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THE PROVIDENCE JOURNAL
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1911     3
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CAMERA VIEWS OF VAST CROWD AT NARRAGANSETT PARK WELCOME THE AVIATORS.
[[2 images: the first a four+ column (1-4) wide photograph of packed audience at a race track, the second similar three column (5-7) photo but closer-up, many people wearing boaters, two ladies standing on top of something, their full dress visible]]

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CITY HILLS BLACK WITH SKY-GAZERS
Thousands Throng Eminences to Watch Birdmen's Flights.
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AVIATORS' EASE ASTOUNDS
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OVINGTON GETTING READY FOR START
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the bleacherites and the grandstand patrons, as well as several of the players, were apt to forget that a ball game was in progress. Stampedes to the rear of the grandstand and to the top of the bleachers were frequent as some wag would should out: "Here they come."
Everybody would run to the best possible place, stare for a few seconds and then come back muttering.

  When the machine finally did come, after about four of these futile rushes up and back, some refused to be fooled again and stayed in th[[eir?]] seats. To those who could not resist [[torn paper]] [[?]]
the spectacle afforded [[?]]one.

  Head-on toward the grounds at first, the aeroplane cruising swiftly downward was a beautiful sight and gave ample evidence of its  airworthiness, descending evenly toward the race track grounds and then dropping out of sight.

CLOSE TO BASEBALL PARK
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EARLE L. OVINGTON AND HIS WIFE
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light company's whistle blew the same signals.

  At 3:42 Ovington was sighted by Woonsocket people, flying rapidly in a southwesterly direction. To the thousands who wee at Depot square, Court street bridge and Clinton Oval, the aviator and his machine looked like a large bird or a huge "darning needle," but people in the Fairmount district of Woonsocket and North Smithfield and in Blackstone saw the aviator flying over them and about 1000 feet in the air and heard the whirring of the machinery for a few minutes after which the birdman disappeared in a cloud

MILLING DODGES WOONSOCKET.
  Milling, who started about an hour later, was seen at South Uxbridge from the top of the Blackstone Cotton Company's mill in North Smithfield just over
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