Valor of the WWI mule as a symbol of steadfast service
The Anaconda Standard honors the mules used by Allied forces in World War I. It contrasts Spanish stock with stronger midwestern animals, noting 100000 plus mules from the United States and 20000 from France and Spain. The piece praises their endurance, their role in hauling carts and freeing heavier wagons, and calls for tears for the fallen and medals for the living.
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France
Spain
United States
Middle West
Anaconda Post Office Notice and Contact Info
Anaconda postal item lists second class mall matter status and office addresses including Butte office at 119 North Main Street and Anaconda office at 422 423 with business and editorial department phone lines for public inquiries.
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Anaconda
Butte
North Main Street
Butte Welcomes New Chamber of Commerce Boost
Monday morning May 3 1920 reports strong momentum for Butte's new chamber of commerce with robust member drive and high community support. The group emphasizes democratic participation and equal footing for all members to foster progress and cooperation.
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Butte
Chamber of Commerce
The Nightmare of Students in Examinations
The United States Bureau of Education criticizes school exams as a poor measure of ability. It cites Edison and Eliot as examples and notes that final exams foster cramming and stress, rewarding memorization over understanding while offering little for teachers.
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United States Bureau of Education
Edison
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard
Henry Ward Beecher
Faithful Unto Death Mule Honored by War Department
The article praises the mule's service in World War I noting its endurance, sacrifice, and crucial aid to artillery and logistics. It cites official remarks from the quartermaster general about the mule’s brains and resilience, contrasting its steadiness with the failures of mounted cavalry amid new warfare conditions.
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War Department
Missouri
Caracole
Bucephalus
Alexander the Great
St. Mihiel
Argonne
Still of Good Cheer Amid Vast War Devastation in France
Report from a visitor describes St Quentin with 14 000 houses hit and 4 000 repairable, 6 500 temporarily inhabitable, 1 800 brick houses built in late 1918. Clearing costs up to 4 million dollars and rebuilding at least 150 million. Lens far worse with 6 600 of 35 000 living amid unimaginable ruins. Despite grim conditions engineers face sewer and water challenges while the people show hopeful industry and resilience.
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France
St. Quentin
Lens
Japan Shows Progress With Fire Engines and Typewriters
Japan orders 30 American fire engines and increases use of U.S. office and portable typewriters, adding machines, and calculators. The text notes social shifts as fires and superstition recede, praising Japan as progressive yet placed on the other side of the Pacific.
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Japan
Pacific
Political crosscurrents and party realignments in a fractured era
General Wood proposes a centrist deepwater course for the Republican Party between radicalism and conservatism. Carranza warns some face trouble by choice, others by fate, while Hi Johnson urges Republican restraint to avoid a third party. Hitchcock’s San Francisco push edges toward a funeral march, Lenine deflects blame in Russia, and Bryan resists being forced as Wilson’s successor. Germans pay indemnities to France. mining Americans in Mexico stay committed to Carranza.
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Wood
Johnson
Harding
Humorous Quips and Cartoon Gags Parade
A collection of late 19th and early 20th century quips and cartoons about learning to drive cars, racehorse betting, portrait pricing, politeness of convicts, slippery floors at social events, and misread French phrases. Notable lines reference Cincinnati Enquirer jokes, Cartoons Magazine, Home, Boston Transcript, Baltimore American, Burr, and more, stitched into a humor page.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Flivver
Louisville Courer-Journal
Browne—ls
Smythe
Boston Transcript
Baltimore American
Burr
Unsparing editorial snippets from Montana newspapers
A collage of brief opinions from Montana papers criticizes political figures and policy. It laments late politicians like Marshall Sanders Carter, lauds or questions figures from Helena and Butte, and comments on railroad labor, the national budget, San Francisco politics, and U.S. Mexican policy with sharp, period-voice tone.
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Miss Anderson
Helena
Montana
Ambrose
Butté
Thomas C. Marshall
Wilbur F. Sanders
Thomas H. Carter
Great Falls
Notable World Sparks and Political Jumbles Across Newspapers
A collage of clipped headlines notes government spending alarms, potential vice presidential talks, and retirements, with remarks from ambassadors and editors. It mentions Hiram Johnson, Hoover, and various papers like Kansas City Star Columbus Dispatch and Toledo News in a mosaic of political chatter and public sentiment.
Rear Admiral Britain Ends His Life in Guantanamo Shipment
Rear Admiral C. B. Britain, who shot himself, is being shipped home from Guantanamo Bay. Born January 16 1867 in Pineville Kentucky he was an Annapolis graduate. He married Mary Baldwin of Richmond Kentucky June 29 1897. He rose from ensign to captain and served as assistant to the bureau of navigation. He earned the Sampson medal for Santiago harbor action and the West Indian campaign badge for the Philippines. He authored The Elements of Naval Warfare.
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Underwood & Underwood
New York
C. B. Britain
Guantanamo Bay
Pineville
Kky
Annapolis
Mary Elizabeth Baldwin
Richmond
Leuetenant
Bureau of Navigation
Sampson
Santiago Harbor
Philippines
Jazz Married Life Teaser In A Witty Wedding Essay
A humorous essay contrasts a couple planning a jazz filled home wedding with a bleak counterpoint of endless pep and restless life. It riffs on jazz, peppy routines, and a marriage that may lack quiet moments or traditional romance, ending with a question about endurance.
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Marr
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Riokewans
Eee
Standard Publishing Company
Publishers and Proprietors
Anaconda, Mont
Anaconda Office
Butte, Montana
Associated Press
Eastern Business Office
Prudden
King & Prudden
Fifth Ave
Steger Bldg
Chicago
Globe Bldg
Boston
Carranza
Hi Johnson
Hitchcock
San Francisco
Lenine
Russia
Woodrow Wilson
Mr. Bryan
America
Mexico
Bri
Will
Wink
THE
Montana Press
Sam
Missoula
Wilson
Tion
Billings Gazette
Shelley-Ford-Rankin
New Jersey
Bozeman Chronicle
Railroad Labor Board
Henry Lane Wilson
Havre
Kansas City Star
Henry Lane
Charlotte and Courter
Hoover
Columbus Dispatch
Hiram Johnson
Toledo
Indianapolis News
Cleveland Plain Dealer
T J. Ham Lewis
A Ness
F Gazette Times
Ace
Paris
Fonck
Winifred Blac
Fox
Reg
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