Local Advertiser Directory and Mail Rates
The Anaconda Standard lists publication details and mailing rates. It notes subscription prices, service areas, and distribution points including New York and Chicago agencies. It also names the Tinkard Penusruxe Company of Anaconda, Montana as the newspaper office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ndard Publishing Company
Anaconda
Batterial
Mont Rutte
North Main
Morton Co
Bottdine
Getty
North
Kiersten
Montana
New York
Hotatine
Tinkard Penursuxe “Company
Mhaconda, Ment
Loyalty at Home Urged During War Mobilization
In a Butte address, speakers demand unwavering homefront loyalty as troops endure training and hardship. They condemn traitorous or disloyal remarks, insisting freedom of speech does not protect treasonable utterances during war, and urge prompt suppression of dissent.
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Butte
The Right to Work and Civil Safety
A stance defending the right to work and condemning violence by I W W disruptors. It urges protection for laborers, recounting beatings and a dynamite attack on a miners’ boarding house, and questions how long law abiding citizens and the federal government will tolerate such acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Anaconda
United States
Four Minute Men Rally War Voices Across Nation
The nationwide four minute men movement spreads from New York City to fight I W W propaganda and German influence. Merchants, lawyers, laborers and professionals join to deliver short patriotic speeches at public venues. Patrons of amusements will hear war lines discussed on stage or screen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Propas
National
Bell System
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company
Four Minute Men tackle German propaganda and Russian front
The article discusses patriotic four minute talks as effective wartime tool and pledges organized opposition to German propaganda. It argues Russians are whipped but unlikely to yield. German moves from the Russian front affect Austria and Italy, while ultimate victory hinges on the western front.
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Riga
Germany
Austria
Hindenburg
Russia
Chicago Tribune
Montana Counties Tap Federal Aid for Road Projects
Under a federal aid program, Montana will receive 600000 dollars for road work. Six counties Flathead Cascade Wibaux Custer Dawson and Madison have begun projects with the state highway commission supervising. More counties are considering, but most will act next year if fully utilized, expected to improve Montana roads significantly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
United States
State Highway Commission
Flathead
Cascade
Wibaux
Custer
Dawson
Madison
Songs For The Soldiers And The Quest For A National Song
The piece notes the lack of a unifying marching song for American troops and discusses proposals to award prizes for a widely appealing martial melody. It contrasts American songs with Britain’s God Save The Queen era pieces and the Star Spangled Banner, while praising France for the Marseillaise and lamenting sectional songs from the Civil War era. The author argues for a universally catchy tune that binds a reunited nation.
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America
New England
France
Stin
Europe
The potato as wartime staple in 1917 America
The piece argues future war songs will be chosen for frontline appeal rather than merit and critiques U.S. politics, journalism, and German diplomacy. It notes breadless diets and a surplus potato crop guiding cooking ideas, with many potato dish variations and tips for using potatoes to replace wheat.
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Tipperary
Rouget de Liste
Lnst
Department of Agriculture
McClure
Willful senators mock war and peace politics
In a sharp critique of wartime policy the piece labels senators as overrated and notes German threats. It argues a new political order will emerge after the war and mocks pacifist aims in Chicago while deriding figures like Morris Hillquist and John D. Works as dangerous actors who led peaceful lands into conflict with England.
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Chicago
Sammy
Commisson
Morris Hillquist
John D. Works
Republic
England
Graveyard Whiskey Fire Question Prompts Train Controversy
In Salisbury heat over 95 degrees a cemetery worker drinks whiskey while cutting grass, then explains heat production and whiskey as fuel. A train passenger argues about a child with whooping cough traveling. conductor cites illegality of traveling contagious passengers and possible refusal of train use. A sailor mocks the child’s fate as others discuss health risks and train policy.
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Salisbury
N.C
Frienal
New Hampshire
Pe Ieee
Coud
Antarctic explorer’s fate buried beneath endless snow
Dr John Cope of the imperial Antarctic expedition states Captain Scott will never be found as 14 to 18 feet of snow fall annually, burying his body so deeply that it erodes the barrier and erases traces of his fate.
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Senate
Bob la Follette
United States
New York
Washington
England
Wilhelm
Heaven
John Cope
Imperial Antarctic Expedition
Scot
Antarctic
Captain Scott
War talk and editorial quips from early 20th century papers
A compilation of editorial asides and cartoon captions from Chicago Herald Detroit Free Press Buffalo Commercial Minneapolis Journal Boston Transcript and other papers. It notes Austrias and Germany in wartime, prompts for T. R. on em, and comments on La Follette and patriotism with a focus on loyalty and German sympathizers.
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Washington
Austria
Chicago Herald
Detroit Free Press
Humor Quotations and Jokes in Historic Commentary
A collage of light jokes and quips from various papers, including humorous lines about marriage, politics, schooling, and social manners. It cites examples from Chicago Herald, Baltimore American, London Ideas, and other editors, with a note on a former waste product used as fuel from Popular Mechanics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Herald
Loulgwive
carter-Journal Oneone
Senator Sorghum
Washington Star
Athway
Birmingham Age-Herald
London
Hummor
Browning
California
Antnr
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Acta
Good Roads Law
White House
Wisconsin
la Follette
Gerard
Haig
Congress
People’s Council of America
Frances Marshall
J. W. Wes
H.C. von L
Wilson
Harry A. Garfield
Dr. Garfeld
Will Hams College
Garfield
Weil
OR. W
Spirit of the Press
T. R
Moscow
Russian Republic
Ale Express
Buffalo Soramerciat
Kaiser
Dallas
Borah
Menarleston News and Courier
Kentucky
Belgium
Minneapolia Jour- In
Boston Transcript
Rice & May
Monarch
Paint and Art Co
Butte, Montana
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