Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-09-27 | Page 2 | Hitchcock Takes Ride in Aeroplane |

Type	issue
Date	1911-09-27
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
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Article Title	Hitchcock Takes Ride in Aeroplane
Type	article
Date	1911-09-27
Paper	Salt Lake Telegram
Language	eng
City	Salt Lake City
County	Salt Lake
Page	2
OCR Text	Show HITCHCOCK TAKES RIDE IN AEROPLANE NEW YORK, Hept. 27. Frank H. Hitchcock, postmaster general .of the United States, qualified as an aerial mail carrier on Long Island late today. Carrying seventv-eight pounds 'of mail, the postmaster general took a seat beside be-side Captain Paul Berk of the United mates army, in the latter 'a aeroplane at the Nassau boulevard aerodrome, t Without the alightest mishap the two made a seven-minute flight to Mi-neole, Mi-neole, where, upon a signal, toe postmaster post-master general dropped the mail sack to one of I'ncle Ham's carriers. Air. Hitchcock was enthusiastic over the trial. -. ' '
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