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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1925
Page
6
The piece contrasts past visiting customs with today noting that old visitors stayed longer, shared meals, and gossiped openly while modern guests come for meals or evenings, expect cocktails, and leave, with hospitality enduring only the method changing. Families and children moved from guest to servant roles, while guests no longer linger.
A jurist once quipped that a promoter is a man who tries to sell something he lacks to a man who does not want it. He noted the remark did not apply to every promoter.
Chauncey M. Depew at 91 and Joseph G. Cannon at 89 live through a century of change from Napoleonic aftermath to Kaiserism and the rise of aviation. The remark recalls their central stage role in an era of rapid industrial and social transformation. Henry woulda made the grade if his teacher had known how handle him.
The piece describes a pattern where scammers prey on big city targets. It notes that Los Angeles, not Podunk, hosts many real estate agents and non-producers who were defrauded of large sums from movie and auto magnates, finance officials, and brokers.
Investors plowed $15 for every $1 in a rail merger deal that aimed to merge six billion dollars in railroads. The piece portrays Los Angeles con men preying on rural and small town readers who are duped by city slickers. The tone mocks easy targets and notes a successful ensemble among women despite the fraud scheme.
Observers note more young transients age 15 to 18 roaming streets this spring than seasoned wanderers. Reports from Butte Livingston and Great Falls describe youths asking for meals, aided by motorists and railroads with charity tickets as clergymen and families seek to bring them home.
The passage presents a chaotic collection of antiquated lines about an assembly, the fair, a Connecticut pianist, whisky auctions, ancient fish hooks, and crime news. No coherent event or outcome is stated, making a concise news item impossible from the readable text.
The St Paul Pioneer Press notes Secretary Jardine's cautious course may hit a political reef after his Washington remarks at the Tobacco Merchants Association convention. He touted tobacco's economic value but angered critics by calling tobacco a means of recreation, drawing accusations from reformers and religious critics. The piece warns his stance could become a political coffin with 73 million cigarettes cited as nails.
A Morris May poem laments a reckless driver who harms trees by ramming into them as they blossom, imagining a grim cure for the man who scars the countryside with his motorized intrusion.
Short sermon fragments from Rev Roy L Smith D D Pastor Gimpson Blee Church Minnesota critique public talk on policing voting weather government youth schools and private reform. The notes urge personal responsibility and action rather than idle complaint.
Washington notes a boom in three public transport branches Steam railroads electric railways and gasoline motor buses Growth figures investments and mileage show rail and electric networks expanding faster than highways The piece traces early electric traction Sprague Richmond 1888 and the dynamo's role plus rising per person rides over decades.
An 1895 glimpse notes US passenger auto output rising from four in a factory to 1924 totals of 3,243,283. Mary Paige, 107, of Joliet, Indiana, remarks that cars have advanced long before, with her daughter 82 helping at home after the husband’s death. In 194? trucks count 411, while passenger cars grew slower and barely rose in the era cited.
The article traces bus use growth from 60,000 units in the United States to 392,760 passenger cars in 1923, noting bus fleets expanding among independents, electric railways, hotels, schools, sightseers, and real estate firms. It cites Boston and Maine seeking to replace 1,000 miles of track with buses and predicts continued expansion alongside steam and electric railways.
Washington May 20 Four days in the role of prohibition agent in Los Angeles and Hollywood was enough for Andrew Jackson great grandson of Old Hickory He quit because he was dissatisfied with his work He sought the job with a silver medal presented to President Jackson in 1834 by the temperance society of America and a certificate urging temperance signed by Andrew Jackson John Quincy Adams and James Madison
April saw gasoline stocks fall 296000 barrels across the US per American Petroleum Institute data covering 64 percent of capacity. Crude oil stocks east of the Rockies dropped 1,588000 barrels while U S daily crude production rose 67600 barrels week ended May 16 to 2505950. Regional output varied with Smackover Arkansas up 47750 barrels and California up 63100, while Wyoming Montana Colorado fell 900. Pennsylvania crude rose 25 cents to 365 Bradford district. other grades ranged 140 to 555.
Experts from several departments study ethyl gas analysis while Congress nears action to abolish the Federal Trade Commission. Secretary Work lifts the Rio Grande land embargo and Weeks plans an early trip to New England for medical advice. Mexican embassy informed steps will be taken over a prisoner’s death at San Quentin.
The piece profiles Herbert Quick as a schoolteacher, lawyer, journalist, politician, prosecutor, mayor, and organizer with the Federal Farm Bureau plus Red Cross work in the Far East. It lauds his humor, imagination, and late-blooming vocation as an author of vivid Iowa history such as The Trek and Vandemark’s Folly.
A widespread drive against salacious magazines is indicated with officials from Washington to Washington state taking action to bar obscene publications from newsstands. The report notes efforts across cities to curb such material as reading matter.
A reader question column provides concise replies on diverse topics. It covers Swiss high altitude roses, Canadian city populations, Washington's preparations, Aquia stone history, Madrid office hours, mail delivery speeds, classical figures and Alps mentions, the organistrum instrument, Phillips Exeter naming, and definitions of consommé and purée.
The Navy ordered court martial for the submarine 8 13 crew after it ran aground at Nauset Beach Mass in January. Cmdr Charles F. Martin faces negligence charges, Lt Charles E. Lewis charged with culpable inefficiency, and Lt (j.g.) Alexander Edwards also charged with culpable inefficiency. A court of inquiry faulted the ship’s administration from the Isle of Shoals buoy to grounding as haphazard and perfunctory.
J Thornton Flynn a young singer known as Nellie Gray by wife died after slashing his throat in New York on May 20. He had hoped his vaudeville engagement would launch stardom but the venture failed to materialize. He died in the arms of his wife of four months Mrs Nellie Gray Flynn.
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