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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1927
Page
4
The piece notes booze protection has driven bootleggers to seize opulent industry captains for ransom under threat of death. It cites Chicago as a center where underworld masterminds kidnap gambling-house proprietors and other capitalists, with public reaction described as calm despite the move’s abhorrent implications.
The Travelers Insurance Company reports 421 golf mishaps in 1926 costing $61,995, with eye injuries from fast balls, lightning risks, slips, splinters, insect bites, poison ivy, and collisions. Twelve cuts from sharp instruments, cited as broken bottles at the nineteenth hole. Despite hazards, golfers continue for pleasure and health.
A 700 page treasury department volume, Combined Annual Reports of the World War Foreign Debt Commission, lays out hard data on interest totals and military expenditures. It shows US interest could reach 26 billion at 5 percent, but will run about 10 billion over 62 years. It compares debt payments to military outlays for nations like Italy, France, Britain, Belgium, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, noting all loans were to be repaid. The volume stays factual, offering little sentimental commentary.
Criminologist Thomas S. Rice argues that the Volstead era fostered new crime patterns as bootlegging evolved into organized kidnapping for ransom. He traces a shift from old style murder and robbery to scientifically planned crimes, with bootleggers expanding into professional, cooperative networks.
A Virginia justice fined Senator Oscar W. Underwood for a Virginia motor vehicle statute lapse and the senator paid the fine without appeal. He now holds Virginia Alabama and DC plates to drive to his Virginia summer home. The piece muses on equal justice and public virtue while noting Ohio’s political prospects and a digression about golf on Sunday.
A row of railroading schedule style notes lists radio stations in Central Mountain and Pacific times with programs from WCCO WEAF WDAF KOA KOB KFT KFWB KGW KR and more. It notes the National Broadcasting Company Pacific Division broadcasting from San Francisco and a Victorian Falls Transvaal Power claim of cheap steam power.
The column predicts both good and evil planetary influences for June 13, with expansion in business and cautious travel. It warns against debt, foresees storms and accidents, and notes political and economic tensions in Europe and the United States, alongside travel and fortune for certain births. A London toy dealer sold $200,000 in toys, and a fireman fell from a freight train between Duddingston and Newcastle injuring himself.
A digest style column outlines how digestion starts in the mouth with starch and explains that mixing protein with starch in one meal hinders digestion. It advocates separating protein and starch meals and promises a future lesson on good protein combinations.
Readers discuss whether children should regularly play together or with parents and alone. Emphasis on balance between social time and family activities, parenthood training, and fostering children’s plans while guiding manners and writing skills.
The tale follows Schultz the butcher who inherits a stuffed owl from a deceased saloonkeeper and places it in his shop window. Mrs Murphy visits, wonders about the owl, and they discuss how to prepare it for eating, joking about the bird’s fate and a future pickup.
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