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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1920
Page
4
The Anaconda Standard notes a plan to shorten travel time and lower hotel rates to attract travelers. It argues that announcing lower rates after arrival could offset higher rail costs, leveraging attractions of home to draw visitors and boost local appeal.
Standard Publishing Company announces offices in Anaconda and Butte Montana with mail and phone details for departments and general correspondence. It notes Associated Press news dispatch rights and lists western and eastern representatives for republication and distribution.
The piece discusses Goose Cox's expose of Republican fundraising claims and the claim of a $15,000,000 to $30,000,000 campaign fund. It cites GOP officials and critics, mentions Hays and Hooker, and notes Maine’s looming loss of one House seat after the 1920 census, with Democrats hoping for a representative like Frank Haskell despite overall GOP advantages.
Eastern hotelmen report a 20 percent rise in railroad fares is cutting travel and patronage, prompting them to raise room rates. The shift reverses usual supply and demand logic as lower demand coincides with higher prices. A Washington Star suggestion questions hotels in the metropolis overpricing amid reduced travel.
The article cites Panama President Porras claiming his country is a heaven on earth due to low living costs, rising prosperity, and a $2,000,000 treasury surplus, while contrasting with U S references to heaven and discussing broader political quips and social notes from the era. It mentions Roosevelt, Cox, Hays, Harding, and also touches on immigration, Jack Dempsey, and women’s age reporting.
The Great Falls Tribune suggests raising water from the Missouri or Sun rivers to irrigate a thousand acres near the city for general garden use, noting a strong market for such produce in northern Montana. The Helena Record-Herald reports the government will pursue criminal and civil actions against war contract cheats, aiming for restitution and imprisonment. The Bozeman Chronicle discusses partisan attacks on President Wilson and the futile tactic of abuse for votes. The Helena Independent notes the spread of canned interviews from the Republican National Committee praising Harding. The Lewiston Democrat-News reflects on third party movements in America, their limited national impact but measurable reform value. The Judge prints a quip about the world ending at a bridge table.
A collage of brief quips and stray quotes from several papers covers topics from war terms and fashion to politics and astronomy. The snippets mention the Red Army at the Bug river, fashion norms for skirts, a farmer-labor party label change, a star/ comet note, Ponzi concerns, and sultanic leadership roles, with brief exchanges about sentiment and dining.
A collection of 19th and early 20th century quips and cartoons referenced from various papers. Jokes touch on rope profiteers census takers shopkeepers and family banter with playful wordplay and social humor reflecting the era.
The Pope allowed a filmed close up with American visitors in the Vatican gardens, blessing Knights and riding through the scene with cheerful crowds. Vatican officials protested yet the pontiff consented, noting Americans had what they ardently desired as a sign of broader worldly progress.
A Buffalo Express editorial urges encouraging youth employment during vacations and beyond. It argues work builds habit and economic resilience, notes unions worry about future tradespeople, and calls for revising laws that hinder juvenile labor while avoiding a surge of underfed child labor.
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