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Charlie was home from the [[underline]] R [[/underline]] oyal [[underline]] F [[/underline]] lying [[underline]] C[[/underline]] orps. Like George and all war participants, they looked ten yrs.older than 22 and 23. They left for Canada to buy a couple of Jennies for barnstorming. To make enough money to start a Flying School. This would [[underline]] keep[[/underline]]  pilots, who had left the Services in training and train for a civilian reserve. The public felt aviation was a wartime necessity, and with the war over, flying was a fad.

In July the boys were hired by a Cleveland newspaper to fly the news of the Williard-Dempsey fight held in Toledo, Ohio, to Cleveland for a scoop. E.P. Lott was again my escort making the trip to Toledo with Buddie now six months old and myself. He enjoyed the passengers thinking we were "his'n".. The town was jammed with people from all over the U.S. I was told to stay in the hotel [[underline]] room [[/underline]] until George returned the next day. I contented myself with baby wash, reading the headlines, the full page news and pictures in the Cleveland Press.

"The Press made newspaper history today, Friday. For the first time photographs at a championship fight were taken from an airplane and delivered to a newspaper office *** Two planes with pilots and Press staff men figured in this remarkable feat. the pilots, Lt. Chas. Wm. Meyers, formerly of the Royal Flying Corps and George E. "Buck" Weaver, formerly Civilian Flying Instructor in the U.S. Army. ****
Pictures snapped from above the arena, both before and DURING the big Meet at Toledo were delivered. The first plane piloted by Weaver *** close to 100 miles per hour was the speed obtained by the plane on its flight *****

There was as much news about the airplanes and their business as about the fight. Roaring OX5's making the distance bet' Toledo and Cleveland in an hour!

From Toledo, we went to Lorain, Ohio, where the boys rented a field from a farmer for an Aviation School. They had found two friends in Buffalo. Elwood J. Junkin and Clayton J. Brukner. They had been building an aquaplane.