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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1920
Page
4
A fragment lists Ed Norwood and Dexter Fellows among partygoers and press personnel in a tense, crowded scene. The text hints at nerves and dispute within a friends circle and newsroom observers.
Anaconda Standard reports Marcus Garvey proposes relocating the Africa for Africans movement headquarters from New York to Monrovia to spark anti white agitation in West Africa. He sought U.S. passports for two followers for a diplomatic mission to Liberia, but the State Department refused. The ambassadors reportedly were nonetheless sent and hosted by Liberian natives in grand fashion.
The woman suffrage amendment is law but state rules bar voting for some next November. Several states close registration or require poll taxes before deadlines, while others allow affidavits for registration delays. Tennessee’s ratification sparked legal wrangling but hopes remain high for swift resolution nationwide.
A Chicago paper critiques Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association. It notes Garvey’s Africa for Africans slogan, his mass following, and the risk of inflaming racial tensions while suggesting educated leaders should advocate peace between Caucasians and negroes.
The Washington Star argues that if Harding wins the presidency and Willis of Ohio succeeds in the Senate, Willis could serve as Harding's Mark Hanna. The piece notes Willis’ strong personal and political ties and suggests Harding would need a trusted manager to run the White House and set policy. Willis is portrayed as willing and eager.
California Republicans, loyal to Johnson, miss nomination by showing fierce support for his anti League stance. They dislike the League not for policy but because Johnson opposes it and opposed the Southern Pacific machine influence. His popularity looms large over California election dynamics.
In Ohio the governor touts a $700 000 fundraising surge while poking at primaries and nationwide trips. The piece mocks political rhetoric, notes suffrage hurdles in Tennessee and praises Poles, with jabs at Russia and sports figures as it questions court strategy over Tennessee legislators in Alabama.
A collection of humorous exchanges and wry observations from Baltimore American, Boston Transcript, and Boston Daily, including quips about dirt farmers, bootjacks, raw recruits, steamer misdirections, Russian ambitions, and a gossiping art world. The snippets reflect era wit and cultural tones.
American consuls in foreign countries may become crop reporters. Frank Meyers, secretary of the National Grain Dealers association, pushes a plan for the federal government to instruct consuls to cable any changes in political or economic conditions that could affect world grain prices, which are governed by supply and demand and stabilized by future delivery trading.
A compact collection of satirical snippets: Edison predicts office work via machinery, a third party nominee claims seven states, coal outlook bright but costs rise for consumers, Villa hints at a bear hug with enemies, and various curmudgeonly takes on political figures Lenine Kaiser and more.
A mosaic of quotes from Montana papers contrasts Bolshevik Russia with American society citing divorce, safety in sports, park tourism, county formation, oil prospects, railroad rate debates, unemployment signals, irrigation plans, government reach on deserters, and war draft records.
Wall Street reports say the French portion of the Anglo French loan will be paid at maturity with funds from American tobacco interests. A French tobacco monopoly may be leased or sold to an American syndicate forming a French company under nominal French management with capital supplied by American banks.
Mrs Jean nette B Liske of Bloomington files suit against the Chicago and Alton Railroad and the Springfield Peoria and St. Louis Interurban Railway for 10000 in the death of her husband a Chicago and Alton brake man at Griggs Logan county He was electrocuted when he dipped water from a creek into which a high voltage line had fallen alleging negligence by the two companies.
Archaeologists from Ohio New York and Pennsylvania in Mound City at Camp Sherman have unearthed the third skeleton of a mound builder since work began two months ago. The skeleton came from the second mound. eight more mounds remain to be excavated. Four stone hatchets and about a dozen bone knives were found with the skeleton.
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