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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1920
Page
4
Standard Publishing Company details and agency ads appear alongside a column noting population growth and tropical conquest. Professor Binder predicts tropical fertility could feed posterity, arguing disease mastery will enable colonization.
The city readies for the March 4 inaugural events with elaborate preparations. General Pershing is invited as grand marshal, and assurances that Wilson will ride in the parade with Harding. Harding to visit the White House, take oath at the Capitol, then host luncheon, followed by Wilson’s move to private life and Harding’s challenged administration.
A New York exposure links building combines with dishonest labor leaders to inflated costs on buildings erected in the last four years. The extra charges burden renters and dampen home plans, but a deflation in building prices is under way paving the way for freer construction and fair dealing.
The proposed emergency tariff cuts both ways by shielding producers like wool, wheat, and cotton while raising costs for consumers. With mills idle, lawmakers debate a policy seen as harming city workers, labeled by Senator Harrison as the most iniquitous piece of legislation. An old tariff argument resurface amid an elaborate rehearsal.
The piece contrasts Malthus with Margaret Sanger and later scholars Pearl and Binder. It notes Pearl’s 2100 U S population fears, then Binder’s optimism, arguing against panic. It reflects on population theory differences and the idea of future generations crossing limits.
A Los Angeles Times note laments the push for blue laws and indigo legislation, declaring a crackdown on pool halls and soda shops to keep the city pure. It mocks prohibition era zeal and parries with skeptical jabs at national politics and social trends of the season.
A montage of editorials from The Montana Press 1921 lauds women as new year symbols, urges Dixon to study South Dakota farmer pressures, critiques Montana education politics, notes local bootlegging issues in Missoula, and discusses disarmament and the League of Nations amid postwar sentiment.
The Helena Independent notes comments that nations, including our own, must reach navy limits to safeguard themselves as in the lead up to a great war, warning that steps are needed to protect national interests and security.
A collage of quotes and commentary from various papers cites debates on prohibition taxation city life farmer prosperity and international politics. It touches on liquor control labor economics and foreign policy with scattered references to monarchs Japan and social reform while noting shifting public attitudes.
Fragmented verse laments the year’s dull stretch before New Year’s, musing on muse and art with arch references to Mars and Cupid. The speaker notes a creative struggle and a failed attempt at friendly harmony within a period marked by whimsy and skepticism.
A collage of comic lines from multiple papers spans witty exchanges about engagements, shopping, and transit. Jests touch on manners, money for clothes, and the quirks of daily life with playful mishearings and social banter. Names and exact sources differ, but the overall mood is lighthearted newspaper humor.
A poem honors Kevin Barry, the young Irish martyr, praising his bravery on the deck of the Brave and pledging national reverence from Rathlin to Beara. It condemns oppression, lauds Sinn Fein, and calls readers to continue the struggle, honoring fallen heroes while defying deceitful foes.
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