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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1933)
Opening of New Jersey Auto Racing Season Winner in Speedboat Race _ _—...*.-V*-. MB.wMw.uw.'A.aiHi.lIHUll— Century-Old Teacher nsraroy —" 1.:.. They’re off for the Summer racing season on this dangerous little auto racing track at Troy Hills, N. J. It is only one-third of a mile in circumference. Here wnmM ... sum,.? ,. &.^udnoam are the midget cars tearing around in the opening race recently. Auto racing has become the most poimlar sport of the Sunday crowd in New Jersey. ’Who’s Turn is It?” "For Cotton” Man King Cotton has staged a comeback through the person of George A. Sloan (above), President of the Cotton Textile Institute, to whom Secretary of Commerce Roper has just presented the annual award for trade association work most beneficial to both public and indus try. Mr. Sloan, pointing out that one in every ten Americans de pends on cotton for his livelihood, conducted extensive campaigns to educate the public to new uses for it. Mm. Robin believes in feeding her little ones in rotation. It is quite • strain on her memory, however, as the entire brood of hungry new comers stretch their necks with gaping bills towards the juicy morsel. Maybe they were just saying grace as this delightful picture was made. Where Man Triumphed Again Over Nature View ?! the hu*8 B™Ider Dam th8 *idea of the B,ack Canyon, leaving the spot where li.lll Uoff Ne7,’,R4Vt appeare<i flowing the the giant spillway is to be built practically dry. With liivir iiti fi?1 dlvert^ tho course of the Colorado the course of the river diverted, engineers say that Iti er into the specially-constructed tunnels along the most difficult uroblem has been overcome. Air Executive Tulip Time in Holland, Mich. On his new job as general manager of the Gilpin Air Lines, Elliot Roosevelt, 22-year-old son of tho President, is pictured as he went to work at Glendale, Cal. Young Roosevelt revealed he has been in* tarested in aviation for the past Hi years. It is tulip tima ia Holland, the land of windmills. It la also tulip tirr« in llol'and, Mich., where, once a year, the residents of the quaint towr cast off their American habits sod return to the customs and attire ol the land whence came their forebears to the New World. Here is a typica' troofe pictured in Dutch costume, admiring the blooms ao rsaumsccnt ol aid Holland. Mrs. Annie Bern is, of Rowe, near Pontiac, 111., who has been a teacher for 65 years, is here pictured after she passed her 100th birthday re cently—still going strong. Despite her great age, the grand old lady can still do tricks with that bell she's using to call the pupils to class. Lady Commissioner r—* Mrs. Lucille F. McMillin, of Ten nessee, new Civil Service Commis sioner, is pictured at her desk in the Civil Service Department after she had taken up her duties. Mrs. McMillin is the fourth woman to be honored with appointment to high Federal office since the inau guration of President Roosevelt New Harvard Head Dr. James Bryant Conant, noted authority on chemistry, who has been elected president of Harvard University to succeed Dr. A. Law rence Lowell, resigned. Dr. Conant, who has been identified with Har vard as a student and teacher since 1910, is widely recognized as a leader in scientific research. He is only 40, one of the youngest heads the university ever has had. New Romance? A» Joan Crawford, screen star, took the first step towards a divorce and freedom from Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Hollywood speculated as to the possibility of her marrying Fran. «hot Tone, with whom she is shown dancing here. Tone, new romantic star of Irish extraction, has been Miss Crawford’s leading maa for some time. Smiling the smile of victory, Mrs. Florence Burnham, of Wilmington. Del., is pictured as she coasted her boat to the judges’ stand after sh® had won the inboard class in the Albany to New York motorboat mara thon. Mr. Burnham is playing second fiddle on this occasion—he acted as the crew. Fair View from Sky Ridt ft won t be necessary for the visitor to Chicago’s Century of Progress exposition to go up in an airplane in order to get an aerial view of the treat &how. Toe sky ride, one of the big recreation features of the >now, Is here shown as it neared completion, with steel workers aloft putting on the finishing touches. Relic of General Custer Mis* Gertruda O'Connor is pictured holding tha gray uniform that General George A. Cutter, famous Indian fighter, wore when he wa* a cadet at West Point. It waa found in the New York house where Mrs. Custer died some time ago. Another relic of the famous soldier discovered in the house was the knapsack he carried at the battle of tha "LlUie Big Horn," where he was sUuq with almost all of hu men.