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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1937)
Irish Army Team Is Best at Horse Jumping The Irish Free State army team of Lieut. G. M. HefTernan and Capt. F. A. Ahearn take the jumps dur ing the pair jumping contest for military class at the National horse show in New York recently. They came through with flying colors to win the event. Joe Di Maggio Goes Fishing Joe Di Maggio, sensational outfielder of the New York Yankees, now living with his family in San Francisco for the winter, is shown as he fished for striped bass in San Pablo bay. While admiring onlookers rooted for him the home-run king brought in several fish. It’s a Hair Raiser for Clark Gable It seems that Clark Gable, movie star, has a horse named Sunny and the horse knows some tricks. One of them is to pick Gable up by the hair. Anyway the picture speaks for itself. EDISON MEMORIAL Shown after its recent completion / at Corning, N. Y., is the giant elec * trie light bulb which will surmount ' the $100,000 memorial tower to r Thomas Alva Edison at Menlo Park, N. J., where Edison invented the first incandescent electric light. The bulb, 14 feet high, contains 960 elec tric lights with a 24-inch reflector to be utilized as an airplane beacon. r 111 Case of an Aircraft Raid Prospective customers listen with interest while a street salesman in Geneva, Switzerland, demonstrates special lamp shades for use in time of an air raid. Many devices such as these are now on sale in European cities as preparations for giant air-raid drills. ____ Japan Demonstrates Man Power in China When heavy rains make roads impassible in North China for Japan’s highly mechanized artillery and commissary units, the Nipponese warriors simply lay aside their weapons and supply the motive power as shown here. These men are hauling a supply wagon over terrain where anything but man power might suc cumb to the mud. Scenes and Persons in the Current News .... [ 1—Ray Hanson of Minnesota, newly crowned national corn-husking champion, shows how he husked 21.30 bushels of corn In 1 hour and 20 minutes at the national contest at Marshall, Mo. 2—King Carol of Rumania bestows a fatherly kiss on his sixteen-year-old son, Prince Michael, after the crown prince was made a sub lieutenant in the army. 3—Lord Cecil, chairman of the First National Congress of the International Peace Campaign as he listened to discussions at the opening of the congress in London, recently. 80 Million Year Old Footprint Dr. Barnum Brown, curator of fossil reptiles of the American Mu seum of Natural History, is pictured with the largest reptile footprint fossil ever discovered. Found in a coal mine near Cedaredge, Colo., on his recent expedition, the footprint of this monster dinosaur, estimated to have lived 80,000,000 years ago, is 34 inches wide and 34 inches long, j Tomato Barrage for Swarthout in New Pieture Gladys Swarthout, opera star and actress, wipes tomatoes from her features following a barrage of fruit tossed at her during a scene from her newest picture. She was playing the role of an unappreciated ama teur. Note tomatoes on Miss Swar thout’s $2,500 dress which she wore for the scene. Gijon's Conquerors Stage Victory Dance Dancing and singing through the battered streets of Gijon, the Nationalist rebel troops of General Franco are hailed by women of the city as they celebrate their victorious march through the Asturias to capture this important Loyalist stronghold. PRIZE W INNER This is the picture that won both the class prize of $500 and the grand prize of $1,000 in the newspaper na tional snapshot award, for Edgar T. Clewell, bakery machinist of Al lentown, Pa. A picture of bis little daughter, it was adjudged the best. , Here’s the Original “Big Apple” Dancers everywhere are doing the “Big Apple," but few know about the original which happens to be this unique country cafe and ballroom near Wathena, Kan., the capital of the apple country. Safe Counsel: Use Chains For Rad Weather Driving CAFE counsel for bad driving ^ weather, according to police officials and safety engineers, is to use tire chains. This warning was issued today, with winter driving conditions pre vailing, after the report of the Na tional Safety council that 28,140) persons died in traffic accidents during the first nine months oi} 1937, an increase of 9 per cent over the same period last year. With greater driving danger in winter because of ice and snow, police officials and safety en gineers warned that tire chains provide the most positive anti-skid) and traction yet developed. The Contest board of the Amer-i ican Automobile association, in of-* flcial test No. 3143, conclusively; proved the greater margin of safe-) ty and stopping ability provided) by Weed tire chains. Vividly il-> lustrating their imperative neces sity on snow or ice, the AAA test, showed that chains, on rear wheels only, stopped a car in 45.8' per cent less distance than when no chains were used, and in 66.8 per cent less distance where chains were used on all four wheels! (IT'S GREAT | TO BE BACK AT WORK when you’ve found a way to ease the pains of RHEUMATISM and do it the ^inexpensive I *^way, too. I You can pay as high as you want for remedies claimed to relieve the pain of Rheumatism, Neuritis. Sciatica, etc. But the medicine so many doctors generally approve— the one usea by thousands of families daily — is Bayer Aspirin — 15/ a dozen tablets — about 1^ apiece. Simply take 2 Bayer Aspirin tablets with a half glass of water. Repeat, if necessary, according to directions. 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