Mitchell’s Truth Tells Cost Him Air Service Rank
President Coolidge backed Weeks who moved Mitchell to colonel after his testimony about air service flaws. Sims and Fullam supported his facts, but Weeks’s stance left Mitchell punished. The public may push to restore his brigadier rank and strengthen the air service. A later scene notes House leaders wielding pencils while urging fairness.
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President Coolidge
Weeks
Massachusetts
Mitchell
Air Service
Sims
Fullam
War Weeks
Death of German President Ebert Shakes European Balance
The untimely death of President Ebert of Germany removes a prudent independent leader amid a fragile Reichstag balance. A coalition is necessary as royalist factions loom. his experience kept peace and unity. At 54, his successor faces a hard task to maintain stability and world confidence.
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Ebert
Germany
Social Democrats
Europe
Baruch offers 50 50 refinancing for South Carolina farms
Bernard Baruch proposes to refinance South Carolina farm loans on a 50-50 basis to aid banks hamstrung by borrowers unable to pay under boll weevil conditions. The offer, praised by the Charlestown News and Courier, would address a shortfall in school funds and foreclosed lands.
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South Carolina
Bernard M. Baruch
Charlestown
Mr. Baruch
Montana
Peterson
Valley County
Senate
House
Public Instruction
Opposition to New Farm Loan Bill Stalls in House
The attorney general's office opposed the bill and Peterson cites it as why the measure died in committee. Two Legislatures oppose further loans from school funds on farms, despite the prior administration loaning 15000 after the election and about two hundred applications delayed. The Nineteenth assembly's special committee renews the demand to halt loans, blaming lack of official notice to the land board for the earlier violation.
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Ney
Peterson
House Committee
Eighteenth Assembly
Nineteenth Assembly
Land Board
Still a Woman's a Woman Leginska Breaks Down Claim
The pianist Leginska returns after a breakdown caused by overwork and asserts she worked to prove a woman can do what a man can. The piece argues that proving gender parity in endurance does not erase differences, noting that a man and a woman remain distinct with differing limits and reactions.
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Leginska
Fat-Head and the Public Reader Critique
A Vanity Fair backed essay questions the imagined “fat-head” audience targeted by journalists and politicians. It argues editors and orators speak down to readers and viewers while questioning democracy’s resilience against such perceived condescension.
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Vanity Fair
Comic Journal
Worst Congress Ever Declares Veteran Sherwood In Editorial
The New York World recalls Gen. Isaac R. Sherwood noting how early Congresses lacked experts and rules, contrasting with a current session deemed the worst yet. It criticizes the lack of major legislation, Muscle Shoals jockeying, and Japan jingoism, while condemning partisan demands and inefficiency.
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Congress
Isaac R. Sherwood
House of Representatives
White House
Dakotas
Utah
Lynnhaven Bay
Grant
Gen
Sherwood
Washington
Senate
House
Japan
Real Secret of Success Sermon Adages In Minneapolis Church
The text presents a sermon card featuring the Rev Roy Smith D D pastor at Simpson M E Church in Minneapolis. It delivers maxims on success happiness beauty power popularity fashion and politics. Each line offers a concise moral like do your work better than expected and love the tasks you perform. The piece emphasizes readiness for emergencies, valuing others, and pioneering in fashion.
Pan American Nights promote Latin music across Americas
The Pan American Union launches Pan American Nights in Washington with radio programs pairing English talks and Latin American music. March features Mexican music with a Mexican ambassador talk, while future shows include Pershing Night. Letters praise the effort for cross cultural contact and neighborliness through music and arts.
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Washington, D.C
United States
Pan-American Union
Franklin Adams
Latin America
Adams
Mexico
Pershing
General Pershing
South America
Washington, D. C
Pan- American Union
Americas
South
Central America
Teresa Carreno
Venezela
Guiomar Nogaes
Brazil
Washington
Army Band
W. J. Stanard
Fellowship of Prayer Lenten meditation and notes
Daily Lenten Bible reading and meditation prepared for the Commission on Evangelism of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. The text reflects on God’s visitation through Jesus Christ and the inner witness of souls, with prayers thanking God and seeking guidance to walk with Him. Copyright 1925 J. L. Fagley.
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Commission On Evangelism of
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Good Among Sea
Earth
Jesus
God
Christ
Jesus Christ
J. L. Fagley
Latin American origins of popular songs and marimba history
The article notes that many hit tunes written by Latin Americans predate their U.S. popularity with examples like Three O clock in the Morning from Buenos Aires. It explains the marimba’s Guatemala roots and how modern marimbistas adapted to jazz era American audiences.
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Adams
South America
United States
Buenos Aires
San Martino Tower
Guatemala
Senate rejects Warren as attorney general nomination
The senate rejected Charles B. Warren's nomination for attorney general and refused reconsideration. The senate committee investigating the internal revenue bureau plans to resume hearings next Monday. A house subcommittee recommended heavier penalties for liquor law violations, with White House support for Republicans in removing insurgent members from key committee posts.
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Charles B. Warren
Senate
Internal Revenue Bureau
House
White House
Meat dealers angry as London turns to apples and oranges
London reports a fruit campaign boosting American and Canadian apples, with Oregon and Washington apples favored in shops and on streets. Prices run higher than U.S., while other imported fruits and corn on the cob appear. Butchers protest, calling the apple push an insult to their trade and respond with a beef hymn.
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London
England
Oregon
Washington
United States
Florida
California
Atlantic
South Africa
America
Answers to Questions from The Helena Inquiry Bureau
A reader's Q A exchange outlines a question bureau offering information on various topics. It covers identities in the president's official family, Ida Jones death in 1922, Shantung return to China under a 1922 treaty, California leading paved roads, weight of the Liberty Bell, potato bug spread by 1897, languages of world nations, the first opera Daphne, and notes on state government economy and Capitol appropriations.
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Helena
Ida Jones
Ada Jones
Rocky Mount
North Carolina
Japan
Shantung
China
California
United States
Rocky Mountain
Omaha
Atlantic Seaboard
Missouri
Mississippi
Georgia
Austria
Florence
Euridice
Sofo Anun Fleet
Lost Its Reputation in Montana Legislature
The Butte Miner notes the Montana legislature squandered early gains as the senate pruned expenditures while the house faced blame for failing to keep pledges of economy. It cites political obstruction by Dixon loyalists and an effort by Governor Erickson to demand itemized, pre‑adjournment bills. The piece praises the senate’s courage in reducing state spending and urges better House representation next election.
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Senate
Seattle
Sitka
Miss A
Montana
House
Commonwealth
Appropriations Committee
Dixon
Wold
Erickson
Finance and Claims Committee
State Board of Examiners
House Committee
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College of Engineering
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