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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1927
Page
4
A column urges picnickers to craft perfect sandwiches with expert advice. It likens savoring meals to art and details arranging ingredients to minimize motion. Readers are advised to lay out bread butter and fillings in orderly stacks for easy access.
One month subscription notice from Standard PublisHing Company offers a period of one month for a cost of 2 dollars. The listing includes currency notation £0.
A 26 year old inventor demonstrates a neon gas rainbow light that reportedly shows 20 mile visibility through dense fog and 50 miles in clear weather, potentially aiding aviation and lighthouses with foggy conditions. It could have aided Byrd's Paris flight and would outperform ordinary beacons though some fogs, like political gridlock, remain challenging.
An essay on the sandwich as a staple for outings notes its rise from British origins to a central American habit. It recalls John Montague Earl of Sandwich’s role and humorously describes sandwich making as an art, essential for picnics and daily life.
Dr Frederick Tilney of Columbia University argues humans show a gradual brain expansion since Neanderthal times. He notes slow growth in intellect but believes future centuries may yield greater reasoning and control over material conditions.
Louis Marshall and other leaders urge restraint after Ford's apology, noting mixed motives and damage done to Jewry. The Jewish Telegraph Agency reports a cautious stance in the press, criticizing harmony banquets and urging no hysterical euphoria over the recantation.
The piece notes a ruthless summer with frost dreams failing, many young aviators proving themselves, and three nations America Britain and Japan pursuing peace on three fronts. It laments shifting baseball news becoming obsolete and mocks empty rhetoric from so called scholars and statesmen.
The page provides concise answers to questions on page three. Topics include Leon Trotzky and Lenin, the third international, Kerensky's provisional government, William J. Bryan, Holland, Downing Street, and the international date line.
Central time listings show WCCO and WEAF musical programs and organ recitals with Eddie Dannstedter. Kansas City stations WDAF and WHE present Cavaliers and Nighthawks followed by musical evenings. Davenport station WOC pairs WEAF and a musicale with an orchestra. Mountain time KOA presents Scheuerman's Colorado Orchestra and a studio program.
Radio schedules show KFI in Los Angeles and KFOA in Seattle listing orchestras and programs from 7:30 to 10 pm. California stations KHJ KGO KGW KPO present children's hours, vacation programs, hotel orchestras, and collaborations with National Broadcast Company and Orange network.
The July 20 1927 forecast says bits of favorable planetary influences boost business bankers lawyers educators and culture in America with potential for great artists and lasting national progress. It warns of egoism greed and jealousy while urging kindness and wise instruction for births and coming tests.
Parson town of 2000 in West Virginia sees a gold rush as quartz from Clover Fork near Parson yields about 62 dollars of gold per ton. New York engineers arrive while eastern capitalists bargain with local Realty owners. tents line the riverbank and autos fill the road.
Fred Baxter of Anaconda company hardware department left the city with his mother for a Yellowstone Park vacation. They expect to be away at least two weeks.
A child asks where the baby came from and the mother replies from heaven. The youngster jokes that he does not blame the angels for bouncing the baby, reflecting simple family humor and curiosity.
Mushrooms have low nutritive value but can be used to vary a diet if prepared properly. Boil with little water and add butter, then serve with steak or in casseroles. Avoid raw or greasy frying and beware poisonous lookalikes. Dr. McCoy offers dietary guidance via The Anaconda Standard.
Butte Pioneers' club welcomed seven new members and referred 13 applications to the executive board. Abe Cohen heads the picnic committee to arrange the August 14 joyfest at Columbia Gardens. Bridal couples George Greig and William Wild were introduced as meetings featured singing and dancing.
Banking institutions of Butte will be well represented at the 24th annual state convention of the Montana Association opening at Helena. J K Hesler of W A Clark and Brotherbank presides and will deliver the annual message. The first day includes registration and a bankers golf tournament at Helena Country Club.
Bert Grosso was arrested late yesterday by Officer White after pedestrians reported an uncovered garbage wagon owned by Grosso in a public place. He faces an additional charge of allowing a boy under the driving age to operate the vehicle.
Report from Managua July 19 notes a decisive defeat for General Sandino and his rebels at Ocotal. US Marines and Nicaraguan constabulary, aided by bombing planes, repelled the assault, with estimates of rebel casualties ranging into the hundreds. Sandino, once called the wild beast of the mountains, retreated to a remote area as scouts and air support reinforced the garrison.
Lieut. Lester J Maitland returns to his boyhood city for a day of receptions, a parade, and a dinner after his epochal flight to the Hawaiian islands. Accompanied by Lieut Albert Hezengauber, Maitland is greeted by a joyous crowd as Maitland Field is dedicated at the Lake Michigan airport.
A reader reports discovering Emily Dickinson through his poems as a critic praises her for turning commonplaces into striking lines. The piece lauds Dickinson as a pioneer, rivaling Whitman and Poe, and highlights her vibrant beauty and distinctive lyric voice.
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