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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1925
Page
4
A rundown of expositions from Paris to Chicago 1893 notes rising attendance totals and growing competition from national parks. It contrasts San Francisco and Wembley attendance with earlier fairs and cites Philadelphia’s yet vague celebration goals intended to be dignified economical and effective, pending billboard stage.
February 14 19: Kellogg arrival on the 25th to succeed Hughes as secretary of state faces Senate grilling. Supporters expect quick confirmation. critics, led by Johnson and others, doubt his rigidity on the Isles treaty and Paris accord. President Coolidge has chosen Kellogg, with broad odds of Senate approval.
Philadelphia launches a $2,000,000 bid to build the world’s largest stadium with seating for 100,000 and standing room for 150,000, as it prepares for the 1926 sesquicentennial expo. David C. Collier is named director-general, a showman and financier with past expo experience, amid questions whether world fairs retain mass appeal.
New York city fans push for more boxing venues as Charles J Henderson builds an arena in Long Island City for 110 000 spectators. Combined capacity nears 400 000 with Boyle’s Thirty Acres Yankee Stadium Polo Grounds Velodrome Queensboro Stadium and Henderson’s Brooklyn Bowl. Dempsey Gibbons bout eyed for June with Tex Rickard pursuing show rights and Dempsey’s marriage boosting comeback prospects.
A 1924 criminal record survey notes 233 prosecutions for freedom of speech and assembly, lynchings at 16, mob violence concentrated around the Ku Klux Klan, and a rise in liberal court decisions. It also cites political critiques, including figures like Trotzky and Xen scenes, and remarks on Lincoln’s era vs Congress.
An old tale narrates Mrs. Grouse and Thunderer sleeping under snow as rain later freezes into a crust over Green Forest. They cannot break free, trapped by a hard crust, while Reddy Fox lurks nearby and a worried narrator reflects on future escape. Drought and cold threaten crops in Argentina as well.
Florence Davies argues true education lies beyond college walls. The educated man is calm in adversity, content in solitude, and mentally well furnished. A well formed mind arises from exposure to ideas, not mere accumulation of facts or degrees.
The horoscope notes Mars opposition may spark warlike talk and diplomatic tensions with a foreign power while Congress faces embarrassing maneuvers over defense plans and cabinet changes. Domestic quarrels and sensational divorce cases are foretold alongside shifts in leadership and ambitious engineering or contracting feats by year’s end.
A puzzled note from H G Latham notes the craft of clueing without suffixes or foreign terms. The list of crossword entries spans numerous clues from measured weight to musical notes with misprints and garbled phrases reflecting the OCR era.
Radio Digest compiled listings show networks across U S cities with 6 8 12 hour schedules including concert orchestras bands talk sessions and recitals. The piece notes Chinese New Year’s impact on business in late January with slowed activity across sectors.
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