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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1903
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard outlines publishing rights, daily and Sunday edition terms, subscription rates in advance, and office contact details. It lists prices for various intervals and notes its post office registration as second class mail matter.
The entry lists branch offices with locations and phone numbers for Butte Missoula Great Falls and New York Chicago offices. It provides street addresses and managerial notes for the news stand and foreign advertising.
The Standard lists newsstand locations across major cities including New York City Brentano's Union Square Chicago Vanderslice 217 Dearborn Street Minneapolis Kavanaugh's 68 South Third Street San Francisco Palace Hotel Denver Seventeenth Street Salt Lake City 51 West Second South Salt Lake News Co 4 Twenty Fifth Street Okane 08 North Howard Chicago Pacific Avenue Seattle Hanbury's 201 First Avenue South Portland Portland Hotel Kansas City Ricksicker's Ninth and Walnut Address correspondence to Standard Publishing Company Anaconda Montana
The Butte Standard notes Mayor Mullins now faces a two-thirds council majority that blocks his policy aims. It urges the mayor to yield gracefully, seek creditable terms, and end the recent wrangling for the public good, while hoping the two-thirds majority remains level headed.
A Philadelphia Inquirer discussion rejects meat or alcohol as sole causes of midsummer crises. It argues that lack of self control under extreme heat upsets internal balance, leading to sickness folly insanity or crime. The piece urges steady self discipline to maintain right living and thinking during hot weather.
The piece critiques the Philadelphia Inquirer’s theories of midsummer madness and excess. It argues excessive heat and alcohol worsen irritability but emphasizes that a person’s predisposition largely determines whether a mild provocation leads to folly or crime.
The article notes Cardinal Sarto’s supporters congratulating him on papal chances and his witty return ticket remark. It discusses Venice admiration for Pius X and ponders whether he will emulate prior popes in restricting temporal power. He plans Vatican garden retreat as his world but will miss the sea.
County commissioners face protests from about four hundred taxpayers while handling the property tax levy. The county attorney says they are beyond the legal limit to act, yet decisions proceed. Critics say the Hearst Free Library levy overreaches by taxing ground elements part of the library property, inflating assessments well above market value and risking loss of light and future expansion.
A mob in Asotin Washington county seat seized Hamilton from jail and hanged him to a telephone pole. Reports say the victim had confessed to killing a thirteen year old girl, with no burning or additional brutality described.
The passage notes lynchings in Washington and Montana as evidence that the summary process spans the nation not just the South. It urges Western restraint, suggesting they prefer traditional rope and tree or pole methods over modern torture.
City political chatter centers on Mayor Low seeking a second term, with Tammany considering George B. McClellan or Edwin M. Shepard as candidates. Murphy's influence wanes after a Dock Board inquiry, fueling talk that Shepard aims for Tammany's backing in 1903.
A string of brief items notes Idaho joining in lynching prevention efforts alongside leaders like Delaware Indiana and Illinois. It mentions Cardinal Rampolla and Sarto supporters in Rome amid talk of administration changes and patronage. General Miles may retire orderly while Miles is praised for press restraint. California reports on escaped convicts progresses.
Mrs. Van Vorst recalls a curious episode on a New England road while working as a laborer. She asks a quiet man for directions to the next town and learns he cannot read the milestone. His reply mocks literacy and ends in a quiet joke.
In England a sealed package in an old London bank holds a famed petition crown of Charles II, the trial piece of Thomas Bimon. Simon minted 15 such coins hoping to outshine Dutch artistry. The coin, offered twice for sale with a top bid of a guinea in 1774, was stored away in 178? and lay untouched for decades.
A compilation of short items from Montana papers notes girls basketball plans near Dawson county fair and a Glendive challenge, tax collection in Miles City with eight thousand seven hundred dollars paid, a Kansas lawyer donating a library set, a golden wedding anniversary in St Paul, a Sheridan firm’s financials filed in Helena, Standard claim inspection near Libby, religious meeting in Helena, bankruptcy discharge hearings set, Libby visiting financiers for mining equipment, Cascade haying and a store addition, Billings livestock sale progress, and Helena’s substation wage payments resuming work.
The item described is the property of a well known nobleman. It is noted that the heir may not carry out the ancestor’s intentions and the piece is set to be offered for sale in 114 years.
Residents near Muskegon Michigan awoke to a cloud mirage resembling a complete city with tall buildings and wide streets floating above Lake Michigan. The illusion stretched from shore to horizon for about two hours, drawing hundreds who recognized familiar Milwaukee landmarks reflected in the spectacle.
George F. Eliott says during 320 days as a guest at Florence prison he heard Lincoln 7000 votes and McClellan 3000 in a prison poll. Black beans favored Lincoln and white beans favored McClellan. He recalls the commandant wishing to execute all who voted Slack.
The article notes a surprise about English versus American pronunciation of schedule. Sr Tannerone caused uproar by slipping between pronunciations, starting with the hard American cl and then switching, provoking sustained laughter from the audience.
Two tiny grass seeds lodged in Michael Costello’s left eye after mowing in Ardmore Pa. He sought medical help in Philadelphia's Wills Eye Hospital where the seeds sprouted causing a cataract threat.
Columbus, Aug 6. Attorney General Sheets filed a federal anti trust suit on behalf of Federal Glass company of Columbus to oust the National Glass company of Pennsylvania and its 25 member firms from Ohio. Cicero Glass of Cicero Indiana and Federal Glass are named as independent makers. The case cites the Valentine anti trust act and alleges the trust cartelized production and price manipulation.
Berlin reports a flood at Che Foo China on July 27 left 700 dead and many bridges and houses swept away. About 2000 residents were left without subsistence.
In the House of Commons Premier Balfour said instructions were given to the British minister in Peking not to agree to the Chinese government's demand to surrender the editor and staff of Supao the Chinese reform organ, at Shanghai.
Coroner's jury reports the June Hanna Wyoming mine disaster was caused by ignition of gas in an unknown manner. The findings detail that the ignition source remain undefined and the tragedy prompted further safety concerns in the mining operation.
Lincoln Aug 5 Governor Mickey announced W J Bryan is appointed one of Nebraska two delegates to the national farmers congress at Niagara Falls on Sept 22.
Havana notes July treasury receipts totaling 1 884 700 dollars leaving a treasury balance of 83 588 40 dollars. The report records the monthly fiscal results and existing cash on hand.
Portland reports a naval war game underway with the New England coast from the boundary to Cape Ann threatened by a hostile fleet for a 12 hour period. Rear Admiral Barker commands the defending squadron as ships patrol the coast by day and night using wireless telegraphy to coordinate a harbor defense.
With Admiral Barker directing defense on the flagship Olympia and Admiral Coughlin aboard, along with Admiral Wise on the Yankee the fleet comprises battleships Alabama and Illinois cruisers Baltimore Prairie and Panther the dispatch boat Vixen torpedo boat destroyers Decatur Bainbridge Barry Dala and Mheuncey two government vessels.
At the hostile fleet sailing Monday under Rear Admiral Sands, the defense expected to anchor or attack after noon. Every vessel must reach position by nightfall to defend the coast from Cape Ann to Eastport. Sands commands battleships Indiana Massachusetts Texas and three torpedo boat destroyers.
Limis India Aug 3 Viceroy Curzon told the council he would accept the government offer to extend his term with permission to travel to England in 1904 if desired. He cited health strain and notes only two viceroys in recent years stayed beyond five years but said the work of reform requires continued service.
Police raided Daniels & Co offices in New York on warrants from a magistrate. Seven prisoners were taken including Thomas P. Daniels, alleged head of the firm, all accused of grand larceny. Edwin E. Collins of Cedar Rapids claimed he lost $14 to the firm after paying nearly 10 percent but says he never received any payment.
Howard B. Wilson of Harvard College died in Willows California today from typhoid fever. He was sent to study the mauve races of California and his remains will be sent to Boston for burial.
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