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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1921
Page
4
The Japanese government studies American oil strategies and disapproves of private promotion. It names Nippon Oil as the essential governmental scheme and signals vast naval and mercantile storage plans. Officials expect state control to precede private interests and to safeguard against fire and wartime vulnerability.
Butte office located at 119 North Main Street with a Sumness department phone line. Editorial department phone and Anaconda office listed for inquiries.
Washington reporters fill a news famine with cabinet conjectures about Hoover, White, Hughes, Fall, Mellon, and Hays. The piece notes such forecasts emerge when facts fade and political medicine men discuss possible reshuffles in the Harding era.
European nations push to export skilled Italians to the United States while denouncing the mass emigration of the unskilled. Rome reports a movement advocating sending intelligent Italians abroad to earn money and bolster Italy’s exchange rate, with aims to influence foreign industry and secure raw materials. Emigration is urged as a source of revenue, favoring skilled workers who can remit larger sums home.
A Tokyo correspondent reports Japan seeks oil to sustain naval and mercantile power. Widespread surveys across the Japanese archipelago aim to locate oil deposits, with British expertise aiding in the background. The drive is tied to fears over Shantung and the Philippines, reflecting Japan’s strategic priorities.
A column style survey notes 40,216,079 gallons of whiskey in the country and 8,814,640 gallons of alcohol, with vast implications from supply routes to social mockery. It critiques prohibition enforcement, cinema censorship, and labor Soviet systems while jabbing at Clara Bow and the former crown prince’s wartime memoir.
Dr John Whyte research director of the National Association of Credit Men reports a gradual resumption of building through the season with no pronounced boom. He notes a drop in material costs creating a new level, possible activity by fall, and predicts wage reductions as labor efficiency improves with higher unemployment. One builder cites bricks per man rising from 400 to 1400.
A regional delegation of senators and representatives urges President Harding to appoint a Northwest figure to the Interstate Commerce Commission. They argue the Northwest, a major producer of grain, lumber, wool and livestock, has long faced freight-rate discrimination and deserves a stake in commission decisions.
A collage of editorial quips and cartoon captions from major papers poking at postwar policy. References include Versailles, Prohibition, the League of Nations, and general political disillusion in humorous lines attributed to outlets like Detroit Free Press Chicago News and others.
Eliot Wadsworth of Boston, linked to Washington rumor mills, is expected to be named assistant secretary of the treasury. During World War I he led the American Red Cross central committee, and he is O F Wadsworth’s brother, Montana Newspaper Association president. He has ties across Montana and previously worked with Stone Webster in Boston.
A collection of brief jokes and quips from multiple papers. Snappy lines include a New York Sun gag about mystery stories and a Life blithe aside on a kitchenette turning into a home brew outfit. Other jests touch marriage, telephones, and a conductor station mix up.
Paguvald Leland of Birch Hills Canada develops a sled driven lure that imitates animal tracks in snow. The machine leaves its own tracks while covering human prints with the runners and husk as it advances, camouflaged with animal fat to avoid scent detection.
The reading notes Neptune favorable yet Saturn adverse, predicting cautious business success and a bright outlook for oil ventures and Mexico's economy amid mining and agriculture tensions. It warns of damp seasons, real estate interest among women, a prominent death, controllable contagions, and rising naval activity in Britain, with possible eastern floods and capital disturbances.
In Sumatra the annual import of old newspapers reaches hundreds of tons The papers are repurposed as parasols to shield tender rubber and sugar cane shoots from the equatorial sun The practice reflects local use of recycled print material to protect crops and skin from heat while highlighting regional environmental adaptation.
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