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The World's Providence (B.I.), i says" As strange and startling thq story, of the disappejfance of eriok A.' Gowerj-tlie • telofflwie. -in and ffironaut, is thairtfornilion of appearance alive and .well, in B (India). Gower, who was a nei and subsequently editor of the Pr this city; left his newspaper desk the first public exhibition was give of j the telephone, He-contract® Professor Bell todeliver a lecture th Dut the country, and afterwards to Frenoh capital as a field for intro the telephone, Soon after reaching heamaaaed a fortune-. Having as liis thirst for discovery and invent dm direction, Gower set to work ( wonting with 1 machinery for terial nation. Ho made extensivo prepai for ascending in monstor balloon Dieppe. The balloon went out t ind the only vestige of it that wn ;ound was the basket. ,Gower was ip for lost.. He had,- not very loi jpro, married Mile. Nordica, the ionna, who, however, did not livi :ily with him, JSow' comos the jjiat on Malabar Hill, in Bombs jmished American is living in :|alth, while liia brotlior, George I jwer, is in France taking care of | feats, power, it is said, ia a end of.a handsomo.lndian pi d is the lion of a very lively Eu: cle."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2492, 5 January 1887, Page 2
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209UNKNOWN Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2492, 5 January 1887, Page 2
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