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Show THE PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT Worlds Longest Bridge to Be Opened Soon minim mm turn WHO WAS ;; i; WHO? ! By Louise M. Comstock mill Seating Plan for National Conventions H-- 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 BILL JONES Llgbtnln Bill lives as Frank Bacon who carried that role In the play through a spectacular Llgbtnln run of three full years In New York, or as Will Bogers who recently brought It further glory In the talkies. But Llghtnln' " had a real self quite outside of the play be InHis name, it has recently spired. been revealed by the Nebraska state department of publicity, was William Wallace Kennedy, "Wall" for short, who lived some sixty yean ago In Brownsville, Neb, In the early nineties Kennedy left Nebraska and located at Napa, Calif, where he became Jailer and guard of a chain gang assigned to Wall general duties about town. was a great teller of good yarns, many of which the county clerk wrote up for publication In the local newspaper, among them the story of driving bees across the plalna The editor of the newspaper was Frank Bacon, who recognised the merit of the stories, conceived out of them the character of their teller and built up about him the framework of his play. Llghtnln " was published In 1918 under the of Wlncbell Smith and Frank Bacon. MOST of us TO .Completed concrete span, the Ion feet In the world, which la to be known ai the George Westlnghouse Memorial bridge, following Its opening at Pittsburgh this summer. The bridge will sure several miles of hill end dale travel on the Lincoln highway from Pittsburgh to the east Scenes and Persons in the Current News I! V V CALAMITY Monument to an Ancient Race in Mexico ' V JANE In Ufa as Martha Canary. That was in Missouri In 1852. Over her grave stands a monument which bears the name Mrs. Jane Burke." That monument is In Deadwood, 8. D, where her life ended In 1908. In between those dates Is the history of one of the most famous or notorious-wo- men In frontier history Calamity Jane, a woman of many husbands and many names, a woman who frequently dressed In men's clothes and held her own with men In the. rough life and dangerous work of taming the wilderness. Why the Calamity Jantf! .One legend says She saved the UfS of an army officer during a fight with Indians, and as she carried him safely out of danger he remarked Jane, you're a wonderful little woman to have around In times of calamity. From now on your name's Calamity Jana' But that has been proved to be pure myth. For the real reason, take your pick of these (any one or several will do as well as any other): Because she carried guns and was. given to Inviting calamity; because she suffered several accidents In Cheyenne, Wyo and was considered unlucky; because she bashed the heads of men who displeased her and always brought calamity with her Into a camp; because of her bedraggled and notoriously appearance when returning from her trail expeditions or In liquor or because her lovers, sometimes miscalled husbands, developed habits of dying violently. SHBT started Copy of the seating plan of that Chicago Stadium for the national Bepubllcan and Democratic to be held in Chicago In June, Dad and Daughter in First Meeting ITS A RAY MOTOR V . jtm - One of the temples at Callxtlahuaca, Mexico, where 28 publle buildings of have been excavated on the site of the undent city. TO TRY COME-BAC- K . pre-Axt- ec - " tribe of Prepare for Eucharistic Congress buggy-smashin- g It was a momentous day In the lives of this pretty American girl and her father, a French opera singer, as they met for the-firtime on the deck of a great ocean liner at New York. Like the story of one of the father's beloved operas, reads the account of how Louis Bousseau and his daughter had unsuccessful sought each other for years, once actually living within calling distance of each other In New York The girl was bora In Dallas, Texas, a few weeks after her father and mother had divorced and separated. Louise Bousseau was at the pier as the liner glided up the bay, bringing her father to her. She had waited all her life for him. twenty-one-year-o- st Tries Worlds Oldest Automobile V Sensational technical trials are taking place on the Tegelar shooting terrain near Berlin. The Berlin engineer, Herr Johann Winkler, who became well known by his Interesting ray motor works. Is constructing a new ray motor rocket which he says Is to serve In the future as a universal space car. Contrary to an ordinary motor, the ray .motor works by means of the ray of combustible gas, so the principle Is to replace the powder rockets hitherto made, by ray motors, which possess by far the larger propulsion power than the power rockets. WEST POINT CHIEF V V CAFFY RICKS as Cappy Ricks, hero of P VEN the book by that name and of its sequel Cappy Hicks Retires," both by Peter B. Kyne, Capt Robert Dollar enjoyed little more excitement and fame than he has found In real life. His Is one of the most romantic stories In the snnsif of modern commerce Captain Dollar Is one of the fast disappearing tribe sturdy, hardworking capitalists with training In mining or lumber camps, on the western plains or on shipboard, who in the 80s and 90s rose to take commanding positions In the commercial world. Dollar rose from a lumber campwhere he started In as camp cook, became a pioneer In transpacific trade and In a period of some thirty yean has built up a transportation system which Is one of the most famous, If not the largest, In the world. Don't wait for your ship to come In, he used to say. Just ' keep sendln em out They'll come In all right as long as you keep sendln em out In 1901 Oaptaiw Dollar sent his first ship out to the Orient laden with lumber and brought back In It a cargo of silk and spices, rice and tea. He thus practically opened the slumbering Orient to American trade, which has Increased 800 per cent since that first-han- Georges Carpentler, the famous Orchid Man and former French heavyweight champion. Is now in light training at Philadelphia to determine whether of not he Is physically fit to attempt a return to the ring. NEW Y. W. C. A. HEAD A scene In Phoenix park, Dublin, during the construction of some buildings which are going up especially for the eucharistlc congress which Is to be hdd here this summer. d Mrs. Frederick M. Palst, of Wayne, Pa who was recently elect- ed president of the National Board of Young Womens Christian Association of the U. 8. A. tlmfe Today a multimillionaire and the Aid A ulttd American east of the Little Boy (reading Item from Sues, Captain Dollar resides In San Manchuria) What does It mean Rafael, Calif., where he lives fru- here by seasoned troops, dad? gally and personally conducts famDad (Immediately) Mustered by ily religious services dully, In his the officers and peppered by the en- best-know- Barney Oldfield believes In contras ta Barney, who Is In Los Angeles to construct a racing car In which to try for a new world speed record, tried out the world's oldest automobile. The old car, built by Achllle Fhlllon, a Frenchman, and exhibited at the Chicago World's fair, csn Still do a snappy seven miles an hour, driven by a pulling steam engine. Get a Better One Mother, did you buy Ine - from the stork? Mother Yes, dear. Bobby Ive often wondered why you didn't pay a few dollars more and get a boy without freckles. Bobby . own hornet (Cl Ethics Is It quite safe to tell her a secret? said one woman. "Yes," answered the other, If It doesn't concern yourself. She may repeat It, but She will never tell who told her. n MaJ. Gen, William D. Connor, commandant of the army war college, who will replace General Smith as superintendent of West Point when the latter retires. lfll, Waatara Hmpipa Us lea.) emy. Have Yen? Eves aa Yoa and I "Do yon know where you are?" A famous traveled writer says that the hardest thing to find on demanded the tourists wife. some South Sea Islands is a South No, he admitted, Im as lost as Sea Islander. We wonder If he has the average American Is when he ever tried to find an athlete around starts on the third verse of the naan athletic dub, tional anthem. In the historic gardens of San Juan Capistrano mission In California there's a sun dial that tells the precise truth about the time, all the tinier The regulator, which keeps the dial from getting off the track, Is the invention of Father St. John O'Sullivan, In charge of the famous old mission. Photograph shows Father St John O'Sullivan with his arrangement of wheals and disks on sundial which keeps the dial correct to within a few seconds at all times of year. |