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FROM THE ARCHIVEJan 9, 1925·Ronan, Montana

FLYING MACHINES CHANGE RAILROADS

Scanned from The Ronan Pioneer, Jan 9, 1925
FLYING MACHINES CHANGE RAILROADS
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This Week By Arthur Brisbane WHO WILL BE FIRST FLYING BRINGS CHANGE REAL ESTATE AND RAILROADS PEACE IN SLEEPY HOLLOW What railroad man will first realize what the flying machine means. What railroad man espe cially will first realize what the ilying maohine will do to the pas senger traffic of the great railroads on all long hauls. The first capable man acting on thorough realization of the Hying machines future will establish for his stockholders and himself such a fortune as would make those of the Vanderbilts Hills and Hunting teng look li fl ini crumbs ou thin about the Hying chine out west as representing the business energy of the wholeH est em country. To gq tb7i n ow you travel uays on trains admirably equipped and managed.

In less than twenty years the trip will be made by flying ma chines in six hours and with abso lute safety. How many American will devote fbur railroad days to a sixhour flying trip. Not many The flying machine will upset theories habits and values Land one hundred miles from a great city will be reached more quickly than land in the suburbs twentyfive miles away is reached now.

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