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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1925)
women Only _k mmzzm:. ; *,v ;j I A special supreme court of Texas, composed entirely of women, haa been appointed by Gov. Pat Neff to try a case In which the regular court was disqualified. It is believed to be the first time that women only occupied all the seats on a state su preme bench. Mrs. Edith Williams (above), member of the last legisla ture from Dallas, Mrs. Hortens* Ward (below), prominent lawyer and I suffragist of Houston, and Miss Nel lie Robertson of Granbury, comprise the court. A Capital Slide They call Camille Calvat the "Eva Tar.guay of France." She is making *the biggest hit of the current theatri cal season In Paris with a new song entitled, "Never Mind My Face — Just Look at My Legs.” I The Capitol steps make a fin# slid* for sleds and Senate pages are quick to take advantage of the first snow fall. Our International Beauty One of the most beautiful daughte rs of Spain la Raquel Mellnr. a I#»,a4 tng atar of th« Spanish stage, who 1 a soon to visit American. Widow Drilling for Oil on Lot at Home [Jl ^ 'I I It’s against the law to drill an oil well on a little tract of ground like Mrs. F. J. Patterson’s town lot at Wortham, Tejc. But she's doing It When big oil companies leased land all around the aged widow's tiny homestead, folk said they were try ing to “squeeze her out." So Mra Patterson begged an opportunity to seek oil on her proyarty, too. She told the railroad commission of her 30-year struggle to give her only son proper medical attention. And the commission had a heart. Double No, this Is not the “First Lady a the Land,” although she Is often mlS' taken for Mrs. Coolidge. The phot» Is of MIbs Ann Elizabeth Schneider of Jamaica Plains. Boston. Mass. Oldest Sparklll, N. Y., claims to have th« oldest active fire chief in the coun try. Ho Is Stephen Hairo, 84, who has been a volunteer fireman for 69 years, and chief far the past quarter of a century. Miss Wilson 3 ■ i i --■-- . M..M j This is tlio latest portrait of Mar garet Wilson, daughter of the late President Woodrow Wilson. Know Him? It's H. R. H., the Prince of Wales, •porting a towering shako, gorgeous y braided uniform, and sword, as he jets ready to unveil a memorial at Wellington Barracks, Englandr la nemory of the World war dead. Singer Helena Wait Gagliasso, daughter Df Mayor Frank Walt of Sturgis, Mich., sang at the celebration of ths one-hundredth anniversary of ths independence of Peru. The invita tion was extended to her by Presl lent Legula. She’ll Wed Mrs. Gertrude Howard Olmsted of darrisburg, Pa., widow of the late Congressman Martin E. Olmsted, ■oon will bo married to Vance Mc Cormick, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. No leflnlle announcement as to the late of the ceremony has been made, >ut friends say It probably will take r ace ^ound Jan. 6. They're ‘Verfect" Twins! a .■■ = 1" -■■' =aX..-==s San Antonio, Tex., boasts about Its “perfect twins"—Isabella and Dorothea Peters. And really you can't blame It, for here they are. But don’t ask us to tell you which Is which. The only way their mother, Mrs. Otto Peters, wealthy rancher, can distinguish one from the other Is by a peculiarly designed ring one weors. They're athletic—lovers of nearly every sport. They swim even In winter—but that's not so hard to do In San Antonio. Pick Out the King m Can you recognize royalty at a glance? If you can, here's where you can prove It, for one of the four gentlemen In the above photo Is a king. He on the right is King Christian X of Denmark, busily engaged in fete favorite winter sport, ice yachting. * V The Fury of the Gale The above photo graphically portrays the fury of the gales that sweep the British coast In winter. It shews an enormous wave breaking over the Longshlps Lighthouse off the Cornish coast at l’enzance. The size of the wave can be estimated from the fact that the lighthouse stands 117 feet high on the highest rock of thecluster.at Land’s End. ■—- y ^ —— Following a pistol battle with detectives In a darkened apartment tn Philadelphia. these four men and two women were arrested and held while police Investigate charges of highway robbery In Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Cleve'and and Chicago. Marjorie Harrison (center) is alleged to be the leader of the sextette. Besides six guns, $2,000 tn casf knd a large amount of Jew®!™ capture d by the police.