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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1924)
Figures In North Country’s Worst Crime miVXXMKS CAACP * roJTER^Mitt ^-“2 Above Is show the family of Ward Foster, two of whose daughters, Cynthia, 14, shown at the right hold- ; Ing the baby; and Nesia, 10, standing next to her sister, Cynthia, were found murdered in the camp of their | hncle, Harry D. Williams, in the woods near Fostervtlle, New Brunswick, Just across the Canadian line. Wil iams, their alleged slayer, is in the Y ork county, N. B., JalL His calm manner leads officials to the belief he fcill enter an Insanity defense, based on his sufferings in the tranches in France. The other two girls, Juanita tnd Evelyn, were to have gone with their sisters to visit the uncle, and it Is believed a similar fate would 1 fcave been theirs had they gone. i Sixty-Eghth Congress Goes Into Action Rev. J. Shera Montgomery offering invocation and Speaker Gillette presiding at the opening of th* aslon of this congress. , Dives to Earth at 60 Miles an Hour f i -VT*:. % I ',rn'1-- r">' - "HU-- XJI - 111-1 »-■ fl--t-|- r-;-ir rr.n.- ---- ■'■■" ■' *' L - -"' "1r - - "m'a f This photograph was snapped at Los Angeles Just as A1 Wilson, aerial daredevil, crashed his airplane to tarth In a nose dire at 60 miles an hour. It was a real smash, although staged for the movies. _Three Years Before They Farm Here Again Farmers have turned fishermen in the province ot Hunan, win i e summer Hoods' nave swept over whole districts. Tillers of t ho soil In the outskirts of Hengyan g City must wait three years for their fields to dry sufficiently to plant lew crops. Charges “Insanity Plot** to Gain Freedom. jtSe&efxftyt* Cm&WMAg&SX L^..,. .,.,..~;^'vA.:.-^afi^^,. Charles W. (‘’Chick”! Harley, famous gridiron Btar of Ohio State University, All-American halfback, and army aviator In the World War, In his fight for freedom from an Insane asylum, alleges he was lured Into the hands of court officers bj William F. Havens, brother of Mrs. Russel Paul, the former Miss Louise Havens, of Columbus, 0. Woman Holds High Indian Office. :ha rry uovc&.ixftM Mrs. Harry Hodgklnson, J. P„ has been appointed the first Lady Presidency Magistrate In Bombay, India. Sbe is the first woman Eng lish Municipal Councillor of India. Mrs. Hodgklnson Is a journalist, in terested in Infants' welfare work, primary education and relief work. Former Modiste Weds Rich New Yorker. POMP KSXWEjft Above la shown Mrs. C. Ray mond Maxwell, the former Nanlne Simpson Breval, New York City modiste- who has admitted her secret marriage to the wealthy New York clubman. Maxwell had first announced the marriage: then emphatically denied It She de cl‘red they were happily married la Pert cheater, N. Y. Mrs. Coolidge Aids U. S. Nurses Mrs. Calvin Coolidge Is shown enrolling as a volunteer In the In structive Visiting Nurse Society’s campaign for $97,000 which openedi November 17th, Miss Gertrude Bowling, director of nurses. Is shown pinning a badge on the First Laay of the Land. Murder Lurks in Mystery of North Woods UPPER LEFT—DEAN WHEELER. UPPER RIGHT—MRS. WHEELER. BELOW—THEIR CABIN IN MINNESOTA’S NORTH WOODS. Warroad, Minn., Nov. 26.—The murder mystery surrounding the death of Mrs. Dean Wheeler, still remains unsolved. The Wheel ers, from Clearwater, Kan., set out a few weeks ago to spend their honeymoon In the whispering pines of the north woods. The bride, reputed to be worth $100,000 wore Jewelry and carried $1,00 In cash, It is said. Her husband found h>r dead, with several butcher knife wounds in her body. Fifty-Year-Old Tree Is Moved ■ ... . ,• .. . — m A 60 year old acacia-balyeana tree that Impeded traffic in Los Angeles I baa been dug up, placed on a truck, and transplanted In a city park* The tree weighed 20 tone.