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Chicago Herald [[image - white flag with red cross on it]]
Fair and Square
R-NO. 306.  Tuesday Morning, May 1, 1917. price one cen

WITH S

RUTH LAW, CHAMPION WOMAN FLYER, IN UNIFORM FOR ENLISTMENT WORK

MISS RUTH LAW, plucky young air-woman who established a nonstop flight record from Chicago to New York, is going to do her bit even though she will not be permitted to fly at the front. Clad in the uniform of a United States army regular, Miss Law is planning a number of exhibition flights in various cities, at which she will appeal to the crowds attracted by her flights to enlist in the various branches of the federal service.

  Miss Law recently made a trip to the battle lines on the western front and watched the operations of the allied aviators. The organized operations of the allied forces, particularly the work of the airplanes, so impressed her that she sought a chance to fly a military plane herself. Failing in this she decided on the recruiting campaign. 

  Although Miss Law will make her flights and her speeches in the army uniform, she plans to supplement it with a special skirt for street wear. She says she feels quite at home in the army costume, however, as it is very much like the one she has been accustomed to wear when she drives her plane.

  The recruiting officers are confident that the appearance of Miss Law and her appeal to the young men of the nation will not be without tangible results in the number of army volunteers.
[[image - photo of Ruth Law wearing her uniform in a salute.]]

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THE DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1917.
AVIATRIX WHO IS FLYING FOR HER COUNTRY.
[[image - 2 pictures of Ruth Law.  One is of her standing in uniform.  The other is of her in her airplane.]]
[[caption]]RUTH LAW WEARING THE UNITED STATES AVIATOR CORPS UNIFORM, AND RUTH LAW IN HER BIPLANE
[By Moffett, Chicago and by a staff photographer of The Daily News.][[/caption]]


RUTH LAW LIKES TO FLY.

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  Five or six years ago while most other girls her age were thinking about parties and beaux and pretty frocks Ruth Law was watching the aeroplanes down at Marblehead. Her home was in Boston and she had gone through high school there, and fast upon the heels of her graduation came the fever for flying. No man would listen then to a woman's plea to be taught to fly-that was something beyond the sex, but the pretty, blue-eyed, fair-haired daughter of New England was not to be denied. She coaxed the instructor of aviation at Marblehead to teach her the rudiments of the art, which she mastered in six weeks and then she began her flights.

  Since that time she has passed whole winters on the Florida coast taking up fashionable winter residents as passengers, among them Mrs. Henry Clews; she has won the medal for long distance flying between Chicago and New York; she has soared over the battlefields of France and now she is flying in Chicago to help the allies in their efforts at recruiting.

  Yesterday while the kilties marched along the streets her biplane swooped and circled in the air above them throwing down bombs which scattered messages to eligible men to join the colors. Tomorrow she will go up again to continue her patriotic work. Just how patriotic that is is told in the fact that she is doing it as a labor of love with not one cent of remuneration, and it is known that her regular price for flying $1,000 a day. She is helping Maj. Kenney, who has charge here of the recruiting for the American army. Later she expects to fly for Uncle Sam in France, and she has applied for a commission.

  Apparently the morning's experience yesterday had given Miss Law, or Mrs. Charles Oliver, as she is in private life, an appetite, as she was calmly finishing her luncheon in company with her husband when she was asked to talk a little about "how it feels to fly." The flyer and her manager-husband had just come from the hangar on the lake front where Miss Law's machine is being fitted out with an electric sign which will illuminate the heavens to-morrow night.

  "It is only the second time an electric sign has ever been attached to an aeroplane. I used the word 'Liberty' when I circled the Liberty statue in New York the evening after the liberty parade in New York, and to-morrow night I shall have the word 'Enlist' in electric letters under my machine," she said.

  There had been no intermediate time for rest or primping after the flight, and Miss Law was still wearing her flying costume, which is the regulation United States army uniform. At the collar are the eagles which denote the aviation corps. 

  Miss Law is slight, with little white 

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hands that belie their looks, for she has a strong grip particularly with her right. She will not confess to any fear of flying, but admits that she does not like to fly over water. And she carries a lucky stone. It is a milky opal. "A gem expert gave me a piece of meteorite which is supposed to be extremely lucky, but I kept on carrying my opal. It was once set in a ring, the first my husband ever gave me." This in defiance of the popular superstition that opals are unlucky unless worn by an October child. Mr. Oliver has charge of his wife's machines and always is the last one to look her plane over before she starts up. Their trip abroad last year was made for the purpose of studying the advance made in aviation abroad.

  It makes a woman thrill with pride to hear this clever, cool headed, very normal and sane woman tell of her achievements.


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JUNE 1917 RUTH LAW'S JUNE 1917
MESSAGE FROM THE SKY!

  U.S. "Liberty Bonds" are simply a form of money. When you buy a Liberty Bond you don't spend your money, you put it out at interest. Any time you need your money you can get it back, simply by re-selling your bond. Or, you can borrow money on it.

  To hold a Liberty Bond is like holding an equal amount of paper money, only better, for the Bond brings you interest. The Government will pay you 3 1/2%, regularly. These Bonds cannot be taxed. To buy one, is 

SAFE, WISE AND PATRIOTIC

  Remember, your Liberty Bond is real money— just as good as gold. You can buy it on the installment plan. $2 down brings you a $100 Bond, etc. Go to the nearest bank and make your application TODAY.

A Personal Request. I am dropping the above message, hoping for prompt action by you whom it hits, whether woman, man, or child. Please tell all your friends.

Yours truly, 
RUTH LAW, Aviatrix
Flying for the U. S. Government

(Courtesy Henry L. Doherty & Co.)


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CLEAVELAND LEADER, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1917.

Ruth Law Soars Over City In 'Libery Loan' Air Raid

[[image - Ruth Law in her airplane]]
[[caption]]RUTH LAW STARTS HER LIGHT OVER CLEVELAND[[/caption]]

[[image - Ruth Law flying her airplane with the words "BUY A BOND NOW" on the tail]]
[[caption]]FLYING FOR LIBERTY LOANS.[[/caption]]

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Drops 10,000 Paper Pleas Through East End in Thrilling Flight; Start 2,500-Mile War Bond Journey Today.

  Cleveland received a message of liberty from the sky yesterday afternoon.  In a fifteen-minute flight a mile above the housetops shortly before 5 o'clock,

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  Heading straight west over the field, the great wings suddenly seemed to leap into the air.  there was a shout from the throng.  The airplane, which a few seconds before had been close at hand, was climbing upward into space and growing smaller and smaller.  In a few more seconds it was a mere speck, shooting southwestward.  Then it vanished.

  A second shout arose from the waiting throng ten minutes later.  The speck was reappearing high aloft in the northwest.  The airplane circled to the eastern end of the park, and then


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IT'S ENGLISH, Y'KNOW!

Referring to the Uniform, of Course, for Miss Law Is Very Much a Yankee.

[[image - photo of Ruth Law in uniform]]