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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1925
Page
10
A chaotic roundup of quirky items reports a Chicago man poisoned by booze, six bank robbers captured in Moscow, a Seattle girl confusing a stranger for her husband, and various social witticisms. The notes touch on Prohibition blame, Ford litigation, price shifts, crimes, and light celebrity snippets.
In Fort Elizabeth on a royal tour, the Prince of Wales visited a snake farm displaying puff adders and pythons. He watched two 14 foot pythons coil around keepers but stepped back and said he hated the snakes. He preferred horses or ostriches over the deadly reptiles.
Puzzle notes President Coolidge age 53 in 1906 born son John. It asks when the president is six times his son's age and the year he will be that age again. The text also includes miscellaneous mentions of a song key, a bird joke, and Sweden road spending, with claims about American drainage and road building.
Sweden announces adoption of American road building experience and machinery to rebuild and improve its national highway system to handle growing automobile traffic. A new laboratory for testing and selecting paving materials will open near June, led by engineer Ragnar R. (text truncated)
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