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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1935)
When a half dozen houses try to occupy the same Imildlng lot it’s .lust too had. The fast melting snow on Heeeon Hill, Seattle, washed down over the sides of a colony of cliff dwellers and moved six or eight houses Into one small space. Giant Airship Macon Sinks in Pacific The United States navy airship Macon, which met with disaster, plunging into the Pacific oceun 110 miles south of San Francisco. Eighty-one of its crew of eighty-three were rescued. An explosion is believed to have sent the ginnt dirigible to its doom. $100 a Day for Prison Atonement One hundred dollars a day for one hundred and twenty days, served in the Joliet (111.) penitentiary for another’s crime is the compensation the state owes James A. Long, shown at right, according to a bill Intro duced In the legislature at Springfield, 111. The bill states that Long’s vindication did not remove the stain that conviction had placed upon Ids reputation, nor did It make up for the mental anguish he suffered, fearful he might have to spend the rest of his life in prison foi a crime of which he was innocent. River Harnessed at Boulder Dam Three million pounds of steel in a massive door were lowered against the Colorado river at Boulder dam, subjecting the stream to man's control for the first time. The door stopped the flow through tunnel No. 4 on the upstream side, and sent it through diversion tunnel No. 1 on the same side. Photograph shows water from the Colorado river, running through diversion tunnel No. 1 at Boulder dam. Brat* Tack* in a Hurry Customer (wanting a loan)—Do you remember the old saying: “A friend in ueed is a friend Indeed"? Banker—Yes, stranger. Telling the Truth “If you tells all de truth you knows,” said Uncle Kben, “you’s liable to be as unpopular as a prl vate detective.” CHILLY CEREMONY While spectators shivered in a cold wintry rain, two hardy souls, warmed merely by the religious fervor in their hearts, plunged into the near-frigid waters at the Bat tery in New York and sounded to the bottom in effort to retrieve a cross tossed in during the annual ceremonies of the Greek Orthodox church. WOULD BLOCK MERGER United States Attorney K me rich B, Freer! of Cleveland, who tiled suits In Federal court to block the planned merger of the Republic Steel company and the Oorrlgan McKlnney Steel company and dis rupt the hopes of establishing a re organized and vast empire of steel, with Cleveland for its capital. Scenes and Persons in the Current News 1—j[r. and Mrs. Oliva Dionne, parents of the quintuplets, visit Chicago. 2—Admiral Cary T. Grayson, new head of the Ited Cross. 3—Scene on a plantation near Urapeland, Texas, where a tornado killed ten persons. Convicts Trying to Control Swollen River Convicts from the Mississippi slate prison trying to stop h break in the Cohlwater river as flood waters pour through. The floods along the Mississippi have caused property damage estimated at $5,IKK),000 and rendered some 25,000 persons homeless and destitute. WOMAN SHARPSHOOTER Mrs. Granville Worrell, chairman of the Merlon Gun club, l'a., prac tices at the traps of the Castle Har bour Gun club in Bermuda, where she Is getting Into shape for the first international sheet champion ships. UNVEILS VITAMIN B Robert It. Williams who reported to the American Chemical society tiie discovery of the chemical struc ture of vitamin it, in tho laborato ries of Columbia university. The Achievement, long awaited by science, climaxes ‘23 years of re search, begun in the I'hlllppines. it will make possible the production of synthetic vitamins which may aid in the treatment of nervous diseases. Making X-Ray Tuba* X-rays tubes can he made of laminated paper. "All Dis World Am Sad and Dreary” Sorrowful expressions are shared by these two bosom companions, but for no apparent reason. The bloodhound is “Champion Leo of Iteynal ton," six times champion of his class In England. Maybe he's Just bored with dog shows and his young friend feels sorry for him. Oldest Skier Greets Snow Queen George* "Pop” Klee, si vty-seven-year-old ski enthusiast, who Is a landmark at Mt. Rainier, Washington, and will always be found at the big mountain when there Is activity. Miss Jean McDonald of Tacoma has been chosen as “Queen” of winter sports carnival from that city. They met at the foot of Rainier, where Olympic trials will soon get under way. -- - ’S POOR EXCUSE A couple who live In Champaign planned to do some visiting on a re cent Sunday. (Not a crlHM lu s small town, writes Al\ir. Hamburg, who relays the Item). His wife was ready to leave before lie was, so she went outside to wait. Some five min utes elapsed before he finally came out of the house, looking pale and shaken. “Do you know thnt I’ve been wait ing out here fully H minutes?” she said sharply. “But. dear.” he Implored, “please don’t get angry. I couldn’t help It As I started down stairs I slipped on the top step and fell down the whole flight of stairs.” His wife sniffed. “Well, what of It?” she demanded. "That shouldn’t have taken you so long.’’—Chicago Tribune. fNASALl I IRRITATION# due to cold*. /// Relieve the dryness and 111 /// irritation by applying \\\ II h Mentholatnm night \\\ HI and morning. 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