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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1923
Page
4
Dr Jewett divides electricity's growth into pioneer and modern periods. He argues current knowledge hints at vast practical uses and fundamental shifts in understanding, with the last two decades promising even more stupendous advances and possible revolutionary insights into the nature of electricity.
Ecuador hires an American adviser to fix deficits and debt after war strains. John S. Hood, named consulting engineer, previously aided Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Other Latin nations like Colombia, Peru, Panama, and Nicaragua have sought U S financial help, while Cuba faces cabinet crises and a new lottery law, challenging American involvement.
Dr. Frank Jewett, president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, spoke at Columbia university about the age of electricity. He warned that rapid advances in atomic research blur old scientific lines and may reveal that matter and energy are manifestations of electricity in its primordial form.
The article cites British high commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel on Jewish immigration to Palestine. He notes some return home, but asserts Zionist settlers are hardworking, creating colonies, factories, and housing. Public security is solid and self government progress is promised. Jews seek no privilege beyond constitutional citizenship.
A reflective column discusses the economic impact of crime, citing stock fraud losses and costs of courts and prisons. It shifts to international notes on France’s Ruhr stance, Europe’s unresolved tensions, Pancho Villa’s era, and Bob La Follette’s presidential view, weaving broad political critique.
Raggedy Andy and Raggedy Ann are captured by Wanda and Winda Witch who argue over a Wishing Pebble and a Wishing Stick. Ned Gnome frees them, and Grampy Groundhog brings candy and sodas as they flee toward Grampy Groundhog's home.
The text notes that ice cream, 1¢¢ cream, soda or other sweet drinks do not quench ticket but instead cause it, labeling such items as nutritive and ineffective for relief.
The almanac notes a highly auspicious business day with sun Mars and Saturn favorable in the morning for executives and job seekers. Real estate, construction, and hospitals may benefit. Military activity and leadership changes are foreseen, with Norway's luck and a rising cohort of new leaders including illumined figures. Children born Leo may be ambitious and energetic.
Bitter Root valley readies for a two day Creamery celebration in Stevensville with a dairy show on Wednesday and a Thursday parade, concert, and picnic. Dairymen from Montana attend, judging purebreds in dairy classes, followed by sports, Wild West rodeo, and frontier stunts at Community park led by Nigel Campbell and Wilbur Cook.
Hamilton August 6 local committees arranged the program for the entertainment of delegates to the Montana Firemen convention during three busy days.
A three day session in Bitter Root begins next Thursday with no intermissions planned. Attorney General Wellington Rankin will speak on freight rates at 11 a m Saturday on courthouse lawn. President Stevens of the Pacific coast fire prevention board and Hamilton Mayor Totman will address delegates. An auto excursion each day includes Stevensville Creamery visit, Sleeping Child springs drive, a Burns hall dance, a midnight showing of The Third Alarm, Medicine Springs sightseeing, and a concluding banquet with papers on fire topics to be presented by visiting delegates.
George MacChesney Craig, manager of the McIntosh-Morello orchard two miles northeast of Darby, leaves for Detroit to attend the National Apple Shippers convention Aug 7–10. He plans a 10 day absence. The tract covers over 1,400 acres of apple and cherry trees and has seen recent management by the Duponts. About $75,000 will be spent on improvements this year. The orchard escaped hail damage.
Fowler and Chambers shifted their sawmill from Charles Heights to Pierce creek, a Bitter Root river tributary about 12 miles south of Darby. They bought 3,000,000 feet of timber from W. P. O'Brien of Hamilton and will cut 2,000,000 feet from a forest reserve tract nearby. Log supply should cover a year, and the plant employs about 30 men.
New York businesswoman Alice Foote MacDougall says women will run all business within a century. She lists rules: dress comfortably yet retain charm, take correction without weeping, discuss abstract questions without personalizing, avoid equiring when losing, and buy no at the right time.
Yves Marrec describes a device that prints wireless messages on tape and suppresses parasitic noise and interference. In tests for Britain, he received signals from Port Jefferson with no outside aerial, while London noise was present. He says the system can replace high power stations with lower power, automatic transmitters.
Mississippi A and M College geology department plans its annual field trip taking two professor guides and nine students on a two month, 4000 mile journey by two special trucks. Route spans Birmingham to Raleigh to Washington DC and New York visiting bauxite sites, quarries, universities, and museums with Clemson University and Johns Hopkins among stops. Professors Morse and Vestal lead. expenses shared to keep costs low.
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