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Last week the citizens of Helena, Mont, (pop.: 11,803) learned that their infantile paralysis epidemic was serious but not alarming. Labor trouble was delaying work on the new high school. The commissioners for Lewis & Clark County decreed an increase of .85 mills in the local tax rate. A posse was hunting one Henry John Miller, following the murder of a teacher at the State Industrial School in Miles City. The proposed dog races at the State Fair were off. George Miner, agent at the Northern Pacific station, was selling travelers' insurance on false teeth and Paris Cleaners were doing...
...Neudeck, Paul von Hindenburg died. Helena citizens read the news hours and days late in newspapers brought 45 miles from Butte, 70 miles from Great Falls...
Last week Helena's newspaper strike was settled. Printers, on the promise that their demand for a 30? per hour wage increase would be arbitrated this autumn, agreed to resume work at the old scale...
...such outside news sources were of no help for little Helena during Montana's primary campaign last month. Campaign cards were made up by hand, reproduced by photographers, distributed by small boys or by the candidates themselves...
...Austria, Nazis killed Chancellor Dollfuss. In Helena, people crowded around the newspaper offices to gawp at bulletins...