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1907. March 6. Wednesday at Baddeck

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Ber[[?]] B[[?]]en-Courier
5 JAN 1907

Die Motorlu[[?]]iff Studienge[[?]]ell


Hannoverscher Courier
5 Jan 1907.

Rleines Fenilleton.
Ein beuticher Erfinder einer Flugma[[ch]]ine
k. lim ben 200 000 Marf-Breis, den die Daily Mail nusießt für den der mit einem Aeroplan einen Flug von London bis Manchester ausfü[[?]]rt, tritt


Herald. City of Mexico
11 Jan 1907.

INTERESTS AREONAUTS
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[[?]] Post New York
11 Jan 1907

EVE OF FLYING MACHINES
AERIAL NAVIGATION NEAR, SAYS FRANK H. LAHM.
Public Demonstration Expected Soon From the Wright Brothers—Prediction that Their Work Will Be Accepted by the Public Before the End of the Year—International Race at St. Louis.

Scientists are expecting soon a public demonstration of the Wright brothers' flying machine, whose reported success has been a subject of continued controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. Frank H. Lahm, an American resident of Paris, who will be the foreign representative of the Aero Club of America in Europe this year and is in New York to take passage on La Savoie for Havre, believes that this trial will settle once and for all the actual value of the Wright brothers' invention.
Mr. Lamhm is not given to fads nor has he wasted much time in idle theory. He is a conservative American business man, representing one of our largest industries abroad. At the same time, he is an enthusiastic balloonist. While at home in Ohio on a visit, he called upon the Wrights at Dayton, and talked with bankers, business and professional men of that city who have seen the Wright brothers operate their invention at will in the air, and make both long and short flights. Mr. Lahm declared without reservation his belief in the success of flying machines, that their permanent use is assured, and that the public must take them seriously. 
"The public can hardly realize what the Wright brothers have accomplished," said Mr. Lahm. "I am so thoroughly convinced of their results, that I predict the flying machine will be accepted publicly before the end of the year. Not many years will elapse before it has become practicable. It may seem premature to talk about aerial lines of transportation, but the near future holds surprises in store in that direction.
"I was already convinced before I went to Dayton that the Wrights had accomplished everything they claimed to have done, but I had never interviewed anyone who had seen them in actual flight. During my recent visit I talked with a number of witnesses, and received full confirmation of the most enthusiastic reports sent to me. Persons have asked me why, if the Wrights have flown, do they not make a public demonstration. That they have flown, and claim the longest continuous flight-twenty-four miles made in a circuit around a large field. Such is the truth [[?]]

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