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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1913
Page
12
The Anaconda Standard Publishing Company explains mailing status, subscription rates, office contacts, and news stand distribution points across multiple cities. It lists addresses, branch info, and advertising offices while detailing where to address general business letters and currency inquiries.
Friday reports the upcoming House of Commons vote on extending women's suffrage next Monday may be tight with a margin not exceeding twenty. Some members say suffragette violence has alienated potential supporters, arguing a victory would imply Parliament was intimidated by radical antics. If defeated, radicals are blamed for blunting the reform.
The Fifth Annual Report of the State Engineer and Carey-Land Act Board of Montana arrives in a 268 page volume. Mahon urges aligning water right laws with neighboring states, making water rights appurtenant to land and favoring state oversight of public highways, with broad reclamation project statistics and policy implications expressed.
The good roads movement shows broad national progress with state variance. Road experts report highway laws accelerating improvements and the Bulletin of the Office of Public Roads notes 8.66 percent of US roads improved by end of 1909, up 1.52 percentage points from 1904 to 1909, with all three years showing gains.
A 1917 discussion cites road improvements raising efficiency and saving crop transport costs, with 20 percent of public highways upgraded seen as key. It also notes political shifts on direct senatorial election and economic views from Yale economist Irving Fisher on inflation driven by checks and money supply.
Brief quotations show tensions over women suffrage and language reform, with critics in Chicago Toledo Springfield and Washington weighing in on strategy and rhetoric. The clippings touch on suffragist tactics, spelling reform debates, and intra party disputes amid the Oyster Bay era.
Rev Horace E Holtzinger, former telegraph editor, installs a complete wireless system in Fifth Street Methodist Episcopal Church Philadelphia to broadcast services and run wireless classes for boys. He plans to expand outreach to attract attendees from the city and amateur stations, enabling conversations from the roof broadcasts.
A sequence of brief American newspaper quotes and opinions touching on tea consumption linked to mood and industry, food prices relative to wages, divorce court records, Taft’s canal history stance, and a Grand Duke’s potential hero medal recognition.
A collage of jokes and quips includes a Richmond man invited to a mixed race marriage, a tongue in cheek exchange about a wolf in art, a London Opinion gag, a legal pun about “ox” insults, a judge’s quip on fines, poker party banter, and a Newburg laborer inheritingHungary. Also mentions elevator rope production for a Woolworth building in New York.
A roundup of dated sketches and quips from Detroit Free Press and Chicago Tribune style humor. An attorney defends a man charged with larceny by tracing a family past while a rattled defendant proclaims his guilt, intercut with jokes about mayors, late workers, a city girl’s alarm clock scheme, and a poem praising Argus’ editing diligence.
Washington January 28 The credentials of Senator elect Walsh of Montana were received in Washington and presented to the senate by Senator Dixon.
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