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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1920
Page
4
Restaurant owners depend on tourist traffic and the broader economy. high municipal, tonal and government taxes, plus wartime levies, push tax levels to the top. The piece notes Switzerland avoided direct war participation yet suffers similar fiscal strain, prompting concerns over revenue and spending.
A noisy Chicago debate exposes the resolutions committee struggle over a League of Nations plank. The piece mocks the vagueness and political theater, cites Governor Coolidge and Senator Weeks, and notes Swiss exchange rates harming tourism as broader global tensions rise.
A New York delegate pledges to vote for Lodge on every ballot recalling Garfield 1880. The piece warns against overreliance on precedent, notes Chicago’s unique dynamics, and mocks various political boosters while predicting uncertain outcomes for Wood Johnson and Allen amid party infighting.
The article notes 25 of 982 delegates in Chicago and 69 of 1092 in San Francisco are women. It cites The Washington Star urging wider female participation, while arguing women lack booming voices for large routs but can excel in moderate auditoriums.
A jumble of brief newspaper snips notes wartime layoffs, humane society questions, and political quips. An expected July 1 layoff for five thousand war department clerks follows congressional cuts, with farm work seen as a steadier option. Other items reflect humor and editorial opinion on politics, Prohibition, and foreign affairs, illustrating a miscellany page from a late 19th or early 20th century paper.
Recurring notes recall Helena once a baseball town with teams from Butte and a small home crowd sustaining two games for $44 total over weekend. Dan Miles described for improving Livingston Gardiner road as a volunteer builder moving limerock in canyon—unity, service, and local pride in Montana.
A collage of brief humorous exchanges and quips from humorous columns and captions. Jests range from a musician in church to a postcard view pitch and a cook’s wartime misfortune. Light, domestic, and social humor reflects early 20th century daily life and banter.
Col Harry W Walker of New York City, once Eastern manager for William J Bryan, is subpoenaed to appeal before a Washington Senate committee. He expects questions about a letter from President secretary Joseph P Turnby regarding the Anti-Saloon League’s sixty million dollar fund and his knowledge of it.
Winifred Black laments a man who wed twenty eight women then faced jail claiming insanity. She mocks sensational beliefs about dementia and the electric chair, argues many women seek security and a motor car in marriage, and predicts some spouses may be driven mad by the arrangement.
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