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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1916
Page
6
Publication advertisement lists subscription prices by carrier and mail, with full year and six month options. It notes regional sale points and multiple news agencies supplying content, including offices in Butte, Montana and branches nationwide.
Butte Boosters club pushes for a public hall or auditorium in the business center to host large public meetings and conventions. The current library auditorium is insufficient, delaying a February laymen convention and state gatherings. A ground floor, spacious hall could attract political, social, religious, and fraternal events, making Butte a preferred meeting place.
Wilson weighs mal for a Supreme Court vacancy with over 50 suggested names. Taft and Lane are top candidates with Taft viewed as broadly acceptable and potentially unprecedented if appointed by a Democrat, reflecting the era’s partisan norms and historic court tenures.
A collection of historical notes contrasts long judicial tenures, naming figures like Joseph Storey and Washington as young appointees, while shifting to wartime observations about Russia, Britain, and the Austro-German fronts. The piece critiques allied coordination, laments shortages, and jests at political figures amid evolving global conflict. It also touches on social issues including lynching statistics, rubber and automotive demand, and speculative politics around 1915 style readings.
Winter renuns notes Dr W A Evans of Chicago who writes on health for the Standard and is a regular medical public benefactor. He stresses temperate living and open air as pneumonia preventives and condemns crowding, alcohol, and poor ventilation, citing Chicago deaths in 1914 from pneumonia and tuberculosis amid broader epidemic concerns.
An 1915 inquiry preserves Washington era lynching records via a Tuskegee Institute associate. It lists 69 lynchings for 1915, including 55 Black victims, 14 White victims, and three women. Some victims were later found innocent. Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi accounted for 18 incidents. Florida and Kentucky followed with five each.
A fragmentary collage cites Spirit of the Press and Clark Bryan rumors for 1916, noting Roosevelt’s past free trade stance and a Gary dinner crowd. It mentions a Chicago court, Houston Post quips, and various papers debating ballot placement and political strategy amid unsettled party lines.
In a collage of quotes from Buffalo Express, Baltimore American, Judge, and others, readers react to wartime censorship and domestic squibs. Jests about a hostess, a hunter, and a Belgian aid debate domestic life and public opinion with sharp, period voice.
Report says Colonel House is being sent to Europe as a keen observer to study the mood in European capitals. He will map atmospheric conditions of London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna to advise President Wilson on the political climate for sending a note.
Mary Pickford writes eight letters to leading stars seeking a path to managers through others in hopes of meeting Mr Belasco or Mr Frohman. She endures delayed replies, Aunt Kate’s poverty, and a dream of rising in silent film while she plans to travel to Canada and push for a contract.
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