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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1908
Page
12
The Anaconda Standard lists sale points for the newspaper across major cities from New York to Seattle. It notes branch offices in Anaconda and Butte with contact details and announces general business correspondence addressing The Anaconda, Mont.
The Butte Merchants Association reports strong momentum to attract annual conventions and gatherings. Delegates to statewide meetings favor Butte as a host city, citing its capacity to handle large crowds. The Montana Methodist conference will meet next year in Butte at Mountain View church, and the Montana Federation of Labor also plans to hold its session in Butte.
The Woodmen of the World of Butte hosts a two week carnival at grounds on the city outskirts. Once a strong fraternal group in America, the Woodmen produced a successful summer attraction last year and have again prepared with care and good judgment to attract the general public.
An English visitor to Maine, reporting to a home paper, recalls sampling local whiskies at a rural inn. He describes a crude process of making the whiskey with wood alcohol, glyc erin, tobacco, and water, ending the night in a famous garbled observation about Maine.
A historical note compares the St Paul railway entry to Montana with earlier lines. It contrasts modern, fully equipped trains and electric illumination on the first passenger run at Miles City with earlier lines like Northern Pacific and Great Northern, which began with aging stock and gradual upgrades driven by experimentation and later investment.
The Silver Bow democratic central committee schedules county primaries in one week and a county convention a week later. Factions that clashed in prior campaigns are forming a real alliance to secure success, with broad representation on primary tickets and convention nominations.
A harsh critique mocks Native Americans as decaying and insensible, then shifts to U S naval notes on Pearl Harbor. Reports discuss harbor improvements, naval base land, and a one million dollar appropriation debated by the House Naval Affairs Committee. Rear Admiral Schroeder led a board that toured Pearl Harbor with the battleship fleet.
A Grace, a confidential assistant for a London firm, travels to New York for a noon engagement on August 6 after sailing July 29 on the Adriatic. She completes her business by 1:39 PM, returns aboard the Baltic, lands in London August 14, and reports to work next morning, showing swift, decisive action.
At annexation time supporters touted Pearl island as the Pacific crossroads. Development is starting to make Pearl Harbor a main supply station on the ocean route to be formed with the opening of the Panama Canal. The harbor’s land-locked haven status and proximity to Honolulu bolster its commercial promise. Pearl Harbor would boost U S protection via a strategic port.
A collage of comic, poetic, and stray prose snippets from several papers. It blends streetwise banter, light verse, and stray remarks about work, fear, and daily life, capturing a fragmented view of urban humor and labor. Notable bits include dog talk, a summer job pitch, and a rustic poem about rain barrels.
Frederic J. Haskin surveys a national rifle practice surge as Camp Perry hosts a multinational marksmanship contest. He notes new militia laws, congressional support, and the spread of school and naval militia programs, aiming to build prepared citizen soldiers and expand rifle training nationwide.
A traveler leaving Twin Bridges reports a would-be highwayman emerged from brush near the old Dolien ranch between Iron Rod and Silver Star and ordered him to halt. The traveler ignored the demand and rode off into darkness, escaping without harm.
A half page illustrated write up in the New York Herald about Sheriff Herford of Yellowstone County sparks mixed feelings in Red Lodge. Locals approve of western bravado while hinting the writer was billing at space rates, with no real repercussions at home.
Bozeman dispatch reports the sweet pea carnival committee will award about 800 dollars in prizes for decorated rigs and parade floats. Prizes cover best business man float two horse carriage best one horse carriage best tandem drive goat rigs and more with entries decorated in artificial or natural flowers. Window prizes also noted. Queen voting underway with Winnifred Ferrie leading at 2,040 votes followed by Anna Hansen 1,167 and Amy Lovelace 1,002.
Special Dispatch reports Madison county wool sales to Goodhue Studley Emery of Boston. James McGuirk bought seven clips totaling 133, two pounds at 16 to 16 1/2 cents. Growers named include Darnitzer Bros, A Linder, A R Smith, A Mueller, Best Staudher, Jenkins Rhodes. Schultz clip sold at Sheridan. total county wool this season about 400,000 pounds.
A fragmentary notice describes St Marys Academy in Deer Lodge Montana located in a remote state area and run by the Institute of Charity of Leavenworth. It highlights superior music education and modern apparatus aimed at pupil comfort health and welfare with emphasis on theory and practice.
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