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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1903
Page
18
The Anaconda Standard lists the Daily and Sunday publication options with rates for one year, six months, three months, and one month. It provides main and business office addresses in Standard Block and telephone numbers for editorial rooms.
The Standard Publishing Company lists branch offices in Butte Missoula Great Falls and other cities with street addresses and phone numbers. It provides New York Chicago and other city offices and specifies newsstands where The Standard is available. General correspondence should be addressed to Anaconda Montana.
The Olympia, famed for Dewey’s Manila Bay voyage, faced rival mock fleets off Maine in a week of coastal maneuvers. The exercises were blunt training with no real danger, yet tested the ship’s prowess and drew public affection for the vessel and its historic role.
Washington rarely sends trustworthy officials to the West. The Standard reports staff correspondence on actions to cancel a batch of Flathead desert land entries. The piece accuses a widespread laxity in Montana public domain allotment and calls for a clean up amid land office corruption.
In Reading Pennsylvania Judge Bland permits an underage girl Mary Sarah to marry despite her father's objections. William Riesmiller, 22, earns three dollars a day and seeks a guardian for Mary to authorize the marriage. The case hinges on age and parental consent.
A court's decision emphasizes that parental obligation goes beyond meeting physical needs, stressing cultivation of a child's spiritual life. It notes a mother and father erred in assuming home training and supports training girls under twenty-one for responsible marriage. The judge rebukes the parents and upholds the plaintiff.
The Pennsylvania food commissioner uncovers a trade in deceptive soda fountain flavoring from coal tar dyed additives and painted tomatoes. Wholesalers are arrested while many other cities face similar issues. The speaker urges a general crusade against adulterated goods sold as real products across the nation.
A historical note tracing how the pope’s temporal power ended with Victor Emmanuel and the 1860s unification of Italy. It sketches the Italian wars and diplomacy that shaped the rise of a united kingdom and the roles of Garibaldi Cavour and Napoleon, ending with Rome and Venice moments in flux.
The 1866 Prussia Austria conflict led to Austrian defeat and Venice loss. Rome remained central to postwar unrest as Franco Prussian War's 1870 Sedan defeat ended French protection of the papal states. Victor Emmanuel's troops captured Rome and established a secular Italy with Pius IX confined to the Vatican.
The article notes Riday's Grand Trunk collision as part of a rising yearly toll of deadly railroad accidents. It questions air brake failure, urges coroner jury inquiry, and discusses human fallibility and broader rail safety issues.
The piece critiques Boston’s arrest heavy approach to curb drinkers, noting rising drunkenness, high recidivism, and minimal deterrence. It cites Vermont’s liquor license reform as a potential alternative aimed at ending treatings in licensed premises.
Indian Commissioner Jones denounces reports that Arapaho groups conduct sun dances urged by Prof. Mooney and Prof. Dorsey. He recalls government suppression of such dances seen as barbarous orgies and harmful to the people.
Congressman Burton of Cleveland tours Europe on government expense to study foreign river and harbor works with General Gillespie. They reportedly visited Marseilles Genoa Barcelona Bordeaux Mavre Antwerp and Hamburg and the Rhone Loire Seine and Garonne. Plus portraits of local figures and a comic cartoon about Loubet England accord.
Pope Pius X lamented leaving Venice and the St Mark’s Square scene, noting the plaza’s social bustle and the famed lion statue guarding the Gospel. He recalled Napoleon’s removal and return of Venice’s treasures, and the lion’s revised paw sparked a witty quip about a new edition of the Gospels.
The late General Clay, once U S minister to Russia, remains a figure of enduring notoriety and intrigue. He disputed Seward over Alaska credit for decades and twice served in Russia, refused to serve as a major general over slavery, and maintained a singular, erratic brilliance at St. Petersburg under Lincoln.
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