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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1917
Page
6
The brief displays publication details for Standard Publishing Company based in Anaconda and Butte Montana. It lists post office status, telephones for business and editorial departments, and publication and building addresses.
Foreign advertising for J. Morton Co with subscription rates. Daily and Sunday editions priced by carrier or mail. Sunday Standard mailed at $2.50 yearly. Newsstands listed in multiple cities with specific stores and addresses. All correspondence to Standard Publishing Company Anaconda Mont.
A lengthy column argues that federal controls by Hoover will not instantly lower living costs. It cites a San Francisco Chronicle letter from France noting cheaper goods there, and attributes high U.S. prices to the high standard of living and wages. The piece questions enduring our current system postwar and the need for public support.
Railroads press public service commissions to ease demands for improvements not essential to war effort or public safety. They cite President Wilson on increasing industrial efficiency and economic management while the United States concentrates on winning the war, seeking relief from costly projects and labor expenditures.
The railroads warn that wartime pressures raise the cost of materials and labor and slow deliveries, urging the public to stop nonessential passenger service and support efficiencies. They cite the president's plea that railways are the nation’s life arteries and must avoid any obstruction or inefficiency during the emergency.
The piece extols the pumpkin as the humble, flourishing companion of corn. It lauds pumpkin pie as a culinary paragon and notes its usefulness from food to jack o lanterns, praising its resilience and enduring appeal amid social gloom.
In Cincinnati an experiment in community self-government is under way. The National Social Unit association backs a plan to organize citizens within a district to diagnose local ills and obtain remedies from internal experts. Cincinnati won a contest, subscribed 45000 dollars, and selected a 15000-person middle-class district to pilot the scheme. The effort emphasizes internal action and broad citizen participation before any measures are taken.
The plan groups people into blocks and forms citizens and occupational committees to identify district needs and supply remedies. An infant welfare station starts the model district, with legal medical and social experts advising. A comparison notes that draft dodgers are as bad as slackers trying to hoodwink Uncle Sam.
A terse remark on Allied actions interfering with German Prussian discipline implies domestic strain as the Allies push for structural changes and wartime cohesion. The line underscores friction between occupation changes and traditional German governance during the conflict.
A satirical Seattle column mocks wartime politics and public zeal. It notes a red cross in the sky at sunset, critiques dry laws, praises talkless senators, and lampoons German, British, and American war efforts while jabbing at food control, sauerkraut drives, and draft boards.
A fragment discusses declining solar activity and the Wilson era critics in the United States. It mentions a war possibly ending by age rather than violence, Senator Reed attracting more attention than planned, and growing concerns over large postwar immigration into the country.
A 1917 advisory urges housewives to cut wasteful power use to save coal. It cites $600,900,000 wasted yearly and suggests practical steps: use low candlepower bulbs, lamps from wall brackets, or revive kerosene lamps. Recommends attic checks for elderly lamps and conserving light for comfort and health.
A complete crop failure in Argentina would cut the world’s food surplus by a wheat tonnage roughly equal to 164,600,000 bushels, the gap between Canada’s 1915 and 1916 wheat crops.
A Yale professor and associates link New Haven harbor bathing to typhoid risk and urge prohibiting swimming in polluted harbor waters and near sewer outfalls. The report cites Ohio and New York findings on beach pollution, urging standards aligning bathing water with drinking water quality.
A short dialogue from the Buffalo Times reads humorously about a student asking where to dine and another promising to decide tomorrow. It pivots on a joke about a model wife making home attractive to discourage outings, with a quick quip from the second student. The fragment ends with an evasive reply.
A compilation of editorial remarks from Chicago to Detroit mocking Kaiser Wilhelm and his propaganda. It notes German claims of invincibility, Dutch wartime losses, the iron cross distribution, and American reactions including prohibitionist irony and antiwar sentiment.
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