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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1924)
SHIPWRECK SURVIVORS REACH NEW YORK. The survivors of the steamship Zacapa, of the United Fruit Line, which went ashore on the Island •tot Inaugua, off the east coast of Cuba, have been taken to New Tork by the rescue steamer Teno. of the -Chilean Steamship Company. The first two officers to the rescue were Manuel Manlebeus> first officer, •and William Horsey. rad!<F operator, of the Teno. T hree of the falragt passengers saved were Marta Victoria and Carmen Van Arckaa, eg Bogota Colombia. — ~ • THOUSANDS DRIVEN FROM HOMES BY FIRE. Thousands of persons were driven from their homes by fire which raged through several block* to the Jersey City, N. J., water front. New York fire apparatus and fire beats were called upon to alt In stemming the conflagration. HEIRESS TO HUNT AFRICAN LIONS. *Rags to Riches” Is Reversed Here. life,• • 'T&lPSte *rE<SGY.'iYJrXAYEia/ Miss Margaret “Peggy'* Thayer, daughter of a vice-president of (be Pennsylvania Railroad, and socially prominent In Philadelphia, has •ailed Tor Mombasa, British Bast Africa, to hunt Hons, tigers and other big game through the forests In which Colonel Theodore Roosevelt 5Snle^ Roosevelt's guide, Tarleton, will act In the same capacity for files Thayer. Her trophies are to be presented to the Academy of Pbtnrsi jtolenoe in Philadelphia. 1 i From "Rags to Riches’* hju been reversed In the case of Mrs. Adel# McMasters, French Mar wise, whom fate led from a regally ap pointed palace near Bordeaux, to the role of a crippled vendor of pencils on the streets of St. Pail Her mother, daughter of the Mar quia de Fournier, wm exiled whee the married a Huguenot and thij girt, on her own resources, cam! to America. She opened a boo It store In Staten Island, New Yortt, after the death of her first hus band, John Maas, Coast Artillery Corps surgeon. Later she operated a canteen In Atlanta. Ga^ on the present aite of Fort Mo Pheraon. "It’s Just fate,” she says without rancor. “I will not go to tha poor house.** Refugee Admitted After Two Years After knocking at America’s door for two years, six months of which she was held on Ellis Is land. New York’s immigration station, Assana Soghamlian, an Armenian refugee, has been ad mitted as a "refugee from relig ious persecution” and will make her home with a brother in Binge hampton, N. Y. She was held prisoner four years in a Turkish harem, after being orphaned in a Turkish massacre. Beautiful But ‘Dumb/ She Sues for $50,000 Mrs. Fannie Klapman, of Chi cago, has brought suit for $50,000 against her motherlnlaw, Mrs. Sarah Klapman, and her brother inlaw, Abraham Klapman, at torney, charging alienation of af fections. Fannie Klapman Is & Polish Immigrant, Ignorant, but devoted to her husband. She al leges her Inlaws decided she was too ignorant to associate with them and their friends. Chicago Picked Her To Greet the Prince iKijy JO?gPHXKE- KACVAV l Miss Josephine Maclay, Uni versity of Chicago, "Chief Aide,” together with Miss Kenneth Laird, president of the Under graduate Council, extended the greetings of the Midway students to the Prince of Wales when the latter visited Chicago. Southampton to Care For 15 Leviathans London.—Following recent criti cisms of the facilities at the port of Southampton, announcement is made that an extension scheme, cost ing (45,000,000, will shortly be start ed at the port. The scheme provides for further deep-water facilities and berthing ac commodation for ten more 50,000-ton liners. When the work is finished, Southampton will be able to accom modate fifteen liners of the Levia than type at once and will have two new graving docks, oi.e of which will accommodate the largest liner ever llkaly to be built. Stage Mother Has 36 Kin on Footlights A VOOPTHDl^PIv. Here Is a real stage mother, Mr s. Georgia Woodthorpe, of Los A«» geles, who has 86 of her descendan ts on the American stage, whe*« she Is still gaining laurels herself. If j “Princess Alice” May Rule Again i xottG^ra Congressman Nicholas Longworth, of Cincinnati, Ohio, hopes to become next Speaker of the House of Representatives. If he succeeds, his wife, the former Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the late president, will advance another step toward the top of the social ladder In Washlngto n. First Woman in Senate of Illinois "ny"".. .... >ggy. fiorence fifer. ap« Mrs. Florence Fifer llohrer, of l) looinington, 111., the strikingly beautiful daughter of the late Gov ernor “Jo" Fifer, running on ttt republican ticket, has been elects d to the Illinois Stats ssnat% SMI will be the first woman to sit in th at body.