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Famous Equestrienne and “Babe."
This Roper Uses the Old Head.
This interesting picture shows May Wirth, noted circus rider, and her intelligent milk white Arabian steed, "Babe," without whose knack of increasing his tempo to suit his rider Miss Wirth would never, she insists, attempt anything so dangerous as the double somer- sault while riding bareback. The pretty star of the tanbark also v credits "Babe" with making her forward somersault possible.
After a 3,000-Mile Ride.
Good headwork is an asset in any line. If you don't believe it just look at the demonstration which "Strawberry Red" Wali, Calgary, Alb., cowboy, la staging in the above picture. He is seen making a perfect throw while doing a headstand and balancing himself with one hand.
'Mexico's Lindy" Killed in Crash.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1928.
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Bravely Captain Emilio Carranza (nect) defied a lightning and thunder storm in leaving Roosevelt Field on kia non-stop flight to Mexico. City, But the elements were too much for him. He crashed in a berry patch near Burlington, N.J., within a short time after his departare for home. The above picture shows all that remains of "Mexico Universal," a sister ship of Lindbergh's" Spirit of St. Louis.
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Out of the West up the steps of New York's City Hall rodu Alice May Sisty on her broncho Spottail Her 3,000 mile ride ended, she handed to Charles E. Kerrigan, assistant to Mayor Jimmy Walker, en invitation to attend the Cheyenne, Wyo., frontier celebra- tion.
Prohibition's Standard Bearers.
William F. Varney of Rockvilla Centre, NY. (left) was nomine atol for president on the second ballot at the Prohibition convention in Chicago, and James A. Edgerton, of Alexandria, Va was chosen as his running mate on the first ballot, The latter headed the Jefferson-Lincoln league movement to unite the Proibition and Farmer-Labour purcļos...
How the ancleat peoples of Ur and Chaldes lived and loved and fought 5,000 years ago were revealed by the Un Fennsylvania Museum expedition headed by Prof. Leonard Woolley, shown with Mrs. Woolley in the foreground of the pic ture, at upper right, which includes the native excavators. two photos, at upper left show a sliver rein-ring from the waggon and the sounding bor of a harp, inlaid with: gold Lapis lazuli Below is a statue of Queen Shub. Ad, whose ilress is curiously modern despite the barbaric one. trinketa; right, the Mosaic "standard of the kings of Ur" which depicts the army of the Sumerians and the king, and royal family? feast. The bottom picture shows the bead of a bull, the ship being thin gold over wood. The beard indicates: was religions symbol":
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