Yesterday's News: News from 25-50-75-100 years ago

June 14, 1926 – While delving for precious metal at their claim, John Bremer and George Kerr recently had the good fortune of finding a little treasure package of nature which netted the gold seekers more in one lump sum than would a bevy of gold nuggets. The miners chanced to notice a sharp bony projection jutting through the roof of their drift. Both fortune hunters concentrated upon the new discovery, with the result that after a few hours work a fine, large mammoth tusk weighing some two hundred and fifty pounds was picked from the top of the cave. The trophy is a perfect crescent shape me...

 
 

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