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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1351, 31 January 1912, Page 5

A real estate broker in a recent American lawsuit testified that experts arc Uniformly agreed that the west side of a city street is more valuable as property than the east side. If this is 'u fact, is it so because shippers, inakb their rounds mainly in tho afternoon and like it to be on tho shady side of the street? Another attempt to cross the Atlantic By airship is under way. Mr. • Melvin Vamman, the engineer of the ill-fated America balloon, is building a new balloon, the "Akron." Ons difficulty it seoras, in mnmujing a dirigible is to 'keep it from ascending too high. "If wp can only keep down," says Mr. Vaniman "our problem will bo solved." Water ballast s to be used for this purpose in tho now bahoon instead of the equilibrator, the finally unsuccessful device used on the America.