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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1928
Page
2
On a luxurious holiday night a man proposes an escape with his love to a magical moonbeam. She declines, citing a hairdresser appointment tomorrow, ending the moment with a witty, practical rebuff.
Mr. J A L Fisher lists England’s exports to the world: Parliaments railways factories cooperative societies safety bicycles tobacco afternoon tea athletic sports aseptic surgery child welfare work Boy Scouts and girl guides jury system Salvation Army high class tailoring Gilbert and Sullivan Germany in beer music and discipline France in taste and the United States in mechanical inventiveness London Tit Bits notes the survey.
Ford urges new owners to use dealer service every 500 miles for oiling greasing and checks. Dealers are trained to provide prompt reliable fair service to maximize miles of carefree economical motoring with minimal trouble and expense.
A reflective excerpt urges facing troubles to lessen fear. It compares distant storms as imagined clouds and notes many worries vanish when approached. The piece advocates living in the moment and practicing omission to concentrate on the present.
Charles Butts of the United States Geological Survey described in a Washington Academy of Sciences communication how eastern United States mountains once rose and fell over hundreds of millions of years. Paleozoic rocks show Appalachians alternately submerged and exposed, revealing a slow, continual oscillation of land and sea with no sudden upheavals.
The article notes that men have faced prison for stealing a kiss and cites tales where women halted wars by withholding kisses. It mentions Antony and Cleopatra and modern opposition to kissing, including bans by a Soviet health commissioner, while mistletoe remains popular at Christmas and many lovers imitate biblical exchanges at wells.
The emigrant route known as the Oregon trail stretched about 2,000 miles from Independence Massachusetts to Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River.
News review covers the Vestris disaster with 111 dead including 43 women and children, 215 rescued. Captain Carey blamed by survivors, ship’s life boats and davits reportedly faulty, SOS sent late. Rescue ships and coast guard units rushed but the vessel sank hours after distress calls. Also notes Hoover tour plans, Coolidge Angustia day speech, and political comments.
Etna calmed toward week end and eruption neared an end. Lava solidified and advance slowed yet menaced towns. Fascist officials evacuated refugees, provided shelter and food. Reconstruction planned with new transport routes around lava beds. Damages estimated at 9 million dollars. Three towns ruined, railroads cut, citrus groves and vineyards destroyed, few lives lost.
President-elect Hoover travels aboard the battleship Maryland on the good-will tour. The first port of call is Corinto, Nicaragua, as Latin America prepares to welcome him.
Internal Revenue Bureau figures show 52 individuals with $1,000 or more income in 1927, bringing the total in that group to 283. The report notes a marked drop in those reporting incomes to $10,000 yearly and a considerable decrease in higher earners. Corporate gross incomes also fell compared with 1924 figures.
Fuliu Maniu, head of the Rug minian peasant party, is summoned to form a ministry for a troubled county and begins by dismissing officials to purge corruption before elections. Opponents unite with big business, planning funds for December national elections. Raymond Poincare forms a new French ministry with himself as premier but excludes Radical Socialists and M. Louis Marin from the war debt ratification push.
Los Angeles district attorney Asa Keyes pleads not guilty to bribery charges and faces trial with seven others on December 5. The case touches a possible reopening of the Aimee Semple McPherson kidnapping conspiracy matter, with grand jury witnesses providing documentary evidence about about 800000 dollars used in the evangelist's defense before charges were dismissed. England-based evangelist Almea has denied the story with satire.
MZ Sigrid Undset of Norway received the 1928 Nobel prize in literature. Henry Bergson of France is cited for 1927, carried over from last year. Germans Heinrich Wieland of Munich and Adolf Windaus of Goettingen won chemistry for 1928 and 1927. The 1928 peace prize will be decided by a five member Oslo committee.
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