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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1931)
Princess Presents Colors r-;-■! 9 F! R. H. Princess Mary, of Great Britain, is shown presenting the colors to the British Red Cro*s Society in an impressive ceremony at the Duke of York’s headquarters in London. An especially ap pointed guardian is shown kneeling to receive the stand. Leaders of the Red Cross movement throughout England took part in the ceremony. A Good Car Gone Bad ■ iTTJXr LsWWBr-^HWUMMUHV * 1 Maybe it was a leap ior nonor to clear its name tnat inuucea tnis once respectable Boston automobile to drive off the road after it had been appropriated by several amateur auto thieves. At any rate, the thieves soon discovered they couldn’t drive the car suc cessfully, as this picture proves. All hands leaped to safety, how ever, before the crash and escaped capture. Like to sell the luck less owner a new car? Smash Record with Kiel Oil Flying a Bellanea monoplane, powered with a Deisel engine burning crude fuel oil, Walter Lees (left) and Frederick Brossy (right) are shown at Jacksonville, Fla., airport, just after landing following theii setting of a new rton-refueling endurance flight record over the south ern city. Lees, who drove a horse car to pay for his flying lessons, and Brossy set a mark of 84 hours and 33 minutes aloft without once taking on fuel or landing. Dr. Ralph Greene, official timer, is shown in center. Rider Stays with His Mount unuea we stana, aiviaea we ran aoesn t apply in inis case, ior when “Go Along’’ came to grief at a steep jump during the Worth ington Valley Horne Show at Baltimore, Md., his rider, If. H. Dixon, ■tayed Tight with him. Such affecti<fn between a i*14eT and hia mount is touching and all too rare. Luckily the earned* recorded this instance for posterity. Aller 51 Years tx runiiit HI# BtS'f Di{ 1 ■•***> - All of "the boys” in the New York Central Railroad yards near New York City were sorry to bid farewell the other day to Jim McCarthy, 70 ycnrs old, who retired after 51 years’ service as "the finest engineer in the yard." Jim is shown above in the decorated cab of hi.s engine with the Missus. Winner’s Reward Averaging 92.C29 miles an hour for 600 miles, Louis Schneider, former motorcycle cop, captured the Memorial Day race at In dianapolis as 150,000 looked on. Here is what Schneider won be sides the $40,000 first place prize—a great big hug from no body less than enthusiastic Mrs. Schneider. The photo was taken just after the long grind was climaxed by victory. Beach Rompers The latest for Summer resort wear is the short comber suit. Made «/ printed, striprd or dot ted material, these *k:<s are par ticularly adapted lor occasions when active sports are on the cal endar. t.ilian Bond, screen player, shows a model with gay red polka dott and flowers scattered on a ground of black. Not* the waist line bodice and Bating akirt with j mhartM lOKsaih “He Was More Than a Friend—Byrd Genuine human sorrow accompanied Igloo, peppy little fox terrier in his day, to hii grave in Pine Ridge Cemetery, Dedham, Mass. Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd, with whom Igloo shared the perils of tho South Pole, is shown standing at left , with head bared as his pet dog and eompaniow is lowered into the enrth. Igloo ac’-.-.rnpaiued lha Admiral on his lecture tour following the Antarctic expedition until indigestion .killed hna. Where Poet Toiled !—!—!-*._™ Commemorating the first issue of Walt Whitmans “Leave* of Grass,” the Authors’ Club of New York recently unveiled the bronze tablet shown above at the spot in Brooklyn where the Rome Broth ers’ little printing shop Ret up the first edition of the noted author's work. Whitman himself toiled at the compositor’s case, slowly set ting type for a book that was long unappreciated. Now original copies of the first edition bring about $5,000, Marches Alone ooie survivor ot ail tnose «sigo* boys in gray who went off U ,'vur in 1801 from Alexandria* Va., General Edgar Warfield, 38 (above), stood alone at the ne mo rial to Confederate d>*a4 >a his city on the duy sot aside for annual tribute to their mernerji. Boy Scouts formed an hononity escort for the aged vetera*. fliat’s the Spot! Dramatically, Howard Bridgctt3, New York broker, points to the sandy stretch in Brooklyn where he fought • duel-to-the-death with I)r Joseph *f. Doughlin over what Rridgetts mjtt was domestic trou liles. Bridgetta, bleeding profusely from a bulSet wound in his arm, ataggered hMo police headquarters after being the objec* *f a wide spread search in the mysterious case. Th* broker plead*/ self defense, but refused to say more concerning the encounter can the “field of Ronor.r Yvhat a Generous Stork ! Some people may look upon twins as no blessing whatsover, bat haw ibout two sets of them within 14 months? Mrs. Joseph DusrJ*, J* /ears old, of Pittsburgh, Pa., is photographed with her foursome, butt they’re net quite ready for the golf links yet. Married at 24, Mas Dusch is the mother of ten children, including the new twins, a boy awn ei girt. Bobby and Melvin, shown at the left and right of their mother are a year old. Sweet t riplet Graduates Even President Edgar D. Lee, of Christian Collegr, at Cohsnen, Wr> was unable to determine which was which whi n the smiling Wiekiwi triplets graduated together. Here they are—Mary, Julie and i'heir home is at Bucklin, Mo. Aren’t they sweet?