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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 16 May 1935, p. 18

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I ~ honeus aend have omr Decoraifor l no service I charge) help you with your selectio'n. Have your * homel t. harmonize And .ioy if.I Ourw pricssor* jusiflime sama buying on the budgjet aS cash. Consolide I yorpurohasest.o85W00,or more endi u»a-the Budget payment plan. j THIE EVANSTON STORE' MARSHALL FMEL &0CMPÀAN-Y 1~ / Iand C. R.' Speers, 2729 Uarrison Istreet, Evanston, district traffic mn Iag er, are in charge of. both downtown Ioffices, the- other being in the. Straus Ibuilding on Michigan. avenue., Th e new, office will 'serve the., financial d1trct nd àttendîngthe, opening, ceremonies wer e these la. Salle street, leaders, who are residents of the north shore: J.. B.- Forgan, Jr., 399 *N. Ahwahnee road, Lake Forest; W. K. Hairrison, Highland Park, and Emil: A. Stake, 435 Sunset road, Win- netka, al vice-presidents, First' Na- Ttional Bank, and Barnett Faroîl,'741 Prospect avenue,ý Winnetka, chairan of the real estate committee of the Board of Trade. Part of Goodyear Blimp Crew Now at Pal-Waukee Part. of the crew of the Goodyear blimp Reliante, bas arrived at Pal- Waukee airport ' the Goodyear coin- pany's Chicago base for its lighterý, than-air passenger carrying and ad- vertising activity. Thie blimp itacîf is expected at the airport witbin the next week or two. Although the Goodyear dock at Pal-Waukee is large enough to accomnaodate two blimps. it is understood that the om two blisnps during the two-year World's fair period, when both the Furitan and thie Re]-i -ance spent thie summer season inthicago. Charles Lehr Gets Job as Air Line Co4>piIot Charles Lehr, who learned to fly at Curtiss airuort eealv-2r.!eý air transport uystem iin the woricI to complete 80,000,M0 miles of flying iii regular schedtsled operations, W. A. Patterson, president, announced. Mr. Patterson lives at 1218 Glendenning road, Minmette. The record includes 21i850 cast-to-coast 1lights and also 37,000,000 miles, of 'night ilying wth mail, 'express and passengers. Dur- ing this time U nited b.as carried ap- proximately'600,000passenger s,1,0 tons of express and 15,000 -tons of mail. .It bas required fine yéarsto fly the 80j000,000 miles, as substanti-. aliy less mileage was flown thé first few years of pioncer operation con- trasted with, approxim ately 15,000,000 miles whiçh United, will fly this year on: its New -York-Chicago-Caiifornia and Pacific Coast routes. Back of the $0,000,000 Miles is a story of aerial *pioneering, said..Mr. Patterson'- On the company's.coast- to-coast route were flown the first planes built ïii the United States ex- clusively for passengers and mail service; the first through multi-mo- tored transcontinental passenger- cargo transports; the first flights with passengers at night over long distances on regular scbedules, and the first coast-to-coast schedules of, less than nineteen hours. Largest Land Passenger which he purchased Irecently froan one of thie air lines. He plans to convert the pla ne, which now is licensed toý carry 18 'passengerst into the largest land passexnger plane ini the United States. Space. uséd by thie air lins for carryinig baggage will Rie utilized' to make room for ten ýadditional passengers. Wood, who fornserly owned a tri-,notore'd Ford, then wiIl apply for a license to carry 28 waz, Land'.'ai St. Lo ,isville, mater. THEi FOURTiK F1001

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