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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1913
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard lists postal rates and subscription details, with publishing and advertising offices in Anaconda and New York. It notes branch information, managers, and contact addresses, reflecting a mid century newspaper directory style.
Listing of numerous newspaper agencies and addresses across major cities including New York Detroit Chicago San Francisco Denver Portland Spokane Seattle and Rochester. Notes standard publishing company Anaconda Montana as contact.
The city grapples with escalating smoke and pollution concerns amid broader reforms. Officials report years of industrial and transport emissions contributing to deteriorating air quality while other major cities push forward with new measures. Residents face health worries as smoky conditions persist and policy debates intensify.
The Sunday Standard features Hawthorne's "Behind Prison Walls" series arguing reform hinges on hiring better guards. He notes ignorance and brutality of some guards harden convicts, hindering reform, while praising his keen observational talent and moral critique of criminals and officials.
The article extols Frank Conley as a firm patient humane official with a physique that inspires respect. It notes years of study of convicts and commends his management of the Deer Lodge institution as above reproach.
The article profiles Amanda Johnson of Albany Oregon a former slave born August 20 1813 in Liberty Mississippi who after emancipation moved westward and on her eightieth birthday gained voting rights as a woman. She registered and voted in the last election illustrating progress in the nation.
A discussion of Wilhelm Lamszus and his book The Human Slaughter House which critics say uses graphic battlefield depictions to portray war as a brutal, dehumanizing force. The piece notes that German authorities suppressed the work yet it spurred pacifist use, drawing praise from Geneva’s World Peace Congress and widespread newspaper debate.
A collage of wartime and holiday musings surveys end of year life in 1918. References span Butte dances under Mayor Duncan, moralizing talk on war’s cruelty, dumdum bullets forbidden, Huerta and Mexico, currency bills, St John’s quote, watch night services, sermons in Syracuse, New York, and New Year wishes. Also notes Porter Chariton trial, and amid humor on Prohibition and New Year resolutions.
A fragmentary reflection traces four great crises of feeling—love, drink, religious awe, and warlike passion—as the four corners of the earth where the soul burns. It links these to four pillars of life and notes poets praise some passions as gods while others die when hearts grow dry, with classic lines about burning and dying.
Cincinnati Enquirer excerpt describes a father longing for modest holidays and predicting no more toy spending while children may receive clothes and shoes. A mother smiles, recalling similar past promises as the family laments rising cost of living and recalls older, harsher times.
Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania may require secret football practices next season to avoid star players quitting. The article notes a three year pattern of players losing focus due to romances with spectators at practice, citing Morris M. Western who married Miss Ola Ellsworth Marsh after meeting during practice at Washington field.
The German Emperor condemns modern American facial hair, ordering mustaches for soldiers and frowning upon clean shaven looks. Across nations youths watch mirrors, fearing Kaiser’s displeasure and a shift toward traditional facial hair as sign of strength.
Reflections on weddings, signs, and daily quirks from past decades. A housekeeper’s meals from a cow, a graduate pricing canned asparagus, and a mutt with a near miss reveal social foibles. Nostalgic anecdotes intermingle with memories of autograph poems and youth.
A collection of odd 1910s era figures notes New York milk consumption, cancer deaths, municpal staff, and a $90 million annual smoke nuisance cost. It mentions 134 murders in 1912 across US cities and cites early streetcar, apartment house, and wood clothing anecdotes. It also discusses railways, a glowworm railway myth, and the first Sunday School founder Robert Raikes with Gloucester in 1780.
The verse laments constant longing and envy of others conditions. The speaker frets over ailments and desires rare misfortunes, then counsels contentment and humor to cope with life’s aches. Dax Masons
A collage of editorial quips notes that Mexican rebels excel at initiating attacks but falter in finishing plans. It cites editorials from the Kansas City Star and New York Evening Sun, plus remarks on political figures and a Cincinnati woman’s valuable painting, reflecting varied newspaper opinions.
A collage of quoted witticisms from various newspapers includes quips on kissing, corporate plunder, suffrage, and parent child exchanges. The items showcase playful exchanges and social humor, with lines about battles, small beginnings, and the quirks of instinct and perception.
WAL Herr von Ihne, chosen by the kaiser to design a $1,000,000 embassy in Washington after dismissing 272 competitors, is revealed to be half English. His mother was English and he was born in Liverpool where his father taught German. The father later became a professor of English literature at Heidelberg.
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