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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1925
Page
4
Reported fatalities across five states total 823 with 2990 injured, as relief efforts surge. Murphysboro losses cited at 33 million, Princeton and Owensville show early tallies, Red Cross appeals for aid issued for survivors amid rescue efforts.
Grief and rubble mark Griffin and surrounding Indiana towns after a massive twister. Rescue workers pull bodies from wreckage while survivors search for loved ones in hospitals and shelters. Red Cross requests anti tetanus serum. relief flights planned as crews battle fires and looting concerns.
Reports from Chicago to Indiana and Wisconsin recount miraculous escapes amid violent storms. Italian relief workers and Italian reservist Lt Ugo M Guiti led squads in southern Illinois. A woman and baby survived stranded atop a tree while others perished. West Frankfort and Orient mine scenes describe mass debris and rescue efforts as morgues overflow and workers seek safety in a vault.
March 19 dispatches report a Missouri tornado sweeping 70 miles, destroying Annapolis and Leadanna and injuring about 206 with 27 deaths feared in the state. Other fatalities noted in southern Illinois and Kentucky as storms widen, while President Coolidge pledges Red Cross relief efforts for midwest storm victims.
Butte theatergoers filled the Broadway house to capacity as May Robson performed in Something Tells Me. Critics praised her aging grace and engaging presence while noting solid support from Robert Dilts and Lillian Talz. The Marlow engagement drew a large seat sale and strong audience approval.
A Marlow theater vaudeville program last night pleased audiences with strong acts including Bert Leigh and company in Five Minutes from the Station and Bart Faber with Margie in Happiness The Peter Troupe headlined while Jessie Miller offered musical numbers and Quini and Caverly provided Teapot Dome humor, drawing generous applause for an unusually high quality opening.
A chaotic review extols The Last Man on Earth at the Antlers as the most surprising comedy ever screened, a inversed tragedy about a world without men where a lone male survivor, a woman-hating lover, faces a society of two million desperate women, provoking laughter through its bold premise. The piece weaves in dubious notes about Red Cross relief efforts and a Tripoli dispute, reflecting garbled clippings.
Pola Negri headlines the American release of Forbidden Paradise directed by Ernst Lubitsch. A Balkan romance set at a czarist court with Red La Rocque as a front line soldier and Adolphe Menjou as court chancellor. Pauline Starke also featured.
Reverend jeTurney Hood, a World War I chaplain, likens Murphysboro after events to a war zone in France. He says the scene cannot be painted too dark and emphasizes the severity of what he witnessed on his return.
Washington reports nineteen treaties ratified by the Senate between December 2 and adjournment yesterday, a record under Foreign Relations Chair Borah since Lodge’s death. Nineteen treaties were reported favorably, with Lausanne delayed to the next session and Isle of Pines approved under Senator Vale.
A Arizona man recounts severe facial pimples lasting about two and a half months. He scratched eruptions, lost sleep, and could not shave. After trying remedies, a friend sent a free Cuticura sample. within days he improved and by two months was healed. The note is signed George Pedregon, Oct 29, 1924.
A Chicago report details a March storm producing multiple tornadoes across the Midwest. Prof Henry J Cox notes spring conditions drive tornadoes but weather officials avoid precise forecasts to prevent widespread panic. The article describes a series of twisters spanning miles and shifting paths from Colorado to the Ohio valley.
In West Frankfort Illinois an Associated Press report says the Tin Home and Aid society will seek homes for tornado orphans. Mrs Minnie Smith superintendent of the Duquoin orphanage announced 115 local homes offered to rear orphans and 32 children found homes today.
Buenos Aires reports a 1,000 mile endurance race to settle whether the native criollo or imported thoroughbreds show greater stamina. Dr Emilio Solanel challenges two criollo horses against two thoroughbreds, weight carried like cavalry gear, race set for April with Augustin de Ella racing two Bonnie Sundee descendants in a test of endurance. In Seattle, an auto driver crashed into a new building under construction claiming it was traveling the wrong way.
James Swan golf professional whose body lay unclaimed in a New York morgue will be buried with proper funeral arrangements. George Sargent of Columbus president of the Professional Golfers' Association wired New York members to claim the body and handle arrangements. Swan taught Presidents Cleveland and Wilson to play golf and collapsed in a New York park earlier today.
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