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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1919
Page
6
Anaconda Montana listing shows publishers and proprietors, contact details, and circulation notes. It lists the company address, phone, and multiple affiliate news agencies across the United States with regional sale points and agents.
The writer warns against a flood of postwar immigration muting American jobs for months, noting Europe’s hunger and high war taxes. They expect ships to carry soldiers home first, with stricter laws likely. A strong push for better nationwide roads follows, seen as essential for war logistics and long term national progress.
A Chicago highway conference notes only 11 percent of U S roads are improved with 350000 miles hard surfaced. The proposed federal highway commission would require $1000000 yearly to build a national system, take over up to four percent per state, and invite state cooperation to link six percent more. The scheme seeks standardization and broader investment to boost highway transport nationwide.
Indications point to a sharp Republican contest for the next house speaker. Early candidates include Mann of Illinois and Gillett of Massachusetts, with Fest of Ohio and Towner of Town pressing for consideration. Eastern Republicans favor Gillett while Mann has measured support in the Midwest. progressive members may back an independent choice to balance power. The old Cannon faction and insurgent legacy shape the debate as factions vie to control the leadership.
The article notes that if the constitutional amendment legalizing prohibition passes, liquor license revenue will be cut, forcing the government to rely on other taxes. It states prewar liquor income supported budgets, current revenues near a billion dollars, and that income tax will become the main revenue source in the future. The piece closes with the lapsed winter season remark.
German farmers awaken to political influence as the German Farmers' Association issues a proclamation calling for a congress of farmers' councils. It demands full personal liberty security for private property and inheritance rights and aims to secure equality with workers and soldiers' councils that have gained power in Germany and Russia.
Disjointed excerpts critique against the red flag, call for Montana to enforce a ban, and remarks on US politics and foreign affairs. References to figures like Ford, Berger, Hohenzollern, Taft, Wilson, and events in 1920 era discourse mix with satirical lines about Russia and Europe.
The piece blends harsh references to Russia and Victor Berger with satirical digs at Montana figures and a personal poem about a cat and Christmas. It reads as fragmented commentary, satire, and reflected sentiment from a 1919 era newspaper column, with multiple voices and shifting topics.
Collier’s Weekly biographer Robert Cortes Holliday highlights Joyce Kilmer as a tireless journalist and poet who lived for rapid output, from a New York book shop clerk sale error to wartime reporting in France, ending with his death in action on the Ouren. He notes Kilmer’s limited war-copy output and his principled silence before grim realities. The piece also touches on Kilmer’s friendship letters and a British scientist’s claim about macaroni as a weight-building food.
A 1919 homemaker feature by Frances Marshal outlines tomato based dishes. Directions cover scalloped tomatoes with onions and bread crumbs, and Italian style spaghetti or macaroni served with tomato sauce and parmesan, plus variations with baked layers and cheese. It includes historical patriotic text from London Daily Mail.
A collage of humor lines and quips from multiple papers. Tiny exchanges include jokes about popular science, office furniture, heredity hair tones, door mats, auto trouble, and festive dependence on Christmas. The snippets show light political, social, and family sentiments across cities like Boston Brooklyn Yonkers and Baltimore.
A collage of clipped quotes mocks leadership and policy from multiple papers. It references Ludendorff crossing borders without a passport, Bolshevik generosity, Taft and Teddy, Hearst and Hearst’s reception, and British fleet plans for New York, hinting at political tensions and media commentary of the era.
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