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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1925
Page
4
A Washington correspondent noted a rare moment when an entire industry pressed for greater government power than an official possessed. The conference argued listeners' interests should prevail, likening Secretary Hoover's role to Judge Landis in baseball if the bills pass.
A retrospective on the National Horse Show at New York, tracing its decline from Madison Square Garden to an armory and upcoming revival at Tex Richards’s Garden. It notes saddle horse popularity in Chicago and San Francisco, criticism of limited New York facilities, and industry optimism with breeders urging buyers toward genuine stock.
A national radio conference in Washington urged creating a single powerful radio czar. The plan would give Secretary of Commerce Hoover authority to license or revoke broadcasters with one appeal, aiming to centralize all broadcasting power into law during the next Congress.
Farmers fear city road visitors raid crops and stock and damage fences and fruit trees. A New York State Farm Bureau convention backs a county vigilante committee to protect property rights, urging lawful restraint without vigilante violence.
Denominations back a drive to fund a national home named Tranquillity to care for aging physicians. A target of 1 000 doctors and several regional units is proposed, with labs and comfort facilities for doctors and their wives. Funds estimated at 1.5 to 2 million dollars, supported by wealthy backers.
The piece mocks international and domestic figures with satirical depictions. It imagines France recovering, Mussolini in political games with caveats, and critics like Wilbur, Mitchell, Pinchot, Ma, and Ferguson. It notes Texas governance under Ma and predicts Congress counting chickens before hatch.
The article profiles Klementiy Voroshilov, chosen as Soviet Union war commissar. Born in 1881 to a peasant family, he rose through the communist movement, led troops in 1918 in Ukraine, helped organize the Red cavalry, and commanded the Moscow military district in 1926 while assisting Frunze in a Red Army cleanup.
Thornton W Burgess recounts the tale of babies in a hollow stump as all forest folk, led by Peter Rabbit, gossip about their looks. Mrs Buzzard proclaims their beauty while Sammy Jay peers to judge them, noting family bias and curiosity among woodland neighbors.
Sammy Jay taunts two buzzard babies perched on a stump in Green Forest. Mrs Buzzard protests as Sammy laughs despite the risk, while others agree the hatchlings are homely, a common fate for young birds, unlike Mrs Bob White and Mrs Grouse’s offspring.
The text reviews buzzard nestlings and contrasts their initial downy appearance with later wing development. It notes the birds hatch hairless, ugly, and reliant on carrion, living in a hollow tree while parents Mistah Buzzard and Mrs. Buzzard feed secretly, until feathers grow and flying lessons begin.
Astrologers see afternoon luck outweighing morning in daily influences. Clergy gain receptive congregations and civic righteousness, while Roman Catholics may see great growth. Protestant consolidation and a broad church history theme for 1926 are forecast, with a renewed focus on virtue.
A letter to a newspaper advice column discusses roles in marriage, the man’s role in parenting, and the woman’s duties. The writer recounts old adages, urges men to trust wives, warns against overbearing control, and includes reader opinions on dances, schooling, and social behavior.
Rt Rev John McKim Episcopal Bishop of Tokio now in New York denounced the Exclusion Act as unnecessary brutal and a contemptuous slap at a friendly people. He cited Japan’s 1923 earthquake relief totaling over 11 million dollars and noted the Day of Humiliation when 150000 yen to St Luke Hospital 80000 yen to St Pauls University and 70000 yen to St Margarets School for Girls were sent by the Japanese government as a gesture of gratitude.
A married man invites a bachelor friend to dinner and ignores his wife who has only six oysters. The guest refuses to eat more, the wife pleads, and the husband admits he forgot her warning. The tale ends with a sly miscommunication about table etiquette and a joke about being kicked under the table.
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