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Charles Lindbergh leaves Chicago to deliver 869 pounds and 8 ounces of mail to St. Louis in February 1928 as part of a publicity tour involving his old airmail route from 1926. (Chicago Herald and Examiner)
Charles Lindbergh leaves Chicago to deliver 869 pounds and 8 ounces of mail to St. Louis in February 1928 as part of a publicity tour involving his old airmail route from 1926. (Chicago Herald and Examiner)
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Before Charles Lindbergh's famous trans-Atlantic flight, he flew sacks of mail from St. Louis to Chicago, with stops in Springfield and Peoria.
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