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Kimerle was also flying for Baldwin and filled several engagements with Peoli during those months. September 2nd to 6th they flew at a Canadian exposition at Saint John, Nova Scotia. There Peoli flew every day and carried two passengers, Horace Porter, Secretary of the Exposition, and J.J. Marshall of the Saint John Telegraph. On October 4th Peoli made several flights at Milton, Pennsylvania, then on October 17th he was at Shelbyville, Illinois. On November 5th he flew in an aviation meet at Oakwood Heights, Staten Island, with George Beatty, H.B. Brown, George Dyott, Horace Kimmerle and Ruth Law. Peoli made several fine flights there and took his mother for a ride. Following this he returned to Mineola and continued his practice. On Christmas Day he flew as an aerial Santa Claus at Fletchers Field, Montreal, Canada, during an engagement there.
 
As 1912 ended Peoli had, in a few months, made quite a name for himself in  aviation. He had induced Baldwin to abandon the front elevator on his machines, had redesigned and tail section to be more effective and had an accident-free active exhibition season of flying.

On Decoration Day, 1913, Peoli flew at a spring aviation meet at Oakwood Heights, Staten Island. The event lasted three days and he made a number of fine flights. That spring Baldwin made two new planes embodying a number of new features designed by Peoli. On June 20th - July 1st Peoli flew at Barrie, Ontario, then on July 4th he was at Lanark, Ontario. Starting September 22nd he flew five days at a fair in Ogdensburg, New York.

On March 27th, 1914, Peoli left for an extended exhibition tour of South and Central America for Baldwin and expected to be away until midsummer. While there he was reportedly the first person to fly over the Andes Mountains, but this had been claimed for their pilots by both Argentina and Chile. There are indications that Peoli left Baldwin to go into business for himself after he returned from this trip. For some time he had been planning on and

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