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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1913
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard lists publishing company details and subscription rates. It notes pricing for Sunday and standard subscriptions, monthly and yearly terms, with a brief address and contact placeholders.
A fragmented directory of newspaper agencies and offices across multiple cities. Mentions Standard Publishing Company and several city news departments including New York Fifth Avenue, Chicago Congress Hotel, and Seattle Eckhart agency among others. Independent listings conclude with Anacondas, Mont.
An optimistic Cincinnati Enquirer observer credits stronger markets easier money conditions and solid crop reports with lifting spirits nationwide. He notes West South North and East unity against gloomy Wall Street forecasts and says crop prospects and robust business volumes thwart efforts to derail administration policy.
Old timers say the senate shows little outward interest in a tariff bill now under review as speeches stretch over days with empty chambers. Senator Simmons leads the bill’s supporters amid few listeners, while Senator Smoot’s two day key speech attracts scant attendance, revealing a distracted Capitol as debates continue.
The article notes the dull Senate session and argues for printing speeches in the Congressional Record to speed bills. It highlights Senator Borah delivering a full house speech on the income tax, credited with promoting the constitutional amendment and drawing many senators back to listen.
The New York Times urges freeing Indians from paternal government tutelage as fast as conditions allow, noting high per capita wealth and growing adoption of white tools on reservations. The New York Herald counters that wealth is often paper-based and vulnerable to mismanagement, but acknowledges some Indians are intelligent, industrious property owners.
A New York editorial contrasts Sing Sing’s overcrowding and unsanitary, outdated buildings with reforms at Ohio’s Columbus prison. Warden Thomas, formerly a parole officer and teacher, limits rough handling, substitutes privacy and respectful treatment, ends public display of prisoners, tracks individual progress, and moves toward early release under indeterminate sentence laws.
The prison enforces daily cell searches and mandatory work for prisoners. Visits from lawyers are restricted, pardons and paroles reviewed by a special officer, and contraband food shipments halted. Cocaine and opium supply cut, guards barred from smoking, finger print ID installed, liberties granted to first terms, and discharged prisoners now receive dark blue serge suits and ten dollars.
Walt Mason argues against liquor during hot days describing booze as vain and harmful. He warns drinking as a fiery luxury that worsens heat stress and urges water as a safer alternative. He uses vivid metaphors of cooking, burning, and ghoulish cravings to discourage alcohol.
A humorous column from the Cincinnati Enquirer lampoons social trends and manners. It quotes Luke M Luke noting fashion shifts, sun exposure, suffragists, weddings, and male vanity with sharp witticisms about money, advice, and boasting.
A mix of quips on wealth and labor, noting a laborer’s wish for a longer shovel to ease his back and a humorous exchange about millionaire multitasking at the Plaza. Also recalls O Laughlin’s sharp replies to players, Hal Chase at bat, and a South exhibition with a darky umpire. Mike Donlin nearly faces manslaughter as balls go wild.
A collage of brief satirical notices and curiosities from early 20th century press. Items reference sugar trust fears, Kansas City students saving money, Hippocrates and whooping cough, a target for frugal living, Bulgarian gown fashion on Broadway, and lighthearted quips about Los Angeles and lake swimming.
A reflective piece questions how much our deliberate actions shape outcomes. It contrasts intentional deeds with unintended consequences, citing examples of tragedy and success. The author likens humans to bees, subtly fertilizing others as they go about their lives.
A Chicago artist finds night painting aided by violet tinted spectacles. A German scientist reports coal from varied substances under heat and pressure. Original US forests praised for vast timber diversity. French awards honor automatic railway couplings. German builders announce a 4000 horsepower oil burning marine engine. Copper sulfate method in Surinam controls tobacco plant bacilli. If Earth spun 17 times faster, equatorial bodies would lose weight and float away.
A roundup notes a French inventor hanging aeroplane engine cylinders below the shaft for stability, a six blade propeller trial, and a sign language typewriter device. A Berlin milk dealer runs a 300000 square foot dairy with 2500 staff serving 75000 families, mostly pasteurizing milk. The Italian state railways for 1912 show 4971 steam locomotives 0 electric locomotives 10427 passenger carriages 92927 freight cars 2371 baggage cars.
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