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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1936)
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON Teeth of British Lion Bared for Action The 16-inch guns of H. M. S. Rodney, pride of the British navy, make an impressive picture, symbolical •if the British lion’s teeth all bared for action. The photo was made off Invergordon, Scotland, where the fleet is engaged in gunnery practice. H. M. S. Encounter is in background, silhouetted by the setting sun. STAK KALL CARRIER New Aquatic Sport Is Introduced A new type of aquatic race is introduced as part of water sports at fashionable Arrowhead Springs, Calif. Pretty contestants are pictured on the edge of a pool, propelling forward inflated horses and riders with a kick of the foot. This is the championship team. In action, (left to right) Vera Scarmaella, Dorothy Barnes, Mary Gilhooly, Phyllis Brad shaw, Gene Coney, Lucy Ellis, Jean Flint, Frances Bussey. Their rider is Adalyn Skeen. Grant’s Birthplace Returned to Original Site VENUS MODEL The little cabin where Ulysses Simpson Grant first saw the light of day l.as been returned to its original site with appropriate ceremonies. For many years the cabin stood on the grounds of the state capital at Columbus, Ohio. It has now been returned to Point Pleasant, 30 miles east of Cincinnati. The birthplace of th: baby who grew to be “Unconditional Surrender” Grant of Civil war fame and eighteenth President of the United States, is the simple little white building at the right of this picture. Marty Glickman, sprinter of the United States Olympic team that went to Berlin this summer, is one of the fastest ball-carriers on the Syracuse university football squad, Syracuse, N. Y. Marty is a half back. Genevieve Grant of Chicago, chosen from among 140 girls who were regarded as “almost perfect” and was found by actual measure ment to have a figure closely like that of the classic “Venus de Milo.” Where Stars Will Shine at New York’s 1939 Fair View of the interior of the dental office trailer that the state of Indiana has sent on the road to treat needy children from three to ten I Planetarium which it is proposed to erect on New York's World’s Fair grounds. On its dome Fair vis years old whose parents are on relief. The trailer has one chair, a itors will see a miniature sky studded with stars and planets. Intricate machinery will move the heavens at divan, hot and cold running water, sterilizer, and other equipment, all will. It will be possible for example, on the day the Fair opens, April 30. 1939 tc duplicate the celestial dis of ttie latest design. play which George Washington saw just 150 years earlier on the night of his inauguration, April 30, 1789.