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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1920
Page
4
In a measured view the piece weighs Obregon's challenge to convert Mexico from chaos to orderly growth. It cautions against overconfidence, notes debt refinancing and reforms, and draws parallels with Cuba. It invokes Joan of Arc as a benchmark of testing leadership and moral resolve.
The Literary Digest reports totals surpassing 1.1 million with eight leading Republicans led by Wood and Hughes, Hoover strong third from Democratic sources, and Montana shows Johnson leading. Democrats Menadoo Cox Clark Palmer Bryan trail Meadoo with Meadoo strongest but still short of Hoover. Unlisted candidates include Capper Pershing LaFollette Poindexter Butler Hitchcock Gerard Owen Baker and scattered votes down to 14,457.
A collection of derisive opinions targets Carranza Wilson and Bryan amid political maneuvering. Commentary notes bank leaders calmness, Montanan delegates’ stance for Johnson, Admiral Sims, Reed songs, and Clark and Bryan’s positions while highlighting a volatile national mood.
Rome hosts the canonization ceremony for Joan of Arc with vast church dignitaries and pilgrims. Fordham University in New York stages a historical pageant directed by Archbishop Hayes as part of the commemorations. The process of beatification and canonization is described as rigorous and consultative within the Catholic hierarchy.
A chaotic collage of jokes and quips from a British American exchange in the Strand. Misheard phrases, gibes about shells and guns, and light banter about independence, taxing memory, and conciliation with a king. Miscellaneous captions hint at a newspaper humor page with social amused sketches.
Montana press roundup critiques Wilsons indiscreet push for a universal League stance at San Francisco. Editorials from Livingston Enterprise Missoulian Lewistown Democrat News Helena Record Herald Missoula Sentinel and others discuss McAdoo, Taft, and Hillquist while urging a frank convention course and party unity.
The Prince of Wales narrowly escaped injury in a New Zealand automobile accident on Friday as the rear wheel hung over a gorge and the earth gave way. The motorcar steadied itself and the prince remained unhurt, shown in uniform heading to the war.
Real Pioneer Farmer Peter Trana of Kindred, North Dakota, recalls settling on a Cheyenne River claim in 1871 and farming near Kindred for decades as sunflowers reveal new uses. The plant’s pith, with a very low specific gravity, yields light cellular material now used in life saving devices, cattle feed, and fiber.
A collage of clipped lines from multiple newspapers mocks political debates and figures. It references the Illinois Central railroad silencer on sleeping cars, constitutional framers, senators, Gompers, investigation urges, primary politics, and reactions from papers like the Los Angeles Times and Pittsburgh Gazette Times, highlighting a noisy, mixed editorial chorus.
London reports the British war office figures show Germany possessing about 14 800 field guns and 15 246 aeroplanes, with 3 800 guns yet to be handed over to the Allies. Churchill notes armistice limits and ongoing disarmament by the supreme Allied commission.
A French cavalry trooper rejects a supplied bread phrase marking it as fit only for Nicholas, indicating the loaf was deemed suitable solely for the horse named Nicholas. The remark reflects a wry, contextually humorous military quip about provisioning.
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