Prince of Wales visit draws Montana towns into spectacle
The Anaconda Standard notes the Prince of Wales as a rare royal figure amid waning monarchies. It predicts Helena and Butte will vie for a state fair appearance with dignified honors, brass bands, tours, and civic events rather than cashing in on royal fame.
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Prince of Wales
House of Windsor
Hohenzollern
Hapsburg
Windsor
George
House of Commons
Butte
Helena
Royal
Fat Jack
Mayor Stodden
Silver Bow Club
Leonard Mine
Columbia Gardens
Montana
Air travel may challenge railroads after California strike
The railroad stoppage in Southern California spurs a plan for an LA to San Diego airplane passenger service. Officials say it would barely ease congestion, needing many planes in constant use. The bigger issue is whether air carriers could compete with railroads for large scale freight and passenger business and if aviators and railroad workers would strike in sympathy, risking simultaneous disruption.
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California
Los Angeles
San Diego
Germany
Kalispell Inter Lake
Josephus Daniels in Honolulu a Serious presidential question
Secretary Daniels indicates the Wilson administration has no candidate for president and leaves the decision to the people. The North Carolina native, a wartime cabinet figure praised for firm leadership, is 57, a newspaper man by trade, and a Methodist by faith.
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Daniels
Honolulu
Wilson
North Carolina
White House
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Johnson
Josephus Daniels
Department of the Government
When Silence Came Interborough Strike Quieted New York
The first day of the interborough railway strike in New York brought sudden silence to the city. The New York Tribune notes the disruption felt by residents as traffic vanished and the usual hum of life faded. Despite the pause, figures like Mayor Hylan and William R. Hearst remained vocal amid the stillness.
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Interborough
New York
New York Tribune
William R. Hearst
Hylan
Invitation to the Prince to visit Butte
The piece urges the Prince of Wales to include Butte on a Vancouver to East journey stating omitting Butte would be a grave omission. It extols Butte as central among American cities and warns the prince would regret skipping the city, framing his visit as a defining life event.
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Vancouver
Prince of Wales
Butte
Royal
Prince
America
Fragmented Notes on Politics and Society From an Old Column
A compendium of quips and jests touches on government, suffrage, and public figures. References include Mexico, the League of Nations, Mary land hymn, Governor Lowden, Senator Sherman, Jane Addams, and Hi Johnson. The piece weaves themes of reform, war, and social change with wry commentary.
The Root of the Matter and Other Montana Nuggets
A compilation of brief Montanan commentaries from The Press of Montana and regional papers. The pieces discuss high living costs remedies through production and economy, wage questions, moonshine humor in Butte, congressional stalemate over the peace treaty, wartime bureaucratic overhauls, and inflation era daily hardships.
Flashes and Opinions From Across Papers
A collage of quotes and sardonic takes on war time costs wage growth and social trends. Comments touch on American living costs soaring since the war, wages, French millinery prices, a hog refrigeration joke, antitrust power debates, Carranza andVon Hindenburg, Hoboken Los Angeles joke, Carnegie’s legacy, and prohibition era farm movement fears.
British Navy sinks Bolshevist cruisers in Gulf of Finland
The British Admiralty confirmed the sinking of the Bolshevist cruiser Petropavlovsk and the battleship Andrea Pervosvan along with a Bolshevist destroyer during a Baltic engagement. A Russian cruiser was likely damaged. Andrea Pervosvan reportedly sunk near Kronstadt on June 19, with Peropaviovsk signaling surrender.
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Petropavlovsk
Andrea Pervosvan
Gulf of Finland
Kronstadt
London
Peropaviovsk
Art in Manufacture and the British Ideal in Design
From the Portland Oregonian an essay notes Brit ish workmen moving toward artistic utility in articles while France showcases goods in U S exhibits. It highlights William Morris Rossetti Burne Jones and Josiah Wedgwood as pioneers blending beauty and use, with Thomas Minton and others shaping a new era of artistic industry.
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Portland Oregonian
United States
William Morris
Rossetti Burne-Jones
Josiah Wedgwood
Thomas Minton
The Physiological Side From the New York Hero
The article highlights nutrition as a critical issue amid high prices and cost of living. It cites a U S children's bureau report finding millions of American children lacking or at risk of proper food, risking malnutrition and lowered national physical standards unless addressed before spring. It notes deficits in domestic feeding while Europe remains reliant on aid and mentions an embargo on wheat export to improve the situation.
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Brotherhood
Billings Gazette
New York
Mont
Children's Bureau
United States Department of Labor
America
Europe
Warland Gleanings on Yap and German Coal Lands
From the Syracuse Post Standard. The piece reflects on postwar gains and hints at potential acquisitions such as Yap and other territories. It contemplates what the United States might secure after the war, contrasting past actions in Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and the Caroline Islands with present ambitions for naval bases.
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Syracuse Post Standard
France
Paris
Great Britain
White House
Navy
Spain
Porto Rico
Philippines
Caroline Islands
Humorous exchanges from old newspapers on daily life
A collage of vintage quips and cartoons about captains of souls, committee squabbles over a loving cup, mock turtle soup diets, and jokes about wages, news, wives who cook, and a new cook behaving as if the house belongs to one person.
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Heng
Manchester
Worcester Gazett
Detroit Free Press
Boston ‘Transcript
Jermyn
Gerard
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Pittsburg Gazetter
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Indianapolis Star
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New York World
Huns m Ue Wooapile
Carranza
von Hindenburg
Charleston
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Carnegie
Springfield Repub
Baltimore American
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