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...trouped with "The Four Leamy Ladies," joined Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey circuses in 1920. Thereafter she was the only artist to appear alone in her act, with single spotlight and bass drums booming. Her most famed stunt was "the giant half flange": rolling herself upward on a suspended rope, swinging her body over her shoulder while hanging 50 ft. from the tanbark. Her record: 249 turns. Her first husband was one Clyde Ingalls, her second was Alfredo Cordona, Mexican trapeze artist, leader of the Cordox troupe...
Eight white men, three Indians and one Negro have been lynched in North Dakota* since 1889 when the region became a State. The eighth white man died last week, hanging under a bridge at the end of an inch-thick rope...
...Irrepressible Count Felix ("Sea Devil") von Luckner last week set out with friends on his schooner Mophelia to cruise and shark-fish in the Bahamas. His shark-tackle: A 100-ft. rubber rope which, he solemnly declared, would snap sharks out of the water when they finished their rushes...
Having guessed, the hangman picks out the right sized rope, selects a stool of appropriate height, calls in one or more assistants to give the feet of the condemned a downward jerk after the stool has been kicked away...
...Cherbourg the two English valets were suddenly told to repack their masters' belongings. The British liner Majestic was told to stand by at Cherbourg breakwater for the Governor of the Bank of England. When the Bremen reached Cherbourg breakwater a tug puffed out. Down, down, down an exciting rope-ladder climbed nimble Governor Norman, Economist Sprague and valets. The tug puffed over to the Majestic. Hand over hand, foot over foot, up another rope-ladder climbed masters & servants. The Governor of the Bank of England was returned to Southampton safely by the Majestic, reached London just 22 hours after...