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Winner of Beauty Contest - Lumbermen's Picnic, 1947

from Cloyne and District Historical Society

• jamica1 said:

  Wonder what became of her

Aviette Contest - France (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• BigBlockAgency said:

  Issy les Moulineaux near Paris, France, 7th June 1912.

• The Library of Congress said:

  mecanic80: Thanks for noting the location and date. We'll edit the source data and reload the information to Flickr.

• B-59 said:

  S. article in The sun., June 30, 1912, FOURTH SECTION MAGAZINE, Page 15, ""AVIETTING MAY BECOME ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR FORMS OF SPORT". It says that the Peugeot company offered a preliminary prize of 1,000 francs for a very short flight of forty inches distance at a minimum height of four inches for propellerless aviettes. This contest took place on June 2 at Issy-les-Moulineaux. According to claudel.dopp.free.fr/Les_planeurs/Histoire/Velo-vole/Velo..., the photo shows Gabriel Poulain during the contest on June 2, 1912. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Poulain In 1921 Gabriel Poulain succeeded in flying 11 yards at height of 3 feet with his bike winning a Peugeot prize of 10,000 francs, s. www.britishpathe.com/video/flying-bikes/query/GABRIEL

• Richard Norton said:

  www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101486849

Alice Secker (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Art Siegel said:

  Alice Secker, later Alice Volpelak, won $10,000 in a New York Daily News "Most Beautiful Girl In New York" contest in October, 1919. Story, with photo, from October 21, 1919 Chicago Tribune: archives.chicagotribune.com/1919/10/21/page/3/article/wor... The Daily News looked her up to report on her life in June, 1969. archives.chicagotribune.com/1969/06/16/page/35/article/19...

• Art Siegel said:

  Another story, from March, 1920, about how Alice Louise Secker spurned millionaire suitors to marry her high school sweetheart, Ralph O. Treulich of Chicago. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1920-03-28/ed-... Photo of the happy couple: www.historicimages.com/1920-press-photo-10000-winner-alic...

• Lara S said:

  Thanks for directing us to these articles, Art Siegel.