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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1927
Page
4
The Anaconda Standard notes state data on one teacher rural schools. Montana has 269 schools with 1,077 pupils, averaging four per school, highlighting inefficiency and urging consolidation to expand educational access at lower cost.
The May Day observance shifts from the old Maypole to modern, child health focused ideas. Campaigns by the General Federation of Women’s Clubs and others urge universal medical and dental checkups from birth, proper diet, and home ventilation while celebrating spring through country outings and golf.
The federal education bureau notes one teacher schools are being phased out nationwide in favor of consolidated schools. Montana still runs 2,479 one teacher schools out of 2,883 total, with only 404 modern, approved schools, illustrating high costs and poor efficiency in rural education.
A critical column arguing railroads should blend art with function. It praises Baltimore and Ohio for decorative locomotives and Burlington for new four tone musical whistles, envisioning a future of locomotive orchestration with concerts and wide repertoire.
Alonzo W. Pond of Beloit College reports discovering a 60 000 year old child skull and bones in Algeria buried under snail shells. The bones will be sent to the University of Chicago for study with promise of return. the find fuels debate on Africa as humanity’s birthplace and raises provocative questions about Adam and Eve.
Charles J. Estcourt Jr recounts passing fads and social climbers in New York, noting Roger Wolfe Kahn’s high hat scene and the crowd’s mixed reactions to performers. The piece mixes gossip about theater life, cathedral jokes, a pricey Fifth Avenue venue, a wild “swizzie” bottle, and a quip about artist Otto Blank and a comic tonsil tale.
The listing details multiple stations by region and city with broadcast times for church services, concerts, organ recitals, and orchestral programs. Notable entries include WCCO Minneapolis, WOW Omaha, KOA Denver, KFT Los Angeles, KGW Portland, KHJ Los Angeles, and others, noting specific programs and performers throughout the day.
A collage discusses Edwin Arlington Robinson noting his formal craft and Pulitzer prize winning Ce lected Poems. It contrasts his poetry with Amy Lowell’s praise and recalls an old scene of poets as clerks of Time, then an anecdote titled An Accommodation Train about a boy at a station and a returning father.
A reader column discusses kindness to ease family strife, urging partners and siblings to value each other. It cites examples of a quarrelsome brother, a frustrated sister, and a marriage strained by fading love, suggesting practical steps like appreciation and self support.
A rural wedding unfolds with a would be suitor’s objection and a humorous mirror on modern life. A gathering plans a pageant of George Washington but an Italian immigrant’s rapid inflation of inventions stretches the tale into playful satire.
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