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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1913
Page
13
The standard imprint lists publishers and proprietors of the Anaconda Standard with subscription rates and post office metering. It outlines office contacts, telephones, circulation locations, and agent networks across several cities, ending with a note to address general business correspondence to the Standard Publishing Company in Anaconda, Montana.
The Big Timber Pioneer notes many Montana district judges lack year round cases and suggests reducing judges while enlarging some districts as economy. It cites 23 judges at $1000 yearly, with three in Butte, and questions if other districts have sufficient business. The paper supports county fairs nationwide, reporting rising attendance, exhibits, and state growth as fairs continue into September and the state fair in Helena.
Boston Herald reports dissatisfaction with Massachusetts Airec direct primary system. Critics say older convention plan favored broader participation and nominations by merit. Authors warn success hinges on voter turnout and public interest. Montana’s brief trial noted as inconclusive.
The piece argues that direct primaries only reform if the people actively engage in elections and nominations. It contrasts U S openness with European demands for order, notes suffragette turmoil in England, and cites Judge Lamm on the balance between logic, law, and practical justice.
Tests in France showcase Lieut J W Dunne’s aircraft. Observers say the design enhances safety with stability and simplicity, inspired by seabird flight. English backers funded the project to safeguard rights from foreign powers after government skepticism and delayed support.
The piece notes a revolutionary Dunne aircraft with a backward sloping arrowhead wing design that eliminates the tail elevator, claiming it could make flying as common as motorcycling within three years and accessible to middle-class riders. It cites witnessed tests at sixty miles per hour and compares the potential impact to the bicycle’s safety innovation.
A collage of quips from humor pages shows a judge ruling a woman should not spend more on clothes than rent prompting witty retort about larger rent. Jokes feature modesty fashion school hay fever remedies and a student discovering fountain pen ink flow puzzle.
German furniture makers impart colors to several native woods by burying them, when freshly cut, for several months in earth mixed with lime and other materials.
Viscount Haldane, the Lord High Chancellor of England, arrives in the United States as the foremost British dignitary to visit the country since Cardinal Wolsey four centuries ago. The illustration notes the chancellorship and includes his sister, Aine Elizabeth Haldane.
A discussion on happiness and contentment contrasting fleeting pleasure with lasting contentment. It argues happiness is momentary, while contentment comes from active engagement in meaningful work, self forgetting, and not focusing on personal sensations through pleasures or pains.
A farmer named Kaneus Granger endures ruined corn as wind and weather threaten his crop. He remains stubbornly cheerful, muttering “better luck next year” while others despair. The piece highlights resilience and prognostication about future fortune.
A farmer and his thick hired man John illustrate mischief and miscommunication in a humorous onion patch tale. The Washington Star and Philadelphia papers then share light anecdotes from doctors to brass bands, a Sunday school bishop in Africa, and a farcical Irish tunnel joke about brains and whiskers.
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