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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1933
Page
5
Montana highlights state funding bonds as a secure investment for savers and surplus funds. Maturity and redemption of outstanding bonds, including Helena city water ponds, are noted with 4 percent maximum return. The piece argues bonds help reduce state taxes by moving government finances to a cash basis.
Helena embraces kitten-ball as a cheap inclusive sport to curb waistlines and boost community fitness. The article credits kitten-ball with education value, steady gate receipts at Legion Park, and potential to rekindle a stronger baseball culture through widespread participation by workers, families, and spectators.
Walter Hansen of Hansen Packing Company in Butte secured a contract to supply fresh and cured meats to twenty seven United States Reforestation camps in Montana. The arrangement keeps steers hogs and lambs within Montana, avoiding shipments to South Omaha or Chicago and reducing freight costs, significantly boosting local profit potential for Montana stock growers.
Growers may ship or drive animals to the Hansen plant as the Yellowstone and Glacier Park hotels sign contracts for Montana meat. Hansens has long aided stockmen by supplying lamb and beef to navy yards and markets from Atlantic to Pacific, with frozen lamb in New York seasons and Montana cured meats in navy messes abroad. The company also ships Montana turkeys to California and provides sausages for Dutch lunches and Midwest beer regions.
Travelers Insurance finds a sharp rise in fatal accidents linked to old cars in the first four months of the year. Defective brakes up 29 percent, worn tires 33 percent, faulty lights 60 percent, and steering faults 25 percent, amid limited replacement due to economic mood.
The Century of Progress exposition in Chicago surpassed the 1893 Columbian exposition in the first five days, with attendance of 409,000 versus 185,000. The piece argues the Century of Progress may again shape America’s cultural life, unlike Philadelphia’s Sesqui-Centennial, which failed.
A humor sketch ponders why gnats arrive late to picnics and their odd link to potato salad. It riffs on social morals, Prohibition, and the folly of trying to explain a gnat’s behavior while vividly detailing a picnic scene and the messy ritual of salvaging leftovers.
The sermon from Rev. ROV 1 Smith of Minneapolis First Church urges forgiveness to save souls from bitterness, making the best of what cannot be changed. It counsels speaking of the absent with restraint, disagreeing without causing rancor, and investing time where it pays dividends. It also urges judging by people’s best, and showing charity we wish to receive.
Washington opinion piece on the rise of installment buying over two decades and its impact on debt. It notes merchants shifting from $1 down or nothing down to priced installments, the role of unemployment in nonpayment, and the new policy of deferred payments tied to permanent-value goods. It argues this policy aims to curb national debt while protecting merchants and guiding consumer credit behavior.
The article discusses shifting policies toward deferred payments for goods like furniture and clothing. It notes that conservative installment terms reduce delinquencies, limit purchase duration, and improve repayment rates compared with open charge accounts. Government advisers urge merchants to advertise installment options to boost sales.
A reader asks about college attendance by Frances Perkins and other figures. Answers cover topics from labor history to transportation, eye versus ear sensitivity, Antioch College presidency, Mount Mitchell ascent times, aspirin trademark history, church bells in Franco, the Payne Fund, the Kleack system, poisons, and other curio items with terse factual responses.
A health feature discusses how inherited skin, hair, and eye characteristics shape human makeup. It cites premature gray hair, thick eyebrows, freckling, and hair distribution as inheritable, with examples from families showing varying expression and unrelated elements, including a reference to an Australian family with ratlike appendages.
Washington June 8 Brigadier General William Wenter vell of Chicago retired, a political director for Sara Morhuck and Company, was selected today by George N. Peek administrator for key roles in farm act administration. He becomes director of pro conning Ani marketing and will draft marketing agreements with producers across wheat, corn, hogs, barley, and dairy products. A. G. Binck of Amont Ta named acting cornshog production chief. New York June 8 The American Petroleum Institute invited representatives of producer associations nationwide to a meeting in Chicago to collaborate on a code of price discipline for industry.
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