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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1920
Page
4
The White Sox and the Yankees drew more than 120000 paid admissions across three days, a record attendance for Polo Grounds. Across major league cities crowds rise as wartime slumps fade and baseball returns toward normal, with the sport regaining its old stride as the nation embraces its national pastime.
Anaconda issued notice in the local post office matter with filing details. The Butte office at 119 North Main Street lists the business and editorial departments with phone numbers 422 and 423.
A New York published excerpt outlines Soviet plans to confiscate state land and distribute it to industrial workers. It claims land near large centers would be given to revolutionaries, with transport ease guiding allocations, and warns Montana farmers face dispossession to empower a revolutionary gang.
The Anglo Japanese treaty is renewed for a year to postpone difficult issues rather than settle them. Origin aimed against Russia, then to counter Germany, with Japan aiding against German commerce in the Far East. Russia’s threat faded, Germany weakened, but Orient relations remain murky as the pact extends to buy time.
A civic column argues robbers risk prison while earning similar sums honestly. It cites Chicago robberies with $15,000 and $10,000 hauls, noting law processes and burglary trends. The piece laments why men choose crime when high wages tempt legitimate work.
The public pays more for balls bats and players yet attendance grows as the sport expands. In New York daily crowds at baseball parks are notably large, reflecting rising popularity. The text notes the recent series between prominent teams.
Governor Cox, 50, popular and effective stump speaker, enjoys broad cross party appeal. He enters the race with a clean record, backed by a history of successful Ohio campaigns, and urges voters to send a Democratic Congress to Washington to enable his agenda.
A lament praises sugar price manipulation as a share in a grand economic game tied to wartime profiteering. The author accuses the sugar combines of hoarding and inflating costs, arguing salt remains affordable for low earners while consumer hardship grows as stockpiles exist yet prices soar.
Apparent editorial notes decry Russia’s power, sugarless canned fruit, rising rail fare, and a proposed army and navy editor, while Ohio is cited for its many favorite sons. No Pullman porters strike has occurred, though travelers are blamed for funding railroad porter salaries.
A compilation of editorials and letters from Helena Record-Herald Kalispell Inter Lake Great Falls Tribune Billings Gazette Helena Independent and Harlowton Press debating patriotism, civil service politics, Villa’s image, census data, voting trends, and critiques of party bosses. It notes distrust of sensational foreign reports and defends the Helena Democratic slate as a modern, coalition effort.
A collection of clipped headlines and quips from multiple papers. Mentions include Missouri ballot ruling on farmer labor, Cincinnati water shortage becoming news, a Seattle fall from a five story building with miraculous recovery, and political jabs at Jim Reed.
A humorous dialect piece praising Giovanni the musica man who plays harp and piano to earn money. The narrator admires his music yet laments his drinking and laziness, wishing for art to feed both heart and stomach. Copyright 1920 by T A Daly.
A collection of comic lines and quips from papers like the Boston Transcript and Baltimore American. Bits include jokes about legislative ayes and woes, a teased engagement scene, a Ford driving remark, a lazy American negro in revival humor, and a British Weekly quip on use in an advisory capacity.
Ira H. Bell a West Mansfield coal dealer was fined 200 dollars and sentenced to 250 days in jail in a federal court for taking coal from an interstate shipment. He claimed the fuel administration had confiscated three carloads and he wired the consignor before taking the coal, saying he distributed it to needy West Mansfield residents who faced freezing last November.
Cincinnati firemen smothered a large naphthalene blaze at the Chatfield Manufacturing plant by dumping eight sacks of talcum powder into a 5,000 gallon storage tank. The $18,000 fire likely started from heat around two large naphthalene stills in a brick mothball building. Heavy water streams from nine pumpers protected adjacent tanks holding oil and tar products to avert explosions.
Po Neeman John McClellan spotted two objects in Garfield park lagoon he thought were U boat periscopes. Police found they were heads of John Rabuit and John P Ryan. Rabuit jailed for operating a car while intoxicated. Ryan released.
A Wall Street Journal note mentions Bryan recalling his own experience of declining a presidential nomination, highlighting a notable moment in political timing and public perception.
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