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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1915
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard presents its rate card for daily and Sunday editions, with annual subscription pricing and mailing info. Listings mention offices on Broadway and Helena area contacts, plus reference to regional bureaus and publishing staff across multiple Montana communities.
Governor Stewart presents a thorough, businesslike message urging retrenchment and cautious legislation. He cautions against new counties and offices, favors swift fair compensation acts, supports abolishing prize fighting, and calls for prudent handling of labor treaties to benefit employers and workers.
A discussion emerges on substituting electrocution for hanging in legislatures this month. New York first adopted the electric chair, followed by Massachusetts Ohio New Jersey Minnesota and Virginia. Critics claim electrocution is not painless and may be barbarous, with some saying death results from autopsy rather than current passage. The United States is the only country using electrocution. France long used the guillotine with a historic preface. Hanging remains the most common method in Britain and many other regions, while Mexico continues to rely on traditional forms.
The piece outlines execution methods by beheading in Germany and garrote in Spain, noting use in the Philippines and Cuba before the Spanish American War. It explains the garrote collar and screw, causing instantaneous death, and traces a century-long global move toward fewer capital offenses and more humane, secret punishment, up to abolition in many places.
The piece argues that Japan rejected a bigger military budget, challenging war-propaganda urging the United States to massively expand its armed forces. It urges restraint, stresses peaceful, legitimate lawmaking, and notes Alaska reindeer herding growth and political expectations for 1920.
William F. Kite presents a humorous domestic scene in which a family debates medical quirks and stomach troubles. A boy named Robbie fends off worry with cheerful stubbornness as parents discuss specialists and heredity while jokes about cider and odd remedies punctuate the dialogue.
In a recent interview Lord Northcliffe of the London Times argues the British government must resort to conscription to build an army capable of defeating Germany in the colonial war. He says voluntary enlistment will not suffice yet asserts Britain’s full strength will be used and that the empire will endure rather than yield.
The author argues the United States should retain representative government after a period of direct legislation enthusiasm. He notes Oregon California Washington embraced initiative ballots but crowded ballots hinder public judgment. Montana lacks such provisions yet faces too many questions. He warns abolishing legislatures if direct legislation replaces representation. The piece ends noting a shift back toward representative government.
A 1915 McClure Syndicate piece contrasts French thrift with American waste in cooking. It praises using potato skins, apple cores, vegetable odds and ends, and asparagus tops, while critiquing lavish American habits and questionable modern habits in society and marriage.
A fragment from the Cincinnati Enquirer alludes to a pampered poodle and social tensions in boarding houses. The narrator muses that reform is limited by the allure of kisses and hints at marital constraints influencing behavior and choices in urban settings.
A collage of satirical quips and misprints from multiple newspapers mocks political figures. References include La Follette opposition to rail rate raises, Bryan speculation for 1916, Carranza and Mexican policy, provisional presidents, and humorous bits about reform and technology.
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