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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1921
Page
12
A London correspondent analyzes Monte Carlo gambling. He warns that false systems lure gullible players while the casino thrives on a built in edge. He notes a single coup can win 387 000 francs but the house gains about 4 200 units daily per table, guaranteed by the 37th number.
James W. Harris began as a crew member on the California Street Cable Car company on April 1, 1879. By 1921 he became president and general manager and chairman of the board after 36 years as superintendent and general manager, becoming the oldest American street railway executive in service.
Four husky calves born to a cow owned by Ralph Christie at Belmond Iowa include three heifers and a bull. The dam previously produced twin heifers last year and the farmer notes the calves are healthy and nursing. This birth is seen as contributing to lower meat butter and milk prices worldwide.
Miss Monita Lamphier of New OF Jeans selected from 1000 contestants by Howard Chandler Christe as the most beaut fully perfect girl in the United States southland. Lamphier, sixteen, is of French and Scotch descent.
An analysis notes that the adjuncts and upkeep of Monte Carlo are funded by the Societe and public funds. It argues the dividends benefit the city and that an inexorable 87th chance undermines any system to stop it. The piece mocks both the fat man and the thin man for chasing illusion.
Lawrence Kan one of two known bird teeth specimens was found in western Kansas chalk beds and preserved at the University of Kansas museum Curator HH T Martin found the specimen The other is at Yale It dates to the cretaceous period about twenty five million years ago and has ten teeth The bird of the Hesperornis family was five feet long had a short vertebral tail and no wings It was a marine bird The Kansas fossil is most complete and more valuable for its clear evidence of semi plumaceous feather covering per Professor Martin
In James Bay, mysterious canoes appeared from a balloon carried by three U S aviators months earlier. Moose Factory officials ordered local Indigenous people to leave the gas bag undisturbed, but a band of outcast Indians near Moose Factory used the fallen balloon to craft canoes that rode the waves.
For twenty years students at Garfield school in Columbus Indiana watched a tree with robin nests each spring. When a tree trimmer began cutting it down teachers and students protested strongly. The school board supported the robins and blocked removal.
Elmer Elsworth Jackett, recently employed at a department store for $3 a day, learns he is heir to $500,000. He resigns immediately instead of speaking to the press and now pursues probate of the estate of his uncle Harry W. Wilson of South Springs, S. D., who died recently.
A Chicago News quote by John Blake urges listening as the path to becoming an effective speaker. He stresses using both ears and a thoughtful mind to absorb messages, then reading and investigating new ideas before accepting them.
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