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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1925
Page
4
The piece highlights a benevolent society run by Hebrews offering interest free loans to the poor with rapid service and no creed barrier. It notes 1924 activity of 13,974 loans totaling 1,157,480 dollars and minimal losses, stressing equal treatment of poor and rich applicants and reducing humiliation.
The 1925 air racing season looms as American pilots defend the Pulitzer and Schneider trophies against British and Italian rivals. France now leads in speed with a 278 mph record, prompting calls to broaden competition to international flavor. Proposed reforms favor cross country reliability tests and city circuits over pure speed, with venues debated in Wichita, Kansas City, Baltimore, and New York.
The thirty third annual meeting of the Hebrew Free Loan Society in New York reported record activity and efficiency. Losses were the lowest in its history at one sixth of one percent, while more than 97 percent of loans were repaid.
A major surety company plans to equip Wall Street with adult messengers who act as walking safes. Traders train railroad workers to wear a steel vest loaded with bonds, guarded by keys and a moaning satchel alarm to summon police, aiming to reduce bandit threats.
Prominent African Americans across the country commend Marcus Garvey's five year prison sentence in Atlanta as calming the dream of a mass return to Africa. Major Moton of Tuskegee Institute says relations with whites are harmonious and improving, noting 12 million Negroes in America were brought here, not by choice. The piece surveys attitudes toward Garvey, race relations, and references to politics, industry, and history.
A dense radio listing from multiple stations outlines schedules including mu sic, news, talks, orchestras, solos and recitals. It notes performances by pianists mandolin clubs violinists and choirs along with times and station identifiers across cities like Ames Atlanta Boston Chicago Dallas Denver Seattle and New York.
A garbled OCR line suggests a complaint about an attack attempt involving a person named Jam Adesana or a similar term. The fragment mentions a noon time incident, a gun, and a forced action, but it lacks clear details, names, places, or outcomes.
In a Burgess tale, Farmer Brown's Boy worries about hungry forest creatures when a hard crust forms on the snow. He searches Green Forest for Thunderer and Grouse, breaks the crust around a spruce and holes, and frees them as Mrs. Grouse and Thunderer burst out. Gratitude follows from the birds.
A column argues manners reveal character not social station. It contrasts polite behavior toward the wealthy with contempt for the less fortunate, urging readers to treat everyone with their own dignity and to reflect on how self breeding guides treatment of neighbors, servants, and relatives.
Astrologers warn of tense planetary alignments with Saturn the sun and Mars causing work troubles and rising discontent across society. Predictions note clashes among lawmakers and possible war talk while old values face rapid erosion and new ventures bring worries for those born that day under Pisces influences.
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