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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1926
Page
4
The Anaconda Standard discusses government service reductions achieved through efficiency and sustained cost cutting. It urges Montana state and local officers, charged with spending public funds, to heed the lesson and apply frugality in governance.
President Coolidge addresses department and bureau chiefs in Washington and Montana calling for economy with efficiency to cut costs and enable future tax reductions. He praises improved government service, warns of ongoing vigilance against waste, and notes Montana’s large state and local costs compared to federal expenses.
In Albany the campaign for governor and senate reshapes party fate as Governor Smith looms as a possible president, Senator Wadsworth faces reelection and the Anti-Saloon league presses for a prohibition law. Republicans hesitate between appeasing big cities and winning rural votes, while the wet dry balance tests the G O P.
A critical column argues that Philippine rubber dreams collide with labor shortages and restrictive land laws. It notes high wages, need for cheap labor, immigration barriers, and a 2,530 acre corporate cap, tempering prospects of turning the islands into a rubber mint. It also touches on tax bills, bonds, and politics including Jim Reed.
Acknowledging his wartime service, President Hindenburg elevates General von Seeckt to field marshal. He led the southeastern front under von Mackensen, resisted Kaiser's orders, and helped stabilize postwar Germany. The Entente approved, and his London conference presence impressed former enemies.
Buster Bear and Yowler the Bob Cat plot to ruin Paddy the Beaver's new swamp dam. Buster uses his strength to tear holes and widen the breach while Yowler grins from hiding, hoping Paddy cannot repair the dam before the pond drains.
Listings from multiple stations across time zones include WCCO Minneapolis events with church services and concerts, WGN Chicago programs with organ recitals and the Chicago Philharmonic, KOA Denver mass and organ recitals, and California stations KFI KFWB KGO KHJ KPO with religious services, concerts, weather, and orchestra programs.
A clerk shows 40 gingham patterns and is told to buy nothing. the minister’s 10 minute sermon ends with a dog that ate the rest and a joke about pups for the minister. A Duluth pastor warmly greets a servant Swede and offers a home visit, she replies she has a boyfriend.
A 1926 interview with Samuel Vauclain of Baldwin Locomotive Works argues locomotives will stay dominant. He cites efficiency gains, skepticism about electric or lighter engines, and predicts growth in rail industry and global travel alongside social and natural upheavals.
Astrologers deem January 4 1926 a calm day for routine thought while churches gain civic focus. Orient religious teachers arrive with broad welcome in the United States and one figure may be hailed as a Christ reincarnation by a growing sect.
A poem speaks of fear of death and fame fading before life's end. A government paper pulp bounty in Australia fails to establish industry and a larger payout is debated. Evanston tests rail crossing gates to halt cars, protecting schoolchildren.
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