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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1925
Page
4
In a reflective editorial, The Anaconda Standard notes President Wilson would not be damned for doing his damnedest and compares the idea to a California sheriff slain by bandits. The piece discusses the limits of praise and the caution needed in inscriptions on tombs.
The piece argues daily caution would prevent fires, notes President Coolidge’s proclamation and yearly fire loss figures from 1903 to 1923. It cites 536 million dollars in 1923 losses, 65 million in dwellings, and about 369 home fires daily, mostly from carelessness with matches. It concludes prevention week can still reduce fires despite large totals.
Excerpts from Sir William Robertson Nicoll memoirs recount a 1917 cable from Lloyd George urging U S reinforcements and Wilson allegedly replying I will do my damnedest 130 000 and more as you can ship The piece notes Wilsons hot temper and swearing, citing echoes from Washington and Civil War figures as context
New York financier Oscar E Konkle unveiled plans for a towering 65 story skyscraper reaching 800 feet. The project includes a bank, theater, hotel with 4500 rooms, 2000 meals dining room, 12 roof gardens, church, hospital, power plant, 30 elevators, and a restrictive room charge of 21 per week with stockholding rule. Proceeds would fund missionary work linked to the founder's recovered son.
A compilation of dramatic and political notes on payments of debts to debts owed to actors and reformers. It contrasts Kean's famous swoon during Sir Giles Overreach with W H Anderson's public appeal for funds to support his anti liquor campaign. It also mocks Prohibition politics and 1920s weather quips and jail terms for booze buyers.
In a Burgess bedtime tale Danny Meadow Mouse clings to hope as a mink sets a trap and a large pickerel circles his raft. He plans a careful swim to shore while pondering fear and courage, trusting humor and quick thinking to survive the Smiling Pool ordeal.
Florence Davies profiles Mrs. Mary Sherman, president of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs in Amelia, arguing for three added senses: fitness, humor, and common sense. She stresses humor as the greatest, notes fitness and humor can merge, and cautions on social conduct at events and public spaces.
Fragmented text discusses Europe and Asia, urging Britain to focus on spiritual relations with the East, warning of upcoming war and the limits of economic methods, and critiquing the League of Nations as biased toward European powers. Includes names and phrases suggesting political debate and imperial concerns.
This 1925 horoscope notes Neptune's malefic influence on the Moon early, affecting mood. ordinary business, especially land and agricultural property, prospers from morning to afternoon. Evening Mercury Mars aspects stir irritability. political and government matters loom, with strikes next month and bold forecasts of new groups.
Puzzle page shows an across and down clue set by C B Affleck with entries for various word meanings. The mixed items include misprints and partial words such as to secure against and a girl's nickname, plus references to an Indian tribe and a compass point.
A humorous sermon anecdote ends with a dictionary gift to the minister and a politician quip about honesty. In Town Uncle Joe Cannon jokes unfold during a drive to speak. The Tokyo police suppress a Waseda University Journal issue for a faculty critique of the Shanghai situation.
W F Durand a mechanical engineer with Navy service, taught at Michigan Agricultural College 1887 01 and Cornell 1901 1904, then professor at Stanford and California. On leave 1918 1919 he served as an intern and was a member of many committees including the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and author of several mechanical books.
The text presents a German poem excerpt about a maiden with a golden comb by the Rhine, its haunting melody moving a boatman. It then notes that nearly 1,500 high school publications belong to the Central Interscholastic Press association, with 900 school editors from 40 states attending a UW–Madison annual meeting.
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