto crashed at the start. Soon Erwin returned with an unlucky windhole in his fuselage. Soon Griffin returned, his engine failing. Out over the blue Pacific flew Goebel, Jensen; Frost, Pedlar; and their navigators; and Pedlar's passenger...
...score naval vessels and 20 merchant ships, navy and army planes combed the Pacific. Flint, Mich., and San Francisco proclaimed public prayer for the lost flyers...
Detroit to Grand Rapids, Mich...
Died. James Oliver Curwood, 49, conservationist and famed author of many novels of the Northwest, including The Flaming Forest, The Country Beyond and A Gentleman of Courage; from blood poisoning, at Curwood Castle, near Owosso, Mich. When 17, he traveled over a thousand miles in a carriage, selling patent medicine; afterwards he studied at the University of Michigan; and then, for seven years worked on the Detroit News-Tribune, as reporter, feature writer, assistant editor and finally editor. He then devoted his time to fiction...
Died. Mrs. Wayne B. Wheeler, 51, wife of the Anti-Saloon League counsel, from burns when an oil stove exploded in their summer cottage at Shelby, Mich. Mr. Candy, 81, her father, with her at the time, died from shock when he saw the flames envelop Mrs. Wheeler...