Helena school board urged to curb spending and modernize
The Independent reports on several aspiring Helena public school superintendents who condemn current district waste. They urge abolishing the clerk to the board and the truant officer, shifting buying and warrants to the superintendent’s office, and creating a teachers committee to review applications. They warn of closures, overcrowded schools, and potential tax issues if reforms are not adopted.
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Independent
Helena
Board of Education
Helena Public Schools
City of Helena
Hawthorne
Mail plane pilot follows main street in Helena
The mail plane pilot who brings the mail from the south at 11:20 each morning mimics prominent locals who drive for pleasure and always flies straight down Helena's Main Street.
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Helena
New relief problem reshapes farm aid amid famine
A new variation of the farm relief problem 46 seeks solutions as land once valued for crops faces hunger amid potential plenty. Prof. F. H. Newell, consulting engineer and former head of government reclamation, weighs in on the issue.
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F. H. Newell
Halhve
Pie and candy barred from NYC school tunnels
Pie and candy are barred from school tunnel rooms in New York City. The rule implies children will eat more pie and candy on playgrounds, as a school child needs a certain amount of that kind of trash to be healthy.
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New York City
Mrs. M. BA
Supreme Court settles pocket veto doubt in republic era
The Supreme Court rules that a President auto-vetoes a bill if Congress adjourns without a signature, ending a longstanding doubt since the republic’s start. The ruling mostly impacts Muscle Shoals legislation and signals possible vetoes by President Hoover on the Norris bill. Also noted: calf liver prices, Canada meat contrast, and cheeky reflections on Detroit, moonshine, and education.
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Congress
Supreme Court
Muscle Shoals
Coolidge
House
Senate
Hoover
Best Editorial on Prohibition and the Drinking Habit
The Baptist editor argues that true prohibition demands destroying the drinking habit itself. He urges recognizing the habit as the core obstacle, worse than imperfect laws, and calls for a collective moral effort to condemn it. The piece condemns editors and leaders who uphold drinking while opposing prohibition.
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America
Buncombe
Sentence Sermons From Roy L Smith Pastor Minneapolis
A compact sermon collection urges seekers to welcome facts from any source and to serve causes without envy. It argues deeds prove religion better than creeds and that helping others is best when one declines to do what they can. It urges pleasing God by making it pleasant for others and avoiding unnecessary temptation.
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Roy L. Smith
Simpson M
BE. Church
Minneapolis
Andrew Mellon Quietly Works Power From Behind The Scenes
In Washington the soft spoken Andrew W Mellon has forged influence as secretary of the treasury since 1921. He runs public business with thoroughness and persistence, avoiding publicity while shaping tax cuts and war debt settlements. A self made Pittsburgh banker, Mellon remains a plain man who walks home from work and collects art in his leisure.
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Washington
May Jr
Jman
Pittsburgh
Andrew W. Mellon
the Treasury
Mr. Mellon
Harding
Secretary Mellon
Treasury
Philander C. Knox
Mellon
Department of the Treasury
Congress
Wall Street
Thomas Melton
County Tyrone
Ireland
Melton
T. Mellon & Sons
Mellons
Andrew W Mellon
America
Mellonses
Andrew Mellon
University of Pittsburgh
Andrew
Judge Mello
Andrew Mel Jon
Secretary of the Treasury
Gainsborough
Gilbert Stuart
Rembrandt Peale
Coolidge
Hoover
Twa Natena
Aberdeen Man Seeks Bottle Deal In Chemist Shop
An Aberdeen man enters a chemist with a request for two small empty bottles. The shopkeeper quotes threepence for the bottles but offers to give the bottle for free if the man wants something in it. The eccentric reply asks for a cork to be placed in it.
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Aberdeen
Health insurance policy caps death claim over pulmonary disease
A Washington Supreme Court decision and an Alabama ruling impact life policy payouts. The Alabama case Southern Life & Health Insurance Co. v Drake upheld a partial death benefit when death within a year was linked to diseases including pulmonary conditions. The piece explains broncho pneumonia and related terms, noting its variable fever and links to chronic illness, while detailing reader questions on breathing, teeth growth, ear wax, and baking soda use.
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Supreme Court of Washington
Health and Accident Insurance Company
Alabama Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Trial Court
Southern Life & Health Insurance Company
Drake
Ala
Mellon the Treasury Chief Who Fights Problems Not People
Freeman era profile discusses Frederick M. Mellon, detailing his unwavering fiscal principles, reserved demeanor, and focus on policy over politics. It notes his private life as sociable, his health at 74, and praise for a bureaucracy led by Frederic J. Haskin guiding the Helena Independent Information Bureau. It ends with a quiz on the Kentucky Derby winner Clyde Van Dusen, circus history, and New York City hospital counts.
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Thon
Washington, D. C
Frederic J. Has~kin
Helena
Clyde van Dusen
P. F
Rome
Circus Maximus
England
Philip Astley
London
Astley
Ducrow
Hengler
Sanger
America
Ricketts
George Washington
Purdy, Welch End Company
An Amburgh
United States
New York City
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