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Show t THE BULLETIN THE BULLETIN A WEEKLY PUBLICATION Printed at 2044 South 11th East PREHISTORIC Sugarhouse, Utah Issued Every Thursday Business Office and riant at 2044 South 11th East Advertising Rates on Application O. C. CONNIFF, Publisher TERMS OF SURSCRII'TION Salt Lake City, Utah' One Year in Advsnce Sue Months ill Advsnce One ear m dvance Elsewhere in the United States Tha existence of a bird which laid eggs the size of a football, towered to a' height of ten feet and, in flight, possibly gave rise to the legend of the "Great Roc" described in The Arabian Nights," is recalled In Time Magazine, which reNew York. ..$1.75 ..... ....... a 1 .00 200 ... to do. And always, each spring, there are things to keep you home. Young A garden that needs atera In school. Redecorating that must be done. Your job. attention. Those things outwelght April's desire for change . . . but they never completely vanquish it. They're fun, and Sugarhouse is grand to live in . . . but behind the things that go to make up every day living! youd still like a change. AiuTevery year you've said to yourself, "Why doesn't someone do something about It? . ADVERTISING A hen is not supposed to have much common sense or tact, yet every time she lays an egg, she cackles forth the fact. A rooster hasn't got a lot of sense, to show, but none the less, most roosters have sense enough to crow. The mule, the moat quit of beasts, has a persistent way of letting folks know that he la around by hit insistent braying. The busy little bees, they buzz, bulls bellow and cows moo, the watch dog barks, ganders quack, doves and pigeons coo. The peacock spreads his tail and squawks, pigs squeel and robins sing. And even snakes have got the sense to hiss before they bite. But man the greatest masterpiece of all, that nature could devise, often .will atop and hesitate before he'll ADVERTISE. Selected. Your Sugarhouse Dealer Has for your Inspection Car of the Low Price Field ports the sale In the United States of a huge egg of the ornithological terror which, known as the eleTitan) phant bird," (Aepyornia roamed the island of Madagascar at approximately the end of the Glacial period. Bought by a San Francisco collector at a reputed price of $10,000, the egg, found by a herdsman of tha savage Tandroy tribe in Madagascar a quarter of a century ago, is about a foot long and ten inches across, and although it now has shrunk to a weight of six pounds, probably weighed twenty - four pounds when the mother bird laid ' it.- Milton Ray Smith of San Francisco, purchaser of the rare egg, adds it to a collection of 73,000 eggs and stuffed birds which he already enjoys in, his San Francisco home, the Time article states. The original price of the egg, sold by its discoverer to a native merchant at Madagascar, was five head of cattle. Found by Herdsman. A quarter-centurago in the southern part of Madagascar, a herdsman of the savage Tandroy tribe was tending his cattle on the banks of a river swollen by the torrential rains of late December and January. The tribesman caught sight of an object, bobbing lightly on the turbid water, which he would have described, had he chanced to be a U. S. college man, aa a soiled white football. When he fished it ashore he saw that it was an egg, and its great size recalled to his mind the stories he had heard around village fires of a mighty bird that once roamed the island. Wrapping the prize in his loincloth, he ran with It to the chief of his village. Word of the find sped from hut to drowsy hut, and after sundown the natives jubilantly shouted and danced the war dance which they call the berida. The chief did not know that the egg was thousands of years old, that heavy rains had washed it out of a protecting alluvial deposit, but he did suspect that the white men in the town of Ambovombe might value it for their own curious reasons. That night the chief and a few companions carried the egg to Ambovombe. After hours of haggling a merchant gave them five head of cattle for it. This man recognized the egg as that of the extinct Aepy-omtitan or elephant bird, a longnecked creature with massive legs on which it stood ten feet high. From his hands the egg passed to the French administrator of the district; to another merchant, to a missionary named Gunerius Towic. Last month Missionary Torvic reached Minnesota on leave, got in touch with an enthusiastic and learned of San Francisco named Milton Smith Ray. A deal was arranged. In San Francisco recently Ray tremulously unwrapped a package, shipped by express, consisting of 12 boxes, one inside another, each one wrapped in cotton. From the innermost box Mr. Ray removed the Aepyornia titan egg intact. - y . TERRAPLANE Americas No. 1 Car of the Moderate Price Field HUDSON MAIN MOTOR SALES 1178 East 2 st South Hyland 584 1 1 UPHOLSTER ANKLETS is FINEST QUALITY IN T11E CITY 10 15 BUTTONS Widest Selection In the City egg-collect- or AT THE Have your furniture refinished for Spring House Cleaning. Wa render expert service In uphol- UNITED Expert furniture men will do a complete Job from the stering. 5-10- -25c STORE - . putting on of new upholstering to the reflnishlng of ail- visible wooden surfaces. CALL US - Hyland 8320 1069 East 21st South in Sugarhouse Ideal Furniture . Repair 959 C. Co. Price of $11,0007 Mr. Ray would not, say what ha paid for the egg but a fair guess ia Time continues. $10,000, It ia about a foot long, about ten inches On Site 1st Sugar Mill West of Mississippi River" Washington. Suddenly come to life is a textile yarn known for some time to man, but long neglected-rayon staple. Its man's closest approach to yam made from cotton fibers. Germany and Italy in their quest to become nationally and to do away with the imports- -' tion of cotton are turning to rayon1 staple. Japan, home of natural silk, yet one of the worlds greatest pro-- ,ducers of artificial silk, is energetically developing the new fiber. The motive in the East is not so much for as with an eye to world markets which ray- capturing on staple is now opening up. England is turning to rayon staple with the hope that it will make idle cotton machinery hum again. Also! for the development of interesting: and novel fabrics. So, too, are i United States textile producers, j is chopped-uRayon staple really artificial silk threads. Ordinarily, artificial silk fabrics are made from long continuous threads spun from a chemical solu-- j tion of wood, or of cotton linters, by machines which are truly median- ical silk worms. What the staple yarn manufacturer does is to take) these long threads and cut them! up in short lengths, usually any-- ; where from two to seven inches. This gives fibers that correspond to the fibers in a cotton boll.. These staple lengths, like cotton! fibers, can be carded and spun into yam on ordinary cotton spinning machinery. When woven or knitted the spun staple yams produce oft, beautiful fabrics that drape ex- GASOLINE Try jffiJTatnn? Tires J. SHAW, Prop. ; 21st South and llih East Hyland 8715 , j ONCE OVER, LIGHTLY p A Delicious Spring Treat ! 0 BUTTERED POPCORN KANDY CORN ) O CHEEZ CORN PEANUT BRITTLE EYES O. K. It's Delicious NUCRISP PRODUCT CO. tremely well. To make unusually interesting 1027 fabrics, the staple lengths may be blended with wool fibers or with cotton fibers. Such yams give novel dyeing effects. Besides, large savings in cotton and wool are made, while new fabrics, not heretofore producible, are created. Novels ? Diver Recovers Eyeglasses From Harbor Deep-Se- a Seattle, Wash. Deep sea divers recovered millions in treasure from sunken ships, equipment lent overboard, but the Seattle water front the other day for the first time saw one of these under-watexplorers retrieve a pair of eyeglasses from the bottom of the bay. Ted Boyle, Washington Tug & Barge company carpenter, fell into the harbor. I cont care so much for the tools, but I sure miss my glasses," Boyle told his friend, Charles J. Anderson, diver. Ill get your glasses for you, aid Anderson, and soon he was groping about in diving auit at the bottom of the slip at the spot where Boyle said he lost them. In half an hour Anderson came up from a depth of 30 feet with the glasses and the tools. Girl Can Converse ' Freely With Birds Fowler. If Harriett Jdoss, twenty - year - old Fowler, farm girl, could' learn to fly, grow feathers and develop preference for a diet of bird seed and gravel, she would be a bird. ' Although she can't fool folks who .can. see her into . believing that she is a bird, she .can, fool the' birds.' For years during' her spare time she has studied bird calls. She is now so expert that she can carry on conversations with a dozen or more varieties of Bullss-eye- : Dave Schooler was being interviewed just before his opening at the Hotel Piccadilly. One of the reporters present asked him what his lucky day was. Sunday," was the prompt reply. Why?" persisted the Fourth Es- er Ills examination will be careful, thorough and scientific no medicine used, no inconvenience to you. It will enable him to correctly and accurately fit your eyes with glasses to meet the conditions hit examination reveals, o that you may pursue your daily activities with perfect eye comfort and without strain or - pain. By Josephine Johnson Author of the Pulitzer Prize Novel Now In November tates Because," returned Schooler, a. smile, thats the day the stock market is closed." with birds. 4444444W4WWfr4444444W4m4m444M Let The Bulletin I Only Two Are Needed to Complete Twig Alphabet Clifton Springs, N. Y. A unique hobby has taken E. A. Miles all over the United States and Canada in the last few years in search of twigs whose natural shape forms one of the letters of the alphabet. He now has all but the letter i." d, Carry Your Message The Bulletin: A weekly bulletin of amusements, sport events, social items, local news of interest to those in this part of the city, has a circulation of 3,000 copies, distributed Friday p. m. Any item of interest concerning your society or club organization, what they are now doing or intend to do, will be published free of charge if in The Bulletin office be- fore Wednesday p. m. The Bulletin reserves the right to eliminate admission prices, street numbers sttid names, where they conflict with thie policy of the publication. WWWtWtW4444444444444444Wvv44 AMAZE A MINUTE 6CIENTIFACTS BY A mini n $2.00 SON OF HAN By Richard La Piere A strong afory of family conflict in China before western influence reached that country. $2.50 Dr. W. H. Landmesser OPTOMETRIST Charter Member of the Foundation 1090 East 21st South Ily. 7749 Igyj n, X-ra- DESERET BOOK COMPANY 41 EAST on SOUTH Melbourne, Victoria. The town of Collarenebri, Australia, claims more of the comforts of home and fewer of the municipal discomforts than any other town in the world. Aa for the lack of municipal discomforts, it has no mayor, no aider-meno property rates, no fire department, no brick building, no unemployment, no crime and no golf. As to the real municipal comforts itself on its modem hospital equipits river wament, including ter pumping station and its electric light and power plants, without the necessity of any local body to control these things. The population plays tennis instead of golf. The town operates under the control of the state works department which unnecessary any council, city ordinance or levies to worry about. TEMPLE Family Trees Get a Close Trimming Washington. High school students, digging into musty courthouse records and other municipal documents, are learning many things heretofore unknown about the average American family tree. With the aid of the Daughters of the American Revolution, these students are finding direct links to famous early American settlers and heroes of tho War of Independence. Students in many sections of the country are preparing charts of their families and a personal history sheet of each ancestor. three-generati- Lifeless Antarctic Within flip Antarctic Circle . THERE ARE NO FORBEARING ANIMALS NOR ANY ABORIGINAL people. ia Australian Town Gets Along Without Officials - - e JORDANSTOWN East 21st So. Hy. 308 Follow The Arrow Waiting for the starting gun. Barber Karl Seidenbrecher, poises his razor over the jaw of an apprehensive "subject" ready to zip off the bristles in speed shaving contest conducted at Vienna. Karl set up a new worlds record for speed shaving, hacking off the beard in 19 seconds. ! Two Very New ( : I . I ARE YOUR Tubes Accessories one-eigh- th East 21st South Our Speedy Service : Miles has picked up his specimens in Saskatchewan, the grand canyon of Colorado, Washington, and on southern battlefields. He obtained many of them from New York state across, pockmarked and eastern Canada. sand insects. and In no instance has the natural forMuch bigger by than the dinosaur eggs found in the mation of any twig or branch been Gobi by Explorer Roy Chapman Analtered or bent. Shakespeare found inch sermons in stones, and books in drews, its shell is thick, weighs kix pounds, must have running brooks. Miles has found weighed twenty-fou- r pounds when the whole sum of human knowledge, the mother bird laid it. Aepyornia as embodied in the alphabet, in titan did not become extinct until twigs and branches and incidental--1 after the Glacial age, which ia al- ly tramped hundreds of miles on most yesterday as geological time healthy hikes. goes. Little is known of its habits, except that it ate vegetable matAlbino Elk Reported ter, probably snakes and lizards too. An Albino elk,' In Madagascar during tha past cenJackson, Wyo. in the tury, several.nearly complete skele- a rarity, ia believed living Wilson.-Thtons and many fragments have been Jackson Hole region near animal first was seen early last; found. Scholars suspect that Aepy-orntitan may have given rise to summer, and has been sighted sev--1 the legend of a great bird called the oral times since. Hunters who ar- -' roc, which is told in the Arabian rive at Wilson are warned not to shoot the rare apecimen. Nights., ivory-colore- Service Don Hardman Rayon Staple, Long Neglected, Coining Into Own. pre-histor- ic SPRING! 1 EGG Collector Buy Rare Specimen From Madagascar. a desire to With spring, each year, tne old yearning comes back own something new, aee something different, to do the things youd lilte America's No. YARN BEING DEVELOPED NEW COTTON PAYS $10,000 FOR sgy Honey guide Georgia average Georgia, with , 59,265 59- MILES, - COMES NEAREST TO The African HONEY GUIDE U.O. leads BIRD MEN TO BEE NESTS SO AS TO SHARE IN THE SPOILS. on WNV Service, V, j |