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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1936
Page
7
A Midwest nurseryman proves advertising boosts sales and profits without increasing shrub and flower prices. By expanding reach, advertising drew customers, created jobs, and aided growth, while manufacturers via advertising lower selling costs and often reduce consumer prices. The piece argues advertising benefits both seller and buyer.
A long OCR fragment presents a 1900s era Q and A style quiz with names such as Velena Independent Information and J Haskin, touching on patents, Edison scholarships, and public notices. It includes questions about oil fuels, dam projects, and figures like Helen Hayes, Garibaldi, and Peter Minuit, plus trivia on Hearst fortunes and Jazz Age topics.
A fragmentary essay reflects on canoeing as an arduous sport and a perilous adventure. It critiques romantic wanderlust while mixing travel thoughts with personal musings about paddling, hazards, and the allure of distant journeys.
Helen Welchimer, famed poet and NEA Service reporter, has completed a novel Runaway Heidi and will publish in Sunday magazine. Her poems and editorials span Maine to California, reflecting universal experiences. She resides in New York but writes about small towns and country life, drawing a large reader mailbag and fan interest.
Columnist Helen Velatines grew up in Canton Ohio and authored poems and short stories from childhood through college. She studied journalism and dramatics at Hiram College and Columbia University, started at the Canton Daily News, became a star feature writer, and moved to the Akron Beacon-Journal before joining NEA Service as a poet and writer for years.
New York reports a study by Dr Agron Bakal of the department of mathematics at Teachers College Ga lumi amivoritis who surveyed gambling forms. He analyzes loaded dice wheels and machines claiming many games have near zero chances of fair win. lists probabilities for state lotteries, poker, roulette, and dice. The report notes some players have suffered heart failure after long sessions and highlights the inherent risk in gambling markets.
A national editor writes a serialized romance about a bride to be and her fiancé, tracing the wedding day turmoil, anxious conversations, and hidden encounters as events build to a dramatic climax. The piece reflects mid century magazine storytelling and female readership interests.
A selection of travel and political books is reviewed, including Down the Cane by Katharine Smith and Erith Shay, Cape Cod guides, Glacier National Park trails, and Surplus Prophets. The piece also discusses The Great Promises and How They Lost, A Place In the Sun, Egypt mysticism, and a modern novel The Grand Kay, noting design, prices, and reader appeal.
A 1940s detective tone review of a novel about a German prisoner in a Nazi camp. It follows a young radical arrested, beaten, and facing death, who escapes to Crochosioyakia then returns to Germany believing he will die. The piece highlights imponderables and miraculous rescues amid grim history.
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