New England and the rise of the auto industry
A 1925 column notes New England’s slow acceptance of automotive manufacturing, contrasting early cautious views with later growth. It cites Boston Transcript on Rolls Royce US plant plans, projecting up to 19,000 jobs in ten years, and discusses shifting industrial power toward the East and West, with steel and autos expanding nationwide.
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Che
Dally
Yn Advance
Indepen Daily Independent
Central Western States
New England
New
Middle West
Boston Transcript
Rolls-Royce
Massachusetts
Springfield
Rols-Royce
Pacific
Lewistown Shooting Highlights Fourth Amendment Debate
A Fergus county hospitalistates a Lewistown officer lies in critical condition after a gunfight that followed a door breach by a federal dry detective. The apartment owner also was shot, claiming the officer fired first. authorities say no search warrant was obtained. The incident tests warrant necessity and constitutional protections.
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Lewistown
Fergus County
United States
Rights of search and home protection echoed by courts
In Montana the constitution mirrors the US Fourth Amendment guarding against searches without warrants. An editor notes post prohibition zealots misread law, condemning overreach by enforcement officers and stressing that home rights endure despite age and liquor prohibitions. Courts repeatedly reaffirm limits on warrantless intrusions.
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United States Supreme Court
Montana
United States
Lewistown
Great Falls
Northern Pacific car flow through Helena boosts local auto trade
Local Freight Agent Sterling of the Northern Pacific reports forty Overland automobiles passed Helena en route west. He notes Helena rests on strong inventories of Fords, Stars, and Chevrolets making it hard to move new stock westward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling
Northern Pacific
Evening Paper
Helena
Chasing Crop-Grabbers in Montana Land Dispute
The Plentywood Producers' News declares farmers may post land to bar trespassers and pursue criminal charges against crop-grabbers. It cites a Montana Supreme Court ruling on non-navigable streams and owner rights, warning ex-bankers and mortgage holders to stay off. The piece suggests ensuing legal frictions and recalls a Chicago gang murder case.
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Montana Supreme Court
League
Sheridan County
Idan Companies
Plentywood Producers’ News
The
Joan Companies
WHY SOME BOYS ARE TRUSTED IN HARD TIMES
A long opinion piece argues that loaning to college bound boys hinges on character. It praises diligence, restraint, steady work, and staying out of trouble as marks of trustworthiness. Credit rests on known conduct. sponsors, employers, and peers “know a boy” by his actions, not his words, and will lend to those with proven character.
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Reatson
Father
Coolidge
Phrase Lasting Lessons From a Minneapolis Pastor
The sermon by Rev Hoyle Smith of the D De Pastor Simpson Bf E Church in Minneapolis urges practical piety. He cites gospel themes on weighing faults, faithful work, and fair dealings with customers while stressing the need to hold youth, church life, and personal integrity in balance.
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Hoy LE Smith
Simpson Bf. E. Church
Minneapolis
Golden Rule Sunday aid to Near East orphans urged
Washington notes Golden Rule Sunday on December 6 supports the Near East Relief for 45000 orphaned children with a plan to provide 27525000 meals next year and aid refugees. President Coolidge backs the effort while detailing extensive orphanage work across Polygon Alexandropol Syra and Aegean camps.
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Washington, D.C
International Near East Association
The
Near East Relief
Charles V. Vickrey
Mr. Vickros
America
Polygon
Alexandropol
Jami
Near East
United States
Aegean Sea
Syra
Homer
Heart Industries
Golden Rule Sundae plan and orphan aid described
The piece outlines a charity scheme tied to Golden Rule observance, detailing an Orphanage aid plan in the Near East. It describes funding levels from one dollar to a thousand, supporting a child through training, schooling, and eventual self reliance by age 16, with meals and care described for residents.
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America
Hesels
Arpa Cieldren
Neat East
Ank
Tird's Nest
Near Mast
Secretary Wilbur Rejects California Chief Justice Bid
National Capital reports Wilbur declines the California chief justiceship while other items cover lower freight rates for bituminous coal on the Atlantic seaboard and ongoing court proceedings. Navy witness details and a Milwaukee Road financial hearing are noted in the federal docket.
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Wilbur
California
Atlantic Seaboard
Wheeler
Montana
Navy
John Rodgers
Mitchell
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Russ Executes 12 for Robbing Soviet State Goods
Leningrad Russia Nov 30 Sentences of death carried into effect against six former port officials and six private graders for misappropriation of 1500 tons of state merchandise valued at over a million dollars. They were shot to death after the central executive committee dismissed their clemency appeals.
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Leningrad
Russia
Central Executive Committee of the
Soviets
Blaze Hits Newark Tenements on Springfield Avenue
A massive fire swept through eight mixed use buildings on Springfield avenue between Boston and Reacan streets in Newark today driving out three occupants and causing an estimated 256000 dollars in damage.
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Newark
Springfield Avenue
Boston
Reacan Streets
Locarno Pact to Be Signed Today in London T
London reports the Locarno pact will be signed today with Germany and France accepting frontier terms from Versailles and agreeing to arbitration. Delegates including Austen Chamberlain, von Hertling, and Benes attend as plans unfold for ratification and League of Nations membership. Dodging census anxiety ends London note.
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Locarno
Tandon
Nev
Locarna
Ne Nutgesty
London
Germany
Nornetehborx
Versailes
Austen Chamberlain
Melard
Stresentann
Datthar
German Republic
Vandervelde
Coon Selttola
Italy
France
Poland
League of Nations
Berl'n
Leeann
Presient von Hindenburg
Reichstag
Mie Provident
Ebanerielle Deusehe Zeitung
Vhaneetle Tikes
Etreemmann
Lerura
Pemane
Luther
Qu Hstet
Luter
Pesan
von Thidesourg
Ths
German People's Party
Democrats
People’s Party
Allsctal
England
New President Elected at United Daughters of the Confederacy
Mrs St John Alison Lawson of Charleston South Carolina was elected president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at their second annual convention in Hot Springs Arkansas.
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St. John Alison Lawson
Charleston
S. C
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Hot Springs
Ark
Answers to Questions from the Washington Information Bureau
Question and answer column listing queries on travel speed of quails and eyesight in rural pupils, peaks in Americas, origins of place name endings, lamp fuels for antique light sources, the 1925 coal strike settlement, violin entry into orchestras, tungsten discovery and use, the 1867 tariff act impact, lute antiquity, who invented the Sarynger scope, and counts of known elements. It preserves names such as Frederic J. Haskin and references to regions like North and South America, Pennsylvania, and Tin ores.
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Mennsylvanis
Ameswat
North America
America
Kansas
United Mine Workers of America
M. HL
Krehbiel
Monteverde
Orico
Coolidge
I. F
M. D. A. Qne
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