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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1928
Page
4
An Anaconda Standard note praises good roads to summer playgrounds and argues TorontoNews omits detailed Canadian attractions for Americans. It says Canada’s famous hospitality remains constant and unnecessary to overstate.
Maryland Governor Ritchie urges unity as he withdraws from the presidential race. The piece argues unity will avert a repeat of 1924 and cites Senator Walsh and Governor Smith as pivotal figures, with pressure for Smith’s retirement and for Reed to be nominated to unite the party for the fall campaign.
The Toronto Mail and Empire notes that Americans are attracted to Canada’s northern woodlands mountains and seashore resorts. It cites Washington estimates that U S tourists spent 206 million dollars in Canada last year while Canadians spent 51 million in the United States leaving a 155 million dollar favorable tourist trade balance.
Montana agriculture faces a promising 1928 with rains easing crop worries. Wheat yields in 1927 reached about 80 million bushels, while livestock marketing and total farm income rose, marking continued growth over previous years and a record rising trend in the state’s principal industry. The Montana Department of Agriculture notes 1927 set new records in sales of crops and livestock, with 1926 previously leading the field.
The Department of Agriculture forecasts a strong peach crop near 1926 levels, with heavy pears and promising apples, plus ample cantaloupes and watermelons. The piece notes upcoming Heflin excitement in Houston and argues the U S government would endure even if Al Smith is elected, challenging Democratic weakness theory.
The passage depicts Jim Reed’s strongest critique of the Wilson regime as more restrained than Tom Heflin’s implied attack on a potential Smith administration.
After the hoover family lay Herbert Hoover and siblings to rest, guardian Laurie Tatum oversees a tiny estate of just over 1500 dollars for Tad May Hoover and two younger cousins. Herbert grows up on Cedar county farms with Uncle Allan and Aunt Millie, learning self sufficiency and making playful inventions with scrap parts and a calf driven sorghum mill, while the family preserves a rural life from Lincoln era to modernizing times.
The piece urges readers to stop chasing distant chances and instead seek change within their own surroundings. It emphasizes evaluating one’s own house and neighborhood before seeking work or life across town or state.
The page lists five answered prompts: Mrs Ellsworth M Statler of Statler hotels through marriage to E M Statler. The Shetland Islands. Mary Baker Glover Eddy. Robert Edwin Peary. and Solomon's Songs viii 6.
Items from the Standard recall events of 10, 20 and 30 years ago in Butte and Anaconda. Notes list births marriages travels business visits and military Jacob Maleusek and other couples include licenses issued and visits by several residents to Helena Spokane French Gulch and Beaverhead county. The June 20 1898 entry reports Santiago harbor fortifications and American gunners.
On Wednesday June 20 1928 astrologers call a rarely favorable day for pleasure and travel. Weddings look auspicious and concerts should prosper. Hotels resorts and summer amusements are expected to flourish while the younger generation gains recognition. Birthdays promise happy journeys and profits in the year ahead.
At 7:30 the National Grand Opera presents Pearl Fishers across WEAF KSD WOC WHO Wow WHAS WSB. Earlier 6:30 Goodrich Hour features Orchestra and Quartet on WEAF KSD WOC WHO WOW WDAF KVOCO. Deanice Music airs at :30 with WEAF and WHO winning the slot.
A dense list of radio stations and listed programs across cities like Kansas City Milwaukee Los Angeles Oakland and Portland with time slots for concerts talks dance music and studio programs indicating a regional broadcasting guide snapshot. Includes station call signs frequencies cities and program titles such as Goodrich hour Motormates orchestras and Cecilian Singers.
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