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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1925
Page
9
The piece presents quips by Tom Sims on behavior and society. It mocks self restored virtue, criticizes money, and notes contradictions about happiness and misfortune. It references everyday hypocrisy, drinking, and domestic life in a humorous, cynical tone.
A Belle Island gardener built eight beds of three foot sides with separating paths but a mis layout created a smaller covered area. The park director found a different arrangement that fits the given constraints. The hidden solution phrase from the letters reads “Children and fools speak the truth.”
The text notes that in Egypt twelve names appear in the Koran selections and that a single slip reveals a child’s name. It adds that Chinese girls are not named, while boys are named by mothers and, at age twenty, fathers rename them. It also contrasts hat brim styles as a metaphor.
Cleveland reports discuss naming a newborn under varied rules from different cultures. The article notes Egyptian parents use three candles to decide, with the mother allowed to name the child and the father able to override names after 12 days, then both names are written on paper and compared by light.
Chicago dispatch reports a two car special train carrying Clarence H Mackay to New York for Reginald Vanderbilt's funeral departed over the New York Central. The run tied a record path from Yellowstone through Northern Pacific to St Paul and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy to Chicago. Railroads did not release the running time. The piece notes 27,941,866 immigrants entered the United States over the 50 years preceding 1924.
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