Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 429
AN AUGUST HEADING. BY JEANNE M. DEMETRE, AGE l6. (SILVER BADGE.) AN INTERESTING WORLD-EVENT BY HENRY D. SCOTT (AGE l6) {Gold Badge) On December 31st, the last day of the year 1908, WilburWright, an American aeronaut, made a flight of two hoursand nine minutes at Le Mans, France. This established… … but to-day he has no trepidation about embarking in thehuge leviathans which bear him over the ocean at a fasterrate than many railway-trains could reach. Thus, with our mile-a-minute trains and automobiles onthe land, and our Mauretanias on the sea, it is no exaggera-tion to say that man has…
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