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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1928
Page
2
The lesson sermon in Christian Science Churches centered on the Creator and creation with Golden Text from Psalms 114 15 praising the Lord who made heaven and earth. It cited Rev 4 11 declaring worthy is the Lord to receive glory and power for creating all things.
The United States government maintains a catnip patch whose produce is used by predator trappers to lure cougars and bobcats for capture. The patch serves as a tool in wildlife management and pest control programs conducted by government agencies.
The article notes that in George Washington's day it was proper to eat peas with a knife and drink tea from a saucer, reflecting historical etiquette and social norms of that period.
H G Wells outlines a global management plan with a single board, critiques religions, and urges public schooling to foster thought. Madame Reggie climbs the Woolworth building in 13 minutes 4 seconds, promoting singing for health. Cape Province farmers face drought and wars, rainfall loss threatens land, and a world tidal shift is warned as water chemistry could alter navigation.
The New York Business Men's League recommends Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for the Republican vice presidency. His father opposed the move, claiming he was being side tracked. Governor Lowden reportedly declined the vice presidency when Harding won, which would have made him president.
A spree of mining disasters in West Virginia Kentucky and Nevada claims miners lives. The Mather mine in Pennsylvania reports over one hundred miners missing with hope fading. Critics in office resist wage increases beyond bare necessities.
Ten seniors from Princeton University declare plans to pursue aviation as their life work, inspired by the growing interest in ocean flight and air travel prospects.
Classified ad from The Tribune Book Store promoting several factory rebuilt Remington typewriters. Promised to be guaranteed good as new. Ad dated 17-18.
The Pacific is crossed in the first sustained air route by Capt Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm with Americans W Lyon and J Warner in the Southern Cross. From Hawaii to Suva then Brisbane to Sydney, the 84 hour 33 minute voyage faced storms and near disaster before landing with minimal fuel.
The Republican National Committee awarded Herbert Hoover most of the contested Southern delegates in hearings in Kansas City. Hoover secured 65 of 73 contested delegates, including the entire Texas delegation, bringing his total to 472 votes. Analysts said Mellon could bridge to nomination with 79 Pennsylvania delegates if he acted. The South Carolina Lowden contest was withdrawn by Hoover supporters.
New reports say General John J. Pershing hurriedly left Paris for Cherbourg and boarded the Leviathan to return to the United States. Circulating in New York and France is the claim that friends are launching a movement for him as a dark horse Republican presidential candidate.
Arshal Chang Tso Lin abandons Peking and flees to Manchuria with his household. A bomb hits his train near Mukden, killing some soldiers and injuring him badly. Nationalists seize Peking as Hsi-shan is named garrison commander for the Peking Tientsin area and rebuilding begins. The U.S. resists evacuating troops from Tientsin despite a Chinese request. The US Supreme Court rules wiretap evidence admissible in Washington state prohibition cases, a 5 to 4 decision led by Chief Justice Taft with dissenters Holmes Brandeis Butler and Stone.
The NCLE SAM delegation seeks large sums from Henry M. Black Mer, a Denver oil operator who escaped to France to dodge the Teapot Dome inquiry. Tax, interest, and penalties totaling 8,498,985 have been assessed with the Denver filing in progress.
In his annual address to the Italian Senate Mussolini urged restraint over the Balkan threat and offered friendship to Yugoslavia. He warned treaties alone cannot secure peace without a moral atmosphere and dismissed war predictions, while signaling a forthcoming France treaty to settle Franco Italian differences.
Atlantic City abandoned its beauty contest and Galveston hosted the international pageant of pulchritude. Miss Ella Van Huesen of Chicago won Miss America and was later crowned Miss Universe. Other prize winners hailed from France, Italy, Colorado, West Virginia, Canada, Luxembourg, Ohio, San Antonio and Tulsa.
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