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Formerly the gloomy, box-shaped, 283-year-old Royal Palace in Amsterdam was without electric lights, central heating and had but two bathtubs, both without running water. Here, as required by the Constitution. Her Majesty, Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Queen of The Netherlands. Princess of Orange-Nassau and Duchess of Mecklenburg, has grudgingly spent two weeks each year. Recently, however, the Palace has been completely renovated, modernized. Comfortable inside last week were Her Majesty, Crown Princess Juliana & husband, Prince Bernhard, & seven-month-old daughter, Princess Beatrix Wilhelmina...
...Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, set out to find the tomb of Jesus Christ and the Cross on which He was crucified. According to Roman Catholic tradition, in Jerusalem pious Helena found the Holy Sepulchre and three crosses, one of which cured an ailing woman. To Constantinople, Helena sent what she believed was the True Cross (of pine), three Holy Nails and the Holy Tunic which Christ wore to Calvary. Soon fragments of the Cross in great numbers were circulated among the devout...
Jerry O'Connell was renominated by some 6,300 votes over Payne Templeton, Helena pedagogue. Burton Wheeler, who comes up for election in 1940, merely observed...
Prime fact about the used-car business is that a used car is rarely sold at the price that is lettered in soap on the windshield. It is a fact to which A. D. Mitchell, who in the early part of the century had the Helena, Mont, agency for Mitchell cars, never became reconciled. He always refused to sell a Mitchell, new or secondhand, for less than its list price...
Recently, Parker Morelli Motor Co., Packard agents in Helena, decided to expand. Next door was the late Mr. Mitchell's display room. Leasing this property, Parker Morelli also acquired no less than 14 old Mitchells (no relation to Dealer Mitchell). Some had never been used; they originally cost from $3,400 to $4,800 and when Mr. Mitchell could not sell them at that price, he had hung on to them. Parker Morelli, promptly putting all 14 on sale, by last week had sold the lot-at prices ranging from $15 to $25. One 1905 yellow roadster...