Joe Snow news clippings, 1929-1933.

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Joe Snow news clippings, 1929-1933.

News clippings pertaining to Joe Snow and/or aviation events as they happened during the time Snow was employed by Harry Jones in Old Orchard Beach.

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Hazard Shoe Company.

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Snow, Ira Joseph, 1908-1990

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Resident of Pine Point, Me.; b. Ira Joseph Snow; garage and airplane mechanic; worked at Scarborough, Me., airport and then as mechanic at Hazard Shoe Company hangar owned by Capt. Harry M. Jones at Old Orchard Beach, Me.; in late 1920s built his own plane which eventually ended up at Owls Head Transportation Museum; in 1932 had flying accident and lost a wing to the plane he was flying and crashed into the ocean just off Old Orchard Beach; in 1936 opened Joe Snow's Garage near Scarborough Marsh...

Jones, Harry M. (Harry Martin), 1890-1973

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Harry M. Jones was born in Providence, R.I.; in 1912 signed up for a flying course at Saugus, Mass., and became first aviator in Rhode Island at the age of 22 in 1913; became famous in the New England area as being the first and only pilot to land an airplane on Boston Common, and later being the first pilot hired as a special air parcel post carrier, flying from Boston to New York with several stops along the way. He opened a flying school in Saugus in 1915 and began flying passengers over Bost...