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Originally posted by Havick007
Wher is that info coming from, dont you think that in 1897 a much better publicity story could have been hatched if they wanted attention??
The final, fatal blow for the airship and Aurora crash comes from the original reporter. H.E. Hayden, a stringer for the Dallas Morning News, who claimed to have invented the story in a vain attempt to put his dying community back on the map. He hoped to draw attention, and people, to Aurora, Texas. He was successful. The problem was that he succeeded sixty years too late and those who arrived only wanted to learn about the airship, not settle down to rebuild the community as he had hoped.
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Originally posted by Havick007
Also the town of Aurora is still around today - over 100 years later so i do not think they had any trouble keeping the town going....
Originally posted by Havick007
Come on in that day and age, that would have been to much of a risk, too '' cooky '' to attempt as a publicity stunt, dont ya think?