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TOWN TOPICS BY OLD TIMER YESTERDAY * * * * I SAW Ruth Law * * * * STAND upright * * * * ON TOP of an airplane * * * * TWO thousand feet up * * * * AND with arms extended * * * * MAKE three or four * * * * DIZZY loops in the air * * * * AND each time as * * * * THE machine righted itself * * * * SHE stood there smiling * * * * AND as safe * * * * APPARENTLY * * * * AS THOSE who watched * * * * AND were thrilled * * * * AS I was thrilled FROM my seat in * * * * THE grand stand. * * * * AND after she returned * * * * FROM other hair-raising * * * * AERIAL exploits * * * * I ASKED her * * * * IF SHE felt frightened * * * * STANDING there * * * * ON THE narrow wing AND the plane * * * * SMASHING through space * * * * OVER a hundred miles an hour * * * * CAREENING and looping * * * * AND she smiled: * * * * "MY pilot knows * * * * AND I have confidence * * * * IN HIM. * * * * I NEVER think of myself * * * * BUT only if my act * * * * IS GETTING over * * * * AND my audience is * * * * GETTING their money's worth." * * * * AND I thought * * * * HERE is one who * * * * TAKES her life * * * * IN HER hands daily; * * * * WHO flirts with death at all times, * * * * AND whose only concern * * * * IS THAT she is doing * * * * HER job well * * * * NO MATTER how dangerous * * * * AND I feel like * * * * TAKING my hat off * * * * TO RUTH LAW * * * * I THANK you Ruth Law Helps Sale of Tribunes Thursday for Babies' Milk and Ice Fund Thursday afternoon before the grandstand at the state fair. [[Ruth?]] Law, world's greatest woman flyer, will do more than thrill in her airplane. She will come down into the grandstand and talk to you. She will ask you to do her a favor. Twenty newsboys, carrying special copies of The Evening Tribune in which big, halftone, specially posed pictures of Miss [[?]] will be folded, will pass through the grandstand and sell these [[?]] for the Milk and Ice Fund of The Evening Tribune. Miss Law will ask you to buy a copy containing her picture--- [[?]] is specially autographed--- the money to go to the Milk and Ice Fund [[good guess]]. [[?]] a cent goes to Miss Law. The money will be used to buy [[?]] for the poor children of Des Moines, and ice during the hot summer [[good guess]]. Help [[good guess]] her put the Milk and Ice Fund "over the top!" [[?]] you have watched Miss Law go through her daredevil stunts [[?]] fair you'll appreciate having an excellent autographed picture of [[good guess]] her. Remember---in the grandstand--- at 1:45 p.m. Thursday! Governor Kendall has been requested to introduce Miss Law,
Transcription Notes:
I am not sure if I was supposed to place the letter in the middle of the phrases like depicted, so I just placed it at the end. Also the first half of the second set of words were cut off so they were mostly good guesses.