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1907 March 8 Friday at Baddock
Press Philadelphia Post Dispatch St. Louis
20 Jan 1907    20 Jan 1907               52

AERO RACE RULES
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Contest to Start from St. Louis
Next October.
New York, Jan. 19.-Cortland Bishop, president of the Aero Club of America, to-day made public the form of application for the international aeronautic cup race to start from St. Louis next October. He also gave out the rules governing the issue of pilots' licenses and the regulations for the Lahm cup competition.
The regulations governing the St. Louis race are of a technical nature.
In the rules for the Lahm cup competition which is designed to commemorate the winning of the international cup for America last year by Lieutenant Frank P. Lahm. It is provided among other things that the contest shall be open to all aeronauts without restrictions, and a contest is at liberty to start from any point in the United States of America at any time that he may desire. At least one hour before making an ascension the contestant must notify the Aero Club of America by letter or telegram of his intention to start in the contest, giving the point from which the ascension will be made and the point of landing, and the hour must be reported within twenty-four hours.
The winner will be the first aeronaut who after March 1, 1907, shall make a continuous flight which shall exceed 68 kilometres (102 miles) in distance measured in a straight line from the starting point to the landing point. Thereafter whenever any contestant exceeds the distance, measured as above, made by the holder of the cup, he will be declared the holder of the cup until such time as his record shall be exceeded.

Post Dispatch St Louis
20 Jan 1907

WAIT UNTIL St. Louis
AERO CLUB GETS BUSY.

MILAN, Jan. 19.- Messrs. Usually and Crespi, who recently crossed the Alps in their balloon, have just beat the previous Italian record, rising to a height of 22 966 feet, where they reached 50 minutes in a temperature of 40 degrees Fahrenheit below zero, or 72 degrees of frost. They established another record by returning to the ground in 18 minutes.

Inquirer Philadelphia
20 Jan 1907

WRIGHTS MAY SHOW
FLYING MACHINE

American Aeronaut Convince[?]
Aerial Transportation Wil[?]
Come Very Soon
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From the Inquirer Bureau.
NEW YORK, Jan 19.- A public demonstration of the Wright brothers' flying machine, whose reported success has been a subject of continued controversy on both side of the Atlantic, is looked for in the near future. 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 who sailed for Havre on La Savoie, believes that this trial will settle once and for all the [?]


AIRSHIPS SAILS 
OVER MEXICO CITY
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Navigator Nearly Collided With One of the Ancient Castles.

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 19.- Charles K. Hamilton made a successful flight in his airship and another partly successful that was prevented from completion by a slight accident. The first trip was begun at 9:45 and was finished without interruption of any kind.
Mr. Hamilto left the Tivoli in the ship, sailed over the roofs to the Cafe Colon on the Paseo de la Reforma, thence above the heart of the business district to the Zocalo and National Palace. He went several hundred yards beyond the palace, circled it and then started on the return journey.
Over the city, he started the machine downward and, when near the Iron Horse, at the corner of Bucarreli and the Paseo de la Reforma, the car almost touched the roofs of the buildings. From that point Mr. Hamilton started the machine upward and continued for several hundred feet. Arriving at the Tivoli, he circled the enclosure several times, alighting in the open space from which the start was made.
For the second try the ship got a good start and made the trip to Chapultepec without trouble and after circling the castle, the return start was made when a chain connecting the engine with the propeller left its wheel and the engine stoped. The ship was so near the ground that the brisk wind blowing carried it straight for Chapultepec castle and for a moment the widows in the building were in danger.
Hamilton threw off a bag of ballast, the ship started upward, and a collision with the castle was averted. The loss of the ballast, however, made the return trip impossible as the ship steadily ascended until it reached 4500 to 5000 feet. This necessitated the release of gas from the bag, and when this was accomplished the balloon descended rapidly.

[?] Buffalo.
21 Jan 1907

AUTOMOBILE, AERO
CLUB, ASTRONOMY
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Captain Homer W. Hedge Organizing a Club to Solve Astrnomical and Kindred Problems.
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Capt. Homer W. Hedge, organizer of the Automobile Club of America and the Aero Club of America, and first Vice President of the latter organization, has taken steps to form a third club, whose purpose will be to solve the astronomical, astrological and seismic problems which are puzzling scientists.