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...very far. Four hundred miles from the California beaches it was forced down by a groken oil pressure line?a surprising, an unfortunate accident. The PN-9 No. 1 would, of course, continue. But the watchers under the Honolulu bulletin board were suddenly amazed to the toy that delighted them stop in its course, its little light...
...Brooklyn, the tall Persian cat of one Mrs. Anna Kiekhoffer chased a mouse this way and that, around the garbage can, under the kitchen table, cornered him by the scuttlebutt; there began to toy with him in the remorseless sadistic fashion of tall Persian cats with small timid mice. Suddenly the tiny creature, deranged by terror, turned upon its tormentor like a lion, scrabbled into the cat's mouth, put its head down the cat's throat, choked it to death by choking to death within...
...rolling constantly and threatening to head down into the water while the crew worked in life belts. Even when the return journey was possible, she sailed painfully at not more than ten miles an hour over the rough sea. When the airship got home, looking like an uncomfortable inflated toy pig, a perfect landing and housing were made. The wild journey was another evidence of the wonderful airworthy qualities of these apparently fragile giants...
...uncomfortable inflated toy...
Born. To John F. A. Cecil and Mrs. Cecil (Cornelia Vanderbilt), a son, George Henry Vanderbilt (eight and one-half pounds); in Asheville, N. C. Children of tenants of Biltmore House (Mrs. Cecil's estate) gathered in English fashion to greet the hear, presented him with a toy stork, a woolly...