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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1921
Page
4
The Anaconda Standard lists its publishing company and address details. It specifies offices in Butte Montana and the standard contact channels for business and editorial departments.
Discussion on privately financed Hudson River crossing with a $20,000,000 estimate and a six to seven year construction span. New York City residents will handle crossing delays as the project awaits funding and approval. Judge Florence Allen's murder trial: unanimous second degree verdict, life imprisonment, three female jurors, and a mix of mercy and firmness in sentencing.
Amended bill sets Montana’s house at 100 members with one seat per 6000 population. National House remains 435, no new seats despite census protests. California Michigan Ohio Connecticut New Jersey North Carolina Texas Washington gain one seat. Missouri Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Mississippi Nebraska Rhode Island Vermont lose one seat.
Washington awaits the inauguration with stoic calm as propriety dictates plain attire and modest setup. A small stand will host the ceremony if weather cooperates, otherwise in the senate chamber with no seating or bands. Total preparations cost under 1500 dollars and reflect national satisfaction over private discomfort.
A New York and New Jersey bridge committee weighs building the largest bridge ever, with double the Brooklyn span, towers to Woolworth height, 14 railroad tracks, capacity 600 000 per hour, 12 000 vehicles per hour, and room for rail and truck freight totaling 40 000 tons mid arch, costing 200 million dollars and including terminals, elevated rail, a union station, moving platform, and power plant.
A satirical summary notes Morgan offers his London home to serve as an American embassy to save Parliament funds. It contrasts Congress delaying aid to embassies with a sea of millionaires stepping in. The piece mocks democracy and reflects on Prohibition, crime inquiries, and political personalities while hinting at Harding, Wilson, and Borah.
A Montana press roundup warns investors about oil stocks and promoter schemes as cautionaries. It references Miles City American urging vigilance against stock fraud and the Missoulian calling out lawbreaker sympathizers. It notes political chatter in Kalispell and Helena, plus sports and conservation items from Livingston to Havre and Billings.
The item compiles satirical blurbs about Russia’s exile government idea attributed to Kerensky, President Harding’s anti-tobacco stance framed as hypocrisy, and quips on Dost mind versus job hunter plus Benjamin Franklin thrift claims and bread pudding humor from various papers. It reads as a collage of editorial snips.
A jumble of comic exchanges about making fortunes via stock contracts, prison plots, bigamy, and teach ers, plus an exchange on how couples met. The item includes brief jokes from Boston Transcript Yonkers Statesman Washington Star Cleveland Plain Dealer and Cleveland Plain Dealer style quips about daily life and relationships.
Prof Albert A Michelson of the University of Chicago disclosed a perfected spectroscope device before Chicago scientists. He demonstrated a method to determine star diameters trillions of miles away, citing Betelgeuse as about 260 trillions of times larger than Earth.
Story notes Montserrat island relying on heliographs for news before telegraphs, with 1,000 inhabitants receiving tidings via mirrors from Antigua two miles away. US Navy used similar signaling. war ban on heliographs lifted after Harding’s election. Island life described as peaceful with dominant work in cane and lime juice.
The New York Herald reports on a Berlin surgeon Karl Ludwig Sehreich whose hypothesis of perpetual life rests on microscopic chromosomes. Like Edison, he argues life is indestructible and individual beings persist generation to generation. The piece notes philosophical echoes and questions future fate of conscious personality.
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