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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1925
Page
4
The piece notes tips persist in Germany despite currency stabilization while Italian hotel staff push a 10 percent rule. Guests face pressure to tip to secure baggage and cab service, despite laws and placards claiming no tipping. The essay frames tipping as a stealthy, ubiquitous cost impacting guests abroad.
The U S commission reaches a settlement with Italy to fund Italy’s two billion dollar debt, with initial annual payments of five million dollars for five years and gradual increases over 62 years. Interest starts at one eighth of one percent and ends at two percent, reflecting Italy’s limited resources and weak natural endowments. The accord draws praise at home and in Rome, while sparking discussion of France’s costly military policies and the need for prudent war-financing revisions.
A Brooklyn Eagle correspondent notes continued tipping issues in Europe as French hotels explored a 10 percent surcharge to replace tips, but workers and owners now seek a law to enforce tipping avoidance. Italy and Germany have laws, yet prohibition falters. bellhops and porters still must obtain income, revealing mixed results.
The idea of a United States of Europe gains interest from Locarno treaty lessons and League of Nations success. But critics note deep racial linguistic and economic differences, warn it could threaten the League's goals, and doubt practical progress without English as a universal language.
A wide miscellany debates highway safety with pedestrians urged to walk on the left to face traffic, plus notes on the Dawes- Coolidge presidencies, Mitchell court-martial, postwar Europe, Arab policy in France, and Wisconsin president Glen Frank on graduates.
A collage of short humorous sketches and quips from 1925, featuring exchanges about coats, aging, car buying woes, landlord woes, twins mischief, a Pennsylvania state song spoof, fashion jests, and dry humor. Names appear as bylines and captions, with light social satire throughout.
A seventeen year old girl asks how to handle gossip about her boyfriend and family conflicts at home. Advice urges ignoring rumors, involve parents and their lawyer, and suggests obtaining a separate home to gain responsibility and purpose rather than running away or harming themselves.
Two sisters aged 15 and 17 write to Mrs Thompson explaining their parents split when they began school. They have lived with their aunt and uncle for nearly a decade, under their father's protection, and express distress over the family situation and their struggle to cope.
An Irishman on a road is charged by an angry bull that tosses him over a fence. As the man recovers, the bull pawns the ground and the man quips that the bull would seem to have thrown him deliberately were it not for his bowing and scraping.
In Thornton Burgess tale Buster Bear awakens full after a honey feast finds the honey gone. Busy Bee and relatives explain they saved their store for winter as Buster vows to reclaim it. The bees' hard work contrasts with Buster's growing selfishness and a moral about sharing.
The text presents a fragmentary poem about Aladdin and lost dreams, recalling poverty and a lamp that granted imagination before wealth and power. It contrasts past beggary with present riches and argues no treasure can replace a vanished beloved world. A stray line references a weather and shipping bulletin to be broadcast from English coast wireless stations.
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