Booted ice skates were not yet mainstream sports equipment at the time of this short. Most skaters attached the blades to their street shoes. Over the decades, modern full footed skates, both ice and roller, would emerge.
This early short features Bonnie Poe as Olive and shows the ink bottle ending.
Olive's full name is seen on her mailbox.
One of a number of Popeye shorts which was sent to Asia in the 1980s to undergo a redraw and colorization process.
A similar wild river rescue scene appears in Niagara (1953), but during the summer and with a less happy ending.