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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1920
Page
13
Local notices include apartment rentals at Alpine and Lorraine, lost Eastern Star pin to be returned to 420 Main upstairs, and a help wanted for housework at 722 Hickory. Also items on trades, sales, dances, church events, and multiple short staff moves and travels among Anaconda residents.
In Boston a wealthy mine owner, keeping identity private, studies human nature by pumping gas at a station. He concludes little car drivers waste more fuel and cause price hikes, labeling them pompous, careless, and profiteers, while rich motorists are cautious. He cites unskilled mechanics as real profiteers and condemns small car arrogance.
Paris fashion writer Jean Chi boon arrived from Havre aboard La Touraine to seek funds for Paris shop girls and described Mercury-footed girls on the boulevards as feathers of various shades sprout from shoetops for the latest Paris trend as Mime.
The article notes that King George IV imposed a brick tax in England. It explains that later in his reign bricks were divided into common and dressed types for taxation, with tax amounts set according to brick size.
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