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Joplin Man Acquires Unusual Reputation as Aviator in U. S. ArmyIjlEVT. A LIT IF P flUTili RA.MAGE.ltantnul, ill.. Aug. 24—Dientenant Alfred Hull Ramage of Joplin, who was commissioned this week here, Is regarded an one of the nerviest filers ever turned out of the Chanute aviation field at Rantoul. Before this (country entered the war, Lieutenant ■ Ru mage was a proficient flyer—he graduated at the Curtis school in iChicago—and this possibly accounts jfor the rapid progress he made in | Rettinff a commission at the local flying field. He passed through* his Ientire course of instruction at Cha-inute field without accident or, in. fact, a semblance of one.| ---I Tdeutennnt Hamate received hip jeducation in the east, going to Andover. the Tome school for mining [engineers, and Amherst college. He •left school in February, 1912, and ;came to Joplin, where he took a po- jsitlon as manager for the Mahutska IMining Company, with offices in the i I Frisco building. He is a member of . th«‘ Oak Hill Golf Club, the Kansas City Club, the American Institute of j Mining Engineers, the American ,Mining Congress, the Aero Club ofAmerica, the Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Alpha Omega fraternities and, inaddition, a number of large clubs in th* east.His father, 8. Y. Ram age, is a well j known capitalist aiul the head of the I Ramaga Mining Company. j
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Joplin Sunday Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Sun, Aug 25, 1918
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