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1907 - March 6. Wednesday at Baodeck

Free Journal New Your 14 Jan 1907
See Wellman's Airship.
PARIS.—Walter Wallman's enlarged balloon in which he hopes to reach the North Pole and which is now inflated to test the envelope, was exhibited to French aeronauts in Galerie de Machines, Santos-Dumont, Deutsch and others being present.

NY Telegraph New York 14 Jan 1907
WOULD YOU BE A BALLOON PILOT?
You Will Have to Be a Wise Person to Get a License, Says the Aero Club.

MR. BISHOP'S GUESTS CONCERNED

List of Five Prizes for International Air Race Announced at Metropolitan Club Luncheon.

Balloon pilots' licenses was one of the most important subjects discussed by the members of the Aero Club of America at the luncheon which their president, Cortlandt Field Bishop, gave them at the Metropolitan Club yesterday afternoon, and their anxiety in this regard shows not only their beautiful and firm belief that before long we'll think nothing extraordinary of taking a ride in an airship when we want an outing, but demonstrates their patriotism and deep concern for the safety and well being of the American amusement-seeking public.

It was agreed at the luncheon, shortly after the cognac, that ere long when paterfamilias wants to show the wife and the kids a good time on his day off his first impulse will be to go ballooning, and naturally there will be balloons as readily procurable as cabs and automobiles are now to be chartered by the hour. Therefore it is most natural that the Aero Club, which, its members are convinced, will have charge of granting of pilots' licenses, should be assured of the temperate habits, the sound mental and physical condition of the men who will steer the big gas bags, and they are going to be sure certain that only men of this description will be granted pilots' licenses.

Needs Much Knowledge.

It would be a pretty come-to-pass if a pilot without the necessary familiarity with air currents and the relative rarity of the different strata of the atmosphere should steer an aerial picnic party--say

Dispatch Columbus O. 14 Jan - 1907
People on Mars Have Long Used Airships, Says Scientist
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PROF PERCIVAL LOWELL
DOME OF THE LOWELL OBSERVATORY, FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ.

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THE 24 INCH TELESCOPE

Prof. Percival Lowell, the Martian scholar, who has been studying the planet for many years, announces some remarkable conclusions.

The people on Mars travel in airships. By studying Mars the people of this earth will be studying their own future.

These are the main conclusions to be drawn from the latest book on Mars, written by the great Martian scholar, Professor Percival Lowell, who, with his aides at the Flagstaff observatory in Arizona, has been studying our planet neighbor.

According to Professor Lowell the great irrigation canals which this government is building across the arid western land are as nothing compared with what the Martians have accomplished in irrigating the great deserts on the planet that glows red to earth people's eyes. The Panama canal, which is costing us so much and over which such a fuss in made, is but a pigmy effort when one [[?]]

[[?]]mosphere as easily and wireless as two housewives talking over the back fence. Presumably the steam railway is mentioned in the ancient history of the Martians; also steamships such as we boast of today. In fact form all that is known so far of Mars an its inhabitants, the people are a vastly superior race to those of earth. Not only are they far more intellectual, but physically a Martian of human size is at least twice as strong as the average man here. Taking all things into considerations, the logical conclusion is the easiest and most natural manner of transportation for our neighbors on Mars. In fact, considering that our pound would weigh only about six ounces on Mars, it is only feasible to believe that Martians may do away with airships even for personal transportation, equipping themselves from their knowledge of [[?]]

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