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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1938
Page
2
The piece portrays Washington workers as cogs in a lax system with many government jobs seen as bloated. It cites Roosevelt's wage hour plans, labor and industry conflicts, and how Congress responds only under pressure while praising a few reformers in public service.
A roundup of film world gossip notes mentions Pare Lorentz’s The River for Farm Security, Selznick and Paulette Goddard reconciling over Gone With the Wind, Kate Smith and Hortense Od lum, Peter Lorre pranks, Norma Shearer’s reminiscences, and Olivia de Havilland with Anita Louise in Studio Club. Odds and ends include Island in the Sky cast serenade, Pick and Pat moving to Republic films, and Prank Black managing a farm amid stock holdings.
A New York lad named Philip Luongo volunteers as a human target for a French sharpshooter in a Bronx vaudeville theater. He endures a wreath and rifle shots to prove he is not yellow, earning thunderous applause and a rare confession from the veteran showman.
Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner became a memorial for writers starting with Chaucer who lies there as clerk of the Works. His tomb sits beneath a Canterbury Tales stained glass window. A medallion honors John Gay with his inscription Life is a jest and all things show us I thought so once but now I know it.
The large iguana chiefly inhabits the tops of trees overhanging streams in Central and South America and the West Indies. When frightened it jumps into the water and stays submerged for a period before reemerging.
In his will, P. T. Barnum dispensed with a four million dollar estate and directed that his grandson C. H. Seeley receive 25000 and change his name to C. Barnum Seeley to preserve the Barnum name. Provisions also ensured the continuation of Barnum & Bailey as circus proprietors for fifty years from October 26, 1887.
A fragment describes a small triangular tract in Switzerland once set aside over a century ago as refuge for wayfarers. The text notes it was called no man’s land and dwells on its status as a country within a country.
The article explains soil types and how texture affects gardening. It lists crops and their preferred conditions, noting cool moist periods for peas and root vegetables and hotter, sunlit days for warm season crops.
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