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I have a one track mind, too, so I said: "in fifty years, from ten miles per hour to seventeen hundred! Incredible!"

"You were considered the most outstanding Aeronaut of the early nineteen hundred, weren't you?"

"I only know what I read in the newspapers.....I remember the NEW YORK WORLD said of me in 1905,'Today he stands preeminent in his profession and will go down in history as the first man who ever successfully sailed over New York City in an airship and returned to the point whence he started!.....Now please give me some toast to go with this egg."

"Roy, I'd like to see some of those old newspapers. Where are they?"

"Buried somewhere in the garage with all the old clippings ,letters ,programs and memorabilia of those aeronautic days."

"Why don't we go through them. Right now! I'd like to reread them, they'd be interesting in view of today's headlines."

We sorted the newspapers first, then began to scan them for the headlines dealing with one person, namely, A. ROY KNABENSHUE!

One in the ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, date October 26,1904 read:  CHAUFFEUR OF THE SKIES TELLS THRILLING TALE OF HIS FLIGHT! Pioneer in Profession of the Future, A. Roy Knabenshue had honor of First Demonstration to Americans that Navigation of the Air is Not a Dream!

The ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC, October 26,1904, contained two good ones: AIRSHIP SAILS FIFTEEN MILES FROM THE FAIR AND LANDS SAFELY IN ILLINOIS TOWN!

And in another column: 

THOUSANDS WATCH FLIGHT OF CRAFT OVER ST.LOUIS 

Encircled in a box in the upper right hand corner of the ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC of that same date, we found the Log of the Flight,