New Britain herald. [microfilm reel], February 12, 1925, Page 12, Image 12

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In Brooklyn, N. Y.. home, Walter C. Mackie, blinded world war veteran, and family are facing poverty,
but relief is in sight as early action will be given case by the veteran's bureau, it has been reported
from Washington, D. C. Photo shows unfortunate family.
Wintering at St. Moritz
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.'uvere storm resulted in Inundation of parts of Buenos Aires in the
Argentine. Photo shows the grandstand at Hippodrome or race
track under several feet of water.
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The smallest of the diverse canine family on exhibit at the West
minster show held in New York was Snow Flake an opt name
shown in sleeve of coat of Doris Jackson. - '
Puzzler for Cross-Word Fans
Good Record
Prayers Offered for Man in Living Tomb
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Among the notables at the fashionabl Swiss Alp resort of St. Moritz
are (1. to r.) Mrs. Forbes Frazer, the Princess Vlora, who was
formerly Mrs. Frank J. Gould, and Mrs. Herbert Martineau.
Fee Pencr7 ylrfisfs Compete Over the Radio
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Friends praying for safe release of Floyd Collins, trapped explorer.
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At station WNYC, New York,
cold medals were given to win
ners in shorthand contest con
cluded over radio. Among win
ners were (1. to r.) Dorothy
Toelberg, Catherine Woerner,
Mrs. Etta Fowler and Anna
.Matzen, who took air to say
word of thanks.
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Plus fours are the latest innovation for the 1925 tennis girl. The
costume may be worn either as a skirt or converted by the adjust
ment of four buttons into trouserettes as shown in photo snapped
on courts at Alexandra Pahce, England. This new tennis costume
facilitates easy movement and makes the more strenuous strokes
appear more graceful.
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Pretty Ruth Davis, Kansas City society girl, is soon to marry her
step-brother, Andrew1 J. Stormfeltz and will then find that she at
once becomes a daughter, a step-daughter-in-law and a step-daughter.
The bridegroom will be a son, a son-in-law and a step-son. That
makes his mother the mother-in-law of her own daughter as well
as the mother-in-law of her step-son, while elder Stormfeltz will be
a step-father, father-in-law and father.
The Count of Monte Crislo,
always on time in the novel of
Dumas, had nothing on Miss Vir
ginia Fleming of Augusta, Ga.,
who, school records prove, never
has been tardy or absent from
classes in her fifteen years of
schooling. The young lady is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Fleming and is now a pupil at
Tubman high school of Augusta,
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Jt was to discover a new cavern, such an this one in the Endless
Caverns of Newmarket, Va., that Floyd Collins entered Sand Cave,
ly The colossal atalttjuiitic column, shown above, was formed
through the drippings of countless centuries.
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Sailing from New York on the
steamship Amturus, a floating
biological laboratory, to solve the
riddle of the Sargasso sea were
(1. to.r.) Ruth Rose, historian;
Dr. William Beebe, leader; Eliza
beth Trotter, Isabel Cooper,
scientific artist; William Mer
riam. John Tep-Vnn. Ernost
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Jay Person, specialist on deep
sea life.
Unusual Union Masquerader
Rum-Running Ship Runs Into Hard Luck
It is reported that Pope Pius Xl
contemplates a world tour. There
is likelihood of an agreement be
tween the Vatican and Premier
Mussolini on. this plan.
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Rum runners are human beings, too, as was shown when the runner Pescawh rescued eight sailors
who had deserted the stranded Caoba (above) off Gray's Harbor, Wash. It was the Pescawhfs luck
to meet rum patrol and be captured.
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legally the father of the former
Miss Lillian Wood through adop
tion, William H. Johnson, 60, be
came her husband at Colorado
Springs, Col. Now she calls him
hubby as well as dad.
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hen police arrested Nita Smith
(above in masquerade) in Colo
rado Springs, CoL, in connection
with an oil promotion scheme,
they discovered that what tbey
thought was a boy was a girl.
Nita said she had worn mascu
line attire four years to free her
self from thralldom of sex.. With
her was a Warren B. Thompson,
who averred he is her father.
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