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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1913
Page
6
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A brief display listing routes and advertising contacts for Bell and Independent Phones. Mentions manager and New York offices at Fifth Avenue and the Tribune Building with address details for foreign advertising inquiries.
A listing of newspaper and news agency addresses across multiple cities including New York San Francisco Denver Seattle Tacoma Portland Rochester and Anaconda with directions to address all correspondence to the Standard Publishing Company Anaconda Montana.
In August 1913 New York City politics center on fusionist John Purroy Mitchell for mayor. Support varies by paper with World backing Mitchell, Tribune torn, Times hostile, Sun backing Gaynor, Evening Post lukewarm, and Brooklyn papers split. Republicans may field Barnes, Tammany nominates Gaynor or opposes Mitchell.
Julius Chambers argues in the Brooklyn Eagle that Castro's revolution could complicate U S policy and force occupation of Caracas if needed. He describes Caracas as a defensible valley ringed by tall mountains and notes engineers could make it impregnable. He compares this to Port Arthur and mentions a famous Spanish frigate explosion at Cuama bay.
The text recalls Captain Santelli’s 1871 mission to retrieve golden eight pieces and criticizes La Guaira and Puerto Cabello as pest holes. It notes Jefferson and Monroe’s diplomatic stance amid uncertain South and Central American conditions and likens Monroe’s proclamations to a freeze-out due to Europe’s weakened monarchies.
The senate committee inquiry into lobbying will extend as long as Congress sits. Mulhall dominates testimony with voluminous letters, as denials and evidence from the National Association of Manufacturers fill weeks. The panel aims to summarize findings, not prove every detail, while acknowledging an insidious lobby influencing lawmakers.
David H Tolman known as the loan shark king faced a 1000 fine and three years probation in Trenton New Jersey for usury practices. Authorities say his operation spanned 50 cities in the United States and Canada with high usury rates while Tolman vows to continue business despite the sentence and appeals.
The report notes DA Whitman's campaign against loan sharks ending in a Pine Street raid that shut Tolman briefly jailed, with release soon after. It recalls past enforcement under Jerome and shifts to political barbs about Huerta Lind Castro Wilson and Madero in a series of sharp, opinionated vignettes.
A reflective piece compares the distinct urban voices of Chicago New York Paris and London. It argues each city and each person has a unique tone, likening them to a vast orchestra of humanity that speaks day and night. The author asks who can forget the echo of a city’s siren lure after hearing it.
Walt Mason reflects on aging and regret as old men warn the young of dangers and past mistakes. He suggests youth must carve their own path, ignore aging counsel, and pursue a life that suits them, even as their own years advance.
A Cincinnati Enquirer column rounds up humorous aphorisms about virtue, ambition, love, talkers, and social conduct. It lampoons modern temptations and reflects on gender roles, self image, and everyday folly with a wry, old time voice.
Reminiscences on the fiftieth anniversary of Port Hudson revived the story of the forlorn hope column of one thousand men and their role in capturing the Confederate stronghold. Survivors press for government recognition in the form of a Medal of Honor, led by advocates like General Edward L. Molineux and former Thirteenth Connecticut veterans Charles B. Rewell Loren D. Penfield and Francis E. Weed. Mr Weed, sergeant in Company B, Thirteenth Connecticut, leads as New Canaan Savings Bank president.
A humorous exchange features Melvina declaring a new hammock as she and Melvin sit together. Various quips follow about lobbyists, money, scandal, and elastic currency, with a light tone and multiple newspaper wire-style jokes.
A montage of quotes lampoons reformers and political life while noting a secret golf score issue for President Wilson. It also reports Congress printing a personal prayer book, and Boston papers lament summer school and church closures amid urban dust and waste concerns.
The remark notes Spanish grandees who failed to inspect an American warship favor waiting for the Dewey centennial. It contrasts official passivity with sensational press description of a fashion trend, calling the “slit skirt” story up to the minute and noting playful graphic language from the Omaha Bee.
Edward Fitzgerald lived a long life largely overlooked as a poet though linked to Alfred Tennyson. He wrote The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam long before death, kept it unused, printed only a few copies, and gained posthumous fame as one of the world's most famous poems.
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