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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1920
Page
4
A nature writer notes animals born in captivity or seized young display dread of shooting. The New York Evening Sun reports apes in the zoological park respond instantly to muskets, despite likely never having seen one fired.
Butte office at 119 North Main Street lists the business department and editorial department phones. The note provides no further details on hours or extensions.
The Washington Star attacks the two thirds requirement for nominating at the Democratic national convention. It argues for majority rule both on platform and ticket and says the rule displaced Clark for Wilson in 1912 and disrupted later history.
A New York legislator urged Indian boys at the state agricultural college to study farming or carpentry, sparking criticism from advocates for the red man who argue Indians should choose vocations like lawyers or ministers. The piece notes Indians have thrived in law, politics, and bishop roles, and emphasizes encouraging any talent while acknowledging past mistreatment.
Montana farmers praise the skunk as a powerful ally against crop pests while noting that poison for gophers harms birds. The piece argues for protecting the skunk’s role in controlling beetles grasshoppers potato bugs and mice and questions whether this friend of man is being fostered.
The article notes animals in Africa have largely recovered from wartime disruption with game returning to native habitats after extensive fighting in German East Africa. It contrasts human postwar exhaustion with the quicker animal rebound and mentions birds adapting in wartime front areas.
A London Sun and New York Herald correspondent notes plans to move Billingsgate from its cramped Thames quay. He traces the market from late Saxon times through Edward I, recalls tariff control, and observes a decline in its famed vituperative language as politics today uses milder discourse.
A meeting of the American Society for Psychical Research in New York will witness the claimed return in spirit form of Adelina Patti. Belle Philrose says she is Patti’s reincarnation and can sing and play piano under Patti’s guidance. Skeptics and skeptics probe her claim, noting she reportedly never played before October.
A dispatch notes lingering Montana winter as flu wanes and Bolshevism subsides. It critiques Mexican politics with General Obregon, and comments on General Wood, Franco France, and George Harvey’s hunt for a future president. It warns of spring floods in the Midwest and Republican upheaval linked to Hi Johnson and Billy Sunday.
A collage of humorous exchanges from old newspapers shows a niece and uncle on inheritance and pie, politeness at a revolving door, a credit men exchange on Jones, soil notes with oversized crops, a prop property quiz, and a Sunday diggers tale with a boy’s clever reply about necessity and bait.
A montage of quotes mocks wartime policy budget debates and diplomacy. Gompers praised for labor power while warning on reforms. Morgenthau and Carranza referenced. Bryan questioned over votes. Kaiser era czar fantasies noted with Holland ruler jokes. Senate sought investigations. Crane to China described with a quip about language.
Charles R. Crane of Chicago, newly named minister to China, is pictured leaving the White House after a call on President Wilson. Crane will sail soon to assume his duties after Senate confirmation.
Winifred Black rails against the public fixation on war time romance and marital infidelity. She argues the old question of forgiveness divides women into noble and calculating types, condemns condoning husbands' affairs, and condemns simplistic views of morality.
The selection surveys across papers on youth escapades and a wave of alcohol policy. It notes California high school suicide, Montana runaways, and adolescent impulses, then shifts to state rights as New Jersey allows 34 percent beer and New York considers 2 1 2 percent non intoxicating beer with Rhode Island appealing to the Supreme Court.
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