Southern Oregon Miner
SUCCESSOR TO JACKSONVILLE MINER
EIGHT PAGES
ASHLAND, OREGON, ER I DAV, JUNE 28, 1935
New and Old Depict Advance in Transportation
COMICS AND FEATURES
Wins Coveted Award in Sculpture
Railroad week was mnrkcd In Chicago by the presence, shle by «hie, of four of the crack new fast trulns
and n veteran of the rull*. In the photograph. left to right, are the Burlington’s old 35, the Milwaukee roud'a
Hiawatha, the North Western's 400, the Burlington'* Zephyr nnd the Alton's Abraham Lincoln.
Household Goods Saved From Flood
NEW ARCHBISHOP
John Amore of New York Is shown here with his figure, “The Astron
omer," which won for him the Paris Prize in Sculpture of the Beaux
Arts Institute of Design. The award Is $1,200 in cash and a year's schol
arship In sculpture in Paris.
MOTHER'S LITTLE BOY
During the recent destructive floods In whnt a few weeks before had
been the "dust bowl," householders along the Kaw nnd Missouri rivers
used anything that would float to save their belongings. Here Is a raft
bearing the furniture front some one's washed-out home, but the owner
doesn't seem to be aboard.
New Arrivals Are Fingerprinted
SETS WORLD RECORD
Portrait of Msgr. Arthur Ilins
ley who has been made archbishop
of Westminster to succeed the late
Cardinal Bourne.
PADRE OF TIIE ROSES
Robert Wadlow of Alton, Ill., was
seventeen years old February 22
last. Ills height is 8 feet 2% Inches
and he weighs 385 pounds—and he's
still growing. He is shown here with
his mother.
Helen Stephens, twenty-year-old
track star of Fulton, Mo., running
at Kansas City, bettered by two-
tenths of a second the world KM)
meter dash record for women,
which had been held by Stella
Walsh. She ran the distance tn 11.6
seconds.
How Plant* Get Their Odor
Essential or aromatic oils occur
There Is no authentic record of in plants in special cells, or spe
the origin of the office of poet-lau cial collections of cells called
They are the basis of
According to glands.
Rev. Father George M. A. Schoo reate of England.
ner of Santa Barbara. Calif., a mild Warton, there was a verslflcator practically all the odors. Including
mannered little man, Is known ns regls, or King's poet, in the reign of the fragrance of flowers, and serve
the “Padre of the Roses." Through Henry III (1216-1272), and he was to guide insects in connection with
out the world he Is recognized as paid KM) shilling:« a year. Geoffrey cross-pollination. Chemically they
an outstanding genius In rose cul Chaucer (1328-1400) assumed the are in part hydrocarbon, or may
ture, nnd before long he will dis title of poet-laureate, and In 1389 also contain some oxygen, being
play to the public some of the prod got a royal grant of a yearly al formed, without doubt, from car
bohydrates.
lowance of wine.
ucts of his experiments.
Poet-Laureate in England
A doctor nnd n nurse of the Boston Lying-In hospital shown tnklng
tho fingerprints of tho first new arrival slnco the hospital inaugurat
ed the system of fingerprinting tho bubles. Thus the old tag system Is
abolished for this newer and more authentic method. No more mixed
babies.