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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1913
Page
8
The Anaconda Standard lists publishing company information, pricing, and distribution notes. It includes subscription rates, branches, contact numbers, and agents across multiple cities. The piece mentions sales outlets and mailing details for the Montana newspaper.
A Helena meeting backed abolishing race track gambling and urged broad civic support from business leaders labor unions churches and other groups across Montana. The editorial cautions that without widespread backing including Butte Chamber of Commerce and workers organizations legislative action next year may fail and evils will persist in Silver Bow and Deer Lodge counties.
A Washington dispatch argues there will be a government surplus of 10 to 16 million dollars when the new tariff law with its income tax applies. The income tax will raise 82,298,000 from 425,000 payers plus 35,000,000 from the corporate tax. Democrats urged prudent use of any surplus and warned against rapid deficit elimination. Seattle reports arrests for contempt in Seattle over street speaking against a court order. The piece questions freedom of speech versus loyalty and notes provocation may have influenced the judge’s actions.
The article notes Peoria Illinois cast 61 votes for the Progressive candidate in recent primaries after 78 for Roosevelt the previous year and labels the movement as a spasm, while Minneapolis voters consider a commission form of government with a seven member board and a joint library and school board under a new charter.
The impeachment trial proceeds with defense yet to present, as prosecutors build a formidable case. Public perception puzzles over motives, suggesting Tammany influenced Balzer by pressing him to act contrary to factional aims.
A condensed collage of witty lines and observations attributed to Luke M'Luke, touching on gender roles strikes fashion and manners, with snippets about kitchen unions, snake developers, streetcars, moral judgments, brains, wealth schemes, farming oats, and a jab at Francis J. Heney seeking a U S Senate seat from Salifernia as reported by the Springfield Republican.
A collection of light anecdotes and quips from a bygone era. Jokes touch on love at first sight, automotives, dinner time, farm life, moving pictures, opera interruptions, and casual marriage talk. Slow wits, obstinate spouses, and urban society clash in playful snippets from multiple papers.
A Spirit of the Press item reports a Slowx Iowa taxicab driver receiving a quarter of a million dollars from a deceased relative. The note recalls the old saying them as has, gits. The piece cites quips from the Kansas City Star and Chicago News about royalties, politics, and possible reforms in Wisconsin and Utopia.
Walt Mason humor poem portrays the iceman delivering ice to crowded cities and tenements in heat. It ridicules the public’s ingratitude while praising the iceman’s daily service, noting patients in fevered rooms rely on cold comfort and the steadfast, patient labor behind every delivery. The piece reflects urban life and early 20th century working class resilience.
A reflective piece on the miracle of love and its disillusionment. It contrasts the electric fusion of lovers with the agony of separation, noting how miscommunication and alienation can ruin intimacy. The prose ponders the pain of a life haunted by a love that ends.
A comic tale recalls a leader of a band asked to play at a cousin’s funeral to honor his wish that “everybody in the place be sorry.” In another vignette a Westerner jokes about brain food during a seaport visit. The pieces mix humor from daily life with light caricatures and mild wordplay.
Roland Garros, a French aviator, completed a nonstop flight from St. Raphael to Bizerta along the Riviera coast, covering 780 kilometres in about eight hours at near 97 kilometres per hour. It was the longest overseas flight ever made in an aeroplane, surpassing prior records. He refused torpedo boats along the route and crossed the Mediterranean to Tunis.
An incoherent OCR fragment mentions Ishpeming high school, a cooperative effort, and a construction matter. It references North China, a temple, and a budget comment about costs and incentives. Names and specifics are garbled, leaving a partial sense of a local education and project discussion.
A garbled historical snippet mentions Japan railways, oil, and steel production, with references to lead, timber, and copper in Ontario. It touches on wartime demand, prewar artillery uses, and shifting labor as crops and industry face strain. Multiple place names emerge with unclear dates and figures.
Dickson of Butte praises Plant Juice for rheumatism and stomach trouble claiming dramatic improvement and renewed energy. Advertising claims say it clears poisons from blood, corrects constipation, and heals nervous debility. Sold by Smith Drug in Anaconda and Newbro Drug in Butte.
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