State Fair ends in Helena by legislative action
The Montana Legislature ends state fair funding, halting the event for two years and perhaps permanently, citing the eliminated appropriation. Debate centers on politics, county impact, and the influence of figures like Dixon Lanstrum, Paul, Dowlin, and Governor Dixon amid broader concerns about state resources and rail and oil interests.
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Montana
Helena
Senate Committee On Finance and Claims
Great Falls
Billings
University
Paul
Powell County
United States
O. M. Lanstrum
Lanstrum
J. L. Slattery
Dixon
Senate
Dixon Machine
Dixon-Lanstrum
State Fair
Dowlin
Republican State Committee
Republican National
State Senate
Deer Lodge
Real Problems of the Railroads Addressed in Providence
R H Aishton president of the American Railway Association spoke to the Rhode Island Bankers Association on railroad issues. He ranked consolidation and valuations as secondary to the pressing needs of adequate service and efficient economical operation. He emphasized practical questions arising from these problems.
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United States
R. H. Aishton
American Railway Association
Rhode Island Bankers Association
Providence
Mr. Aishton
Open lobbying debate voiced in Senate over cabinet influence
Senator Ashhurst challenges cabinet lobbying in Congress and calls for open floor debate. He cites historic shifts from lobby to floor role, arguing leadership should be visible and accountable. The piece ends with a quip on radio sermons and funding implications.
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Department of Agriculture
Ashhurst
Senate
Arizona
Congress
Alexander Hamilton
Secretary of the Treasury
Jefferson
Washington
Legislative Assembly
Secretary of Agriculture
Reviving Prophecy in a British Expatriate's View
The St Paul Dispatch comments on Mayor A Hamilton Gibbs choosing American citizenship and declares America the only country to live in for this generation. It questions how Britons will respond as England’s strength fades and radicalism erodes the nation, drawing on Macauley’s prophecy of a future London bridge ruin.
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A. Hamilton Gibbs
Sir Philip Gibbs
New York
America
England
United States
Major Gibbs
Great Britain
Macauley
New Zealand
London Bridge
St. Pan's
St. Paul's
The Curious Profession of Snow Crystal Photographer Bentley
Washington letter notes Jericho Vermont photographer Wilson A Bentley spent decades photographing snow crystals. He collects thousands of unique images, aided by a microscope, with 4200 distinct specimens by age 19, illustrating endless natural variation and global snow phenomena across the Arctic and Antarctic.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Wilson A. Bentley
Jericho
Vermont
Tentley
Mr. Bentley
A. Dobrowski
Bentley
Poland
Bentley Segan
Faith as rational trust in Jesus heals centurion’s doubt
Meditative text on Luke 7 9 where Jesus marvels at the centurion’s complete faith led by credible witness. Faith is reasoning on testimony not credulity, with unbelief seen as sin. A prayer asks God to grow faith like a tree by rivers of water and to rejoice in Christ our Savior.
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Israel
Jesus
Christ
F. L. Fagiey
Snowflake Artist Bentley Tracks Nature's Crystals
The article profiles Mr. Bentley, a winter observer who studies snow crystals to add meteorological data. He finds the finest crystals in lighter storms, notes western quadrants host best forms, and explains how evaporation alters shapes. He continues collecting yearly, though this cold vocation keeps him from Palm Beach.
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Mr. Bentley
Bentley
Palm Beach
The Red Letter Bible A Volume Of Unique Value
Advertises the Big Print Red Letter Bible distribution praising readers as refined and intelligent. States limited stock will barely satisfy remaining coupons and warns some holders may be disappointed as renewal may not occur.
Capital and Labor Nearer Together
Ansociated Press reports Chicago special public utilities counsel Donald R. Richberg voicing dissent from the view that a broad ownership distribution will end capital and labor conflict. Speakers Carver Harris Foster Hillman outline four phases and possible outcomes of voluntary property ownership diffusion, including worker ownership and labor banks.
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New York
Donald R. Richberg
Chicago
America
Academy of Political Science
Thomas N. Carver
Harvard
Albert M. Harris
New York Central Lines
William Trufant Foster
Pollak Foundation For Economic Research
Boston
Sidney Hillman
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Richberg
Ford
Henry Ford
United States
Thos. N. Carver
Carver
Jewis Cecil Gray
Division of Land Economics
Department of Agriculture
Notron
Boy Hears Parents Plan His Funeral in Bed
Roscoe Qualls a 9 year old boy in Madisonville Kentucky heard his parents plan his funeral after a skating accident left him paralyzed and comatose. Doctors believed he died but he later recovered, with recovery briefly described amid the terrifying event. A separate Vera Cruz Mexico payroll robbery is noted with eight bandits hijacking the La Barra train at Arbol Grande.
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Associated Press
Madisonville
Roscoe Qualls
Roscoe
Vera Cruz, Mex
Pierce Oi
la Barra
Arbolgrande
Answers to Questions From The Helens Independent Bureau
A compilation of reader questions and expert replies on broadcasting wattage and stations, bow materials, Boxer indemni fund scholarships, annular solar eclipse, Cairo University, Atlantic scallops, Mount St Albans cathedral, Easter dates since 1875, Pre-Raphaelites, global ship numbers, talc as a mineral sign, Floridian population, kilocycles, Chippewa payments, fool's gold, and Virginia servants in 1625 with slavery trends.
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KDKA
KFKX
KYW
WBZ
WDAP
WGY
WJAZ
WTAM
Forest Service
China
Labrador Coast
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Mount St. Albans
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
William
William Holman Hunt
John Everett Mullais
James Collinson
Frederick George Stevens
Thomas Woolner
Minnesota
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