It's a Curtiss Flying Machine
for the Nemaha County Fair
Seneca, October, 11th, 12, and 13th.
Above are the headline from the Courier Democrat of August 31, 1911

Add from Seneca Democrat, August 13,1911  - Part of add missing,
Should read Nemaha County Fair. and Mr. R. C St. Henry - who WILL fly-3 flights each day.

Above is picture of the Curtis Flying Machine that was  featured at the Nemaha County Fair in 1911. Head lines. Article in Courier Democrat of August 31, 1911 follows below.

"Let it be known that. the 1911 Nemaha County is assured success. Tip the words off to your friends on the street, pass the good thing along when you are next called out of town, and when you write, extend an invitation to the greatest event to which a northeast Kansas town has ever invited its neighbors."

"J. H. Cohen has secured for a three day's exhibition in Seneca, on October 11, 12 and 13th, one of the celebrated Glenn H. Curtis machines and aviator. At a cost of $1500 the new management of the association's affairs has bargained for the first introduction to Nemaha and surrounding counties of an airplane and aviator that fly."

"FLIGHTS ARE GUARANTEED.
Get, next to this-and smoke hard on it. The aviator whom the Glen H. Curtis people sent to Seneca must fly - and furthermore he must remain in the air thirty minutes each day in one flight before he can draw down a single red cent. This is the first opportunity which thousands of northern Kansas people will have of witnessing in operation the epoch making flying machine and the thrilling flight of a birdman, recognized a professional in the world of aeronautics."

"The aviator who will fly in Seneca skies is numbered among those men of daring who were the source of attraction to the thousands on the lake shred in the Chicago a week or so ago. Bear in mind that this is a Curtis aviator, a man with the reputation to sustain of a rival of the Wrights who first set the pace for long distance flights in a memorable trip down the Hudson from Albany to the City of New York. '

'CANNOT DISAPPOINT.
In a letter from Glen H. Curtis, secretary and treasurer of the Curtis Company, a possible disappointment is precluded. Mr. Curtis writes that his contract with the Nemaha Fair Association will be carried out to the letter and that there will be no possibility of disappointment. The contract with the Curtis people calls for a thirty minute flight each day. No definite hour in any day can be set owing to the uncertainty of weather conditions and it will of course be well for visitors to plan to spend the greater part of at least two of the three days at the grounds."


"SHOULD ATTRACT THOUSANDS.
How many readers of this paper have ever seen an airplane in its birdlike flights? We dare say, not one in a hundred. Here then is an opportunity of enjoying a profitable time with us at a cost far less than a trip to a large city would require.  This is a venturesome undertaking on the part of the Seneca fair directors born of the earliest desire to make good  with Nemaha County people. Mr. Cohen has been working on the proposition since May and the responsibility which he and his co-workers are assuming should meet with the reward it deserves."
 

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