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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1931
Page
5
System outlines progressive steps in China led by finance minister T. V. Soong, noted as an authority on currency. The piece highlights a new generation taking on vast duties, while a local judge fines his wife six dollars for a traffic violation and warns Padbury boys against parking carelessly to avoid punishment.
The Helena community should avoid duplicating charity work between the Associated Charities and Salvation Army. The joint effort already efficiently provides necessities through Salvation Army manpower and equipment, making new groups like the American Volunteers unnecessary and duplicative. Residents are urged to support existing channels and skip cross city solicitations, noting potential waste and confusion.
The Helena Daily Independent critiques Northern Pacific for ending morning train service from Helena to towns east, urging a city bus line to replace it. It urges early departures to Three Forks, freight handling, and connections with Milwaukee & St Paul, arguing railroad policy harms local business and demands restored service before noon.
The Republicans blame college professors for their 1920s defeat and voter shifts. The piece accuses party leaders of hysteria and claims they seek to educate young Republicans in their own dogma while ignoring poor Hoover administration results and unemployment. It portrays the claim as a politicized scapegoat.
A discussion on China and India's silver situation and a proposal to loan silver from the U S. Clifford Hewitt, designer of the Philadelphia mint, returns with Chinese officials to oversee Shanghai’s new mint. China aims to mint 400000 coins daily as it stabilizes its currency amid long‑running internal strife.
The Minneapolis Tribune editorial argues against raising the sugar tariff, contending it mainly protects Hawaiian and Philippine growers and cheap Oriental labor at the expense of U.S. consumers. It cites Hawley Smoot effects, Cuban competition, and beet-beet growers, suggesting a bounty instead of higher duties to aid domestic producers.
Washington DC June 18. A study of patent medicines shows buyers pay mainly for the knowledge and transport of materials from distant lands. The US manufactures about 600 million dollars worth of medicines annually, with 114 million pounds of raw imports in 1930. The trade rests on alchemy and science, blending herbs, minerals, and expert compounding, while revealing a history from witch doctors to modern laboratories. The piece traces imports like cinchona bark for quinine and licorice root, cites major suppliers, and notes growing domestic cultivation such as ginseng exports from the United States.
A garbled report mentions a White House event with Hoover, Elena Beerstartes, and French Strother. Strother has resigned amid a flap connected to a secretary at the National Education Association and a new diner project.
Dr George Shambaugh warns of congenital deafness and urges awareness of family history when planning children. He explains adult deafness often stems from otosclerosis and stresses research as the key to prevention and treatment while noting the role of animal studies and the need for public support of scientific medicine.
A long Q and A column presents questions on Ed Walsh 40 win season 1908, Towlsville Manual College opening 1934, The Black Crook debut 1846, Pittsburgh spelling by the Geographic Board, Trader Horn author Ethelrede Lewis, and a proverb on ignorance. It also covers birds food plants, Vicki Baum Grand Hotel, agricultural engineering division at USDA, and the Tulsa Museum Foundation mission and location.
A Detroit News summary notes Lucky Strike ads require twelve thousand pounds of Tyne metal and 937 pounds of copper weekly, supporting more than 1,000 daily newspapers nationwide. Ads create work for writers, printers, pressmen, and numerous sales and distribution staff as the American Tobacco Company increases ad spending to reach about 36 million readers across 1,900 papers.
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