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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1914
Page
13
A fragment from the Anaconda Standard mentions Colonel Watterson and Rosalie, noting a public debate over suffrage during wartime. The text references distribution details and newsstand ads across Montana and other cities, with scattered OCR fragments about offices and subscribers.
The Standard comments on last night's fatal shooting in Butte with cautious judgment, noting no clear motive and urging calm while the coroner conducts an inquest. It lauds the miners union for peaceable conduct and warns against street barroom rhetoric, then shifts to Washington politics, primary reform, and ongoing international tensions including Mexico and European affairs.
At the American Medical Association convention in Atlantic City Dr Halderhalden outlines a new blood test claimed to detect cancer tumor motherhood and certain insanity phases. He says the test from a woman's arm opens a new medical field and that several American doctors report accurate results in experiments. Separately the Canadian Pacific plans a $10.09 million double track tunnel through the Selkirk mountains to shorten the main line to the Pacific coast by six miles and reduce snow sheds and gradients, with electrified trains and heavy traffic through Mount Macdonald in British Columbia. The tunnel will be used year round for all trains and in summer for tourists, expressing wide engineering interest worldwide.
The veteran Kentucky warhorse Henry Watterson dismisses Rosalie Jones as aged and out of date in a sharp back and forth. Jones challenged the suffrage movement by shouting from the courthouse steps in Louisville. Watterson retorts with jokes, calling himself Foxy Grandpa and mocking Jones. The exchange escalates as both sides trade barbs about brains, walking, and battles of public opinion.
An examination of biographies and confessions argues morality comes not from religious feeling or authority alone but from altruistic instincts guiding care from self to family to community. It cites religion law education and culture, noting universal ethics like the golden rule and Kantian duty as foundations for societal virtue.
In Hartford Connecticut the sensational suit of Mrs Elizabeth A C Holman of Waterville Maine against her former husband Rev Cranston Brenton of Yonkers New York attracts wide attention. She alleges confinement in Brattleboro asylum in 1912 and detention until she confessed to intrigues with Frederick Ernest Holman her present husband. Read in court are fervent letters from Holman to the then Mrs Brenton. Holman seeks sixty thousand dollars as damages.
Anne Morgan argues for a twentieth century ideal of womanhood that blends grace and independence. She contrasts old fashioned and new women, praising a balanced role of wife and mother who can adapt to business without losing femininity. The essay highlights dignity, duty, and partnership as core traits of true womanhood across generations.
The poem praises the bee as a model of industry and tact while warning against malevolent greed. It contrasts the bee with rude business types, noting the bee stings no one yet remains bold and active, urging courteous behavior and proper conduct for all, especially parents with children.
Cincinnati Enquirer reports a humorous clash as two women interrupt and vie to speak, illustrating a chaotic scene where conversation becomes a race to finish thoughts first. The piece comments on social manners and noisy public discourse.
A reader voice laments parental control and cruel treatment, questions about gender roles and fashion, and mocks contemporary marriage norms. The piece covers courtship, suffrage era tensions, and social expectations with wry observations on husbands, wives, and platonic love.
Recipes by Mrs Marshment describe a citrus based dessert served in orange skin baskets with orange juice, powdered sugar and shaved ice. A second recipe details a yeast bread dough with milk butter sugar raisins cinnamon and flour, rising then baking into soft dough balls brushed with egg white and cinnamon sugar.
A damaged Detroit Free Press excerpt shows fragmented dialogue about travel, greeting, kissing, and a plea for home, with loose references to a visitor asking about unemployment and work efforts. The garbled OCR yields unclear names and dates, producing a muddled, era voice scene.
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