San Francisco: Heavy wind spoils efforts to send twenty-five balloons away in race at Panama Fair. One gets started but a big hole is torn in the side and with the aeronaut it drops into the bay. New York: Dr. Bernhard Dernberg, whose ...See moreSan Francisco: Heavy wind spoils efforts to send twenty-five balloons away in race at Panama Fair. One gets started but a big hole is torn in the side and with the aeronaut it drops into the bay. New York: Dr. Bernhard Dernberg, whose comments on the Lusitania brought a storm of criticism, sails for Germany. Forth Worth, Texas: Floods from the Trinity River sweep lower part of Fort Worth, spread over wide section, inundate 600 homes and render 2,000 people homeless. Chicago: Big car strike ties up transportation in Chicago for three days. Crowds treat whole matter as holiday affair and walk to work, ride in improvised jitney buses or fill railroad trains so full that some find places on the engines. New York: Lucile, Lady Duff Gordon, designs novel costume for Hearst-Selig News Pictorial to illustrate trend of summer styles. Gales Ferry, Conn: Oarsmen of Yale crews gather for final practice before regatta with Harvard. Rome, Italy: Monster crowds gather in the streets of Rome and march about shouting for the government's action in declaring war on Hungary. Pictures made by Staff Photographer A.E. Wallace. Liverpool, England: Steamer Nebraskan, American ship torpedoed by German submarine, goes into dry dock in Liverpool where big hole in her side is exposed to view. Richard City, Tenn: Twenty-six tons of dynamite is fired in quarry at Richard City raising hundreds of tons of rock into the air. New York: Children of public schools gather at soldiers' and sailors' monument in Flag Day celebration. Written by
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