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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1913
Page
6
The text lists publishing offices and newsstand locations for the Standard Publishing Company in Anaconda Montana and various partner outlets across the United States. It also notes general business correspondence should be sent to the Standard Publishing Company in Anaconda Mont.
A municipal Christmas tree celebration in Anaconda drew thousands to the common last night. The event illuminated by multicolored lights featured carols, skating children, and bright greetings as residents joined in a vivid display of community unity and festive cheer.
Senator Jones introduces a bill to appropriate 500 dollars for monuments along the U S Canada boundary marking ten years of peace with Great Britain. A joint commission with secretaries of state war and treasury would plan monuments on the northern border of Washington Idaho Montana North Dakota Minnesota and other states touching Canada.
Representative Kent of California introduces a constitutional amendment to lengthen House terms to six years with voter recall for district disapproval. He argues two-year terms spur constant campaigns and notes delays before seating new members without a special session, citing Wilson era timing.
The article argues the two year term drains lawmakers to campaign and neglect district needs. It contrasts recall as a check and six year terms reducing campaigning while keeping responsiveness to constituents. Kent advocates six year terms to lessen campaign time and expenses.
Congress faces fierce opposition to government ownership across utilities including telegraph and telephone lines. Proponents cite Alaska rail and national needs, while critics warn of expansive payrolls and political power. Sinnott proposes a deferred residence homestead plan to ease land settlement with safeguards against speculation.
Western representatives pressed Interior Department and the House Public Lands Committee to repeal the cultivation requirement in the three year homestead law. The rule currently forces ten acres in year two and twenty acres in year three and beyond until patent, prompting complaints from settlers.
A humor piece describes an English appointee in China facing a clever creditor after a wedding. A Chinese merchant jokes about burning the cake because the Englishman is not foolish enough to eat it, highlighting cultural mismatch and clever wordplay.
A patchwork of quips and scenes from National Monthly recounts a purse robbery with a torn coat and depleted cartridges, a Civil War shooting miscue lesson, a St Pat’s day misnaming at church, Uncle Tom’s luncheon money blunder, and a mispronounced history lesson in a Washington classroom. It blends light humor with brief social anecdotes and dated tones.
Society pages note Mrs Albert Sidney Burleson has a new playlet The Secretary produced in Washington. The sketch features a congressman’s office, his wife as secretary and a messenger boy with three characters. Comedy injected into serious scenes.
The text argues that beliefs and feelings, including religious ones, are largely imitated and molded by family and social surroundings. It explores how genuine experiences become conventional, leading to rigid institutions and sects, while questioning rationalization and authenticity in faith.
A satirical verse lampoons overmedication and the ills of seeking cures through endless powders and potions. It humorously traces ailments from measles to shingles to mumps and mocks doctors and quackery while lamenting reliance on prescriptions for relief.
A collection of light exchanges and quips from early 20th century papers. Snippets include jokes about hypocrites middle aged men and fashion, a century plant bloom, mammoth sales and a burglar with a joking twist. The tone mirrors period humor and social commentary from Chicago Houston and Washington outlets.
In the New York Times, Servin orders 92,000 war medals from a Swiss firm. The poem laments memory and loss along a gray road, expressing longing for youth and hopeful visions of a bright future despite past betrayals.
A collage of quoted lines from various papers, critiquing political parties, editors, and public figures. It references Bryan, Murphy, Huerta, Roosevelt, and McCombs, with remarks on press language and trust in truth. The text mirrors a press-commentary collage rather than a single event.
A Cincinnati Enquirer humor column riffs on marriage, work, and culture with wry quips about women and men. It toggles between anecdotes about courtship, employment, and social expectations, noting the humor and double standards in everyday life.
A Maine town cemetery monuments display weatherproof photos on their sides, showing the buried individuals. The tradition endures among local families who visit the gravesites and preserve memory through these heirloom markers.
Agricultural work in five Massachusetts schools shows two learners earning over $90, twelve above $20, and three under zero from farm products. Missouri losses in 1912 exceed 800,000. Geneva builds a natural history museum costing 2900. New York produced over 3,629,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas and imported much from Pennsylvania. Japanese distillation yields 17 gallons per 409 pounds of camphor leaves. Spain uses forty thousand cork workers at about 67 cents daily. Turkish tobacco farming could rise in the southwest with proper planting and curing. The origin of the word tawdry traces to St Etheldrea and St Audry lace at St Audry’s fair.
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