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Nome-Long Island. Parker Dresser Cramer (who last year attempted a non-stop flight from Rockford, 111., his home town, to Stockholm, Sweden, but was forced down in Greenland) last week took off from Nome, Alaska, in a light Cessna cabin monoplane with a 110 h. p. Warner-Scarab motor. In seven days, with stops along a route which led over Alaska, Canada, Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleveland, he put his ship down on Long Island, N. Y. Flying time...
Sixty-one years ago a 17-year-old boy at Dexter Park, Chicago, pitched for a baseball team called the "Forest Citys" of Rockford, Ill. and defeated an eastern team, the "Nationals," by the then not so peculiar score of 29 to 23. The boy's name was Albert G. Spalding...
Lightweight: Sammy Mandell, Rockford...
Bert R. J. Hassell and Parker D. Cramer, Rockford, Ill., to Sweden flyers, long lost in Greenland, last week arrived by boat in Denmark, enthusiastic about Greenland as a way station for trans-Atlantic flyers, full of plans for another attempt...
Illinois. A twisting, strangely swooping tornado lacerated Rockford, Ill. Throughout the city, buildings were damaged. The Rockford Cabinet Company collapsed with 150 workers. Thirty-four were injured, eleven killed and four missing, presumably under tons of debris. Estimated property damage...