Our Town 100+Years Ago... November 1925 - Part II

Jefferson Valley News, November 1925. The weather was cold and blustery, as would be expected. Congress was debating tax reduction, but no decrease in surtaxes on incomes between $10,000 and $45,000 because the loss of revenue would be too great. At the tobacco and Cuban exposition in New York, Marion Bagney was showing some leg as Lady Nicotine. Mussolini evaded a plot to assassinate him, as did King Ferdinand of Romania. Secretary of Commerce Hoover froze licenses for operating broadcast stations due to congested airwaves. Six Montanans were awarded patents for devices including a trunk-lock...