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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1926
Page
4
The Anaconda Standard listing shows the Butte office on Went Park Street and references daily and Sunday editions. It mentions the business department contact and distribution through carriers in Botts Deer Lodge and Philipsburg with unclear network details.
Governor Smith addresses Buffalo Democrats insisting the state party will renominate him and stay focused on governing Albany. He notes the convention will determine his future while hinting at a restrained bid for national office. The piece also surveys Vanity Fair round-table banter and Roosevelt’s critique of primaries.
The fall semester will offer the first collegiate course in accident prevention in cooperation with the American Museum of Safety. The program seeks trained safety leaders to organize and direct prevention campaigns in industry and communities, citing 1925 death and injury tolls and vast economic losses from accidents.
The Philippine leader Manuel Quezon, noted for seeking independence and more autonomy, plans a November trip to Washington to press Congress for autonomy and to block moves toward dismemberment of the Philippines. He will stay through the congressional session ending March 4, having long been a familiar figure in the capital since 1909.
A Negro narrator recalls an orator who defines the craft by a joke about two and two becoming four in human events. A child in a toy shop longs for satisfaction, and a farmer profits from onions with a running joke about ducks getting the money. The anecdotes mix humor with street wisdom and phonetic speech.
President Coolidge and Mrs Coolidge cut short a White Pine camp vacation to return to the old Pry Gent Coolidge farm where he spent boyhood days. The First Couple, with the White House collie Prudence Prim, toured the grounds and recalled early memories amid nation hopeful mood.
Fragmentary extract praises John B. Tabb and his late life conversion to Catholicism, noting his poetry as lucid and crystalline. The passage references his modest volumes and reflects on mood and imagery as it contemplates a moonlit, dreamlike scene with natural and musical phrasing, ending with a poetic question about the origin of a maiden moonbeam.
Saturday August 24 1926 astrology warns of strong adverse influences causing thwarted plans and possible disappointments. Cautions about signing contracts libel risk with autumn lawsuits looming. Male partners distrusted in love. weddings look troubled with domestic quarrels. National trials and financial crime loom in autumn. be wary of money schemes and embezzlement. Children born that day are popular with new opportunities. some readings predict good cheer.
Assistant Secretary of War F Truber Davis discusses a wartime air power plan. He cites the Morrow board report urging methods to advance aircraft for national defense. Public support, congressional action, and funding are noted, with calls to keep progress grounded in reality and avoid overreach. He praises the American Legion as a capable aid in defense efforts.
Sir Herbert Nield, MP for York, argues against women serving as jurors. He says juries today are harsher and that men are safer under the bench than under a present day female jury. He condemns the notion that women would be less severe in trials.
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