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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1928
Page
2
A survey article notes ancient uses of metals and other materials for writing. It cites a 1500 year old letter from a wife complaining about her husband's dissipation, gold plates for embassies, marble books, lead pages, brass laws in Greece and Rome, and early French archives on silver plates.
Explorers describe a tribe called maiden people where women govern and perform most duties. Men provide food and rest while women supply luxuries, with the husband’s status tied to a wife who provides most for her family.
The article argues bananas, though fruit in name, behave as bread fruit with properties similar to wheat. It claims bananas provide heat, highlighting protein fats minerals and especially carbohydrates as the energy source for muscle and mind.
An international commission on Zoological nomenclature has since 1806 worked to standardize naming rules for protozoa worms echinoderms mollusks and vertebrates. The rules require the first describer to publish a Latin name and the distinguishing characters. It is estimated over half a million genera and species have been named since Linnaeus, with millions more expected.
Hourly birth data from La Pitie shows more births between midnight and noon. deaths peak during sleep from six PM to six AM. Over a year 1138 died at night versus 88 by day, with 59 deaths between six PM and midnight. Scientists cite two factors raising pneumogastric nerve excitability.
The American Bankers Association foundation will offer 167 unit loans of 250 dollars to students in 71 colleges across 34 states. Recipients pursue banking and economics with a future certificate of honorary membership. Loans begin repayment after graduation with 5 percent interest and flexible terms.
Ed ward W Pickard outlines U S moves to recognize the Nationalist government in China and open talks for a new tariff treaty while anti foreign sites in China shrink. Kellogg offers negotiations to let China levy duties while extraterritorial rights fade and unequal treaties are abrogated. Japan resists revision as Tanaka cites treaty terms. In U S politics Wisconsin swing and Hoover week stir campaigns, with Raskob resigning from GM finance post to avoid implying support for Smith. Mexican labor unrest alarms Obregon era factions as agrarian groups demand purge of labor influences before December 1 leadership clear.
OV and Herbert Hoover travel to Stanford and Palo Alto for major acceptance addresses. Hoover plans to speak at Stanford Stadium on August 11 with a large anticipated audience and radio hookup. Governor Smith will address supporters in Albany on August 22 from the state capitol steps as part of a broader Democratic effort ahead of Wisconsin and national races.
O. O. West of Chicago, former Republican National Committee secretary and Deneen ally, was appointed secretary of the interior to succeed Dr. Hubert Work. He faces Boulder dam inquiries, big reclamation projects, oil leases on public lands, and the Alaskan railroad. Work urged a long tenure, with Hoover possibly in mind. Washington reports Coolidge offered the commerce post to William M. Butler of Massachusetts.
General Nobile and other Italia survivors arrive in Oslo aboard the Citta di Milano. An armed guard blocks access to the Italians as three Swedish expedition members join the group. The Krassin rescues more lives after the Monte Cervantes strikes a rock near Spitzbergen, while a separate flight crew aborts a long trip after a crash landing.
Tosé Toral, rider of the General Obregon stayer, admits he was urged to commit the crime by Manuel Trejo, an employee at the national arms factory in Mexico City.
The Archbishop of Canterbury Randall Thomas Davidson announces resignation effective November 12 due to poor health and the House of Commons rejection of the revised Book of Common Prayer. At eighty he has served as primate since 1903 and may be succeeded by the Archbishop of York.
During a debate on unemployment Prime Minister Baldwin announced lower freight charges on selected traffic including agricultural produce coal and basic industries would start next December ten months earlier than planned. The move aims to provide $20,000,000 yearly in industrial relief and extend the export credits scheme for two more years. The government will also assist relocation grants for unemployed workers from distressed areas and plans to send over 16,500 mine workers to Canada at a cost of $8,000,000.
British actress Ellen Terry dies at her Kent home in her eighty first year. Funeral in Small Hythe and St Pauls church avoids gloom with ashes placed in St Pauls crypt. Obituary notes also recall Dr George Colvin of Louisville and Rear Admiral W M Folger.
Capt. C B Collyer and John Henry Mears completed a world circling voyage in 23 days 15 hours stepping ashore at the Battery New York City. The trip used steamships and airplanes with total distance 19,725 miles at an average 840 miles per day.
France invites fifteen nations to Paris for the August 27 signing ceremony of the Kellogg antiwar treaty. The event will be held in the Halle d Horloge at the foreign affairs ministry and described as highly elaborate.
Ene Tunney announces retirement after remaining undefeated as heavyweight champion. In his final bout against Tom Heeney of New Zealand, Tunney won by technical knockout in the eleventh round after Heeney was knocked out in the tenth. Promoter Tex Rickard reportedly lost about $400,000 on the contest.
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