from author and historian Jim Ignasher
Earle Ovington Fair Advertisement – 1911
Earle Ovington, (1879 – 1936), was a pioneer aviator from new England. The advertisement below is for an event that took place in Bridgeport, Connecticut, May 5, 6, 7, 1911.
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Advertisement from the
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
May 4, 1911
Pequabuck Agricultural Fair Balloon Ascension Advertisement – 1886
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Morning Journal and Courier
New Haven, Ct.
September 29, 1886
Harvard Boston Aero Meet – 1910
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Spirit Of Woonsocket WWII Bomber Ad – Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Woodstock, Connecticut, Fair Advertisement – 1913
Woodstock, Conn. Fair Advertisement
Putnam Patriot – 1913
Vermont State Fair Advertisement – 1892
The Vermont State Fair held at Billings park in White River junction in 1892 featured a balloon ascension and “parachute drop on Thursday and Friday.” This advertisement was in the St. Johnsbury Caledonian, September 1, 1892, Page 5.
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Coos And Essex Fair, New Hampshire Advertisement – 1912
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Essex County Herald
(Guildhall, VT.)
August 30, 1912
Cambridge Vermont Fair Advertisement – 1909
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The Bennington Evening Banner
August 24, 1909
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The Bennington Evening Banner
August 24, 1909
Strobel Airship – 1909
1912 Vermont State Fair Advertisements
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The Bennington Evening Banner
September 13, 1912
Middlebury Register
September 6, 1912
1912 Kingston, Rhode Island, Fair Advertisement
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Norwich Bulletin, (Ct.)
September 12, 1912
The fair featured Massachusetts aviator Ruth Bancroft Law, (1887- 1970), licensed pilot #188 by the Aero Club of America. At the time of this exhibition, Miss Law was a newly licensed pilot, having soloed just the month before.
Miss Law achieved fame on November 19, 1916, when she successfully flew non-stop from Chicago to Hornell, New York, a distance of 590 miles, and thereby set a new aviation long-distance record. The flight took eight hours and 55 minutes. The previous long-distance record had been set only 16 days earlier when Victor Carlstrom flew 453 miles from Chicago to Erie, Pennsylvania.
In 1913, Miss Law announced her plans to attempt a trans-Atlantic crossing from Newfoundland to the Irish coast, and planned to bring her brother along on the flight. The flight was planned for July of that year, but it didn’t take place.
Ruth Law (Oliver) is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery in Lynn, Massachusetts. To see photos of her go to www.findagrave.com, memorial #39047459
Much has been written about Miss Law and her career that can be found on other websites.
Grand Forks Herald, (N.D.)
July 20, 1917
Sources:
Norwich Bulletin, Kingston Fair Advertisement, September 12, 1912
www.findagrave.com
Topeka State Journal, “Fly Over The Sea”, May 1, 1913
The Citizen, (Berea, Ky.) “Long-Distance Mark Broken”, November 23, 1916, pg. 8.
Grand Forks Herald, (No. Dak.) French Oils advertisement featuring Ruth Bancroft Law, July 20, 1917.
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