Christmas Standard’s lavish holiday issue outlines state pride
The Christmas edition celebrates Montana’s resources and civic spirit with 66 pages of illustrated stories and ads. It highlights Butte and Anaconda, urging readers to select gifts from a vast advertising catalogue amid promotional content. The piece then shifts to a Japan royal betrothal tale, noting Shinto rites and Westernized expectations, contrasting imperial ceremony with occidental norms.
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The Mikado Betrothal Breaks Japanese Royal Precedent
The crown prince of Japan rejects the old custom of marrying within five ancient families choosing Princess Nagako daughter of Prince Kuni as his betrothed. Backed by his imperial mother he defies court conservatives and pursues a rank outsider for empress while wedding plans begin to take shape.
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Kimmu
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Hoyle
Early Christmas shopping urged to avoid rush and waste
The piece argues for shopping early to avoid last minute haste and ill temper. It notes procrastination harms serenity and price efficiency, and cites examples from literature and politics while urging timely purchases this season.
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David Copperfield
Jimmie and Dad Radio Stories Explain Capacity
A dialogue between Jimmie and Bud on condenser capacity uses a pendulum analogy to explain potential electrical energy stored in a condenser. They discuss how energy stored increases with larger or more numerous charges, the concept of opposition voltage, and the risk of overcharging the tank.
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Eyvening
Jimmie
Square Corners
Bud
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Radio Maxim Explains Swing Bob Energy at Bottom
The dialogue discusses why a pendulum bob reverses at its lowest point. It attributes the effect to the Earth's pull on the bob's mass, describing energy of position and connecting to analogous electrical circuit energy concepts.
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Jimmie
Bud
Horoscope warns of international trouble and labor strife
Astrological reading links Mars Saturn and Uranus in malefic aspect to a unsettled day. It signals international complications and labor troubles for the new year. Clergy face potential prejudice and sharp criticism under today’s rule.
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Saturn
Uranus
Sovern
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Montana Yesterdays: Horoscope Notes and Historic Earthquakes
A 1922 McClure syndicate horoscope notes changing religious and political tides with a cautionary planetary forecast. The Montana Yesterdays column then lists notable historical events: 1804 Clark winter quarters near North Dakota, 1805 Columbia River junction, 1883 Frank H. Woody birth, 1864 Montana theater opening in Virginia City, and a 1872 Helena earthquake with regional damage.
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Lewis
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Hellgate
Missoula
Missoula County
Society of Montana Pioneers
No Picture-Postcard From Napoli
Rhyme and Reason McArone Ballads and a youth poem from 1922 present playful verses about sending postcards from Napoli and Rome and longing for letters. The second piece reflects on aging, comparing young lovers to mature couples, with lines about roses and thorns in life’s journey.
Europe Frees Itself of Wheat Pests Says Government Specialist
Washington report quotes Dr. E C Stakman of the U S Department of Agriculture after a five month tour abroad. He says western Europe has virtually eliminated the black stem rust of wheat through law in France Austria Hungary Germany and Denmark and by voluntary barberry removal in England.
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Western
E. C. Stakman
U. S. Department of Agriculture
France
Austria
Hungary
Germany
Denmark
England
Stakman
Would Sell Herself to Aid Mother
Miss Calla Williams of San Francisco offers to marry for $5,000 to any American born man under 50 of good character to raise funds to buy land and build a home for her aging mother.
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Corona
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Los Angeles
Calla Williams
San Francisco
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