The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1928-03-23


4 S4ZYGH offing-Friday, April 13.
E14ssSSa In fact, the year 1928
seems to be better sup
l piled with this ominous-
EzEsuzzsEzz5 to-sOme-folks date than
most years. There was
one in January, the April one will
soon be here and then there's an
other one due again in July.
So if you're a believer in this
superstition, you've got two more
such jinx days during which you'll
need to watch your step, even if you
did escape disaster on Friday, jan
uary Is. The aviators whose pic
lures appear above probably would
tell you that there's nothing in, it,
anyway. But if you needed addition
al reinsurance here's a news item
which appeared in the Kansas City
Star last January:
WARE NSBURG Mo.-Thirteen
holds no terrors for Copper Norman,
center on the Warrensburg college
basketball team. The other, night he
wore sweater No. IS and was the high
man with thirteen points. The game
was played on Friday, the 18th.
Those who scOrn the Friday the
18th superstition point to the fact
that, if it were as unlucky as ii is
supposed to be, American history
might have been vastly different from
what it has been. For instance, away
back at the beginnings of this repub-
lie certain Friday. the 18th, turned
out to be lucky day instead of an
unlucky one. For in October, 1776
King George the Third of England
caused the issuance of proclama-
ton, calling for day of prayer and
fasting throughout the kingdom, in
tended to bring about the defeat of
the rebellious American colonists, who
on a certain day, in the preceding
July, declared that they were "of
right and ought to be free and indie
pendent from the mother country.
That proclamation, as printed in the
London Gazette of October 80, 1776,
reads as follows:
We, taking into our most serious
consideration the just and necessary
measures of force which we are
obliged to use against our rebellious
subjects in our colonies and provinces
in North America and putting our
trust in Almighty God, that He will
pouchsafe a special blessing on our
arms both by sea and land, have re-
solved, and do, by and with the adj
vice of our privy council, hereby COM
mand, that a publick fast and humili-
alton be observed throughout that part
of our kingdom of Great Britain called
England, our dominion of Wales, and
town of Berwick upon Tweed, upon
Friday the thirteenth day of December
next; and so both we and our people
may humble ourselves before Almig ty
God, in order to obtain pardon of oui
sins:
And may, in the most devout and
solemn manner, send up our prayers
and supplications to the Divine Ma
Jesty, for averting those heavy judg-
ments which our manifold sins and
provocations have most justly deserved
and for imploring His Intervention and
blessing speedily to deliver our loyal
subjects within our colonies and
provinces in North America from the
violence, injustice, and tyranny, of
those daring rebels who have assumed
to themselves the exercise of arbitrary
power; to open the eyes of those who
have been deluded by specious false
hoods into acts of treason and re-
belIion; TO turn the hearts of the auth
ors Of these calamities and finally to
restore our people in those distract
ed provinces and colonies to the happy
condition of being free subjects of a