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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1918
Page
4
A garbled OCR item from The Anaconda Standard describes publishing and advertising rates, newspaper syndication, and staff names. It mentions Daly and Sunday editions, F. O M. era, and various press offices and locations, with scattered references to state and foreign advertising relations.
Reports on Captain Frank Edwards British Army speaker stirring butte audiences with four years on the front. He urged intensified thrift stamp and Liberty Bond purchases food conservation and wider war effort. A second meeting is planned in Anaconda to organize a community council.
The piece laments wartime damage to Atlantic fisheries. Submarine activity off Britain and Europe decimates fish stocks, with herring, flounder, and cod prices surging while halibut remains steadier. The author notes a century of human impact and warns of ongoing loss.
Montana voters hear strong critique of Miss Jeannette Rankin for her wartime stance and ties to the I W W and Non Partisan League. The piece argues she vacillated on key wartime policies and should not seek continued Republican support, urging support for Dr. O M Lanstrum in the primary.
Frances Marshall argues American temperaments slow to domestic innovation hindered cheese and wine progress. War cut imports, but a Washington gathering seeks to firm up foreign type cheese trade while Switz brick and limburger appetite rise. Proposes Roquefort-style ewe milk caves and patience, with 1918 copyright note. Also a Mercy/mercenary humor piece contrasts cost and charity in wartime medical tales.
A student in South Ridge Massachusetts reportedly consumed a large meal in a single sitting, including two dropped eggs on toast, griddle cakes, four muffins, two cups of coffee, a glass of milk, three pieces of short cake and sixteen pieces of custard pie.
Mrs Willis G Mitchell of Washington county declares candidacy filing August 6 as the first woman on the Republican ticket for the New York Assembly. Wife of Commander Willis G Mitchell fleet engineer, she cites war suffrage and political work plus domestic duties, with three children aged two four and six.
A collage of odd clippings and snippets from newspapers and journals. It mixes a humorous note on corn heat with antiquated dialogue about a poet and a muskellonge tale. Interspersed are brief mentions of transit and local notices, plus reflections on spring and summer, and sports recollections. The tone is archival and fragmentary.
A compiled string of wartime editorials and satirical quotes from major papers including the Macon Telegraph New York Telegraph St Louis Globe Democrat New York Sun Indianapolis News and Detroit Free Press. The items lampoon leaders condemn actions mock diplomacy and reflect public sentiment amid conflict.
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