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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1925
Page
6
The Independent notes Nebraska moves to abolish the death penalty while recounting the Fred Brown case. It argues life imprisonment invites further crimes and sympathizes with victims and relatives, criticizes sentimental opponents, and questions mercy for a dangerous repeat offender.
The piece compares Washington administration regulars to Mussolini and Soviet leaders, noting Mussolini's fascista party claims to finish the revolution with laws pushed through by force if opposed. It calls out arrogance and the pledge to advance the phase peacefully unless obstructed.
A speaker attacks Mussolini’s dominance and calls the opposition impotent. He warns that the revolution will continue despite boycotts and paper barricades, predicts Mussolini will overreach, and notes minimal early opposition. The passage ends by suggesting a constitutional change to set a 60 year minimum age for US senators.
After a meeting of the superintendent, principals, and the city board of education, Butte schools will drop special weeks and days and related programs. Teachers say such celebrations disrupt lessons and should be held off campus. The move mirrors a nationwide trend, with calls to curb outside speeches to students.
The Public Health Service reports four patients discharged from Carville Louisiana as no longer a public health risk. The article surveys leprosy origins spread, and modern thoughts on contagion, measures, and treatment, noting advances in care and the stigma's gradual fade. It details classifications of leprosy, inheritance myths, and cautions about transmission, hygiene, and therapies including chaulmoogra oil strychnine carbon dioxide refrigeration and mercurochrome.
In a mock tribute, the author credit the unknown inventor of pumpkin ole with genius rivaling Fulton Morse and Edison. It notes society honors inventors with monuments yet omits praise for the unnamed pumpkin oil pioneer, suggesting a lack of lasting fame.
The piece argues Wisconsin, especially Milwaukee, hosts paradoxes from socialist influence to private utilities and taxes. It notes Milwaukee’s private streetcars, wary loyalty, and a landed aristocracy amid broad rural German influence, suggesting Wisconsin defies typical party lines and embodies transplanted German social democracy.
In Machthein on September 16, engineer Franz Stryzian built a rotation ship with no stationary towers. Large regulating air funnels point directions to harness wind from any compass point, greatly boosting speed. Trial run surpassed the Flettner ship’s performance.
A Helena reader laments winter snows leaving sidewalks uncleared. He argues residents lack civic duty and cites an ordinance, noting city authorities rarely prosecute. The letter urges more public vigilance and even frequent elections to spur action, signed Wade Thruett, October 8, 1925.
National Capital notes report President Coolidge returned from the American Legion convention in Omaga. The Supreme Court heard arguments on states rights to enforce minimum wage laws. The Nickel Plate merger case continued before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Senator Harreld of Oklahoma protested prohibition personnel changes without Senate consultation. Col William Mitchell refused to testify for the grand jury investigating the Shenandoah disaster.
Rupert Sargent Holland depicts a dramatic pursuit off the Delaware capes in his new book The Pirates of the Delaware. A brig flees a two-masted pursuer as gunfire erupts, water erupts, and the schooner presses the chase with vivid nautical detail.
Los Angeles based Western Air Express to start regular Los Angeles Salt Lake mail service by January 1. The company will use seven Douglas pursuit planes and plans four all metal Ford planes between Los Angeles and San Francisco by February 1 for passengers and freight. Eight passenger planes may follow.
Readers’ query column from The Helena Independent invites questions with two cents for return postage. Questions cover Florida land elevation, thermos milk life, riparian rights, rock salt on driveways, smoke from fires, sunspots visibility, and U.S. weaving centers. Answers name federal surveys and regional industries.
The Baltimore Sun comments on Burton E Wheeler who denounces government by injunction in La Follette's Magazine. It notes his Dry stance and support from the Anti-Saloon League while criticizing his own side for using injunctions in fights, and argues for consistent denunciation of court orders by all sides.
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