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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1925
Page
3
A Portland woman seeks custody of her son, allegedly taken by her stepson. The case frames a dramatic habeas corpus petition as she challenges parental authority and custody arrangements.
Maggie May Thompson of Portland seeks a writ of habeas corpus from the state supreme court to restore her seven year old son, now in the care of a Laurel sister in law under a Carbon county district court adoption. The case portrays a mother’s long fight to regain custody amid hardship and adversity.
State game warden Robert H. Hill will auction eight elk quarters and one deer at 7 pm, confiscated for unlawful killing on the Emigrant Park County preserve. Deer to be sold as a single piece. crowd expected. Separately, a Jackson–Portland custody case details a mother seeking return of her son from relatives via writ to compel surrender, with hearings set in Billings December 17.
An official visit to Helena Council No. 44 Knights of Columbus will be made this evening by D. F. Hallahan, special supreme agent from Spokane Wash. He will stop at the Placer hotel while inspecting nearby councils of the order.
Barbara Hawley, 25, breaks with fiancé Bruce Reynolds to work at the Colorado Springs Telegraph. Managing editor Drew McDermott shows interest. Barbara befriends police reporter Bob Jeffries and covers exciting cases. Bruce starts a million dollar real estate venture in Velo Acres, while Barbara questions the firm and faces social life pressures. The chapter follows office banter, pay raises, and Barbara's dance plans as she moves through work and romance.
American physicians and psychologists study rising midlife mortality despite advances in health. Tufts neurologist Abraham Myerson cites four physical and twelve mental causes for failure to withstand modern strenuous life. He links bad hygiene and overexertion to early death and lists mental causes from hurried living to ego injury and pursuit of endless luxury. The piece argues modern speed erodes genuine pleasure and cultivates a pathological idea of success.
Two railroad workers from local 49 of the Baltimore and Ohio were fatally injured when the locomotive boiler exploded as the train passed Childs Station, four miles north of Elkton Maryland, tonight.
Secretary Work reports to the president and Congress that every claim under the act except one has been adjudicated. Six claims were examined in the first year and more than 950000 dollars remains of the original 8500000 dollar appropriation. Five claimant suits challenge the act and amendments as interpreted by the secretary.
A fire of undetermined origin leveled the main building and library of Central State Normal School in Mount Pleasant Michigan. The estimated loss reached 500000 dollars.
Miss Lenore Bourke of the University of Denver, a soda fountain company secretary, confronted a bandit in her office. Although knocked unconscious, she noted the pistol was not loaded and the robber escaped with $75 from envelopes on her desk. Police report no serious injuries. A second item notes Percival Tifl, president of the American Tobacco Company, died in New York on December 7.
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