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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1926
Page
3
Ex-secretary of state Elihu Root argues that nations cannot sustain war unless their populations support it. He warns that war arises from a state of mind and that agreements or declarations fail when quarrels erupt. He states governments cannot force future generations to fight against their will and urges timely use of force to prevent war.
Wyman Holt receives a secretive invitation to a Thursday tea about an Arabian Nights ball. Marion anxiously prepares, while Laurel disguises nerves with careful grooming. The scene shifts between these plans and Marion’s attempts to orchestrate social moves, hinting at looming intrigue.
A fragmentary poem recounts Selima the cat perched on a vase, admiring a fish lake below. She leans closer and tumbles in, eight times surfacing to meow to gods, while none come to aid. The moral warns beauties that not all that glisters is lawful prize. Thomas Gray.
In a quirky case a judge pressed an interpreter who claimed the prisoner said nothing. The judge demanded the truth and the interpreter whispered that the prisoner spoke of a woman with a red bed curtain. The courtroom burst into laughter as the exchange amused all present. A visiting clergyman then arrived for a patient, but chatted with a young girl about her mother and parish connections.
In a Burgess bedtime story Paddy the Beaver grows thoughtful about future hunger. Peter Rabbit teases the concern yet Paddy vows to plan for winter. Paddy leaves to explore and prepare, while the evergreen Green Forest hosts the next tale, Looking for Tree.
The Mountaineer issue covered a January high school assembly at Butte High School with the band opening the program, announcements for January graduates, and upcoming events. The Boys Vocational Congress is set for February 1 in Bozeman, with senior student selection by a faculty committee. Examinations begin January 25, and the new term starts February 1. In Detroit, a masked bandit robbed the Detroit Savings Bank of about $8,000 six weeks earlier, with bank employees confirming the prior theft.
A reminiscence on a boy in blue jeans who swept a railroad platform diligently and rose to become a railroad president. The piece critiques efficiency fads and favors doing a task as well as possible with personal responsibility, citing Garfield and a New Year motto.
The audience at the Broadway theater will enjoy a varied vaudeville program led by Leah Warwick and Prisco Harmonists. Comedians Sweeney and Rick Stewart, billed as the Kings of Buffoonery, deliver rapid-fire humor and the two minds act. The lineup includes a jazz quartet, a Confutieum prop instrument act, and a photo feature Braveheart starring Tod La Rocque.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions Jackie Coogan and Gene, possibly referencing a film or scene at the Ansonia. The garbled text references a keeper of bees and silver sheet, but specifics and context are unclear.
The excerpt praises J Leo son-in-law of a late novelist for selecting Ste Gene as a key role in a film adaptation. It lauds his direction of the picture, noting skill in translating literature to cinema and willingness to bypass red tape to achieve effect, predicting a triumph for the production despite tragedy.
A London bartender with 30 years in the trade reports that audience taste for alcohol shifts with the concert program. Wagnerian music boosts beer demand dramatically, Johann Strauss increases wine requests, Richard Strauss lifts spirits, Mendelssohn nudges toward beer and whiskey, and Mozart prompts minimal drinking.
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