Aged-By-Ailing Babe Ruth looking very much the sick man as he was snapped at St. Petersburg, Fla., during the recent Red Sox-Yankees exhibition game. Just how illness had ravaged him is shown by the inset, a photo of the great baseball star when he was in his prime.

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Flooded Dakota Avenue-- a forlorn resident of this city sticks his head out of window (upper left) and looks down on flooded Dakota avenue, the main street of the town, as water rushes along just below window sills.

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Aged-By-Ailing Babe Ruth looking very much the sick man as he was snapped at St. Petersburg, Fla., during the recent Red Sox-Yankees exhibition game. Just how illness had ravaged him is shown by the inset, a photo of the great baseball star when he was in his prime.

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