This round of Quiz Time is now officially over! The answer: Aviatrix Ruth Law visited Moline in June of 1917 while promoting government war bonds. She arrived into Moline by train from the west and departed Moline minutes later by train headed east. You might enjoy the following newspaper article from the Saturday, June 16, 1917 edition of the Chanute Daily Tribune: The Moline Review tells how Moline saw Ruth Law, aviatrix, in the following: A crowd of Moline people motored down to Sedan Sunday afternoon to see Miss Ruth Law sail by in her airplane Advertising the Liberty Bonds; but no Miss Ruth Law did they see, for she exercised her woman’s prerogative of changing her mind and did not sail by Sedan that day. Monday afternoon a rumor became current on the street that Miss Law would pass thru Moline on an extra from the west, the hour of whose arrival would be 3:20. Telephone bells jingled and the news passed out to the residence sections, motor cars honked and rumbled up town bearing the denizens of the resident sections to the vicinity of the Santa Fe station. A period of waiting and no train came. The passenger train from the east came nigh unto the station and took the side track awaiting the great event. A screech of a whistle in the west, a clash of iron wheels on steel rails and a locomotive came into view. There followed a closed baggage car, in whose dark depths were supposed to be the knocked down parts of one airplane. Attached thereto was one steel day coach, almost empty. On the rear platform stood a man who distributed circulars on one side of which was an appeal to buy “Liberty Bonds” and on the other was a picture of Miss Law in aviation clothes. Out thru the windows of the coach floated smoke from the cigars of a couple of young men who loafed about in the car. Near a window close to the rear end of the coach sat a woman, bearing some resemblance to the picture on the circulars, but dressed in sport skirt and shirtwaist. Near the window next to the depot platform she sat with the crowd staring at her. Indifferent to the people, she remained as the human tide on the brick pavement were inanimate objects. But when the train started up she arose, came to the rear platform of the coach and waved a hand high in the air. Moline saw Miss Ruth Law, the famous aviatrix saw Moline.
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