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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1920
Page
6
A commentary argues that prices cannot fall until national wealth aligns with its monetary measure. It warns that excessive spending fuels a grim future of skeletal hardship, urging personal responsibility as political economy becomes intimate with individual lives.
Allied powers press The Hague to surrender William II, arguing Holland must decide a precedent for war refugees. The note stresses asylum rights may be invoked, while hints suggest coercion to bring the fallen monarch to trial. William II is portrayed as a tragic yet monstrous figure in exile.
A motion picture was made of a New York City wedding last week not for public display but for the couple’s descendants. A flower girl strewed rose leaves along the aisle as pink and white lilacs framed the canopy under which the vows were spoken.
The piece argues that despite broad prosperity most people ignore rainy day preparations. It cites Noah as a weather prophet and warns that extensive savings and thrift are needed to offset credit risk, urging prudent money use to translate savings into capital. The article cites a New York Herald writer on readjustment to peace and responsible spending.
Massachusetts Republicans push singing as a campaign tool to boost votes in state and national races. They plan song led meetings and nationwide use of familiar tunes, arguing music can rival oratory in political impact. The idea enlarges campaign work, while avoiding explicit new choreographed performances.
In Washington a second Pan American Financial congress opens to draft a broad program for promoting Pan American finance and trade. The piece notes hopes for a postwar “new world” policy, hints at tariff debates, political potshots, and comments on figures and events in American public life.
Old timers recall Fort Benton and upper Missouri navigation efforts as a new plan uses air powered barges with gasoline engines and a forward motorboat to sound channels and report obstructions. The Missoulian reports on the vision for restoring river commerce amid shifting sandbars and shallow depths.
The narrator discusses praying for daily bread rather than endless wealth, urging contentment with today. He recalls the Arkansas traveler tale to illustrate mending the roof only when needed and praises Peter Hamilton, a WWI veteran, for embracing life and resilience, including a Red Cross hospital stay.
The steamship Editor, named for American newspaper men, departed Hongkong with 8,001 tons of rice, the largest cargo of its kind from the port. Several hundred American newspaper men at the Seattle convention witnessed the launch as the Editor operates between China and the West Indies.
In Port Angeles Washington a local oil fever takes hold as Sequim residents closely monitor a drilling crew working near the town. The story notes a widespread concern that every resident is watching the operation and its progress.
A compilation of witty quips and editorials from multiple papers noting political figures and Prohibition era takes. Satire targets figures like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, President Carranza, Wayne Wheeler, General Pershing, and Wilhelm Hohenzollern with brief jokes on alcohol, politics, and social behavior.
A collage of quips and jokes from various papers. Laugh lines include cigars and a “sudden wealth” maid, a dealer’s lecture on a picture, and a father’s funeral expenses remark.
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