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CABLE ADDRESS - WACO      PHONE 820 [[right margin]] 80
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The Advance Aircraft Company
TROY-OHIO

AVIATION

"Not many days ago, in this Municipal Court of New York City, a judgment was awarded against a defendant who failed to pay an aerial taxi bill. It was alleged that the defendant who did not believe it possible to hire an airplane taxi, ordered one 'just for a joke' and then failed to appear for the trip."

Nothing but the utmost blindness to existing achievements can continue to belittle what it cannot comprehend. Aerial navigation today is no more a joke than was the railway eighty years ago, or the automobile fifteen years ago. On the contrary, it is al-ready the basis of a vast and progressing industry, founding itself surely on the most advanced discoveries of exact science and the finest deductions of trained minds, and possessed of a future that in its sociological as well as in its engineering aspects sooner or later must stir the imagination of the dullest skeptics. Inevitably it is a matter of perhaps no more than a few months, certainly of no more than a few years, when in every country of the world aerial vehicles will enter upon an epoch of wide development and application, the far reaching reactions of which are certain to carry significances of the profoundest import to every phase of civilization and every activity of the race. 

Man's movements about the planet he inhabits are restricted to a maximum of three traversable media with which he comes in