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...Hughes. Next came a Chinese proverb in heavy type: "One picture is worth 10,000 words" (at the present speed of transmission each picture is about the equivalent of 600 words-at 7c. a word, press rate, $42). Pictures of Oxford winning a relay race at Cambridge, of a steamship wreck on the Tweed River, of Queen Mother Alexandra, of Premier Stanley Baldwin, of Owen D. Young, of Ambassador Kellogg, of the Prince of Wales, were also transmitted. The man principally responsible for the new radiograph is Captain Richard H. Ranger, who devised the means of sending uniform impulses...
Peter Pan. It is ever so long since one could go to Never-Never Land without taking a real steamship to get there. A great many children have grown up in the meantime. But perhaps it is just as well that the interim was a long one, for, inevitably, Never-Never Land has changed...
Died. Lady Mary Booth, 42, wife of Sir Alfred Booth, former Chairman of the Cunard Steamship Line; at Stamford, Conn,, after a short illness...
...arguments" of dirigible enthusiasts were met by dirigible non-enthusiasts and "steamship men" in this wise...
Even if a dirigible can beat the steamship in speed, it is so much more subject to the influence of head winds, that travelers may prefer the somewhat slower speed, but greater regularity and hotel-like comfort, of a Cunarder...