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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1921
Page
4
A southern watering place report highlights a case where a bronze casket bought for 750 was billed to a family at 10,000. The New York Sun notes average casket profits of 600 to 700 percent and burial robes costing undertakers 3 to 5 dollars being charged 25 to 30 dollars. Officials prepare an official investigation with strong public interest expected.
A 1919 era report argues that about 66 million Indians are Muslims amid a global anger toward Turkey after World War I. It warns of a potential religious uprising, Turkish and oriental scheming, and mistrust in native troops and police, with Calicut dispatch claiming rebel arms were aided by treachery within police ranks.
Attorney General Daugherty probes funeral costs as life insurance executives forecast national and state legislation to curb profiteering. He aims to reduce average funeral expenses from over 300 to about 250 dollars, benefiting middle and poorer classes. Understated reform could reshape how the deceased are laid to rest.
Proposal to reform immigration would screen immigrants at embarkation by two agents per port. One from the public health service and one immigrant inspector. The plan aims to reduce arriving aliens deemed undesirable and ease port processing for poorer applicants.
A New York judge sentences three young bandits aged 18 19 and 22 to seven to twenty years hard labor in Sing Sing. The court condemns juvenile crime amid rising delinquency and calls parental discipline crucial to curb lawlessness.
A compilation of opinion excerpts from Montana papers comments on food values, government economy, penitentiary issues, local honey markets, rainmaking frauds, and the 1920s suffrage ratification. The items reflect editorials and notices from Lewistown, Harlowton, Melstone, and Cascade during a period of public discourse.
An expert phrenologist compared Premier Lloyd George and Premier Briand, noting striking similarity in their hair, head, eyes, mouth, chin, and forehead. The analyst claimed they could resemble twin brothers and observed both wearing identical collars and ties.
A compilation of Montana state and county fair dates and locations across counties such as Lincoln, Tawis and Clark, Valley, Phillips, Chouteau, Midland, and Kavalli, with officials named. followed by notes on suffrage history and a Beaverhead county coal protest, and a Bitter Root valley fruit growers cooperative effort to lower prices.
The poem portrays a rainy day child’s romance fantasies about being a princess in a tower Then she imagines a rescuing prince and longs for freedom while recognizing the past’s constraints The speaker contrasts fairy tale captivity with joyous make believe and prefers imaginative play to confinement
A collage of brief jokes and quips from the era. Stan ford Chaparral and Louisville Courier Journal humor lines poke fun at love, dyspepsia, perpetual motion, stage endings, whitewashing politicians, and cartoon captions. The items mix wordplay, dating and social cues with light satire.
The Tuesday horoscope states Jupiter Saturn and Venus in a harmonious alignment promising prosperity and new development in trade and real estate. It warns against speculative stocks and notes the folly of mortgaging love for a future wife.
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