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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1920
Page
14
The Standard runs a sketch of Gen Leonard Wood prepared by Gen Charles S Warren, a known Wood booster. Warren cites their early acquaintance in the West when Wood, then a young army surgeon, joined the fight against the Apaches in Arizona and praises his sterling qualities.
In 1903 Roosevelt praised Leonard Wood for rebuilding Cuba after four centuries of misrule and later praised his work in the Philippines. Wood rose from army surgeon to brigadier general, led Rough Riders with Roosevelt, and helped modernize Santiago and Cuba while earning trust and a congressional medal.
New York report describes Captain Claude Collins of the Aviators' club of Pennsylvania and Miss Ruth Phillips of Missouri proposing a Mars flight to rally support for military aviation. Collins discusses rocket tech by Professor Robert Goddard, potential risks, and the need for scientists to summon him if feasible.
The article profiles Mr. Paxson, a versatile artist and illustrator with a home studio among mining shafts. It highlights his rare Indian necklaces and war bonnets, along with his oil, watercolor, and pen and ink pieces. It notes his Civil War veteran family ties and his passion for history and travel literature.
This article explains Jonas as a type of Christ, detailing his mission to Ninive, his three days in the belly of a great fish, and how this prefigures Jesus’s own death and resurrection. It cites scripture from Matthew, Luke, and Jewish sources, and discusses the historicity and miracle aspects of Jonas.
The Butte Ad club offers a 50 dollar prize pool and a Broadway theater party for 18 students who write the best essays on the value of truth in advertising. Entrants must submit by 6 p.m. April 3 to H. E. Stuckel, 332 Phoenix building, with essays limited to 300 words.
In Chicago the 1896 coal speck injury suit against Crane company reopens as John J. Stammers, executor, sues for damages. Paul J. Stammers originally lost sight in one eye. verdicts varied in three trials. the case was remanded by the state supreme court and the plaintiff died. Now the claim is revived by his estate.
Inspectors report only 80 trees remain at Killywilly wood in County Cavan leaving estate agents to verify the loss after a night theft. The forest slated for sale was reported as fully intact before the covert removal.
San Antonio reports a swift capital case as John Hood Price, accused of murdering farmer John Kennedy, was captured in the late afternoon, indicted by a grand jury, tried at 9, convicted, and publicly hanged by 11 the next morning.
A Copenhagen report notes Jewish aid during the war including correspondence with imprisoned Jews, tracing missing people, and distributing relief. Funds were sent to Palestine mainly as gold amid Turkish currency depreciation, protests to powers aided Jewish rights, and Copenhagen helped form a Jewish delegations committee for the Paris peace conference. The Zionist note credits Copenhagen’s effort with shaping current power attitudes toward Jews.
In London a debate on spiritualism featured Sir Arthur Conan Doyle categorizing mediums as jet black and snow white. He condemned fraud by black mediums and gray mediums who exploit others when power deserts them, insisting his group has fought to suppress the traffic.
In Grand Junction Colorado a vice crusade found dusty cells and a neglected criminal record book at the police headquarters, concluding townsfolk would call their town absolutely moral despite the overlooked records.
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