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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1916
Page
1
A brief congress session sees the suffrage coup fall by ten votes while a president reading a message appears momentarily disturbed. The episode highlights shifting support for a major suffrage initiative in a tense legislative context.
A yellow banner unfurled from the gallery during President Wilson's congress address, demanding woman suffrage as police and guards watched. Miss Mabel Vernon of Nevada helped time the protest, ten women marched out to acclaim, while reporters filed detailed canned reports and Congressional Union leaders called it a bold protest for equal rights.
A compact digest from The Standard Pare outlining political resignations, state and war developments, local inquests and asylum cases, ownership disputes, Anaconda and Butte reports, editorial notes, police court actions, delinquent tax lists, road seal sales, execution updates, theatrical notices, mining and market items, sport news and classified ads including a Goldberg cartoon.
In Romania the central powers press toward Bucharest as Russian efforts stall in the Carpathians. Meanwhile John Dustin Archbold, Standard Oil executive and banker, dies at 67 in Tarrytown after a two week illness following an appendicitis operation. He led Standard Oil NJ and influenced early trust dissolution.
United States officers detailed by the port city col and the state department now guard the sailing piers and enforce passport and identity checks on all passengers and baggage aboard steamships bound for European ports. Visitors on sailing day must leave farewells on the pier and reporters require special permits to interview departures. The tightening aligns with efforts to preserve the integrity of the American passport.
Duluth Minnesota December 5 The ship ping of ore is going ahead with greater facility than during the cold spell in the middle of last month. The sea is not yet showing ice and as long as the open condition exists there shipping from Lake Superior ports will continue. The present day probably is the latest that ore has ever been shipped with the ease that is permitting it.
The fiftieth annual convention of the American Institute of Architects begins at the Radisson hotel in Minneapolis tomorrow for a three day session. An exhibition of city planning and landscape architecture, described as among the most comprehensive ever gathered, is on view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
London reports Herbert Asquith has resigned after eight years in office. Andrew Bonar Law was summoned to form a cabinet but may refuse. If he declines, David Lloyd George is expected to take the post. The government pledges to speed wartime policy and coalition changes. A general election possibility looms as Downing Street plots continue.
Dec 5 officials from five storage warehouses questioned in a federal investigation into rising food costs. Michael LeIgoe cites organized housewives’ butter boycott as a factor and warns a broad boycott could collapse market prices nationwide. Separately Pierce South Dakota reports express firms halted pending injunction on intrastate tariffs. SD Supreme Court bars rate increases without state approval. appeal to US Supreme Court anticipated.
Washington reports American railroad workers in Chihuahua City are safe and undisturbed by Villa forces. State department notes suggest earlier stories of atrocities may have been exaggerated.
Butte prepares for a first time community Christmas tree festival on courthouse square with no crowd limit. Montana Power lights the tree and performances by local groups, including Miss Minerva Bennett directing singing, aim to attract a large regional audience.
President Wilson's annual address to Congress was read in person at noon, outlining priorities for reform. He urges action on interstate commerce, an eight hour workday for railway workers, potential freight rate adjustments, and strengthened mediation plus public inquiry provisions to prevent strikes, with continuation in the next column.
A Chicago notice reports progressive leaders from California to Illinois calling for a national conference within four months to reorganize the Republican Party. They propose progressive representation in the GOP and insist progressives are not mere supplicants but pursuing justice and reform through party alignment and organization.
Washington reports a preliminary German reply to the information request on the sinking of the British liner Arabia. The embassy at Berlin said a submarine commander reported attacking the ship believed to be an armed transport. Secretary Lansing offered no new comment and indicated the government will likely respond. A consular dispatch later noted the Italian steamer Palermo with 26 Americans aboard was sunk off the Spanish coast, with details scarce.
London authorities under the defense of the realm act order no meals may exceed three courses after 60. 9:20 p.m. on Dec 18 and no courses at other times in hotels or public places. A new order may ban meat, poultry and game on certain days in public and private spaces. Two ships sunk include Bossi and Draupner.
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