Helena Hearing On Improved NP Train Service Irony
A Helena editorial condemns Northern Pacific for touting “improved” service after dropping the early morning Helena train. It cites protests from local businesses and farmers, notes continued Butte routing, and argues local trains fuel markets and distribution while long distance service does not. The piece urges a bus line as relief and chides Congress over tariffs.
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Helena
Northern Pacific Railroad
Railroad Commission
Heleng
Northern Pacific Company
Broadwater County
Here
Butte
Northarm Pacific
Fruit and Wholesale Commission
Logan
Burlington
Garrison
Northern Pacific
West Coast
Twin Cities
Hias
Helens
Winston
Townsend
Toston
Three Forks
Oil conservation debate dubbed absurd and harmful
A confidential circular by independent oil dealers attacks oil conservation agitation as bogus. It accuses big oil interests of seeking production limits to raise prices, argues Hoover fell for a scheme, and says markets will adjust with liberal supplies to curb profits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New York City
Hoover
Bond Vote Prompts Hidden Tax Burden Revelation
A note warns taxpayers that issuing five merchant bonds totaling 100000 due in 30 years will cost about 230000 to repay, highlighting the long term impact of bond financing and the true cost to residents.
Supreme Court denies naturalization to Hungarian author for refusing arms
The Supreme Court rules Mrs. R Schwimmer is undesirable as a citizen for declining to bear arms. Justices Holmes and Brandeis note the duty to defend via force of arms as constitutional, prompting debate over wartime exemptions for Quakers and the treatment of women in the electorate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Schwimmer
Holmes and
Brandeia
United States Supreme Court
America
Pennsylvania
Hoover
United States Supreme Bench
Best Editorial Attacks Hawley Smoot Tariff as Home-Killer
The People's Business brands the Hawley Smoot tariff bill as a home killer, blasted as burdening home costs and harming the farmer. It notes Republican Sen. R. Beecher Howell's ties to the sponsoring group and questions who profited from protectionist policy.
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The
People's Business
Washington
People's Legislative Service
Sodom
High Priests of Protection
Mr. Hoover
Howell
No clear winners when parties or players refuse to yield
The text questions whether any venture succeeds when both sides dig in, players act solo, staff distrust leadership, criminals avoid penalties, or a generous man ends up in poverty. It echoes a skeptical view of collective effort versus individual self interest.
Steamship Models Trace Historic Rise Of Naval Power
Frederia J. Haskin describes a National Museum exhibit of about 750 ship models tracing steamship development from John Fitch's 1786 vessel to Fulton’s Clermont and later steamers. The collection shows engines paired with sails, early screw propellers, coastwise and river ships, and international craft, including a Siamese state barge and whalers like the Orca.
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Washington, D. C
National Museum At Washington
John Fitch
Robert Fulton
Fitch
Delaware
Philadelphia
James Rumsey
Rumsey
Potomac River
Hudson River
John Stevens
English Channel
Atlantic
New Jersey
Francis Fitkett
New York
England
Savannah
Fickett
Nicholas Roosevelt
Orleans
Ohio
Mississippi
R. F. Stockton
John Fite
Fulton
Phoenix
S. S. Philadelphia
Glasgow
Navy
Florida
Esquimeaux
National Museum
Immunity and disease in Dr Brady's Health Letters
Personal Health Service by Dr William Brady discusses immunity as a fixed state, debunking fatigue or exposure as a cause of reduced resistance. It cites tuberculosis, diphtheria, pneumonia and smallpox, notes illness timing, and chronicles reader questions on TB exposure, neuritis, warts, diabetes, and quitting smoking with brief clinical answers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado Springs
Robinson Crusoe
Crusoe
School of Medica
C. G
Brady
Wiliam Brady
Enra
Health of teachers deserves school policy rethink
In a Helena letter dated June 5 1929 the writer argues that teachers health matters as much as pupil health. Citing New York City where teachers must pass strict physicals, the author urges the local board of education to require health certificates for teachers and principals, noting many currently in service would be disqualified and suggesting many should have retired long ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parent-Teachers’ Association
Board of Education
Butte
New York City
New York
Smust
Helena
Man Sues Surgeons Over Left In Towel In abdomen
Ernest Rosson of Lusk Wyoming filed suit in district court seeking 125,760 from Dr G W Earl and Dr J R Hylton. He alleges during a heroin-related operation three years ago a towel or surgical clamp was left in his abdomen, causing infection, great pain and suffering and necessitating a second operation.
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Lusk
Wyo
Ernest Rosson
G. W. Earl
J. R. Hylton
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Congress
Oklahoma
Roy L. Smith
D. D
Simpson M. B. Church
Minneapolis
Haskin
Frederia
J. Haskin
Manitobe
Hig Tanck
Jamie
William Brady, m. D
Miss Faw
John F. Dille Co
the Independent
Montana Banks of Helena
Montana Trust and Savings Bank
the National Bank of Montana
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