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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1920
Page
4
The article notes a transformatively large migration of over 2,000,000 Americans across the Atlantic in 17 months. It credits modern civilization’s engines and a dangerous enemy faced at sea, while suggesting this generation cannot yet grasp the war’s full features.
The piece reports on GOP managers denying Cox charges while detailing a professional money-raising campaign with quotas, paid workers, and large sums. Henry Blair confirms quotas. Hays disputes them. Cleveland’s $400 000 quota is cited, with Blosson confirming. The total national fund may reach or exceed 15 million, though Cox exposure could curb collections. Some quotas reportedly exceeded targets.
Alice Paul and other leaders of the National Woman's Party say women must press on until equality is achieved. They plan a Washington convention to set party issues and remain active in politics. They reject merely drudge roles and seek full inclusion in decision making and leadership.
Professor Bassett places the 2 045 109 American WWI deployment as a peak in global migrations, comparing it with Puritans, Israelites, Greeks, and great conquerors. The piece praises Baker and Daniels while noting republic ingratitude and emphasizes the scale and endurance of transatlantic troop movements.
A London Daily Mail writer’s view from Soviet Russia portrays Lenine and Trotzky worn by overwork and fear of assassination. The piece notes distrust within 600,000 Communists, rising fanaticism, and the challenge to abolish capitalism. It flags Moscow speculation, Moscow food control abuses, and waning extraordinary commission resolve. It also touches U.S. politics with Illinois primaries, Mr. Lowden, and references to Wilson, Cox, and the League.
A Montana editorials warn of foreign elements fueling anarchist violence and urge immigration reform and deportation. References to the New York bombings and federal troops protecting Butte highlight nationwide fear of radical unrest. Other remarks critique political figures and youth smoking trends while urging unity against upheaval.
The Constitutional League of America launches its Americanization program in Colorado this week. School children will distribute pamphlets promoting a copy of the U.S. Constitution to every home as part of the effort.
A collage of partisan jabs from several papers mocks campaigns and political stances. The items lampoon Tammany Hall, Governor Cox's exposures, and party tactics while noting public sentiment and election talk across major cities.
A collage of jokes and quips from various newspapers features a boarding house pun about hashless days, a son’s noisy coat joke, a lawyer famed for favorable verdicts without alienists, gasoline conservation via uncleaned suit, a self made man crediting office boy laughter, a woman’s name debate, and a British trench joke about munitions.
Brooklyn Eagle reports that alcoholic wards in city hospitals show rising admissions from January to August, with Bellevue ward rising from 101 to 300 and Kings County noting a resurgence of severe alcoholic poisoning. Officials say enforcement failing, prices drive illicit drinking, and youth are not deterred.
Pittsburg Dispatch reports inventors Captain Wyatt and Captain Lewis, former British officers, seek awards for their zigzag clock claimed to coordinate troop transports and help ships dodge submarines. Admiral Webb lauded zigzagging as anti submarine defense. witnesses cited docking convoys and rapid troop movements risking collisions without synchronized timing.
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