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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1931)
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Writ* Cram A Chaffty PALM SPRINGS t'uHfnrnin Humor in Parliament A book of recollections by Sir James Agg-Gardner. who until his re cent death heard -all of the annual flood of parliamentary words for .'4 years, relates two of the funniest (he said “most humorous'’) things that were said in all that time: “A young member, having complet ed tile peroration of a semi-success ful maiden speech, concluded. ‘And now I hope 1 have made it clear to honorable members opposite that we who sit on this side are not rpiite such fools as we look!” The other one is not quite so fun ny but just as humorous: “A member hailing from the Ktner aid isle, criticizing the parsimonious conduct of the South African war, said, ‘Is it fair, sir, that we should have our sons slaughtered at the front, and then expect them to live on six-pence a day when they get back?"—Detroit News. DROWN YOUR HEADACHE In This Cup of Tea! Lit; !nte*tlnnl movement came* ! painful headache*. Wbcsiheijitcm clog*, make yourself a cup of fragrant t.arfleld Tea. It* effect* are prompt — (eutle but decidedly certain. The khm of heBTlnetsvanl'ttc* from your atomacb. Garfield Te«i thoroughly ■iimicH ana me euie, Vlnnot wav to fluth the bow cla. At all Jrvgetots GARFIELD TEA ( World'* Slowed Animal* A rare three-clawed sloth was picked up by <_\ S. Webb, the ex plorer. It was swimming in a Brit ish Guiana river, two miles from land. Day Drenm is estimated to be about live years old. “It took her,” said Mr. Webb, “exactly 3 minutes 47 seconds to climb from my boots to my shoulders, and 1 am not a giant.” She was said to be at the top of her form. According to Mr. Webb, site and tier mates live in per petual twilight, more than 100 feet above ground. Sloth eyesight is so feeble that Day Dream wears a slnr ing target pattern between her shoulders, or prospective suitors would never be able to “find the lady.” Born in Tree, Die* at 103 Sarah Ann Ayres, who was born in a hollow tree in the Itichniond dis trict 103 years ago, has Just died at Hobart, Tasmania. Her father was one hundred at his death. Mrs. Ayres had nine sons and seven daughters, nil of whom are living. She also left 73 grandchildren, At great-grandchil dren and two great-great-grandchil dren.— London .Mail. According to Precedent SllLtciidorf—1 invented a better rat trap. PifTenpoof — What's your next nmve? SliUendorf—To a cabin in the woods, of course. Juft ns Bad ‘‘Money seems to uo to :i woman's head,” sighed 1 lie uian who hail only been married -ix months. “Olt, I don't know,” replied the old grouch, “my wife spends more on shoes than site does on hats.”—Chi fa go News. Liquid Air Production About SOD cable feet of air at or dinary temperature and pressure are required to produce one cubic foot of liquid air. No Doubt About It Blooey—"Travel broadens one, thej say.” I looey—•''Sure does. Travel to the dinner table.” It takes dcsiraeiive criticism to de stroy evils, tea ructive criticism won't do it. Kill COLD SERMfi Clears head instantly. Slops cold spreading. Sprinkle your handkerchief during the day “—your pillow at night McriSSON PROCUCT Sioux City Ptg. Co., No. 1-1922. Out Our Way 8y Williams / 1 OOKiT SEE How A • j OFFVCE. BOV E.V/ER MAv(tS A SUCCESS tM U\FE — -TUE>f SEE SO MUCH J OF TH" BVGr SMOTS* ' VNEAV<MESSES , UVOE LOAFIM* — ,T«=> MCfT* A verv Good examr_e FER A AM©moOS K»D NO-6oT vsi*-\t.NJ SOO'UE \M0RWE0 UP TO WHERE VOO V<IK1 Ride inj a NAOToR ©oat, X. cam’t SEE V\MV VOt> SHOUtO TaROVH oot Tv-V motor am’ US© OARS , 3uST to e© good examples TO OFF\CE BOVS vnmo'pe provsiim* T* Grr HOUR job of moTofuki ! •fUE. Toh amd Bottom 12-19 (DI9JI DY HEA ffBVtCE. INC. J CHICAGO SCENE FAMOUS FIGHT Political Conclave Which Nominated Lincoln in 1860 Memorable One BY RAY BLACK. United Press Correspondent. Chicago—(UP)—There must be something In Chicago air to fire po litical cauldrons white hot. Perhaps there never has been a more tumultuous party conclave than the one May 16, 1860, In a huge ramshackle structure on Lake street—the “Great Wigwam.” It was there, with the barn-like in terior packed wfith tobacco-chewing men from the prairies, that Abe Lincoln was nominated by a then new republican party. Prairie yells and the roar of can nons atop the ‘'Wigwam” and the Tremont hotel announced the nom ination of the rail-splitter and the discomfiture of the eastern faction. If history repeats itself, next sum mer’s republican convention in the Chicago stadium, a structure as dif ferent from the “Wigwam” as the Chicago of today is from the Chi cago of the '60s, may see decorum forgotten in a burst of old-time par tisan fervor. For days, plainsmen had been pouring into the city by wood-burn ing railroad trains and wagons lum bering over plank roads, to attend the republican convention in 1860. The Licoln men were at the Tre mont hotel, listening to the strata- i gems of Judge David Davis. At the Richmond hotel were Wil liam H. Seward, the cultured, elo quent New Yorker, and his par tisans. They had money, flags, brass bands and a close organization. The day of the convention they paraded, bands blaring and flags flying. Judge Davis, shrewd as a prairie fox, packed the •'Wigwam” with Lincoln men. When the eastern visitors tried to enter, they found the big shed crowded. Few except accredited delegates from the east got in. William Evarts, famous New York lawyer, nominated Seward. The demonstration lacked volume. Norman B. Judd, Chicago attor ney, nominated Lincoln. The * Wig wam” shivered to prairie yells. In diana seconded the nomination. Gov. Henry S. Lane of that state jumped up on the stand and danced a jig. The Ohio delegation split, one group siding with the Lincoln men. Other "favorite sons” were nom inated but the fight was between Lincoln and Seward—the west against the east. The first ballot showed Seward, 173’i and Lincoln, 102. Tt took 233 votes to nominate. On the third ballot Lincoln got 231’i votes. Ohio changed its vote, switching four votes to Lincoln. A man on the roof yelled: "Abe Lincoln is nominated.” The can non boomed from the "Wigwam” roof. The one on the Trcmont took up the salute and roared 100 times. PAINTER’S GRAVE FOUND Florence — (UP) — Botticelli’s grave, in the yard of All Saints’ church here, has been identified after many years by Father Giusep pe Calamandri. For nearly a cen tury, the tombstone indicating the Cultivate Too Much Land. From the Houston Post-Dispatch. What’s the occasion for the piling up of these unprecedented sur pluses of farm products, anyway? Agreeable growing weather the Iasi year? Improvement in farming methods? More land in cultivation? All of these were factors. But. per haps, the chief cause of increased production is increased acreage. It is a fact that cotton acreage was cut down some the last year, and acreage in some other crops was slightly less than in the previous years. But overexpansion of acre age prevailed nevertheless. Secretary Hyde of the federal <-:pr>artment -<f agriculture threw grave of the great Florentine paint er disappeared. Father Calamandri found the grave through consulting an old plan of the graveyard. A new tombstone will be erected. WHO REMEMBERS? When hands were calloused by the plow Preparing fields for corn. Instead of by the wheel, about The button of a horn? When not a state imposed a tax On any kind of gas? When even city dwellers raised A little garden sass? When our elite sailed o’er the pond To get their culture quicker. And never entertained a thought About the foreign liquor? When books were read by hanging lamps, Before a hard coal stove, Or logs of wood brought to the grate From out the hard wood grove? When women wore a dress in hopes Some things it might conceal, Instead of picked one out because Of what it must reveal? Well, if you’re one of those who does Remember all these things, It’s time you now should think about Such things as harps and wings. —Sam Page. Renoites Pack House When Town’s Film Shown Reno, Nev. — (UP) — Any mo tion picture in which Reno is used as the motif, or background, is sure to -pack the house” in Reno. The Renan enjoys being in the spotlight of the world. Civic pride is greater to the native of Reno light on the matter of the causes of farm product surpluses at a land utilization conference in Chicago this week when he pointed out that in 19:10 there were 336.000.000 more acres in cultivation in the United states than in 1909, and that last year considerably more land was in cultivation than in 1919, when this country was being called upon to feed a large part of Europe. Alarm has been felt by manv of those interested in agriculture’s welfare at statements showing a decrease of 84.000 farms in the United States from 1925 to 1930 But Secretary Hyde reminds us that, while the number of farms de than In most other cities although this city has been the target of attacks from pulpit and press for many years. At a recent showing of "The Road to Reno” here, reactions of the audience were immediate and audible. At the "fade in” of the picture, showing familiar sights “along Reno’s streets, the audience applauded. But when the film entered into the showing of “orgies” amid scenes that were wholly faked and bearing no resemblance to any place in the entire state of Ne vada, the audience hooted and hissed. German-Russian Air Service Show* Increase Washington — (UP) — Over a nine-year period ending in 1930 "Dcruluft,” the German-Russian Air Transportation company has realized a tremendous increase In airplane carrier service. Fom 1922 to 1930 "Derluft” planes have car ried 13,363 passengers, 729,648 pounds of baggage and freight, and 261,765 pounds of mail for a total of 3,003,702 miles. Figures show that in 1930 the company’s planes flew six times as far, carried 10 times as many passengers, three times as much freight and baggage, and nearly 30 times as much mail as in 1922, over two services, one from Ber lin to Moscow, the other from Konigsberg to Leningrad. PINT OF WINK FOR FIVE CENTS Frankfurt-Am-Main — (UP) — Nearly a pint glass of wine for five cents, including tax and tip, is a feature of a wineroom established here by vintners to stimulate the sale of their product. creased by 84,000 in that five-year period, the number of acres in cul tivation increased 15,000,000 during that period. We have simply been going in for bigger farms. The mer ger movement has struck agricul ture. Neither the growth of population iu the United States nor the in crease in demand for our products abroad has been great enough to warrant such an increase in crop acreage as has taken place in the last 20 years, or even in the last five years. The primary remedy, obviously, for farm products surplus is acreage reduction. Autobiography of a Bushel of Corn \ v - j Written by Dr. W. H. Dewey, Moville, la., January 1, 1921. I, together with other thousands of bushels, was raised on a fine farm near a village in Iowa. At the village mar ket in the fall of 1920,1 was sold by my master for 50 cents. I soon after was put aboard the cars and sent to a large mill, where my 56 pound weight was ground into 56 pounds of rich yellow meal; there is no waste in my grinding. I am all clean food. I was then put into 28 round pasteboard cartons; boxed up and sent to a wholesale grocery. Pres ently a retail grocer in the village near where I was raised, gave an order to my new owner for corn meal. So with my 27 comrads I was returned to my old home, very proud and self important. Shortly after my arrival my former master came into the store to buy some corn meal and other necessaries. I was sold to him for 20 cents and my 27 comrades I was returned to my old home, very proud at the same price. Thus from my humble beginning, with a 50 cent value, within two months and the polish given by a little travel, my 56 pounds sold for $5.60, an increase in price of $5.10 or 1,020 per cent. And thus I became the King Korn of Profiteers. It was not always thus, for my struggling ancestors related to us the story of their humble life 40 years ago in eastern Iowa where they were born and raised. They said a bushel of us was put into a grain sack, thrown across the back of old Dobbin, held in place by a boy behind and carried to the old grist mill. When ground into 56 pounds of rich yellow meal, the miller took out six pounds for his trouble and the 50 pounds remaining were taken home to our master, made into Johnnie cake, corn meal mush and griddle cakes, the staple food of an entire family for a whole month. This story of my life shows that while I have grown in self importance, I have very greatly depre ciated in usefulness, to mankind. OUR DOG HAS FLEAS By Cola W. Shepard «i The Colony, Wyo., Coyole Our dog has fleas. It Is very embarrassing and annoy ing, both to him and to me, and to a somewhat less degree - to others. We will be walking along whistling and wagging our tail (that is, I do the whistling and he wags his tail) and all at once he will be compelled to sit right down where he Is and devote all his attention to tire dislodging ol a flea that has decided to take lunch in a tender spot. And then again, my dog dearly loves to ride in the car with me, and when he does so some fleas are apt io make a mistake and take up their abode wit h me Instead-of 4nm. He does not miss them and I do not usually become aware of their friendly proximity until they have reach<'d some Inaccessible spot between my undies and me and start On a tour of exploration. And worst of all, it happens on very rare occasions that a young lady condescends to ride with me In my cor. Now if one of these friendly little fleas decides that she looks much more tender than his present host and quietly strolls down her neck or up her stocking to some selected spot that is warm and comfy, that also embarrassing. She squirms uneasily and looks at me reproachfully, while I wonder if she realizes that it is only a flea, or if she sus pects that perhaps I have presented her with some other parasite not usually discussed in pclite society. So when we opened the editorial mail the other day and found seven communications from the United States government which they hoped we v/cuJd set up and print without any expense to the government we were overjoyed to note that the department of agriculture had been*study-s ing fleas on dogs and had discovered a remedy therefor. We grasped the paper in our hand and eagerly Implored our druggist to please sell us right . way quick some “pow dered derris root,” which Uncle Sam says will kill fleas that infest our dog (and ourselves at times). But the druggist looked at us with a blank expression and sadly reported that he had none of this precious drug Then we asked for the other flea exterminator recommended by Uncle Barn's white-collared farmers. “Pyrethrum powder?” No. A drug salesman from a big wholesale drug house hap pened to be present, and the druggist said he would order some of the flea remedy for us. He handed the salesman the paper sent out by the government farm department, and the salesman referred to his big bock of drugs, all te*n» purpose. Neither of these things were listed. So our dog ' continues to exercise his hind feet and his front tegthji) effort to keep the fleas more or less quiet, and he .think* '\ we do not care for his society any more because we wth not let him ride in the car with us. * The department of agriculture has undoubtedly done a great scientific work by discovering these things which will kill fleas, but we would feel that we were getting mere for our money If they would either tell us how to gel these drugs, or discover some flea killer that can be obtained. It is nice to publish In our paper stories of how the depart ment has helped all classes of people by their srleaUfle researches, for then we will not feel so bod when we read about the large appropriations which they receive lot thg prosecution of this work, but In many eases that to abeut all they accomplish. They have a large force at Work writ ing up stories showing how useful this departmentand millions of dollars are spent in this kind of propaganda. Once In a while they actually do accomplish something for the farmer, but a very small part of theb work to of any practical value, and our dog cannot see that the depart ment has helped him one bit. NAVY IS BUSY DESPITE PEACE Washington — (UP) — Earth quakes, tidal waves, hurricanes, bandits, and ambitious Latln American generals made the last fiscal year one of Intense activity for the navy. Reporting to Secretary of Navy Adams, Admiral William V. Pratt, chief of operations, listed the varied activities of the United States naval forces in peacetime. Although a year of profound peace for this country, Pratt re ported on five naval expeditions necessary to protect American lives and property. Insurrectionist activities in Nic aragua, a revolution In Honduras bandits in China, a oommujpist at tack on Chinese coastal towns, and a revolution in Brazil called for a massing of American warships. A total of 16 sailors and ma rines lost their lives in action dur ing the year—15 marines in Nica ragua and one sailor in China. Pour great disasters called for naval aid, the Chinese flood, the Nicaraguan earthquake, the tidal wave which destroyed Belize, cap ital of British Honduras, and the hurricane which swept the Do minican Republic. Farm Boy vs. City Boy Prom NEA Editorial Service Albert H. Wiggin, chairman of the Chase National Bank of New York, declared in an interview pub lished by World’s Work magazine recently that country boys, for some reason, seem to make better bank ers than city boys. Of the men in control of New York’s 18 leading banks, he points out, not one was born on Manhat tan Island. Most of them came from small towns. Moreover, nearly half of them lacked a college education. Here, surely, Is material for plen ty of speculation. It all lines up with one of the oldest of American traditions—that the country boy is apt to be a little sharper, a little more ambitious, a little more cap able, than the boy from the city— but we never new exactly why we thought so. and it is hard to see just why it should hold good for New York’s bankers. It used to be supposed that there were more self-denial and more dis cipline in the country than in the Board and Room at Berea College Sounds Fantastic Chicago,—(UPi-Rooms for 60 cents a week and meals for 11 cents each sound like a fairy tale even in these days of depression but they are facts at Berea College at Berea, Kentucky. Dr. William J. Hutchins, father of the president of the University of Chicago, is head of the school. Men and women students, with the background that gave the na tion Lincoln, Clay and Daniel Boone, earn their way through col uty. cexueuuy me uhith* « a line training school tor youngster. But »M m*l «I»v cipJIne art: surely ubwntant enough in the family of a eJty Tattm-Jr hand, where half a down lummn-Awtogs have 1,0 be 1,1 feel and housed on a wage of $88 or $40 a week. The poorer inuuUm eff.v* M* *M» can be tr&muag rglifK6m «|ttW>? A stringent as the farmer’s aores., ' Perhaps part of tMsecret to diK* to file rat t that the tad who grows to in the country lr assailed py fewer distractions He has um»« ttmo to figure thing.-t out for IrinwoM, move time to pick md, the channel he wants to follow, unaro time to haI his young life ot lcntr<*“'t>efor© ne plunger Into the workaday worML City life Jilts n. terrifically fast pace. It can confuse even a grown man—and decs, probably, In utae cases out. of ten; isn't It bound to be something of a handicap for a growing youngf.ter? It may l-t that we rhr. i] discover, sooner or later, that any large rtty is an unhealtliful place to grow up in. Tha email town anil the open counts y offei a way «f, MJK*' that Is more wholesome. V/ill we. ivcptual ly, take out blagest elites apart, and get over the notion Ibat we have to huddle togei her In vast, groups lu order to me it a go of things? Oil Well Waste Takes Toll of Pennsylvania Dee* Hanisburg, Pa. — 44MP) — Monro chemicjil in the waste from- ar> oB well In Leetonla has caused* th« death of numerous ileer, according to officials of the State Game Coin mission. The elfin have died, pear, the will after hexing He bed the waste, it to reported. Lunpf of fevrral deer, and sam ples of waste from the well, are being rnalywil. Meanwhile, the. Game Commission has tailored Un well fenced off Soviet PWxs HfsriC r Fc*r 3ta Builders Moec . — mil — immortality of a sc il has been offl* lirlly de creed frr the leaders of new Indos trial cor; met,ions throughout th<*> Soviet union. An oeder signed by Pn mlrg Viachcf 'av Molotov makes it ob i ligatr^.v frr al) new power sta [ tione, fai.dries, mines, railroads, state ic ,etc to put up lu some com; incut place a tabkij with the name: their dislgiurr manage/r ami tiest workers, -----r~i~.-,-■ - ' *1 lege by weiiv.'rg making turnltun1 and growing food ,a«fls They milk | cows, shoe Ik.' > ;.n*l make brooms In this T.y n,<y *»i.,n the *,Me needed for a is tuttMn, indud J Ing bool*' onu anti bwu:A- The school age a ; frrfii til-to SO. While j ■ c the eoi.bg* courses I each stl«'< '* lemur a trc.iie. Th» J products "1 i.i,i students ... he* exhibited ;r, Ciiiiaj,, and later soldf to enable the: students to eoiwUtm in school. Only fixe day, of the ten pi stim I mer yielded jH hours #f,tnn:hhwr la I England l