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Times Buffalo N.Y
28 Apr-1907.
AERONAUT HAS EXCITING TRIP, LANDING SAFELY
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Balloon Came Down in a Herd of Cattle, Just Missing a Barbed Wire Fence.
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ST. LOUIS, April 27.--Aeronaut Allen R. Hawley of New York City made an ascension this afternoon in the balloon Orient and was carried 67 miles before coming to earth. He landed in safety seven miles east of Carrollton, Ill., after being up for one hour and 55 minutes.
The balloon came down in a herd of cattle in a meadow in the farm of Robert Hardcastle. Just before the basket touched the ground, it missed a barbed wire fence, barely clearing the barbs and sank down among the cattle, stampeding the herd. A team working in a field adjoining, took fright and ran away. Farmers hurried to the spot and assisted the aeronaut to pick up the deflated balloon, which was hauled to Carrollton, where Mr. Hawley will spend the night. He will return to St. Louis tomorrow.

Herald Boston
28 Apr-1907.
AERIAL MOTORING NO LONGER A DREAM
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One's Car Needs No Wheels and Wears No Roads That Invite a Tax.
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In the days of Xenophon there was a philosopher named Archytas who invented a pigeon that could fly, but it is not recorded whether the ancients used a gas bag with which to lift the bird. The ancients possessed correct ideas regarding mechanics, and perhaps had wrung from nature secrets which are unknown today. However, there are no records that they knew anything about balloons.
The centuries which handed down traditions of flying saints and flying dragons contributed nothing to the actual history of aerial navigation For all practical purposes ballooning commenced towards the close of the 18th century.
In 1782, two Frenchmen, the Mont-

News Tribune
28 Apr 1907.
BALLOONIST DROPS AMONG CATTLE
ANIMALS STAMPEDE AND ILLINOIS COUNTRYSIDE IS EXCITED.
ST. LOUIS, April 27.--Aeronaut Allen R. Hawley, of New York city, made an ascension this afternoon in the balloon Orient, and was carried 67 miles before coming to earth. He landed in safety seven miles east of Carrollton, Ill., after being up for one hour and 55 minutes. 
The balloon came down in a herd of cattle in a meadow on the farm of Robert Hardcastle. Just before the basket touched the ground it missed a barbed wire fence, barely clearing the barbs and sank down among the cattle, stampeding the herd. A team working in a field adjoining took fright and ran away. Farmers hurried to the spot and assisted the aeronaut to pack up the deflated balloon, which was later hauled to Carrollton, where Mr. Hawley will spend the night. He will return to St. Louis tomorrow.
This was Hawley's seventh ascension. He expects to make another ascension Tuesday night, and two more later on in the east, as he is required to make 10 ascensions to qualify to act as pilot of the St. Louis entry in the international balloon tournament here in October.

Pioneer Press St Paul.
28 Apr-1907
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