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Aviators Now on the Way to Reno to Fly at Race Track on November 5 and 6

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[[caption]] Aeroplane which will be used at the aviation meet in this city on November 5th and 6th"]]

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Last night Charles Sadller received a dispatch from R. A. Beldon, one of the aviators which stated that the machines had been shipped by Wells Fargo express and that two men were with it to see that it would be rushed through. These men will have it ready for a flight within six hours of its arrival in Reno.

Although the aviation meet at the race track will probably be a strong drawing factor on Saturday afternoon, the local high school students expect to get a large crowd out to Mackay field on the same afternoon to see them meet Auburn high school on the gridiron.

The visitors will arrive on number 4 tomorrow night and will practice Saturday morning at Mackay field. They are a big set of men, well drilled and capable of putting up a good article of football, according to those who have seen them in action.

The local team is confident of winning, however, and feel that they have an advantage in paying on home grounds. Coach Mayers of the university is helping the youngsters to train. The high school will hold a rally on Friday evening.
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FRED WISEMAN WILL FLY WEDNESDAY AT PETALUMA

Will Carry Passenger Money Refunded If No Flight

Aviation by Fred Wiseman of this city will be a feature of the Petaluma Food and Industrial Exposition on Wednesday. All arrangements for the flights were completed Saturday night, and the successful termination of the negotiations which have been under way for the past few days means another attractive feature for the big Petaluma show.

The flights will be made from Kenilworth Park, which was the starting place for Wiseman's successful cross-country flight from Petaluma for this city several weeks ago, and the program will begin shortly after the arrival of the excursion train from this city and the north.

Tickets will be sold under a guarantee of "flight or money refunded," and two passengers will be carried—one of them being a woman. They will be carried one at a time, however. A certain percentage of the receipts will be turned over to some charritable institution, and at a meeting between Wiseman and his manager and the Petaluma business men to be held today, the proportion of the proceeds to be thus disposed of, as well as the institution to be [[favored?]] will be [[formally?]] decided.
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FRANK MARRIOTT AND ARGYLL CAMPBELL ASSURE GRAND AVIATION MEET AT DRIVING PARK HERE

Argyll Campbell and Fred Marriott, officials of the local Aero Club, who have charge of the aviation meet at the driving park next Saturday and Sunday give assurance that the affair will be a most complete success. "It will be a great meeting," said Mr. Marriott, "and the attendance will be heavy."

James N. Radley, who drives a Bleriot monoplane, has wagered $500 with a local automobile driver, for a race around the circular track. The event will be a five-mile affair.

Businessmen are coming to the front in fine style and financial support is being given to the promoters. Radley is known to be one of the best birdmen in the business and will have other flyers here to assist him.

The meeting is so arranged that if there is no flight on Saturday tickets will be returned, which are good for Sunday and if no flight takes place on Sunday, the admission charge will be refunded.
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ALUMA ARGUS, PETALUMA. SONOMA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. WEDNE

WILL FLY TO TO SANTA ROSA OR WILL NEVER GO THERE

Says Wednesday morning's Press Democrat:

Fred J. Wiseman and his associates have established temporary quarters in this city, where they will carry on the construction of a large lot of aeroplane parts. They are having quite a bit of their woodwork turned out at the Simpson & Roberts mill under charge of Lee Patton of that establishment. Mr. Patton was with Wiseman's mechanical force some time at Petaluma.

Wiseman has the distinction of being the first and only amateur aviator in America to build and successfully fly a heavier-than-air machine of his own original design. Yet his flying at the San Francisco International meet placed him and his machine about on par with professionals. While his machine was first being assembled at the Tanforan meet, the question, "Will you try today?" was ofen asked. After his first exhibition of flying there the question was altered to "Will you fly today?"

Being asked when he would bring his air craft to this city, the local birdman replied, "I shall never bring that aeroplane to Santa Rosa by any other route that the 'air route', and if I can't fly it here from Petaluma it will never come. But I don't believe there are many people who now doubt we can perform that feat and more, too."

At San Francisco Wiseman established an official duration record of 49 minutes, double the time required for his promised Petaluma-to-Santa Rosa flight, which he has decided to make some time within the next few days.

The local boy's work has been well recognized by all the eastern magazines and aero publications, and excellent pictures appear in most of them.
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