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I chose to not crop the rest of the newspaper pages out as it provided a time stamp to the world during the early 1900s.

The files are listed with the article's title so that you can easily scan the page and find it. Some of these PDFs one can text search, some cannot.

Currently I have found over 200 sources. I will add anymore that become available.

"$1500 Price For 14 Flights By Aviator Stites" - Morning Press 8-7-1912

"Accident Forces Aviator To Alight" - Los Angeles Herald 11-15-1911 volume 38, number 43

"Activity At The Flying Fields And Hydro-Havens" - Aero and Hydro 8-22-1914, page 263

Ad - Los Angeles Evening Herald 3-29-1912 volume 38, number 159

Ad - Los Angeles Evening Herald 5-3-1912 volume 38, number 189

Ad - Los Angeles Evening Herald 5-4-1912, volume 38, number 190

Ad - Los Angeles Evening Herald 5-9-1914, volume xl, number 162

Ad - Los Angeles Evening Herald 5-15-1914 Volume XL, Number 167

Ad - Los Angeles Evening Herald 5-22-1914 volume xl, number 173

Ad - San Bernardino Sun 2-25-1912 volume 35, number 123

"Additional Business Locals" - Venice Daily Vanguard 4-19-1912

"Aerial Race Called Off For Lack Of Funds Says Aviator" - The Long Beach Press 6-15-1912, page 14

"Aero Accident" - Long Beach Press 5-18-1914, page 12

"Aeronauts Plan Big Sky Race" - San Francisco Call 6-5-1912, page 15

"Aeroplane Battle Enacted In Film" - World's Advance, volume 30 1915, page 619

"Aeroplane Fights For Next Sunday" - Venice Daily Vanguard 5-1-1914

"Aeroplane Is Wrecked Here This Morning" - Venice Daily Vanguard 6-13-1914

"Aeroplane Squadron" - Long Beach Daily Telegram 2-10-1916, page 3

"Airman Falls To Death" - New York Times 3-17-1915

"Along the Pacific Coast" - Mariposa Gazette 3-27-1915 volume lx, number 43

"Altitude Duel In Rain Storm And Two Serious Accidents Reatures of Flying Exhibit" - Morning Union 1-27-1912

"Amateur Aviators" - The Long Beach Press 6-12-1911, page 5

"Amateurs Will Contest In Flights At Dominguez" - Los Angeles Herald 6-4-1911 volume 33, number 246

"Angeleno Wins Pilot License" - Los Angeles Herald 12-23-1911 volume 38, number 76

"Another Aviator Falls" - Morning Tribune 3-18-1915 volume 55, number 99

"Another Aviator Is Dashed To His Death And Mangled To Pulp" - Humboldt Times 3-17-1915 volume lix, number 76

"Another Daring Flight For Sun" - San Bernardino Daily Sun 3-1-1912, volume xxxv, number 127

"Arrangements Were Completed" - Long Beach Telegram 5-27-1912, page 10

"Ascension Tomorrow" - Venice Daily Vanguard 5-23-1914

"Attendance Records Expected To Fall At Orange Show Today" - Los Angeles Herald 2-22-1912

"Aviatik Zaplatil Vzlet Zivotem" - Pokrok Zapadu 3-21-1915

"Aviator Champion May Not Enter Aero Meet" - The Long Beach Press - 1-5-1912, page 10

"Aviator Dies In Sham Aerial Flight" - Ronan Pioneer 10-7-1915, page 1

"Aviator Falls 300 Feet To His Death" - Centralia Daily Chronicle Examiner 3-18-1915, page 1

"Aviator Falls To His Death During Mimic Flight" - Hanford Sentinel 3-18-1915 number 12

"Aviator Has Wrist Broken" - LA Times 6-2-1912

Aviator Makes Trip To Beach - Long Beach Daily Telegram 8-13-1914, page 5

"Aviator Stites At The Beginning Of His Death Plunge" - Defiance Crescent News 4-13-1915, page 5

"Aviator Stites Fatal Fall Is Unexplained" - San Francisco Call 3-17-1915 volume 97, number 67

"Aviator Stites Has narrow Escape" - Morning Press 6-2-1912

"Aviator Stites In Daring Flight Here On Sunday" - Venice Daily Vanguard 5-15-1914

"Aviator Stites Is Badly Hurt By Fall Today" - Long Beach Press 6-1-1912, page 1

"Aviator Stites Killed" - The Billboard 3-27-1915 Vol 27 Issue 13

"Aviator Stites Lands In Surf At Venice" - Los Angeles Express 3-14-1914

"Aviator Stites Will Aviate At Planada" - Merced County Sun 6-7-1912 volume xli, number 21

"Aviators Have Narrow Escape" - LA Times 1-29-1912

Aviators' Licenses

"Aviator's Widow Awarded $5000" - Long Beach Daily Telegram 9-1-1915, page 10

"Balloonist Morton To Fly With Stites" - Venice Daily Vanguard 4-15-1914

"Beachy Cuts Capers In 40 Mile Breeze" - San Francisco Call 1-28-1912, page 20

"Beachy Memorial In Assembly Resolution" - Morning Press 3-17-1915

"Big Celebration Will Be Held At Planada Opening" - Los Angeles Evening Post 5-25-1912

"Biplane Bumps Brick Building" - Placerville Mountain Democrat 6-20-1914, page 8

"Birdman Frank Champion Meets With Accident In Flight To Soldiers' Home" - The Long Beach Press 8-30-1911, page 10

"Bridge Luncheon Is Afternoon Pleasure" - The Long Beach Press - 5-4-1914, page 8

"Busting 'Bronco Aeroplanes' " - Los Angeles Herald 6-12-1911 volume 33, number 254

"Busy Days at the Big Universal City" - The Movie Magazine- A National Motion Picture Magazine Vo1-2

California Death Record

"California Los Angeles" - Aero And Hydro 7-4-1914

Celebrating An Idea - Long Beach Press Magazine 7-1-1912, page 64

Census Showing Stites In Indiana Still at 18yo

"Champion Flies Remington Bleriot" - Aero Volume 2 1911

"Champion Flies To Aid Frank Stites" - The Long Beach Press 6-3-1912, page 3

"Champion Serves As Aviation Messenger" - The Long Beach Press 11-18-1911, page 12

"Champion Thrills Thousands On Beach In His Daring Flight" - Long Beach daily Telegram 6-3-1912, page 2

Champion Would Sail Across Continent - The Long Beach Press 11-25-1911, page 5

Chapter 1 An Industry And An Art - Unknown Book

Come To Town On Big Truck - Long Beach Daily Telegram 11-17-1911, page 9

Complete State Fair Program - Grand Forks Evening Times 4-22-1913

"Crippled Aviator Takes Friends Place" - Santa Ana Register 6-3-1912, page2

"Culver City Will Have Float At Rose Tourney" - Venice Daily Vanguard 12-30-1914

Daring Aviator Here To Give Exhibitions - The Daily Telegram 6-1-1912, page 1-2

"Daring Flights By Birdmen" - LA Times 6-12-1911

"Daring Stunt of Aviator" - Riverside Daily Press 5-8-1916 volume xxxl, number 110

"Dash To Earth End Life And It's Hope" - LA Times 3-17-1915

"Daugherty To Make Flight In Merced" - Long Beach Press 6-5-1912, page 10

Death Certificate

"Disgrazia Di Un Aviatore" - Italia 6-15-1914 volume 28, number 172

"Drops Bouquet From Aeroplane For Miss Rose" - Venice Daily Vanguard 5-20-1914

"Earl Daugherty Successful In Planada Flight" - Long Beach Press 6-6-2023, page 16

"Echo Aviation Tragedy Heard In Venice" - Venice Daily Vanguard 9-1-1915

Editorial Comment - Venice Daily Vanguard 3-17-1914

Elaborate Entertainment - The Long Beach Telegram 7-27-1914, page 9

"Entertainment That Cost Life" - Picture Play Weekly - April-Oct 1915

Exhibition Aviation - The Billboard 12-30-1922 Vol 34 Issue 52

Exhibition Flights - The Long Beach Press 11-17-1911, page 5

"Exhibitions By Aviator Stites Remarkable" - Venice Daily Vanguard 4-20-1914

"Fall of Airship Kills Friend of Aviator Beachy" - Chicago Examiner 3-17-1915

"Final Arguments In Suit To Collect Fee" - Los Angeles Herald 1-31-1917, volume xlii, number 78

"First Airmail to Catalina" - Independent Telegram Long Beach 1912, far right coloum

"Flyer Hits Building In Fall" - Los Angeles Herald 6-13-1914 volume 15, number 192

For Having Made - The Long Beach Telegram 11-27-1911, page 8

Four Years Ago Today - Long Beach Daily Telegram 3-20-1919, page 6

Four Years Ago Today - Long Beach Daily Telegram 6-2-1916, page 6

Francis Stites Sr. Birth Certificate (Infant Stites)

Francis Stites Jr. Birth Certificate

"Frank Champion Will Enter Big Meet This Fall" - Long Beach Daily Telegram 8-23-1911, page 6

"Frank Early And Rudy Hit The High Places" - Venice Daily Vanguard 4-28-1914

Frank Stites - Aero and Hydro 6-6-1914, page 121

Frank Stites - Aero And Hydro 6-13-1914, page 131

Frank Stites - Aero and Hydro - Unkown date in 1914

Frank Stites' Last Flight - The Long Beach Telegram 5-18-1915, page 9

"Frank Stites Loses Life In Flight" - Long Beach Press 3-17-1915, page 10

Frank Stites - National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian

"Frank Stites aged 33 Years" - Cannelton Newspaper 3-25-1915, page 4

"Frank Stites In Aeroplane As It Was Tilting On It's Fatal Plunge" - Morning Press 3-25-1915 volume 43, number 179

"Frank Stites In Thrilling Leap From Falling Aeroplane Saves Life, Machine Wrecked" - Grand Forks Evening Times 3-24-1914, page 3

"Frank Stites Is Victim Of An Air Well" - Marysville Daily Appeal 3-17-1915 volume cx, number 64

"Frank Stites Killed Doing Stunts For Moving Picture Concern" - Aerial Age Weekly 3-29-1915, page 40

"Frank Stites May Make Series of Flights at Long Beach" - Santa Ana Register 5-28-1912, page 1

Frank Stites Thrills Crowd - Long Beach Daily Telegram 5-20-1912, page 10

"Frank Stites Will Fly Again Tomorrow" - Venice Daily Vanguard 4-4-1914

"Frank Stites Will Make A Great Flight" - Venice Daily Vanguard 4-9-1914

"Free Aviation Show Thursday" - Los Angeles Evening Herald 1-17-1914 volume xl, number 66

"Friend of Beachy Killed" - Manchester Democrat Iowa 3-24-1915, page 6

"Funeral Of Aviator Who Fell To Death" - Los Angeles Evening Post 3-19-1915

"Ghost On Desert Awakens Night Operators" - San Bernardino Sun 11-22-1914 volume 41, number 72

"Give Us Sunshine And The Crowd Will Be Large" - Venice Daily Vanguard 5-9-1914

"Got License In Quick Time" - The Long Beach Telegram 1-8-1912, page 4

Grand Opening of the World's Only Movie City (4-16-1915 short, Universal) Features footage of Universal City opening, which Stites flew for. I do not know if this film is, "lost."

"Grand Opening Of Worlds Only Movie City" - Moving Picture World April-June 1915 - 4

"Great Flight Is Made By Aviator Stites" - Evening Index and San Bernardino News 2-24-1912 volume 33, number 48

"Great Sun Flight This Morning" - San Bernardino Sun 2-24-1912 volume 35, number 122

Harlem Hot Springs Ad - San Bernardino Sun 10-21-1914 volume 41, number 44

Harold E. Morehouse Flying Pioneers Biographies Collection - Hill, Thomas J. - Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

"Have Raised The Money" - The Long Beach Telegram 8-5-1914, page 9

"Henry McRae Produces An Aeroplane Story" - Moving Picture World Jan-March 1915 - 2

"How Death Came To Daring Aviator Posing For The Movies" - Ogden Daily Standard 3-27-1915

Ideal Theatre - Corsicana Daily Sun 5-15-1915, page 4

"Il Volo Alla Morte" - Italia 3-18-1915, volume 29, number 77

"In The Movie World" - Jamestown Weekly Alert 3-25-1915, page 8

"Injured 250 Feet From Ground But Volplaned Down" - Bakersfield Californian 1-26-1912, page 1

"Injured High In Air, Aviator Lands Safely" - San Jose Mercury News 1-27-1912 volume lxxxii, number 27

"Inquest To Delay Aviator Stites Funeral" - Los Angeles Express 3-17-1915

Jack Stites Caldwell's WWII Draft Card 1940

Jack Stites Caldwell's Marriage Certificate 2-27-1935

"Japanese To Fly At Aviation Meet" - Santa Ana Daily Register 1-7-1913, page 8

"Jumps From Falling Aeroplane Into Ocean" - Los Angeles Herald 3-16-1914 volume 15, number 115

"Keep Out Of Our Air, Is Long Beach Cry" - Morning Press 5-22-1912

LA County Marriage Records 1905-1913

LA County Voters Registration Card 1908

"Let Er Rain Ses He Above Clouds" - San Francisco Call 1-27-1912, page 10

Local Aviators Get Good Engagements - The Daily Telegram 7-15-1912, page 1

"Long Beach Birdmen In Great Demand For Flights On Fourth; Are Offered As High As $2000" - Long Beach Press - 6-14-1912, page 1

"Long Beach Cal" - Chicago Day Book 6-15-1912, page 8

"Long Beach Flyer Struck Air Hole When Up 3000 Feet" - Santa Ana Register 6-12-1912, page 3

"Long Beach Lads Licensed Pilots" - The Long Beach Press 12-23-1911, page 1

"Los Angeles" - Aero And Hydro 8-29-1914

Los Angeles City Directory 1915

Los Angeles Evening Herald 3-17-1915

"Machine Dropped From Beneath Aviator" - Long Beach Press 6-1--1912, page 10

"Many Going To Opening Of The City Beautiful" - Los Angeles Evening Post 6-5-1912

Marriage License 6-24-1905

Marriage License Affidavis (I believe this to have Stite's signature) 6-1905

"Marriage Licenses Are Issued" - Long Beach Evening Tribune 6-26-1905, page 5

"Master Of His Aeroplane Is Frank Stites" - Venice Daily Vanguard 4-6-1914

May Day Luncheon - The Long Beach Telegram 5-4-1914, page 5

"M'Carver Is Worried With High Flyers" - Venice Daily Vanguard 4-21-1914

"Mimic Air Flight Results Fatally" - Shiner Gazette 4-8-1915, page 2

Minor Mention - Long Beach Daily Telegram 9-5-1912, page 8

Minor Mention - The Long Beach Telegram 6-6-1912, page 8

"Miss Arnold Makes Maiden Flight Today" - Venice Daily Vanguard 4-18-1914

"Miss Arnold Now Out Of The Hospital" - Venice Daily Vanguard 5-21-1914

"Moose Celebrate At Long Beach" - Santa Ana Register 8-6-1914, page 7

More Locals - Long Beach Daily Telegram 5-31-1912, page 7

More Locals - The Long Beach Daily Telegram 11-16-1911, page 9

"Morton Made Pretty Drop And Landing" - Venice Daily Vanguard 5-25-1914

"Mortons Drop Is Success" - Venice Daily Vanguard 5-11-1914

"Movie Aviator Dies in 300 Foot Fall" - Bakersfield Californian 3-17-1915, page 1

"Movie Aviator Killed" - Honolulu Hawaiann Gazette 3-19-1915, page 6

Mrs. Jessie Stites Applicant vs Universal Film Manufacturing Company

Nerve Of Aviator - The Long Beach Telegram 5-8-1916, page 5

New Plane Has Arrived - The Long Beach Telegram 2-14-1916, page 2

"No Exhibition Flights Until Sunday" - Venice Daily Vanguard 4-24-1914

North Dakota State Fair - Grand Forks Evening Times 7-19-1913, page 3

Notes And Personals - The Daily Telegram Long Beach 10-13-1905, page 5

"Ocean Park Now Has Boosters Club" - Los Angeles Herald 5-2-1912 volume 38, number 188

"Ocean Park Sunday Features" - Los Angeles Evening Herald 4-20-1912 volume 38, number 178

Olivedale - Los Angeles Evening Herald 1-21-1914 volume xl, number 69

Olivedale Opening - Keystone Company 1-22-1914. Short film showcasing the grand opening day of Olivedale, a Los Angeles housing divison. I do not know if this film is, "lost."

One Of The Features - Long Beach Daily Telegram 6-8-1912, page 6

"Opening Game At Venice Park Next Sunday" - Venice Daily Vanguard 4-7-1914

"Opening Of Universal City" - Moving Picture Worls Apr-Jun 1915

Opera House - Daily Advocate 4-19-1915

"Painful Accident To Miss Arnold Sunday" - Venice Daily Vanguard 5-18-1914

"Parachute Girl Falls In Ride On Aeroplane" - LA Times 5-18-1914

Personal - Long Beach Evening Tribute 4-4-1906, page 8

"Physician Takes Aero Snapshots" - The Long Beach Press 12-26-1911, page 7

"Plan Big Event At Opening Of Planada" - Los Angeles Evening Post 6-1-1912

"Planada" - Los Angeles Record 6-1-1912

"Planadan Gives Long Beach Lad Deserved Puffs" - Long Beach Press 6-11-1912, page 1

"Pre-Opening Sale Thursday This Week" - Los Angeles Evening Herald 1-20-1914 volume xl, number 68

"Preminition of Death Warns Stites" - Los Angeles Evening Herald 3-17-1915

"Prepare For Big Aviation" - Marysville Daily Appeal 6-6-1912 volume cv, number 139

Program For Moose Picnic - Long Beach Daily Telegram 8-11-1914, page 7

"Queen Of Beaches Wins New Popularity at San Diego And Crown City" - Long Beach Press 1-2-1915, page 1

"Rain Mars 56th Vernon County Fair" - Viroqua Vernon County Censer 9-25-1912

"Record Flight from LA to Beach Ends in Ocean Breakers" - Los Angeles Herald 3-14-1914 volume xl, number 114

Repairs Machine - The Long Beach Press 6-4-1912, page 5

Return To Home - The Long Beach Press 5-7-1915, page 10

Right To Fly - The Long Beach Press 1-8-1912, page 5

"Rivals In The Field To Make A Parachute Drop" - Venice Daily Vanguard 4-17-1914

"Roaming Around Los Angeles" - Motography 13 5-29-1915

"Rutherford Page Killed Racing Beachy" - The Mountain Empire Bulletin 1-22-1912, page 5

"Salt Lake Lady Will Make Flight" - Venice Daily Vanguard 4-11-1914

Second Annual Aviation Meet Program Book - Page 23

See Frank Stites Aviator Fly Upside Down (Ad)- Los Angeles Herald 6-12-1914 volume xl, number 191

"Seven Aviators To Fly At Dominguez" - Los Angeles Herald 6-9-1911

"Seventeen Happy Days In Hollywood" - Film History, Volume 22, Issue 2, page 209, 2010, Author Kia Afra

Short Flight - The Long Beach Press 11-27-1911, page 12

Smithonian National Air and Space Museum; Washington, DC - Harold E. Morehouse Flying Pioneers Biographies Collection - Crawford, Harvey

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum; Washington, DC - Harold E. Morehouse Flying Pioneers Biographies Collection - Hill, Thomas J

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum; Washington, DC - Physical Record (believed to be an image already listed on this website). Located in container- Box 12, Folder 14. A part of the Harold E. Moorehouse Flying Pioneers Biographies Collection. No restrictions on access.

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum; Washington, DC - Physical Record (unknown kind). Located in container- Box 27, Folder 7. A part of the Harold E. Moorehouse Flying Pioneers Biographies Collection. No restrictions on access.

Society Events and General Locals - Venice Daily Vanguard 5-23-1912

"Some Get Back On Rudy, Sure Enough" - Venice Daily Vanguard 4-29-1914

"Special Treat At Twin Star" - Ames Evening Times 4-19-1915

"Stage Set For Moose Picnic" - Long Beach Daily Telegram 8-14-1914, page 5

Stites' Airbag mentioned being displayed at one point (still?) at the Smithsonian Institution - Independent Telegram Long Beach 4-19-1964

"Stites And Crosson Were Novice Meet Stars" - Aero 6-21-1911 volume 2, page 262

"Stites Better" - The Long Beach Press 6-8-1912, page 11 

"Stites Falls To Death From His Aeroplane" - Los Angeles Record 3-17-1915

Stites' Flight - The Long Beach Press 11-15-1911, page 5

"Stites Gives Air Flight" - Long Beach Daily Telegram 8-17-1914, page 10

"Stites Goes To A High Altitude" - San Bernardino Sun 3-5-1912 volume 35, number 130

"Stites Makes A Thrilling Flight" - San Bernardino Sun 3-2-1912 volume 35, number 128

"Stites Makes Great Flight for the Sun " - San Bernardino Sun 2-25-1912 volume 35, number 123

Stites O.K. - The Long Beach Press 6-3-1912, page 5

"Stites Pessimistic" - Los Angeles Evening Herald 7-21-1914 volume xl, number 224

"Stites Plunges Into Ocean" - LA Times 3-16-1914

Stites To Fly - The Long Beach Press 11-24-1911, page 5

"Stites to Make Dip of Death at Beach" - Los Angeles Herald 5-9-1914 volume xl, number 162

Stites Will Fly Sunday - The Long Beach Daily Telegram 5-18-1912, page 10

"Superstitious Air Men Avoid Grand Forks Finally Get Flyer" - Grand Forks Evening Times 4-16-1913, page 1

"The Birdmen To Fly Here Today" - San Bernardino Sun 3-3-1912 volume 35, number 129

The Burror Studio - The Long Beach Telegram 6-12-1912, page 4

The Mysterious Contragrav (3-27-1915 short, Bison 101/Universal) This was the film that Stites died in production of. The footage of him dying is reported to be included in the film. I do not know if this film is, "lost."

"The Mysterious Contragrav" - Admore Daily Ardmoreite 4-12-1915

"The Popular Aeroplane" - Fargo Forum And Daily Republican 7-21-1913, page 13

The Road To Universal City - July 2005

"The Star" - La Crosse Tribune 6-22-1915, page 6

The Strand - The Long Beach Daily Telegram 8-10-1912, page 3

The Thrill Makers - Jacob Smith - Page 159

"The Venice Story" - Evening Vanguard Venice 6-22-1950

"Three Birdmen Fell Only One Hurt" - Joplin Morning Tribune 1-27-1912, page 2

Til the Coal Train hauled It Away - A Memoir of the Rise and Demise of a Small Town - Timothy Crumrin 2017 (screenwriter Grover Jones)

"To Fly At Venice" - Los Angeles Evening Post 3-12-1914

Tonight's Events - The Long Beach Telegram 5-18-1915, page 5

"Two Amateur Birdmen Fall From Heavens" - Los Angeles Herald 1-26-1912

Universal City 1915 Opening Update

"Universal City Opened" - Moving Picture World Jan-Mar 1915

Vitor Carlstrom - National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institute

"W N Morton Will Make The Drop Sunday" - Venice Daily Vanguard 5-2-1914

"Wants Council To Pass Law" - Long Beach Daily Telegram 6-21-1912, page 10

"Wants Fools Of Air Kept From Aerial Stunts" - Santa Ana Register 5-23-1912, page 1

"Wants To Fly Over This City" - Morning Press 8-6-1912

Wedded In Los Angeles

"Will Be Wed In Aeroplane" - The Long Beach Telegram 8-3-1914, page 5

"Will Try The Upside Down Fly" - Venice Daily Vanguard 7-18-1914

Willowbrook - The Long Beach Telegram 5-4-1922, page 8

"Wind And Rain Are Defied By Birdmen" - Sacramento Daily Union 1-27-1912 volume 163, number 27

"Wind And Rain Causes Disappointment" - Venice Daily Vanguard 3-30-1914

"Woman Drops 2500 Feet" - Los Angeles Herald 4-27-1914, volume 15, number 151

Young Aviator Makes Good In Three Flights - The Daily Telegram Long Beach 6-10-1912

"Young Woman Takes Tumble" - The Daily Telegram Long Beach 5-18-1914, page 1

"Youthful Aviator Carries Passenger" - Los Angeles Record 5-20-1912