Helena Independent Press Ad Rates and Contacts
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War Strategy and Draft Attitudes in Wartime Britain and America
A war column analyzes Russian capacity and German prospects, noting Russia's industrial losses, possible spring recovery, and limited offensives. It argues Britain and U.S. must massively boost production to sustain resistance, with invasion of Britain deemed unlikely. A second feature discusses high draft rejections tied to 1930s unemployment and malnutrition, predicting emotional strain for tomorrow's children amid global upheaval.
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Coffee Discovery and Brewing Skills Promised
The Department of Commerce states coffee was discovered in the fifteenth century by an Arab goat herder. It predicts that in a few more centuries all housewives will master proper brewing techniques.
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Department of Commerce
Prostitution Control Campaign Around Army Camps
Public health leaders push a national campaign to curb prostitution near military camps to stop venereal disease. Federal laws may apply, with half the states reporting cooperation after Surgeon General Thomas Parran and Dr. R A Vonderricht publish Plain Words About Venereal Diseases. The authors urge decisive action to prevent long term manpower and economic damage.
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Thomas Parran
U.S
R. A. Vondericht
Federal action hinges on local cooperation and politics
The text argues that solving distant national issues requires local cooperation, as communities are best equipped to respond. It notes federal laws may help but local authorities must act, with local politics often influencing outcomes and the ultimate effectiveness of federal intervention.
Collecting the Automobile Tax
A brief critique argues the federal automobile tax should be collected like state taxes with minimal cost. It notes states already handle similar levies, sets a delinquent notice as a payment deadline, and claims few delinquent cases. The piece doubts the need for universal billing of every auto owner and suggests widespread awareness is high.
Waste paper salvage in England reaches weekly peak
About 56 000 tons of waste paper are salvaged in England each week. The remark about aspiring authors jokes that there may be many writers, implying a large number of contenders.
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Maryland Salvage Experiment Signals National Waste Drive
An experiment in Maryland tests salvaging waste paper rags metals and rubber to show what the nation may expect from future collections. Lessing Rosenwald heads the program for the industrial conservation bureau of the OPM with a state committee and junk dealers buying the material. Usable products will be rapidly transformed into industry and insights gained may guide nationwide campaigns later.
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Maryland
Lessing J. Rosenwald
Industrial Conservation Bureau
O.P.M
War Audit Highlights New British Conscription Push
British Labour leaders report to Parliament that manpower must rise with a new conscription bill. The plan would raise the age limit from 41 to 45 and lower it from 19 to 18, expanding calls on women. Churchill warns Hitler may strike harder when Russia falters, while American arms aid nears full supply to Britain amid a sharpened warning against overconfidence.
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Bookish humor in binding a copy of Mein Kampf at a museum fair
A humorous incident at a book fair in the American Museum of Natural History featured Maurice Hamonneau, a World War veteran, binding Adolf Hitlers Mein Kampf in an elegant, scarred cover. The display highlighted playful experiments in making bindings reflect a book's contents.
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Maurice Hamonneau
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Perry and Japan: A Century of Trade and Change
The article traces Commodore Perry’s 1853 harbor entry and the opening of Japan, detailing how Western goods, including rifles, telegraph wire, and photographs, sparked a long trade arc. It notes Japan’s shift from a primary importer of raw U.S. goods to a major exporter of manufactured items and the gradual decline of U.S. cotton and other imports as Japan’s own production grows.
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Quotes on cooperation and power shapes postwar policy
The passage quotes Dr. L Thomas Hopkins praising teamwork for reasoned consensus, Jacques Benoist-Mechin on progress by collective action, Maj Gen Frank F. P. Latin urging air power and sea and ground forces, and Senator O'Mahony warning that only big business and big government will survive postemergency economy, risking a European calamity.
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Wyoming
Colgate Juniors Study Washington On Gov Bureau Work
Ten Colgate University juniors spend a semester in Washington under Dr. Paul S. Jacobsen to observe federal bureaus and congressional proceedings. They attend agency offices, Senate and House galleries, and meet leaders, with a focus this year on public administration and national defense. The program includes reports, meetings with lawmakers, and a tea with Mrs. Roosevelt. Students listed include Robert Reitz, Robert A. Walker, William J. Barber, Noel Rubinson, William J. Smith, Joseph de Bragga, Edward S. Jones, Robert McCallum, Theodore Wahl, and Paul Thompson.
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Edward S. Jones
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Robert McCallum
Nuttley
Theodore Wahl
Goshen
N.Y
Paul Thompson
Belleville
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Answers to Questions From The Helena Independent Bureau
A reader questions column answers queries on military feed costs, notable historic figures, language skills of the President, syphilis statistics, Coquelin in America, Nelson family fate, railroad conductor salary, daily air intake, the Panthéon de la Guerre, Adam's wives, a Canadian FBI analogue, first white Arizona visitor, Emmett Dalton, Woodlawn Cemetery size, Blondie theme, galloping horse mechanics, and Andrews Sisters record total.
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Arizona
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Mexico City
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IGRA
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Zeng
Woodlawn
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