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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1920
Page
4
The Anaconda Standard notes a public meeting where diverse citizens will speak, backed by business leaders from across the country. Manufacturers push to remind politicians of taxpaying citizens who sustain government finances.
The piece argues President Wilson’s Armenian mandate and Oregon message fuel Democratic rifts. It notes Bryan’s rock throwing, McAdoo’s nomination hints, and splits among Cox, Marshall, and Bryan, with debates over wet/Bryan tensions and party platform positions. It highlights intra party tensions shaping the 1920 Democratic landscape.
The piece notes auto trips expanding beyond 1919 Yellowstone trails into a fuller road season. It advises light packing, avoiding overloads, using trailers, cooking in primitive fashions with town camps offering cookstoves, and tents that attach to cars. Early Montana trips bring inbound motorists, with many more to come until August.
At both major conventions, outsiders are expected in large numbers including spectators lobbyists and delegates. The National Association of Manufacturers will hold parallel conventions in Chicago and San Francisco with a nine point platform urging private ownership private employment regulation of combinations taxation transportation immigration merchant marine foreign tolls and a war bonus.
The registrar general’s quarterly return shows 115 419 male births and 108 150 female births in England and Wales with an excess of 67 males per thousand. It notes boys outnumber girls in infancy across western societies, but the balance shifts after age 16 as women predominate in later life.
A string of clipped quotes and witty lines from various papers comment on the 1920s campaign scene. References include Hoover and Hi Johnson, opinions on War and Peace leadership, Supreme Court dry law rulings, and presidential candidate jests about policy and governance.
A Montana press editorial notes a confirmed oil field in eastern Fergus county, predicting vast production within 12 months as drilling defines its extent. It contrasts church censorship calls with broader public debates, including Park County openness and ecological concerns raised by the Saturday Evening Post.
News notes quote Brig. Gen. George John Seslowski urging U S rescue of Poland to avert a typhus crisis amid Bolshevik threats. The montage also cites Montana editorials railing against extraneous national discourse and praising Montana public schools as among the best in the United States.
A fragmentary historical note describes silk stockings becoming a status symbol in France under Henry II and Louis XIV. It traces royal and aristocratic fashion from embroidered stockings to gold and silver designs with clockwork devices, and notes the spread to London and the Blue Stocking circle shaping a literary term.
A French guest at a London hotel balks at a large bill and asks the proprietor to embrace him. The clerk, puzzled, reveals the umbrella mix up as the man explains pride in the received receipt. A London Blighty note then shifts to a boy and girl argument over height and a humorous line about a father whose "spenders" keep him down, from Harper's Magazine.
A garbled page snippet blends a 1920s verse about life and luck with a note on the Diplomatic Room. It mentions Bainbridge Catby, Ts Mind, and a plan to convert office space, remove wartime partitions, redecorate, and resume formal diplomatic events and treaty exchanges.
A writer from Astronautsia describes Karzok village in Kasher mir as the world’s highest town at 14,946 feet. The settlement has a cluster of stone houses and a small Buddhist monastery in the northern Indian state of Kashmir, near Everest’s eastern border in the Himalayas.
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