El Paso Times · 29 December 1913

CP-1913-005

HOLY LAND NATIVES SCARED.

Vedrines’ Aeroplane, First They’d Seen, Caused Consternation.

By the Associated Press

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Transcribed from the clipping

Jaffa, Palestine, Dec. 28. — Jules Vedrines, the French aviator, passed over this port on his way to Cairo. His appearance caused consternation among the inhabitants, most of whom were ignorant of the existence of flying machines.

How this transcription was made

Read from the scan at 2.6x; the excerpt is the entire item, which is bounded by ornamental rules. The clipping carries no masthead, no folio and no page number, so the newspaper rests on the hand-typed slide label alone. The day is supported without being printed: the dateline is “Jaffa, Palestine, Dec. 28.”, which a 29 December paper carries in the ordinary way. THE YEAR IS NOT PRINTED ON THE CLIPPING. The label’s 1913 fits the one externally checkable fact on the page, Jules Védrines’s Paris–Cairo flight, which was flown in the closing days of 1913 — but that is corroboration from general knowledge and not something read off the scan. THE NEWSPAPER IS NEW TO THIS ARCHIVE. This archive holds two other El Paso titles, a different paper and its successor, and this one is neither; it must not be folded into either on the strength of the shared city. “Aeroplane” and the unaccented “Vedrines” are as printed.

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