1897-10-27, North Tonawanda Evening News, p.1

This article does not mention Whitehead and may indeed have nothing to do with him. However, it's shown here because of a large number of coincidences.

Firstly, the article is dated right when Whitehead moved to and was living in Tonawanda (a suburb of Buffalo where he got married a few weeks later). Whitehead's wife stated he had worked in a buggy factory in Tonawanda.

Secondly, it mentions a connection to Pittsburgh (which was where Whitehead moved the following year).



Thirdly, it mentions a condor as inspiration - something Whitehead often referred to in interviews.

Fourthly, it mentions the number of pounds a bord of prey can lift - something Whitehad also frequently mentioned in interviews. 



Fifthly, it describes a four-wing aircraft (albeit in a derisive way) which is what Whitehead said he was currently building in interviews with several New York Newspapers early that month.

[The derisive description may indicate the journalist's own view - prevalent in society at the time-  that the concept of flying was crazy and something only birds do.] However, when looking at a poor drawing a New York Herald journalist did just three weeks previously of Whitehead's planned, next aircraft (below), the journalist's misgivings are understandable: