Anaconda editorial mocks jazz and dancing in caustic note
The Anaconda Standard prints a curmudgeonly editorial lampooning jazz and dancing. It ridicules the shimmy and jazz, calls for a bone dry prohibition, and suggests jazz musicians should be shot, presenting a period tone of hostility to modern music and dance trends.
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North Main Street
Anaconda
Standard Publishing Company
Mont
Associated Press
Iceas
Dan
Byron
The Fleet at San Francisco Arrives Home
The California coast greets the Pacific fleet as it moves to San Francisco bay. The Oregon receives special honors on the Golden Gate visit. San Francisco raises funds for Rodman and the sailors through voluntary subscriptions.
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California
San Diego
San Francisco Bay
Golden Gate
Oregon
San Francisco
Rodman
To Stay Or Retire Prohibition Party Dilemmas In Chicago
Prohibition party members in Chicago debate whether to retire from business or pivot to a related product line while preserving the party. Some back a 1920 presidential bid tied to strict prohibition enforcement, recalling the party’s high watermark in 1892 with 264,113 votes.
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Prohibition Party
National Committee
Chicago
Prohibition
The Town Farm Method in Newcastle New Brunswick
Newcastle New Brunswick forms a village owned farming system to solve H. C. S. problems. It consolidates farms under town council and an improvement league with a citizen body, employing workers or paying by percentage. Collective buying and selling aims for economies of scale and higher output from a single well run large scale operation.
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Newcastle
New Brunswick
Officials warn against immoral dancing at New York convention
The American National Association of Masters of Dancing leaders urge education to discard suggestive ballroom moves and threaten police action if public taste does not improve. They denounce a so called Negro cake walk as a devilish offense and call for cleansing and reform of dancing practices.
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American National Association of Masters of Dancing
New York
John Barleycor
Nature Fakers Spar Over Gorilla Talk Claims
A public dispute unfolds between Prof Richard L Garner the monkey specialist and ivory hunter John Backhaus over gorilla speech. Garner claims gorillas have vocabulary while Backhaus counters they never speak beyond whoo sounds and die in captivity.
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Richard L. Garner
Africa
United States
League of Nations
John Backhaus
Professor Garner
Missouri
Mr. Backhaus
Fragmented notes on politics culture and war figures
A collage of commentary references Wilson Lodge Borah Roosevelt dead years and wartime figures. The passage riffs on Montana Idaho Idaho politics race riots Palmer L N and Carranza with satirical nods to Roosevelt and Davy Crockett style lines.
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Idaho
Borah
Roosevelt
The President's Trip and Montana Opinions
The Press of Montana surveys mixed views on President Wilsons tour and peacetime policy. It cites Ada (Missouri), Great Falls, Helena, Billings, and Bozeman editorials praising restraint, denouncing graft charges against John D Ryan, and urging support for the peace treaty and League covenant while criticizing Knox.
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Great Falls
John D. Ryan
Ryan
League of Nations
Knox
Germany
Bozeman Chronicle
Livingston
Departure Of Dr Charles D Crouch Described By Missoula
The Missoulian notes the departure of Dr Charles D Crouch with sincere regret from Missoula. Citizens praise his public spirit and contributions to the community’s upbuilding and improvement. The piece mentions Helena residents should be congratulated on his decision to relocate there.
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Charles D. Crouch
Crouch
Missoula
Helena
Missoulian
Knights of Columbus Leader Heads to France to Wind Up War Work
William J. Mulligan chairman of the Knights of Columbus war activities committees has departed for France to direct the winding up of wartime K of C efforts.
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Knights OF Columbus
France
William J. Mulligan
K.of C
Humor of the Day and Tiny News Snippets
A collage of quotes from various papers lampoons domestic life marriage reform labor and celebrity vanity. Snippets touch on Home Sweet Home, prohibition effects on wives, job pay for language skills, arson rumors about a milk company president and a film idol denying vanity with cheeky toupee and family details.
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Eben
Washington Star
War
Baltimore American
Detroit Free Press
Hodge
Giles
Washington
New York
Baltimore
Idol
Birmingham Age-Herald
Whimsical War Era Fragments From Newspapers
The clashing snippets from 1910s era papers touch on fear banishment in moral terms, marriage offers in Europe, price-war tensions, Kaiver’s army workers, Mexican candidacies, and Boston shoemakers revealed by a grand jury. The tone reads like a collage of editorial and joke items.
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Europe
Pittsburg
Gazette Times
Merrie England Still Wet and Wry in 1921
The New York Times discusses Lord Lloyd George’s gloomy UK view and adds bright note from Oxford where a dinner costs three shillings and sixpence. An American reader sees continuity between England’s past and present, noting whiskey and wine etiquette despite war and labor unrest.
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New York Times
Lloyd George
United Kingdom
Istiny
Meizes
Oxford College
England
John Palstaff
Samuel Pickwick
SQUEEZERS AND THE SQUEEZED
The Boston Churchman reports on a mild bolshevism among labor, noting eight hour days and 78 cents an hour as the target. Strikers fear no one, while union leaders push for broader goals and members worry about protected workers squeezing the rest. The piece argues unions may fail to keep the lid on class tensions and hints at reformist currents within labor.
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Boston
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