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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1926
Page
16
The Anaconda Standard notes pests cause annual farm losses exceeding one billion dollars. Most pests are established. newer invaders still have limited ranges. Congress appropriated 2.5 million dollars for the Agriculture Department to deploy scientists to curb these pests and protect entry from foreign pests.
An article extols Montana as the nation’s healthiest and most desirable state, noting cooler nights, steady temperatures, and ideal farmland conditions while contrasting eastern suffering from extreme heat. It urges sharing Montana’s blessings with other regions.
A multi topic preview notes Kentucky politics with Ernst and Barkley set for renomination, debates on Prohibition and pari mutuel betting, tobacco price concerns, and regional contrasts. It also touches on national figures LaGuardia and Brookhart, France’s wearily normal drift, and Coolidge's view of Congress. Local interests mix with national figures in a broad, opinionated survey of political tensions.
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture credits the 1912 plant quarantine law with halting the immigration of dangerous foreign insects. Prior to 1912 only minor state actions existed, allowing a steady influx of pests. Dr. Dunlap notes six major pests entered in the four years before 1912, including the oriental fruit worm and Japanese beetle.
Bozeman native Mayo Story, daughter of Nelson Story Jr., and Harold Cuesta de la Burkhart, a California Spanish family member, married today in St. John's Episcopal rectory in Butte. They plan to reside in Los Angeles, postponement earlier due to the groom’s mother.
Tony Kodons a 38 year old Superior merchant was killed when he leaped beneath a moving freight train late today in Rock Springs Wyoming Trainmen observed him crouching beside the train before the leap and believed the act was intentional The incident occurred as officers and witnesses described the scene in the yard.
National American War Mothers in No. Bat en and Might host a luncheon at the Finien hotel today at noon. Delegates and visiting war mothers from North Carolina and Washington will attend. A tour of local mines and a plan for inspection of veterans hospitals were discussed by the group’s executive board.
The document reports that Montana farmers purchase registered dairy stock in a shipment from outside the state. The deal involves Townsend and Townsend farmers, and the agriculture publicity department notes the movement as an important transfer of cattle into Montana.
A Helena decision grants protective authority over common carrier services, allowing M. and Hurus Johnson to operate passenger trains between Butte and southern routes via Anaconda. The ruling limits services and prohibits certain business expansions, with specific notes on temporary routes and express lines in Hot Springs and Pine Holt area.
Plymouth reports a three day incident aboard the British liner SMaine from Rangoon in the Mediterranean. Fire broke out in the hold where bran and coal were stored. hundreds were moved to access the blaze as divers entered the burning area with helmets and face coverings. Passengers danced on deck at night, praising the purser and crew for keeping things steady.
Peter confronts a frightened elephant calf named Bumbo whose tremoring trunk signals danger. A towering tawny predator roars, forcing the boy to face peril. The young elephant, urged by warning and fear, ultimately retreats while a dramatic jungle moment unfolds.
The piece ponders Crabbed age and youth living apart yet courting harmony. It cites Corra Harris on aging with dignity, the desire to be loved, and the urge to keep one’s home, traditions, and decencies while aging gracefully amid younger generations.
Jone s WENSON WHE. LASE. By ROSE TERRY COOKE. This love poem by an American woman who died in 18% is praised for simplicity and directness. The piece imagines skies and nature lifting devotion, with lines about cloud and star, wind and fountain. Copyright 1926.
In France a new fashion in vaccination spreads as doctors vaccinate women high on the thigh to avoid visible arm marks. The shift follows shorter skirts and stockings, making the upper thigh the preferred spot for inoculation.
In Vienna the number of women students has fallen almost 20 percent in six months. An investigation by socialist women’s groups shows untrained women can earn nearly as much as trained ones, making school seem worth little. They plan a fund to send a thousand girls to training college and provide weekly living expenses.
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