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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1925
Page
9
A 1925 NEA Service verse jokes about two types of dieters and their woes. One girl eats to gain weight, yet a pound appears on the scale, while another starves and exercises but ends up heavier. The piece mocks weight obsessions and ends with a wink that true happiness comes from feeling good and smiling.
Tom Sims offers homily style quips on family duty vanity and society in a 1925 NEA Service column. He muses on luck, jail time, airplanes, pride, music, travel, and narrow mindedness, urging self awareness and caution in daily life.
A puzzle states the total length of mine tunnels yields a five digit number. The first two digits, multiplied, equal the last three digits, and the five digits are the answer. The first digit is one and the remaining four are nonzero. The final clue mentions arrows and three wheels with each wheel in a separate line across positions.
London reports Tristan da Cunha an isolated island with 127 residents 1600 miles southwest of St Helena. The community, long noted as Napoleon’s exile site, allegedly invites Britain to send a warship annually to boost morale.
In Mexico near Durango, an old Spanish era mine nicknamed the cockroach mine is reopened after a prospector followed roach swarms to the site. Nearby London reports 4200 women mail carriers employed by England's post office and calls the trial of female carriers a success.
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