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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1920
Page
4
The article notes Finland remains nominally dry yet drunkenness persists. Iceland faces a prohibition wave. Norway allows liquor up to 12 percent alcohol while Denmark stays very wet. It mentions a motbok card system for spirits purchases in restaurants, with stamps and possible loss on intoxication or family complaints.
Anaconda Montana publisher and proprietor contact notice lists offices in Butte at 119 North Main, with business and editorial departments dialing extensions 422 and 423, indicating common newspaper masthead details.
The piece notes silence from the White House on a Wilson third term, while democrats debate his candidacy. James Hamilton Lewis predicts a San Francisco nomination only to be dismissed as bravado. Hitchcock describes Wilson as invalid, weary, and disappointed by U S entry into the League of Nations, with strategic restraint shaping his public stance.
In 1920 a plan proposed linking efficient plants from Boston to Washington into a vast electric reservoir. Long distance transmission would allow direct coal-to-electric generation, supplying cities by wire and enabling railroads and major industries to operate on electricity, barring I W W upheavals.
The piece notes a push by many Republicans to nominate a southern man for vice president, a practice unseen since Andrew Johnson with Lincoln. It discusses history, motives, and the difficulty of balancing expediency, geography, and party unity, with Col Henry W. Anderson of Virginia and Judge Pritchard of North Carolina named as possibilities.
Dr Helmer Key editor of the leading Stockholm newspaper visits the United States and comments on Sweden's unsettled conditions. He notes scarce housing and high rents as food supplies improve, and mentions Sweden trying a system to restrict strong drink consumption amid ongoing arithmetic irregularities.
Many discharged service members let war risk policies lapse and now seek rein statement within 18 months. Amendments to the war risk insurance act clear rules and the treasury clarifies benefits. Permanent life policies will be issued to those who converted their wartime cover, replacing certificates that do not define rights.
The piece mocks Woodrow Wilson’s nomination talk in San Francisco and riffs on 1920 political angles. It jokes about May vs November polls, potential Mexican leadership shifts among Obregon Gonzales Bonillas and Carranza, Bryan’s imagined savior status, Geddes as ambassador, denim prices versus sackcloth, New Jersey losses, Massachusetts 1620 Mayflower anniversaries, Montana flour, prohibition driving Reds abroad, and expected beneficial outcomes from prohibition.
A string of jokes and cartoons from early 20th century papers. It pairs light banter about romance with quips on funerals, babies, and misunderstandings. References include the Pittsburgh Sun the Buffalo Express Life The Princeton Tiger the Birmingham Age Herald and the Exchange.
The Montana Press notes unpledged delegates at the San Francisco convention should vote early for James Watson Gerard, a strong Montana ally with deep local ties. It highlights his suitability, Montana roots, and the likelihood his presidency would favor Montana interests.
A mosaic of brief newspaper quips and headlines from multiple papers. Comments range from a professor planning a near Mars ascent to jokes about overalls, steel executives, and political figures. The items touch on science, transportation, law, and public affairs with a satirical tone.
Italia Mitchell Blair di Soriano of Chicago, elder daughter of the late Chauncey J. Blair, refutes claims that a divorce pushed her from her husband Don Ricardo di Soriano of Spain. They wed July 2, 1907 in Paris, a union noted among wealth, aristocracy, and royalty. Don Ricardo is a wealthy Spaniard tied to Alfonso and the Spanish court.
Mrs. William H. Eagleton phoned for help when her 2-year-old son David Lonsdale Eagleton slipped the bathroom door lock and stood on tiptoes at the tub edge. Five fire apparatus and about a dozen men reached the scene, used an aerial ladder, and rescued the child unharmed as water splashed.
The Sun and New York Herald report that Grunau and McHugh misread public sentiment as labor leaders face Lever Act arrest. The public supported the railroads, stoking engines, tolerating discomfort, and demanding immediate traffic resumption, defeating the strike’s aims.
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