Coffee Drinkers Revolt Against Brazilian Price Gouging
A U S government backed inquiry follows reports of Brazilian planters and merchants inflating coffee prices. Americans curb consumption while Brazilian and American commissions set to study trade, with Hoover backing conferences. Dawes touted as a Republican presidential candidate amid calls for reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
National
Hoover
Brazil
Sao Paulo
Rio de Janeiro
America
Doodle Bug Called Fake in Old Detector Debunking
A Washington dispatch reports a fraud order on a so called gold locator a device claimed to detect underground gold and silver mines. The piece notes skepticism among educated readers about doodle bags or oil detectors and urges verifying claims with patent and university authorities before investing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Montans
University of Montana
Theater Owners Battle Producers for Fair Prices
At the national convention in Milwaukee, the Motion Picture Theater Owners of America pledged resistance to producers, vowing to buy where they please and demand fair prices and pre purchase inspection rights. The move targets the so called producers trust, described as three closely linked trusts.
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Motion Picture Theater Owners of America
Milwaukee
Producers’ Trust
Close Har
Theater owners fight 24 film yearly contract demands
A long account condemns forced sales and fixed film allocations, noting theater owners pay for dead releases under big studio contracts. It cites Milwaukee’s push for independent producers, a New York play-date bureau, and calls for open buying to avoid duds. It also critiques high star salaries as inflating costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
New York City
Will Hays
Trust
Rum Fleet Scattered and Prohibition Enforcement Questioned
A New York war correspondent asserts the rum fleet has been dispersed and booze running ended on the Atlantic coast, then questions what federal enforcement has achieved over the last four to five years.
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New York
Heaven
Atlantic Seaboard
Death ray myth denounced as impossible
The piece dismisses the reported German death ray that could paralyze targets forty miles away as a myth. It argues all wavelengths are known, questions sensational claims, and envisions a world where such a device would shift war toward rules of justice rather than killing. It notes justice cannot be guaranteed by right alone.
Ghosts of tragedy reunite parents in fatal Chicago case
A grim line from a Chicago murder recalls a father and mother reuniting after the bullet that sent their daughter into the afterlife. The account frames the incident as a moral spectacle with haunting reflections on loss.
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Chicago
Simple Prescription for the Poorly Miss Smith
A Baltimore Sun editorial narrates Miss Smith an elderly spinster who feels ill and unappreciated. She contemplates dying to haunt neighbors yet finds renewed vigor after cleaning, deciding to visit Amy Brown to check for dust. The piece presents a wry, moral reflection on vanity and social perception with a gentle punchline about a no charge remedy.
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Miss Smith
Corhers
Amy Brown
Amy
Rum Row Baron Hartwell Sees Mixed Prohibition Reports
Washington notes diverging accounts of Sir Broderick Hartwell and his English liquor syndicate. Some say losses exceed 32,000 cases and collapse looms, others claim salvaged cargoes and slight profits while enforcement blocks shipments to dry America. Prohibition officials report few seizures by foreign shippers, casting doubt on triumphs or disasters.
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Washington, D. C
Broderick Hartwell
England
America
Baronet
Broderick
Te Wag
Sir Broderick
United States
Atlantic
Scotland
Jost Her
Der
Coast Guard
New York
Prohibition Enforcement
Rum Row seizures hit bootleggers as foreign shipper risk
Coast Guard reports indicate American bootleggers ashore incur big losses when seizures occur along Rum Row. Foreign liquor traders ship cargo to transfer stations abroad, with payment made before transshipment. If offshore cargo cannot be landed, losses fall on the consignee and the shipper’s contract is considered fulfilled. Dry leaders cheer enforcement gains and warn no more liquor can be smuggled in.
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Broderick
Coast Guard
mid-Atlantic
Lions Fostered by Great Dane at Berlin Zoo
Three cub Lions born to Senta, prize Honess of the Berlin zoo, are being raised by a Great Dane after Senta showed a tendency to kill them. The canine foster mother nurses the cubs, delighting hundreds of watching children as the playful youngsters grow.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Senta
Helena Businessmen Back State Fair Financing Drive
The Livingston Enterprise notes Helena and Lewis and Clark county business leaders pledge to fund a three day state fair. They expect public backing to enhance patronage and profit, viewing the effort as Montana spirit to keep the state on the map.
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Helena
Livingston
Montana
Lewis and Clark County
Livingston Enterprise
Moving motor cars sharpen men's wits
Urbana May 22 The Associated Press reports University of Illinois research professor H F Moore says motion mindedness comes from widespread automobile use. He argues drivers think ahead and consider future positions to avoid collisions and believes cars will push society toward progress and change if more people adopt this habit.
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Urbana
Associated Press
H. F. Moore
University of Illinois
Trof
Moore
Editorial urges Montana mining aid in zinc market access
In a Helena letter dated May 22, 1925, L A Ropes argues for Montana to press for markets and favorable west bound rates for zinc concentrates. The piece cites American Fork district zinc handling, removal of ore bans, and calls for cooperation with the American Smelting and Refining company to develop Montana ore profitability and reduce isolation from Pacific markets.
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Engineering & Mining Journal Press
American Fork
Utah
Helena
Marty Ellen
Blackface
American Fork Leasing Company
C. B. Ferlin
Montana Railroad Commission
Helena Commercial Club
American Smelting and Refining Company
Salt Lake Valley
Montana
Pacific
Idaho
Coeur d'Alene
Susteeste
L. A. Ropes
Fliers set record with 3340 flying hours without fatal accident
Ottawa reports Royal Canadian Air Force pilots logged 3,340 hours of actual flight time without a fatal accident while carrying mail patrolling forests and fisheries and serving the government. Forests in Alberta were patrolled twice daily, Manitoba’s season covered 40 million acres, and 40,000 square miles were surveyed topographically. A Rio ban bars privately owned red or white autos as colors reserved for museum display.
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Ottawa
Associated Press
Royal Canadian Air
Rio de Janeiro
Prince of Wales
Lloyd George
British Museum
Answers to Questions from the Helang Bureau
A long Q and A list answers common inquiries about weevils in cereals crown colonies of England lobster abundance population of eastern and central time zones US community trusts luxury spending and parchment lamp shade color effects French opera in New Orleans and Hamlet printing figures practical tech tips shellac as a copper wire coating.
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Department of Agriculture
England
Gibraltar
Bermuda
Malta
Cyprus
St. Helena
Hongkong
O. M
Yarmouth
Nova Scotia
Boston
WLOB
Bureau of Census
New Orleans
John Davis
United States
V. RB. A
Heminge
Condell
News of Day in Rational Capital
Secretary Weeks, after weeks of illness, left for Boston for a medical exam. Secretary Hoover led a coastal states conference on seafood observation. Treasury officials foresee Belgian debt funding delay from Brussels cabinet overthrow. Standard Oil’s Bedford said oil fields are not in danger of exhaustion. John W. O’Leary of Chicago was elected president of the U S Chamber of Commerce at its annual session. Swift and Armour sought abrogation of the packing decree and government aimed to appeal the ruling.
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Weeks
Boston
Hoover
Stavce
Treasury
Brussels
Bedford
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
John W. O'Leary
Chicago
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Swift and Armour Companies
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Senate
Death Ray
The
Baltimore Sun
Dawes
By Morris
Lateresty
George Matthew Agame
Roy L. Smith
D. D
Simpeco Im
Church
Minneapolis
Haskin Letter
Mars Fliers
Fender
Helang Independent
Nformation Bureau
Ndevtick
J. Haskin
Washington, D.C
Taquirer
Rational Capital
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