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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1929)
II.1.1 STRATKD KKA I t ter. i i i i . x J u in- 2 2 . 1 *i'_.i is Painting Wins u jjj. ju JO H N T. HA1LSTALK, an elevator boy and porter, whose painting a ‘’B eautiful Day." won the first prize in an art con test over such paintings as those of Sargent and other notable artists in New York. Mr. H ailstalk has had no training, but produces solely through an unusual native talent. cm \>irio\ > # »•>*> * (dM trfir's P e rfo rm a n c e V*lniihd* S jmh I World 1 T his iady is the cham pion w aterm elon eater of all tim es. At m e e t- tin*? she ate three whole w aterm elons in one hour and a half. Ih e sea* ton oi the year for her to defend tier title lias alm ost arrived She should have plenty of com petition. | extrem e right N athaniel George diown wli ill | th e 100 yard da durttut the A A U cham pion* ships on th e S outhern Pacific Prank Wykoff is »econd from righ and C harley llorali is at left h it- tni* tape T lie latter two runners are considered America ** '.fastest hum an > THE LIFE OF BERT WILLIAMS 1, W hen he reach ed th e Boy Scout age he w as fond o f tram p in g alone clim bing the hills, fishing a n d indulging all bis n a tu ra list in stin c ts. 2. lie possessed an e x tra o rd in ary sense of I 3 T he W illiam s fam ily lost tlirlr m oney hum or, fa r beyond his yeur*. and o ften 1 and B ert's fattier, falling in h ealth , was shocked the m em bers of hi.s fam ily, w hen he displayed in chu rch , a n tics th a t offended th e j forced to m ove U> < alifo rn la where hi.s later boyhood was spent. deacons and dem onesses. r~l £J T m I by BEN DAVIS, Drawn by A. W. REN NEGAKBE 4. Ills taste for liooks an d academ ic study rapidly developed, an d while here he often stu died lap* a t n ig h t in tl»e Imp«* th a t bis would lie ad m itted to I e la n d S tan fo rd 1'nl verslty. Itu t he was never financially able to reallre Ills dream