Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-01-04
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Jan. Is, it will be greatly appreci-
ated by Chicago's newly organ
lied Anti-Superstition society.
Seeing such womer," said Sid
ney Strotz, president, "is consid-
cred one of the most unlucky
jinxes in history. And if you e
three on n day great calamity IS
supposed to overtake YOU"
Members of the society are go
ing to try to do everything that is
supposed to bring bad luck from
Jan. l to Jan. 10. They want 10
show that evil omens mean moth
ing.
One of them got in some prelim-
mary practice yesterday by smash
ing a mirror.
Pittsburgh. - Willard Kennedy
says the difference between utopia
and trouble is ten miles, if you be-
lieve in signs.
AT a northwest Pennsylvania
crossroads he found two signs:
Paradise miles. Panic &
miles,"
Millville, N. Whatever else
he may think, Frank Egbert can't
accuse his wife of holding 4
grudge-long.
Christmas night she had him
and Miss Yvonne Davis arrested
because they were 'too friendly
In default of $500 bail each, they
were locked up.
What's happened this time
asked Mayor Jones when Mrs. Egg
bert appeared next day at the po-
lice station.
"I've been thinking" she said.
Here's bail for both of them"
Belleville, Ill.-Six friends who
felt they had been socially
"snubbed" by DR.. Grover Cleve-
land Otrich, a big game hunter,
because he did not invite them TO
one of his venison dinners, sent
him a note and told him about it.
The doctor proceeded to make
amends.
He invited them to a dinner.
They ate heartily and then the
doctor told them a little secret
that they had eaten, not venison,
but equus caballus. In other words
horse meat! He followed with
real venison and those who were
able to partake said it was good.
Racine, Wis.-ThoroughDred fib-
beers who belong to the Racine
Liars club are whipping them
selves into shape for the annual
tall-story, contest Jan. l. Training
rules:
Refrain from truth at all times;
look everybody in the eye; prac-
tice calmness while telling credi-
tors you'll pay them after the ho.-
days; sit with hands tied to break
any inclination to fidget with coat
lapels while lying"
Melville, N. flames Allen,
motorist, knows how Job must
have felt. His car skidded into
Laurel lake. He almost drowned
before he broke a window and
swan ashore. His clothes froze
stiff before he was picked up and
when he finally did get home a
summons to face a charge of driv-
ing without a license awaited him.
Beloit, Wis.-America is getting
to be a nation of r%oundheads.
"In the process of intermarriage
of peoples the 'r~oundheads' domi-
nate" says Professor Paul H.. Mes
bit of the department of anthro-
pology Of Beloit college. "In this
way the 'roundheads' are tending
to stamp out the 'longheads'."
And the goods are no exception
The professor looked at the heads
of the female first-year students
and found that nearly 80 per cent
of them were "roundheads."
The professors method of es-
tablishing whether a person is a
"roundhead" or a 'longhead" is
by the ratio between the length
and width of the skull referred to
as an index. If the fraction is rs
or or below the skull is a 'long-
head"
Steubenville, O.-Warnings of
fire hazards in connection with
the Christmas season, issued by
Fire Chief Edward Green, were
faithfully observed by everyone
but firemen. The only blaze oc-
Cured in a firehouse where fire
men, engaged in a controversy as
to whether their Christmas tree
was inflammable, applied a match
to find out. 1t was.
Portland, Ore.-Traffic Serge
ant Fred C. Short, of the Portland
police, came to work with his num-
Der mines surrounded by a pair Of
spats. Fellow officers decided
the picture had best be completed,
So they presented him with n
+urLav-headed cane and a monocle,