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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1913
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard lists subscription details for Sunday editions and annual pricing. Rates shown include $1.00 per Sunday, $2.50 for the Sunday Standart annual, and a postoffice mailing note.
Fragmentary notice lists addresses and offices for foreign advertising in New York. Mentions Bell phone, dependent phone 1422, Morton as manager, and offices at Fifth Avenue locations including the Fire-Tribune building.
A list of newspaper agents and offices across multiple cities is provided with addresses and affiliations, including New York Hotalings Detroit Metropolitan News Co. and San Francisco United News Agents. The note directs general correspondence to the Standard Publishing Company in Anaconda, Montana.
Senator Myers delivered a thoroughly prepared speech at President Wilson's request outlining a free wool policy. He traced US wool industry history from its beginnings, arguing the sector can stand without protection and would not suffer from removing old supports. His remarks were clear, vigorous, and highly valued in the tariff debate.
The Silver State reports Powell county plans a southern to northern main highway with branches into every valley creating almost two hundred miles of good roads. Estimated total cost is $100,000. The project aims to place Powell county among Montana’s leading road counties and praises statewide emulation.
The Chicago Tribune advocates reuniting the republican and progressive parties, noting the paper's historic opposition to progressives rejoining. Debates split among progressives on election time fusion, autonomy, and conditions for reunion, with some returning to the old party and others resisting.
The Tribune abandons patience with a return to republicanism and now favors an alliance of Republicans and progressives to break Democratic control. The paper notes a significant attitude change and predicts the Progressive party may fade as the next national election approaches.
A proposed constitutional amendment would empower Congress to enact a uniform national divorce law. The piece argues that varying state marriage and divorce rules have created national embarrassment and legal complications, suggesting removal of state authority in favor of federal standardization.
A delegation of eastern chamber of commerce directors completed a tour through 11 states and 67 cities, including Missoula Helena and Billings. They praised Montana and the Northwest for rising prosperity, growing cities, and expanding farm land, while warning against over-building in some locales.
The Astrological Research society at Atlantic City requests cooperation to test a claim from December 1896 that a new moon on Saturday predicts a three week wet spell. Dr. Forster’s journals and other 19th century sources are cited, but the society notes no recognized rule supports weather forecasting by weekday celestial events. The inquiry aims to prove or disprove this asserted link.
A looser prose collage surveys politics telegraphed as new trends and figures. It references Solomon, astrology, weather prophecy, Mrs Pankhurst rituals, Cap tain Wilson and Pilot Bryan, Castro in Venezuela, Champ Clark, Jane Addams, the Monroe doctrine, Evelyn Thaw, and Henry Lane Wilson. It hints at Osage and Pillage tribes, a Mexican corn crop, and a bleaching sense of upheaval amid shifting public attention.
The passage notes President Wilson resisting secretary Bryans removal amid Republican pressure while other peachers are being canned. It mentions Mebarusian fears, Hu's travels, and Fiuerta as a possible hope, with Ambassador Wilson cautious about Mexico pacification and Hu’s national image.
A humorous verse contrasts hot days with distant northern sleighing and Arctic winds. It riffs on frozen scenes, numb noses, and stubborn toil as dogs and coal become trivial concerns, ending with a whimsical comfort found in such thoughts.
A syndicated humor piece from the Cincinnati Enquirer filled with quips on marriage manners gender norms and social foibles. It pokes fun at husbands wives and public behavior with satire on fashion aging and propriety.
In the English High Court Mrs Maldwin Drummond widow of Marshall Field Jr appeals a 50 000 assessment on funds from the late Marshall Field Sr trustees for the education and maintenance of Field children Marshall Henry and Gwendolyn arguing the grandchildren receive no income now and benefit under the will only at age twenty five.
A plea complains the rise of wordy discourse in law courts journalism and public speaking. It argues doctors should curb verbose writing and advocates should finish in an hour, senators in twenty minutes, to curb needless repetition and restore clarity.
A collage of gag lines and faux dialogue from late nineteenth to early twentieth century humor pages. Snappy exchanges cover courtship rejections musical neighbors damaged winders and a servant’s duties with sharp punch line twists.
A compilation of lighthearted and sharp witticisms from various papers describing social norms, gender roles, and public antics. It riffs on outfits, smoking, voting, and disguises in a playful, period-voiced style with named papers like the San Francisco Call and Chicago News referenced.
A clergyman's daughter asks for water as a moral duty joke unfolds about a stern patient mother and a pastor's arrival. Senator Jackson recalls a Baltimore porch tale of a daughter and a noisy piano masking chore sounds. A city cousin party gag riffs on aging daughters and dowries, with light quips about family plans.
The report shows world tin output last year at 114196 tons versus 166823 the prior year. It notes a myria watt power unit preferred by American engineering committees over boiler horsepower. It cites corn exports from the U S and Canada peaking at 8289359 bushels in the Feb 1 1909 week and dipping to 11247 in the week of Nov 28 1912. An American inventor’s fog penetrating electric signal light is highlighted.
A tooth of Victor Hugo is kept at his former home displays for admirers. Norwegian whaling investments surged from 1.08 million in 1906 to 8.71 million dollars by 1912. British fabric makers seek five tons of sweet hair for weaving. England studies jury fairness with a bishop’s quip on London juries.
Indiana fish and game warden reports a fisherman under an interurban bridge using a trolley wire to electrocute fish. A 4500 volt contact ran down the fish rail into the water, stunning or killing nearby fish as the angler struck the pole against the wire.
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