Where Mrs. Warren G. yarding Will Make Her Home
Here Is the home of General Sawyer in a western suburb of :..;:i'ion, O., where Mrs. Harding will take up
abode after leaving the White House.
Veteran Engineer 'Is Retired
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John Relhansper^^r, a seventy-year-old engineer on the Chicago & North
western railway, affectionately clasped the throttle In a farewell grip, climbed
down from his cab, and closed a railroad career that has covered fifty-two
years and two months of service and had carried him over 2,000,000 miles of
rails and ties. Iieihansperger, who was retired on a pension, witnessed the
?evolution of the modern railroad system from the days when the first loco
tnotive pulled out of Chicago on the old Galena railroad. He started with the
Northwestern at the age of fourteen years and during his service spent forty
six years as an engineer. The photograph shows Mr. Relhansperger shaking
hands with William Willlser, assistant general manager of the road, as he
pulled into the depot from his last trip.
Athletes of Denmark to Visit U. S.
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This photograph shows the picked crew of Danish athletes trained by
Niels Rukh, who has been invited to bring them to this country by a committee
representing the Community service, the Playground and Recreation ^Associa
tion of America, the Russell Safje foundation, the Country Life Association of
America and the Teachers' College of Columbia university. Rukh, whose sys
tem of physical education has attracted attention all over the world, is seen
at the right, behind the color-bearer. These are not professional acrobats or
athletes, but boys and girls from the farms of Denmark.
Smallest Seaplane in the World
The "aerial mosquito," smallest seaplane in the world, built from
specifications submitted by the bureau of aeronautics, was put' through &
series of tests at the naval air station. Anacostia, D. O. The seaplane was
built by the Cox-Klemin company of Garden City, Long Island, and is to be
. nsed as a scout with submarines. It measures 18 feet over all and weighs
^ 330 pounds. /
REAL CAVE GIRL
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Emma Adams, the fifteen-year-old
"cave girl" of Kansas, discovered by
probation officers of Topeka living
with her father and brother in a cave
on an Island In the Knw river. The
girl was totaJiy unfamiliar with the
tlnery of civilized femininity and told
the Judge she wished to return to her
overalls and go back to the primitive
cave life on the island. Hut she did
want to have her hair bobbed, like
other girls, and here she Is after the
barber had worked for an hour over
her tangled locks.
IS SHE MAROONED?
T h e llappers
Hag. one of the
latest creations
for flapperdom, Is
being used to ad
vantage on the
fashionable bath
ing beach of
Newport,, It. I.
We ?ee auss jeannette Ball, one of
the beauties who may be found on the
beach or In the water most of the
day, signaling for "help," which she
'doesn't seem to need. ? v
CALIPH'S DAUGHTER
Princess Durri-Cliehvar Sultant.
daughter of the Turkish caliph, Abdul
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Tornado Destroys Utile Town in Kansas
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Thirty-five persons were injured seriously by a tornado tlmt swept down on the little tov.;;
completely demolished many buildings in the business and residential districts. The phot o-r;. r-h
on one of the residence streets.
SUCCEEDS CHRISTIAN
To the surprise of nearly everyone,
President Coolldge appointed Camp
bell Bascora 5?lemp, former congress
man from Virginia, to be secretary to
the President. lie is well known in
national politics as a southern Re
publican leader. He succeeds George
B. Christian, Jr., who resigned.
TO WELCOME THE LEGION
Here Is Miss Myrtle Miller, one of
the San Francisco bathing girls who
will swim in thev aquatic competitions
which will form part of the program
of the American Legion national con
vention in San Francisco next Oc
tober.
PERSISTENT STOWAWAY
Being determined to get into the
United States, Oscar BlgAJU of Ger
many stowed away 14 timeS\and each
time was turned back by th^, author
ities on his arrival. On the last oc
casion he was found in the coal'^unk
ers of the S. S. President FiilAore.
Unwilling to work his passage,
was placed in the brig and put on
diet of bread and water. He Is to be
deported a&aln.
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Suggests Fine Harding Memorial
William Chester McDonald is seen, strapped to the board on which in
of his twelve years have been spent, holding his most cherished possession
an autographed portrait photograph given him by President Hurtling whet*
visited the Children's Seashore Home at Atlantic City, N. J., last June. Nov
lie has proposed to the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial committee that a fat
oe raised, from the pennies of the children of America and other volantaqj
subscriptions, to erect a children's building at the exposition and dedicate t
to the "lover of children, Warren G. Harding." The proposal has been rcc^
fed and Mrs. Winifred Stoner, the author-lecturer, shown in the photojnj
with little Billy, started the ball rolling with a check for $1,000.
Somewhat Stale, but It's Bread
Bakers' strike or no bakers' strike,
while the country wonders where its
bread is coming from, Dr. J. Walter
Fewkes, director of the bureau of
American ethnology, Smithsonian in
stitution, sits calmly at his desk and
smiles at a good-sized niece of porous
substance. The piece of bread Is more
than 500 years old and was dug out
of Indian ruins in the Southwest by
Dr. Fewkes.
Getting Their Anti-Typhus Shots
Maj. Jas. C. Davis of the army medical department N i:l- ^
>hus Inoculation at th^ field hospital of the Citizens' MHitur>'
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