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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1920
Page
4
An unreadable fragment shows a person claiming to expose a thief on the street and expressing longing for a safe home prize. The text is garbled with exclamations and stray phrases, making the main event unclear.
The Anaconda Standard denounces I W W and allied groups after the armistice, urging careful screening of foreign workers. It suggests expelling hostile foreigners to Ellis Island, while noting some newcomers may be acceptable if they fit desired classes and pose no threat to production.
Anaconda Montana publishers and proprietors notice appears with post office details and office addresses in Butte Montana. The entry lists contact lines for business and editorial departments with phone numbers 422 and 423.
The piece argues the United States has treated Mexico fairly and urges Mexico to reform its administration before the December handover. It calls for cooperation, condemns bandit rule, and asserts mutual benefits from harmony, warning that Mexico's actions in coming months will influence U S aid and policy.
The speaker mocks J P Morgan for offering his London home as a US embassy and argues Washington must stop begging for luxury. He rails against extravagance, calls for unity to restore the nation’s footing, and says ambassadors can endure awhile with capable men in charge.
The Indianapolis News argues on immigration listing 9000 job seekers arriving in New York in the week of May 16 and suggesting the total could reach about 40000 if prewar ships resumed routes. It notes wage pressures and farm labor shortages, praising some immigrants while urging focus on the more desirable foreign workers.
Butte patrons cheer the return of street car operations after a period of silence. The city, though large and widely spread, benefits as workers and miners regain easy access to mines and workplaces, ending a painful handicap of halted transit and public grumbling.
A federal efficiency chief cites 2184 more payroll workers since November 1918 and condemns wasteful clerical excess in Washington. The piece argues for trimming committees, reducing budgets, and questions the value of large navies and ongoing treaties in an era of lavish expenditures.
The passage reflects on notable 1920 fame naming the first man to cross the Atlantic in a lying machine and lists leaders and explorers such as the St Mihiel and Argonne commanders, the occupying power of Germany, two Englishmen who flew Newfoundland to England non stop, NC-4 commander, and the discoverer of the South Pole.
Postal employees may receive higher wages after a prolonged wait with potential back pay discussed as part of the talks. The tone suggests optimism about a pay rise and compensation for past delays.
The speaker notes a push to end investigation with adjournment next Saturday, suggesting Congress may quit probing dry farmers while expressing a wish for many Memorial days in spring and summer.
A collection of editorial jabs from multiple papers critiques the president and Congress. It contrasts dry legislatures with prohibition and jokes about Raisins Dandelions and prunes. It notes Villa Carranza and Mexico politics while advocating factories over revolutions.
A collage of quips from The Boston Transcript Harper's Magazine and other publications. Jokes cover pronunciation, philosophy, dentistry, bridge, and economics with light satire and social observation.
Lieutenants Masiero and Ferrari, Italian aviators, arrived in Osaka after flying from Rome to Tokio via Seoul. They stopped at Taiku this morning and successfully passed over the Korean straits, which were patrolled by destroyers.
The Misses Sara and Nellie Kouns daughters of the late C W Kouns sail from New York on the steamer Royal George to begin a European tour. They will sing in England and in Paris at a benefit performance attended by the queen of Romania.
A compilation of editorial riffs from Montana papers lampooning politics, labor, and postwar policy. Jabs at preconvention spending, Uncle Joe Cannon’s whiskey quip, a 18-foot boa in captivity, and bears in Yellowstone contrasted with critiques of conventions, prices, and the postal service plight.
Verse by A Daly published 1920 attacks men as deceitful and self serving arguing truth and honor are rare except in the speaker. It contrasts ambition with patriotism and laments lack of selflessness in public life concluding with a plea to Columbia to love only the author.
Washington May 31 President Wilson and DNC Chairman Cummings discussed the political situation and the coming convention in San Francisco. They spoke of a sharply defined League of Nations issue and noted the next U S president would be chosen in San Francisco.
In San Francisco on May 31 the California Hawaiian Sugar Refining company announced $26.30 per hundredweight for its latest allotment, a $3.05 rise from prior levels. With jobbers and retailers margins set by the U S attorney general, consumers in the San Francisco bay region would pay about 29.3 cents per pound, plus freight from the seaboard. H Clay Miller of the federal fair trade commission said the rise would be the last and that future sugar allotments would trend lower.
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