This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 9 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1918
Page
6
A damaged OCR fragment from The Anaconda Standard shows garbled lines and misread names. The readable bits hint at a newspaper page including date near March and mentions of sections, letters, and notices without clear events.
A editorial urges loyal Americans to retire any congress members with unsatisfactory war records. It cites Texas Democrat Slayden and Colorado Republican Hilliard as examples and calls for party unity to back "100 percent American" candidates in the war effort. It also highlights Frank J. Hutne of the Red Cross praising home service work and stressing civilian support for soldiers’ families.
The text praises President Wilson for supporting Bohemian independence and freedom, noting Masaryk’s gratitude and calling for Allied backing. It outlines wartime opinion, labor shifts to older workers and women, and admiration for Knights of Columbus as they dedicate a new building. It critiques Kaiser leadership and war dynamics with a mix of political commentary.
Wartime Housewifery discusses jam shortages caused by frosts and insect damage. It cites a British cable suggesting Americans adjust by using corn syrup and frugal sugar use to stretch supplies. The piece urges gratitude for local jams and notes ongoing fruit preserves like grape, peach, and plum remain possible while butter costs rise.
The Spanish flu, moving from Germany and Austria to England, spreads rapidly through London and Wales. Quinine and cinnamon supplies run short at drug stores, with Wales seeing hospitals set up for cases. The illness, while unpleasant, is rarely fatal and may reach the United States this fall or winter. England has mobilized resources, bottling the German fleet and raising 7,600,000 men in its forces.
The piece surveys how swearing has penetrated military, religious, and literary spheres during war. It cites historical echoes from Flanders and references to ministers in the Presbyterian assembly disciplined for cursing the Kaiser. It notes editors and clergy using heated, epic-sounding language while condemning autocracy, and contrasts grand rhetoric with clumsy, moralizing quips.
A chaotic excerpt blends poetry, political quips, and rough clippings from a Chicago Tribune page. It mocks Henry Ford and Henry IV era pieties, cites wartime jokes, and includes stray letters about politics, technology, and war materials with mixed, fragmentary commentary.
London Mail reports many ideas sent to the inventions department of munitions. About one in ten proposals are useful while the rest are old or impracticable. A frequent suggestion is to attach a searchlight to an anti aircraft gun to protect height targets and shoot along the beam, though shells cannot follow the sight path.
A mosaic of 1917 era clippings notes wage levels for common labor in Galveston and education gaps in Houston, then surveys editorials from numerous papers on the war. Quotations reference the Marne, the Rhine, Taft, Lenine, and Bolshevik fears, with light humor and sharp partisan jabs.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.