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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1923
Page
4
The article discusses the 17 year locust and its minimal impact on the West. It contrasts biblical locusts with the American version, noting it remains near home and offers no invitation to migrate westward. It mentions disease concerns for humans and potential effects on wildlife.
Dr. Reinhard Strecker, a Darmstadt university pedagogy professor, spent a year in the United States studying public schools. He says American system excels in objectives and student engagement, while German schools are stricter and language focused, though less elastic. He notes women teachers bolster respect and healthy gender relations, and praises the absence of social distinctions in American education.
The East outshines the West as a fiery summer heat wave travels from Boston to Chicago. Locusts will swarm from Massachusetts to Illinois with a cicada convention unseen since 1906. The male songsters serenade while females toil through mating, nesting, and egg-laying before perishing.
Will Hays defends the film industry as an art amid clashes between producers and authors at the international congress in New York. Authors demand rehearsals and directing input, while producers argue for technical control. The debate yields some concessions likely to affect future productions.
A stream of quotes on music as medicine from New York hospital researchers claiming waltz therapy calms mothers and convalescents. The piece muses aloud on music’s potential to treat insomnia, rheumatism, and even pneumonia, then veers to politics and global affairs with satirical asides about Bulgaria, Russia, and U S policy.
A Montana state Sunday school council reorganization began at the First Presbyterian church in Butte with more than 20 delegates from Butte and other cities. Aims include forming the Montana State Sunday School Council of Religious Education affiliated with the International Council, adopting a constitution, and announcing committee findings this afternoon. B.C. Knapp of Spokane delivered the keynote on the Community Vacation School and Rev. R. W. Newman of Missoula chaired morning sessions.
The text lists Rev. Arch Deacon Hooker Episcopalian Rev Hartman Methodist Episcopal South Rev Toole Evangelical Mr Jordan Disel Neteon Creme Baptlet K Cole Methodist Spokane and notes an Evening Service and Song and praise led by Evan Roberts with an education to be selected and adjournment at 9 00.
Garden club members and the public may view slides of gardens from Chicago New York Toledo Kansas City and others plus Butte at the Greeley School tonight at 8. Mrs W J Higgins loaned the slides to promote better planting while Mrs E Filton chairwoman will speak on garden raising and slide explanations with no admission charged.
Jupiter dominates in a favorable aspect promising beginnings and energy for ventures, with Venus and Mercury mildly adverse. The piece forecasts luck in stocks and fairs, warns about jewelry purchases, and notes political and social tensions ahead. It also lists vagrancy charges and a bad check case in a justice court.
Butte lodge of Elks held its annual Flag Day observance at the Elks home with a full hall and participation by Boy Scouts. Attorney J A Poore gave the patriotic address, praising the flag’s history and urging love and respect for the nation among youth.
Louis Garsez a Mexican was arrested by Officer Steinborn at the Cannon store on North Main Street after the proprietor charged an attempt to steal two silk shirts. He faces petty larceny charges.
The interior department opened more than 250000 acres of public land in six western states for homestead entry by former service men of World War I. Entries will be announced by land offices in June. Tracts include 3800 acres in Fresno County California near Riverdale 34500 acres in Montezuma County Colorado near Durango 64500 acres in Power County Idaho near American Falls 27000 acres in Phillips County near Sandusky and in Vargas County near Winifred Montana 18000 acres in Teton County Montana 44000 acres in Emery County near Ferron also in Wayne County near Torrey and in Millard County near Clear Lake Utah county near Savery Springs near Thermopolis Wyoming.
A 1919 era report notes rising demand for skilled and unskilled labor in metal mining railways lumber and logging. It cites 1000 skilled miners machinists and timber workers needed at 5.28 daily plus 6.80 to 7 contract rates, 40 railroad workers at 2.96 daily, 100 ranch hands and 100 sheepherders, 200 highway workers, with substantial transient labor and ongoing residential construction statewide. Existing shortages hinder mine output especially in Butte.
In Honolulu on June 14, Pomno Crosco, a 14-year-old Filipino suitor, shoots and kills the girl's mother and intended wife after a marriage-s opposition. He also wounds the girl's father and her 1-year-old brother before taking his own life.
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