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The interest of the schools was portrayed in the following story from THE ST. LOUIS GLOBER DEMOCRAT, October 26, 1904:
"SCHOOL CHILDREN AIDED AERONAUT TO ALIGHT! G. S. Brooks, roadmaster of the St. Louis Terminal railway, was superintending a force of men employed at work on the St. Louis Valley division of the Iron Mountain railway, southeast of East St. Louis yesterday afternoon, and saw Knabenshue alight in his airship. He stated that Knabenshue selected a corn field near the old Kahokia graveyard in which to alight. As he neared the spot he was sailing down slowly, and dropping a line to the ground, he called to some school children and their teacher, who had been watching him, and was assisted by them in bringing the ship to the ground. He landed at four o'clock. Neither Knabenshue nor the airship was hurt or damaged."
The therapeutic effects of my flight were told in a dispatch in THE ST. LOUIS DISPATCH, December 26, 1904, captioned: SIGHT OF AIRSHIP PROVES BETTER THAN MEDICINE!
"Unsuspected tonic and recuperative properties resident in an airship were developed by the flight of the Baldwin ship over the city Tuesday afternoon. These properties were manifested at Rebekah Hospital, Grand Avenue and Caroline Street.
Dr. Albert Stenier was at the hospital using all of his skill to improve the condition of the patients when the airship hove into sight. The effect on the patients was electrical. The lame, the halt and the deaf forgot their infirmities and stampeded for the open air, and even the blind groped their way after the rest, eager to be told about it by those who could see.