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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1914
Page
11
The Anaconda Standard lists publishing and subscription details, branch offices, and contact points. It enumerates daily and Sunday rates and provides address and phone numbers for main, Butte, and foreign advertising, with a network of newsstands and agents in multiple cities.
Montana suffragists, active for years, launched the campaign in Butte and Helena with large meetings, strong attendance, good speeches, and inspiring parades. Parties have supported submitting the vote on suffrage to the people, and the campaign gains momentum as May 1914 proceeds.
Wilson and Bryan seek peace with Mexico while interventionists push for armed action after Vera Cruz. Harvard students debated enlisting as Major Higginson urged restraint, warning war would be a grave matter not to be treated lightly.
The article recalls Mark Twain's War Prayer and notes the Union Baseball association season opening with rain disruptions. It discusses Montana teams, the lack of home crowds in Butte, and hopes for greater public interest as teams play on opponent fields. It also outlines New York City style city government options and Carnegie peace fund conference set for Geneva to promote universal peace and reduced war.
The passage compares New York City population projections with London based on census data. It notes New York’s July 1 1916 population at 538,386 and predicts surpassing 6,000,000 before 1620 census. It discusses global peace hopes and rising urban populations amid cautious projections.
A string of clipped editorials ridicules alcohols as cures for snake bites and jokes about Huerta Villa and Carranza. It notes public sentiment in various cities, mocks policy, and comments on relations with Mexico, including reactions from St Louis Philadelphia New York and Detroit papers.
A collage of joke bits and light exchanges from various papers includes a Buffalo Express quip on mipernate, a suburban real estate gag, and a Washington Star cabaret joke. The items show playful banter about language, property sales, and married life with period newspaper tone.
A stream of reflective vignettes contrasts owning objects with appreciating art and nature. The speaker questions material desire, the urge to possess belongings, and the social rituals around display, money, and gender, ending with a fragment about parenthood and marriage.
A satirical verse by Walt Mason lampoons medical fuss and dieting in the 19th century. The speaker lists a string of ailments from measles to chickenpox while mocking doctors for blaming overindulgence and promising cures. The poem ends with frustration at misaligned costs and advice.
The fragmentary columns from the Cincinnati Enquirer mix aphorisms about opportunity luck aging and gender roles with garbled lines about doctors disciplines and daily life. The text references a world growing better and hints at social norms and personal ads while wandering through stray phrases and stray questions.
A dinner reference recalls the axiom about the early bird chasing the worm as Congressman Wyatt Aiken of South Carolina jokes about Mike and Pat and shared rooms. The piece also parodies court scenes and Irish wit, with a string of jokes from various 19th and early 20th century North American publications.
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