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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1925
Page
9
A collage of quips and curiosities from 1925 notes. Jokes on breakfast, travel, and superstition mingle with stray local anecdotes and wry observations, including a Milwaukee incident and a playful take on human vanity and modern life.
Story fragment describes a bridge toll of one cent charged per person crossing the bridge in Ontario. A man crossed daily for four days, paying at the toll and spending cash in town before returning home at night. On the last day he had five cents more than the first day. The puzzle asks how much money he had on the first day, with a long aside about percentages and other humorous musings.
Rockaway at the New Board Walk area resembled a frontier rush as thousands of speculators crowded the ocean front. Real estate talk centered on huge paper gains since the boom began with options flipping quickly. front foot values rose from $40 to as high as $1000, while daily turnovers reached into the millions.
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