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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1920
Page
4
The text argues rural areas show population growth while cities grow at farms’ expense. It predicts fixed economic laws will force urban dwellers back to farms, urging reasonable pay and hours to speed the shift. Those with employment should stay put, while city strikes show labor shortages and quick labor replacement.
A critique dismisses claims the League would force U S troops into Europe and argues that collective security would deter wars. It states the police power near trouble would intervene, and nations would settle disputes by law, reducing armament and avoiding wars. The piece accuses Republican organs of misleading the public.
Babe Ruth seeks fast money as he stages a one hour appearance at a New Haven gun shop earning 200 dollars. He will travel to Havana for ten baseball games, paid expenses plus 1000 dollars per game, cashing in while fame lasts before fading into back numbers and busting phenomena.
The Knights of Columbus supreme secretary warns members seeking work to stay out of cities where jobs are scarce and wages are low. Salvation Army reports a similar trend as urban employment tightens while rural populations shift. in 1920 cities surpass rural by 4 million, with farm producers shrinking as city needs rise.
A Washington Star writer foresees a chaotic Republican era if Harding wins, with internal splits and new party realignments across farmers, labor, and progressives. The piece argues the Democratic party will endure, while third parties and leaders like Borah and Debs attract attention amid farm and labor unrest.
David meets Squeedee the elf and a peaceful ant eater family who claim ants as breakfast. The giant ant eater explains they sleep by day and hunt at night using a long sticky tongue to catch ants, while denying harming the ants. David leaves promising to visit again.
A string of light newspaper humor from the Kansas City Journal and Los Angeles Times. Jokes cover whispered gallery fixes rubber plants and carpets, a water mystery, and a shy surgeon at dinner.
A reflective vignette on wonder inspired by a moonlit sea and a six year old, Taddlekins. The narrator muses that behind every fact lies a deeper mystery and quotes a poet on wonder as poetry’s core and the highest understanding. The piece asks if the sense of awe will ever cease.
European cable says Trotzky mortally wounded but urges fact checking before celebration. Regular endurance test notes a vice president's role in presiding the senate. Democratic convention delegates in San Francisco reportedly drank 40 barrels of whiskey to ease pain.
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