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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1920
Page
4
A vivid editorial rips into a congressman who fails to back favored votes. It likens political fallout to Verdun and warns of punishment by outraged constituents. The text evokes a fiery moral ultimatum and dramatic social consequences for political betrayal.
Persistent talk suggests Will Hays might join the Harding cabinet. Republicans recall Frank Hitchcock’s postmaster general episode and fear a repeat of political pressure for favors. Hays is praised for political skill yet critics question the fit and potential backlash.
Compared with a year ago, on December 1, 68 products were down, 29 up, and 9 unchanged, per Bradstreet's. The overall price level remains below prewar highs but 56 percent above August 1, 1914. November alone saw a 13 percent drop, bringing total decline since February 1 to 34.6 percent, yet business remains optimistic and cheerful despite the rapid adjustments.
A columnist surveys the rise of the National League of Women Voters and a new women’s joint congressional committee aimed at shaping good government and living conditions. The piece riffs on Prohibition, border issues with Canada, and political remarks by Borah and Bryan amid a wide mix of social and national concerns.
Washington gossip centers on three candidates William Galliher of American National Bank representing politics Wilton Ailes of Riggs National Bank a finance figure and Edward B McLean wealthy owner of the Washington Post and Cincinnati Enquirer. Rumor says McLean could be named master of ceremonies or receive a top European ambassadorship if not chosen.
A compilation of opinion snippets from Montana papers criticizes national policy shifts, rails at prohibition talk, and laments local political wrangling. It notes Baker County and Bainville discourse, admiration for Dec Lanstrum and Sam Goza over state patronage, and hopes for Harding’s cabinet choices affecting oil, hydro power, and land.
A British order for the arrest of Richard Muleary chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army has surfaced. Muleary, in his early thirties, is reportedly in hiding and described as the brains of the revolutionary forces.
A collage of clipped quips and captions from Boston Transcript and Life. Includes Mrs Bacon and Emily singing with feeling, a misheard noon horn mistaken for an Auto horn, and barroom humor about mixed drinks. References to Ireland, India, and home rule echo the era’s sly political jokes.
A collage of editorials notes President Wilson may live in Washington after his term ends but has not found a home. Commentators from the Albany Journal to the Cleveland Plain Dealer mock taxation stances and postwar politics. The Montreal Star and others chide foreign policy, divorce trends, and reform zeal while the Toledo Blade and Rochester Herald comment on scientific claims and cabinet speculation. The mix reflects interwar anxieties and partisan wit across major papers.
Observation notes in Boys' Life describe how high buildings and narrow streets create miniature windstorms. Heat rises along structures, then splits into side currents that swirl and rejoin, affecting hats and paper as air flows around corners and down streets.
The London Times reports new Aurignacian era cave drawings in Columbière caves on the Ain. A mammoth bone fragment depicts two figures, a hairy man and a headless female torso, with the woman shown as a slender refined form recalling early Greek art. Dr. Lucien Mayer notes the piece as a potential Venus figure.
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