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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1903
Page
4
The Anaconda Standard lists publishing company details including address Standard Block Anaconda and offices. It notes daily and Sunday editions, subscription rates in advance for various terms and contact numbers for main and editorial offices.
The text lists branch offices and newsstand locations for The Standard with addresses in Butte Missoula Great Falls Denver Salt Lake City Ogden Spokane Tacoma Seattle Portland Kansas City and Anaconda. It names sales offices New York Chicago and foreign advertising and directs correspondence to Anaconda Montana.
A discussion of coinages in newspapers notes two fresh terms. One, linked to jailbreaks, is the plural es capes used as a shorthand for fugitives. The other, from Mr. Devery, coinages the verb highwayed describing being held up by highwaymen.
The article argues the Pacific National League has collapsed amid war losses to the Pacific Coast League. It notes Butte and Helena stayed in a strong minor league while Portland Tacoma and California clubs folded. It suggests reviving the Pacific Northwest league with Butte Spokane and Salt Lake and discusses an intermountain league to salvage baseball next season.
The article links Carter with currency legislation and a Western focus on mining and farming. It notes President Roosevelt asking Carter about Western views on monetary reform, hints at Republican splits over Fowler’s bank-note plan, and recalls America's Cup regattas to illustrate broader national concerns.
A column argues league salaries are too high this year pointing to Los Angeles San Francisco and Spokane as examples. It urges self funding and warns against wasteful spending on league protection from the national association, noting lack of support from organized baseball.
Yesterday morning's description of Saturday's yacht race notes Shamrock II received a 1 minute 57 second time allowance based on disputed measurements. The margin, deemed small yet crucial, favored Lipton's Reliance by about a third of a mile over thirty miles.
The West supports General Miles for the presidency, praising his sympathy for western interests and irrigation advocacy. Eastern editors doubt his bid, noting Secretary Root’s role, while westerners believe Miles’ legacy will endure beyond current political ambitions.
A collage of pithy quotes and light jokes from various papers. Jokes about Mr Gatley street life and lame humor contrast with small puns about advertising in hymn racks and a quip on Noah Webster. Ends with Beasley shaving soap and a сосед Beasley mansion reference.
The Legal Aid Society recovered advance wages paid by a steamboat agency to seamen under the White Act, and collected back wages from a steamship company. Justice Brewer cites the act governing seamen on foreign vessels in American ports. The tale includes Thomas Jackson known as White Bear, picked up by a runner and employed as a fireman aboard the Kronpring Wilhelm at $20 a month, with payment details unsettled.
A crew member named White Bear claims he was paid only four dollars though ten dollars was advanced by the line. The North German Lloyd asserts it paid the advance and fulfilled obligations. Legal authorities note the advance wage law and a judge in Hoboken refused to order an arrest. The article also discusses river bridge traffic inefficiencies and calls for a Brooklyn style multi‑use bridge design to ease cross river travel.
The article recalls Bourke Cochran and Gen Joe Wheeler as highly sensitive figures in U S politics. It notes a notorious House election dispute over Rockwell and Noyes in New York, with O Ferral guiding the case and tensions flaring between O Ferral and Hill. A Tammany speaker is ridiculed and a story of a forest prayer for light is shared.
In New York City and Brooklyn institutions, top surgeons send repair work to a Williamsburg contractor who also holds a city repair contract. The expert notes surgical steel has not yet reached perfection for a superior class of work, and Berlin and Vienna surgeons must turn to Magland for their instruments to ensure life or death accuracy in operations.
The London Chronicle reports the widening of London Bridge is progressing well with the elegant stone balustrade for the new footpath in place at the southern end and the entire girder section completed.
A candid photo of President Roosevelt and Binger Hermann on a train platform boosted Hermann's campaign for the late Tongue’s Senate seat. The image helped counter opposition that he opposed the canal treaty, by portraying harmony with the president during a pivotal Oregon event. The Panama Canal treaty status and Colombian President Marroquín’s stance are discussed as context.
A poem reflecting on Attila, Harold, Alexander the Great, and other conquerors. It laments the transient nature of power and glory, noting time's eroding force as empires fall to dust while the olive tree of peace endures. The piece ends with a warning against glorifying bloodshed and immortality through blood.
The article recalls Cardinal Mezzofanti who died 54 years earlier and famed for extraordinary memory and language learning. Young as four he knew 50 tongues. at death reports ranged 70 to 80. His method was to study grammar first then retain it, often learning languages from visiting prisoners.
During the last fiscal year one railway employee in 401 was killed and one in 24 injured, highlighting dangerous conditions in the industry.
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