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Newspaper

Helena Independent

Location

Helena, Montana, United States of America

Date

Jan 06, 1925

Page

7

veto of president to be sustained in senate

Washington January 3 President Coolidge's veto of the postal pay increase bill will be sustained in the senate if administration leaders hold in tomorrow's test vote. The motion to recommit the measure failed 52 to 30 though 30 votes met the one third threshold. a veto sustain would shift to the administration's combined pay and postal rate bill.

Washington Coolidge Senate Sterling Post Office Committee House Moses Republican New Hampshire Tate Dial South Carolina Jones Reed Pennsylvania Wadsworth New York Farmer-Labor Shipstead

Home made Pinex cough remedy promises quick relief

An old advertisement touts a home made cough medicine using Pinex with sugar syrup or honey. It claims to stop ordinary coughs or chest colds within 24 hours, soothes throat membranes, loosens phlegm, and aids bronchial conditions. It urges asking druggists for 244 ounces of Pinex and offers money back satisfaction.

Pinex Co Ft. Wayne Ind

Fights His Way Back from Gallows Shadow

Jesse Webb, once sentenced to be hanged in Portland for a fatal 15 years ago, won a governor’s commutation to life, earned a pardon after exemplary prison conduct, and now is a respected Seattle community member. He wrote and bound books in prison, including The American Prison System.

Seattle Jesse Webb Portland Ore Webb Goodby

Sahara Express to Offer Desert Trek from Paris to Timbuctoo

Paris reports the Sahara Express bi weekly service inaugurating next month will travel from Paris to Timbuctoo in 12 days. The route includes rail to Marseilles, sea to Algiers, then desert stages with caterpillar and wheeled cars across Adrar Timoudi Tessalit and Gao before river boats to Timbuctoo. Hotels and palaces are prepared at desert termini with running water baths and evening dances. A machine gun guards the caravan in first and last cars.

Paris Associated Press Timbuctoo Colomb- Bechar Marseilles Algeriers Colomb-Bechar Beni-Abbas Timoudi Adrar Quallen Tanezrontt Tessalit Tim~budtaa United States Orient Express Europe

Forbes-Thompson case details Northampton hospital bid

Defense in the Forbes Thompson conspiracy trial presented how the Pontiac company won the Northampton Massachusetts veterans hospital foundations contract. Colonel Walton testified the military engineers favored Northeastern then switched to Pontiac for speed, arguing a 60 day window outweighed a higher bid, with penalties raised for overtime to secure the award.

Fey Associated Press Chicago Associated Press Pontiac Construction Company Northampton, Mass Veterans Hospital W. Thompson St.Louis Pontiac Company Forbes Northampton E. F. Walton Quartermaster General's Department Veterans’ Hospital Army Military Pontiac Northeastern Construction Company New York Washington Pacific Coast Northeastern Walton James E. Easby-Smith Jin War Department c Veterans’ Bureau

Immortal Georges Lecomte Elected to French Academy

Georges Lecomte journalist author playwright historian and critic is chosen as an immortal to the French Academy. He is president of the Authors Society and known for his political biography of Clemenceau the war premier.

Georges Lecomte Lecomte Clemenceau

Osage Tribe Plans Washington Visit Over Oil Lands Income

A nine member Osage delegation from Olla homa travels to Washington to press Secretary Work and Indian Commissioner Burke for legislation to raise quarterly payments from tribal oil lands for incompetent members. The Supreme Court ruling limited these payments to 1000 dollars per individual, reversing prior per capita disbursements of about 3000 dollars each quarter.

Washington Ollahoma Work Burke Supreme Court

Death, horse, and mystery haunt a county rodeo

The narrative follows Weds Candler Homer Thompson now an executive in Charlotte after a marriage to Lucy Candler. Charlie Purvis funds a corral for a dangerous challenge with the great black stallion Captain. The crowd witnesses a brutal ride as Captain rears and fights, while rumors swirled about the dead master Lee Haines and a vanished farmer linked to a past train robbery. Suspicion grows that Harry Gloster may have aided Haines.

Charlie Purvis Purvis Hon Corral Lefty Gilmore Sam Ricks Champ Hudson Swees Otte Lee Haines Nan Jint Harry Gloster l Haines

Ruthenberg Sentenced to Three to Ten Years in Michigan Prison

Charles J Ruthenberg a Cleveland radical and confessed communist was sentenced to serve three to ten years in the Michigan state prison at Jackson. He was convicted under the state anti syndicalism statute after a 1929 trial. Authorities plan separate trials for other Bridgeman arrests and will press ahead with February medical trials.

AsSociated Press Joseph Mich Charles Mh. Ruthenberg Cleveland Jackson Fred C. Franz Ruthenberg Michigan Supreme Court Charles White White Isaac Ferguson Chicago St. Joseph Bridgeman In William %. Waster State Supreme Court United States Supreme Court S Bridgeman George C. Bridgeman Department of Justice Perguson George H. Gookwalter O. J. Smith Robert Minor Minor Bridgeman William Foster Moster Communist Party Workers’ Party Supreme Court DO L Smith Tuthenberg Ife Comimunists

Wild Horse Duel and Escape at Gold Camp

The narrative follows Harry Gloster fleeing after finding two partners dead at a gold camp. He spares Lee Haines, is jailed after a brawl, and escapes with aid from Joan Buck Daniels as the fiery stallion Captain battles a posse. Lee Haines dies and reveals Joan’s true lineage as Dan Barry’s daughter.

Harry Gloster Gloster Lee Haines Joe Macarthur Wagist Joan Buck Daniels Iris Haines Dan Barry Old Plains

New Year Resolutions Reflections of 1924

A reflective piece argues resolutions are rarely kept and urges sensible goals. It urges honesty about motives and suggests harmless aims that won’t harm friendships, calling for practical self-improvement for the year ahead.

Fragmented community notes and idle ad copy drift

A garbled, noisy text fragment outlines various civic concerns and busywork schemes. It mentions meetings, boosting newspaper subscriptions, shady bootlegging rumors, expenses like life insurance, garden talks, and casual leisure plans, all mixed with stray phrases about Fridays, Tuesdays, and staying away from a publication.

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