Life — January 12, 1928 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Weekly Prizes For the best answer to each of Kay Vernon's letters: First Prize - - - - - - $75.00 Three Second Prizes of $25.00 each Final Grand Prizes For those who have the best record throughout the Contest as a whole: First Prize - - - a Second Prize - - Third Prize - $400.00 ae 00 New Orleans Jacksonville nae Tom e |. THIS IS KAY’S EIGHTH LETTER Sr. Lous, Mo. DE Eprro! Well—I've practically covered ) the whole Southwest since I wrote \\ you last, and have had many thrills. Leaving Los Angeles, we flew over Col €& the Catalina Channel where Mr. ~ Beaman had the swimming race, and I saw a ship starting out for Hawaii, and I thought how I'd like to be on it. The line that runs there is called the Dollar Line—and I can’t understand how they can afford to carry you all that way for only a dollar! Our next stop was the gorgeous Grand Canyon. We had tea at the Grand View hotel, which is on the North rim near the Bright Angle Trail. The Grand Canyon is five miles deep and about twice as wide; it was the result of a terrible earthquake simply wons ago. From the Grand Canyon we flew straight to Phoenix, the capital and largest city of Arizona, passing over the lovely Painted Desert and the Roosevelt Dam on the n we hopped to Nogales, in } Mexico, from we followed the line of the Rio Grande to El n the Texas panhandle, where we had to set our watches back an hour. Across the river is the pictur- © Mexican quarter of the town, where all the boot- le ground at Fort Bliss, we flew to where all the Standard Oil comes from, and then as City, home of William Allen White, George Ade and other famous philosophers, and then on to St. Louis, the capital of Missouri and one of the four big- gest cities in the U. St. Louis was settled by a French priest two hundred years ago, at the junction of the Mississippi, Missouri and Chicago rivers. It was here that Lindbergh took off on his famous flight to Paris, and believe me, I was terribly excited when I landed on Langley ficld where he first parked his plane. Market Street is the street, and on this is the Cotton Exchange, in front of which is the square where the Slave Market used to be. From there, you drive north to Forest Park, the center of the residential district and scene of the Mis- souri Purchase Exposition. St. Louis has two baseball teams—the Cardinals and the Reds, which played the World Series last year. It also boasts many old, aristocratic families—the most notable of whom are the Busches and the Skourases. Before I leave here, I'm going out to the Shore Bo- tanical Garden to see the great Mississippi Bubble. Ever thine, Ko P. S—From here I'm going to fly over Little Rock and Dallas (in Arkansas) to San Antonio, Houston and New Orleans. CONDITIONS OF THE CONTEST to the February 9th iseue, when the descriptions of the scenes and places she HIE object in this Contest is to de- tect and correct the mistakes in Kay Vernon's letters—the eighth of which appears in thie issue. Subsequent letters will appear every week in Lire up twelfth and final letter will be published. Kay Vernon's tour will cover most of the principal cities of the United States, and each week her letters will include has visited. In these descriptions will be many errors and inaccuracies. Every answer to this Contest must take the form of a (Please turn to page 35) Answer Kay’s letter! Correct her mistakes! comicbooks.com