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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1925
Page
6
A columnist contrasts juvenile fantasies of fairy princes and luxury with practical expectations for girls. The piece argues parents should uphold moral standards and household discipline, noting that both boys and girls will seek social freedoms despite reformers. A stray University of Illinois test about selinists on lawns is mentioned as unrelated trivia.
Residents praise the Helena Baseball League season ending with East Helena as pennant winners after a best two out of three playoff against The Helena Independent. The article notes strong community support, players balancing work and sport, and plans to expand to six teams next year. Mosquitoes in a swamp town are mocked as lawbreakers of supply and demand.
New York City missing persons bureau lists principal causes for girls running away. Factors include reluctance to accept traditional parental standards, appeal of luxury and false ideals, pursuit of independence, and attraction to modern life beyond home. The piece notes wide factors and questions the role of societal influences.
The piece argues standardization boosts production and welfare at scale yet harms individual home life and education. It contrasts factory efficiency with personal growth, noting education's struggle against mass methods, the gleaming but cold biscuit factory metaphor, and the clash between industry and human fulfillment. It ends with a provocative line about style shows and gunmen as a harsh social mirror.
Brooklyn Eagle editorial argues that tariff protection harms workers, detailing AFL President Green's criticism of textile protection. It traces tariff history since 1867, showing wage cuts, high profits, and rising living costs despite protection, urging workers to organize against excess tariffs.
A New York World front page piece described a treasure galley wedged across a submerged city street between Jerba and the African mainland. The story traced Jerba’s history, its Berber population, and legends of lotus eaters as archaeologists and Count de Provok study the ruins with submarine cameras.
Dublin reports a trend against Gaelic town names with Bray reverting to Bri Chanalann and Kingstown keeping Dun Taoghaire while Dunfeary regains use. Many Gaelic forms sanctioned in post offices remain unfamiliar to visitors, as Dublin stays Dublin and Navan is rarely Aq Uaimh. Cobh in the south replaces Queenstown, pronounced Cove, reflecting a shift in local naming practice.
Edwin Brand a 12 year old schoolboy in Finsbury Park did swallow a tadpole after a remark from a friend. The act followed his placing the tadpole in his mouth for temporary safe keeping.
In Henryetta Oklahoma Sheriff John W Russell bans prayer meetings outside regular churches at the coal field. Striking miners had been holding prayer gatherings at the mines seeking divine aid. The sheriff says the services are intended to intimidate men who are not on strike.
A meditation on child creativity and fearless self expression led by Lincoln School in collaboration with Teachers College. It highlights Hughes Mearns and a teaching method that unveils youthful voices through poetry and writing, with student examples and classroom incidents. It also reviews fiction and nonfiction for boys and men, including The Boy Scouts Year Book and Rose Wilder Lane’s He Was a Man, noting translations and reception abroad.
Martin Armstrong, author of At the Sign of the Goat and Compasses, published by Harpers on August 14, is among younger rising writers in England. Renowned for short stories, he published little poetry before the war and studied at Charterhouse and Pembroke College, Oxford.
The Can adian system of governmental regulation is urged as a remedy if a heavily publicized crackdown fails. The piece notes years of scolding and threats toward John Barleycorn, urging reform to curb bribery and illicit alcohol, with bystander interest in the ensuing confrontation.
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