Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-05-19
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old, uses the plural. He's had 100
operations in two years. Instead of
talking about them he smiles and
has come to be known as the "sun
shine boy to thousands of persons
who have written him. His throat
trouble, which the operations aim
to correct, is improving.
H0LLYW0OD-Realism burned
Barbara Stanwyck, the movie play
er, on the leg. Fighting a fire
for the FILMS, Barbara didn't ex-
tinguish the flames with the ex-
pected speed, so they took her to
the hospital, and now she's much
better.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-What of it,,
if a man gets elected school direc-
tor and can't even read or write?
1t happened near Jonesboro and
the attorney general has just ruled
that nothing can be done about it.
SAN PEDRO-Once upon a time
lit was last week. two fishermen
hooked a 350-pound sea bass; and
the bass began swimming around,
hauling the two men in their mo-
torboat in circles. A lighthouse
keeper came to the rescue and by
dint of much muscle, Mr.. Sea Bass
was pulled aboard. That will be a
good story for the fishermen to
tell their grandchildren, who prob
ably won't believe it.
100000
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j.
There was a song, "Let the Women
Do the Work." and that is what
Mrs. Henry Ford apparently had
in mind when she suggested in an
address, that small farms, wherein
women could do most Of the work,
might help the country get rid of
whatever is the matter with it.
NEW YORK-Arthur Espisito, 80,
calls himself a human target. He's
been shot at nearly a dozen times
in the last 80 days. His most re-
cent experience was last week
when he said four men, who at
tempted to kidnap him, fired eight
times, four bullets wounding him in
the thigh and back. Hell recover"
doctors say.
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Hussein
Agha, who was the chief court
wrestler at the palace of Sultan
Abdul-Aziz, says he is lis years
old and the oldest sportsman in the
world. He was recently found liv-
ing on goats milk in the ruins of a
divinity school.
MILWAUKEE, - Joseph Coll
wants to know when he is a favor.
He almost sprained his wrists dig
ging dandelions in his lawn. Then
his daughter, Mary, z, carefully re-
planted them ito do daddy a ia
vor."
CHICAGO-Robert Campbell, 81,
Clipped a statue of Abraham Lin
coin last week with a hammer and
chisel because he 'tjust didn't have
anything else to do" Police said
he's been caught chiselling other
statues, but Campbell denied it.
NEWARK, N 1.-THE late Fer
dinand Bernstein gave a party last
week. He was host to 300 relatives
and friends at a dinner which
marked the first anniversary of his
death. He made provision for the
festive accession in his will.
GLOUCESTER, N. Ut isn't
raining rain, my dear, it's raining
you'd never guess-fishl John
Hawk seemed to feel very sorry
for Mr.. Battersby. The hawk
Owed, came up with a founder,
circled above Mr.. Battersby and
then dropped the founder at Bat
tersby's feet. AS fish stories go
this rates a-plus.
ADAMS, Mass.-sEggsl!" They
say in a certain lawyers home
here with in a year or so, eggs for
breakfast, eggs for dinner, eggs for
support" The thing of it is that
two Adams lawyers, who did some
law work for a client, agreed in lieu
of $3.50 (which the client did not
have) to accept 1000 dozen eggs
over a 10-year period. One law
yer doesn't like eggs, so the other
one will have to do the best he can
about it. Eggs, without doubt, are
very nourishing.
When Gov.
Rolph got back from the governors
conference at Richmond, Va, and
unpacked his bags, he found a
Gideon Bible Under the circum-
stances there was only one thing
to do, so he's going to send it back
to the hotel where it belongs.
Cleveland, O.-Marion Meyer
uvacn,+ o7,pnor+inp his former wife