Our boys; what they can do and how to do it (1893)
Stoddart, William, [from old catalog] comp · New York, Hunt & Eaton; Cincinnati, Cranston & Curts · leaf 17
he must begin as an apprentice—are small.Promotion above the rating of a petty officer is impossible.There are five grades of apprentices. The boy enlists as athird-class apprentice. He may then, as he acquires profi-ciency, be promoted to second and first class apprentice and totwo grades of… … BALLOONS LOST AT SEA. ON the 7th of January, 1785, a little more than a yearafter the Montgolfier brothers distinguished themselvesby the invention of air-balloons, Blanchard, accompanied byDr. Jeffries, succeeded in crossing the English Channel, Thiswas for a long time the only fortunate attempt…
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