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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1925
Page
5
The passage argues the Allies saved England and France in 1917, suggesting France should learn from the victory by instilling public morality. It also compares insomnia cures to dangerous stunts, noting falling from an airplane as a reckless remedy.
Readers learn why federal taxes are high and why talk of economy is political wind. The Inde pendent column urges cutting waste in agriculture bureau investigators and prompts President Coolidge to push for reform. The piece notes Charley Murphy’s fortune after politics.
Washington police plans to send policewomen to entice interactions with alleged mashers to trigger arrests. Critics deride the tactic as encouraging crime and misusing law enforcement. The column questions the ethics and potential fallout of such undercover pressure.
A Pennsylvania Congressman named Watson, back from Europe after five months, reports French opinion toward war loans is not pro repayment. He says French people and even school children doubt France must repay, while France insists on future borrowing and maintaining credit, and pushes Russia to acknowledge liability. The view contrasts with Washington expectations.
The Pullman Company honors Oscar J. Daniels, the porter who braved steam to close a door during the Rockport wreck on the Lackawanna Railroad June 16, saving a passenger before dying from injuries. The article notes public praise for porters and contrasts attitudes toward them, with anecdotes about international visitors and other varied Local news items.
Fredonnc profiles George Tinkham of Massachusetts, a veteran congressman famed for restless travel from Boston Back Bay roots to Africa Alps and Arctic circuses. His globe trotting, wartime tours, and Parisian and Italian front visits shaped his long service from 1914 while describing his vivid Washington hotel rooms packed with animal trophies and a rhino horn as a bizarre centerpiece.
A Philadelphia Public Ledger editorial ridicules endless government inquiries. It mocks the Bureau of Standards and federal studies as overreaching, noting vast unpublished material and the futile quest to quantify every detail from beef tenderness to pig births.
The article recounts Congressman Tinkham’s front line experiences in 1917 near Austria where a car toppled on ice, the drivers injured, and Tinkham returned to fire the first American gun against Austria. It notes his later African hunt with Bill Judd, meeting General Jan Smuts and the Prince of Connaught, and his views on the eighteenth amendment and government.
The Philadelphia Record notes Dorothy Perkins, a Broadway chorus girl who killed her lover, was convicted in a sensational New York case. It questions the judge’s belief the verdict would curb impulsiveness, suggesting the offender’s conduct may defy such expectations and that the public prints influence linger.
A pet cow at Tekaman Nepre- helps Jane Matthews by pumping water herself. The animal repeatedly pushes the pump handle up and down with its head in a simple yard scene.
In Washington the latest briefing explained U S policy toward China to French officials by cable. Henry Ford placed the largest cash bid yet for 200 ships controlled by the shipping board. A fresh round of prohibition debate emerged from the capital as treasury officials weigh options. The Rumanian minister was recalled for discussions on America’s debt obligations.
The Helena hearing on railway export rates opened with testimony from experts. They debated the impact of export rates on Canadian competition, eastern shipping points, and the empty car movement. Railroad officials argued conditions have changed since 1922 and pressed for a possible blanket rate increase before the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Melbourne reports experiments on producing motor fuel from waste mollasses to create alcohol for vehicle use. If successful, the process could supply a new form of alcohol based fuel and spur local industry development.
The Independent Information Bureau in Washington offers readers precise factual answers for two cents in stamps. It provides Q and A on topics from dog reactions to music to golf clubs, submarine cables, ink and metal care, and historic questions about monarchs and early millionaires.
Lengberg Poland June 27 By Associated Press the dedication of a monument to the three American aviators Kally Graves and MacCallum members of the Kosciuszko squadron who were killed in the war against the Soviets in 1919 1920 developed into a pro American demonstration. The monument shows an American aviator with Americans and Poles in the background and stands in a war cemetery at Lemberg. It was funded by a special committee headed by Mine. Ehrenberger patron.
Washington and California report the most widows in the nation, with about 13 percent of those over 15 years old listed as widows. North Dakota shows the lowest percentage, according to census data.
Louisville report says subterranean streams in Mammath cave are being traced by dyes placed in the water to map unseen passages and connections.
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