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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1925
Page
2
Western states unite to teach healthy eating for proper growth in children and adults. Diet plans emphasize two vegetables daily, milk for all, one fruit and cereal per person, and ample water. Meat and eggs are noted as possible essentials for hard work and active children.
Desolate San Nicolas Island off Southern California is barely inhabited by MacArthur and his wife who tend 2000 sheep. An abandoned woman, left on the island in 1830 to care for a forgotten baby, was later found nearly insane, with no other inhabitants or sign of the child.
The piece surveys top trapshooters led by Paul Earle of Starr D C with a 2910 average and 193x200 score. It notes runners up W B Arey J H White and others, detailing state titles and handicap marks. It highlights the 1926 Annual Trapshoot Meeting January 4 in Dayton and the Pinehurst Midwinter Handicap January 11–17 with $2,500 in prizes and hotel info.
Edward Squires found a ten foot long tusk weighing 250 pounds on a Dominion Creek mining claim forty miles from Dawson Yukon Territory. Nathan Kresge, museum caretaker, posits the tusk was buried under heavy earth with paystreak and that gold nuggets filled cracks like modern tooth fillings.
An authentic fossil tusk from the woolly elephant, from the glacial or postglacial period, is reported with gold filings resembling a modern tooth. The find underscores early dental work in prehistoric species and is linked to an AP dispatch from Seattle dated December 17.
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