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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1902
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard outlines its publisher details and postage handling. It lists daily and Sunday editions with subscription terms and advance payment requirements, detailing yearly, six month, three month, and monthly options.
Rates listed for domestic editions 10 to 18 pages cost one cent, 3 to 32 pages two cents, 48 page editions three cents. Europe mail doubles these rates. For other foreign destinations, inquire locally.
Fragments show contact numbers and headings for main office and editorial roos. Details are incomplete but indicate business office lines and a listing for editorial staff in Anaconda.
The Standard maintains branch offices at Butte Missoula and Great Falls where advertising rates will be furnished on application.
Washington report desk lists eastern offices at New York 150 Nassau Street and Chicago with W J Morton in charge. The note outlines bureau locations and leadership.
The Standard is available at multiple city stands including Chicago Postoffice News Stand and Auditorium Annex, Minneapolis RK G Hearsey & Co on Third Street South, San Francisco Palace Hotel, Los Angeles 422 South Main, Denver 996 Seventeenth Street, Salt Lake Five West Second South and Salt Lake News Co, Spokane 108 North Howard, Tacoma 1203 Pacific Avenue, Seattle 31614 Pike Street, Portland Portland Hotel. General business correspondence should be sent to Araconda Montana.
The paper cites Montana politics with claims of corporate dominance at the next state convention and rebukes the Inter Mountain for hypocrisy. It recalls Senator Lee Mantle urging Republicans to drop factions and corporations, while noting Clark and Heinze rivalries and Clark's past political edge in the state's history.
The article recalls Franz Sigel a German born general known in Union times. It notes his 1848 revolutionary background, exile journey to the United States, arrival in 1862, education, and early roles before rising in the Union army amid secession tensions. The piece frames his early career and public prominence.
The obituary recalls Franz Sigel a high profile Union commander whose career spanned promotion to leading large forces editor of a German paper in Baltimore and later New York city offices. He remained a lifelong public servant until his death closing a varied and eventful career.
A contested newspaper tale alleges Quay and Penrose urged Reading railroad President Baer to settle the coal strike, warning that a delay could aid a Democratic governor. The account claims Baer preferred to keep the deadlock, labeling him a Jerry Black Democrat, while Quay supporters push the narrative to suggest Quay gains politically.
The article reports 4000 Marion union workers backing a Union Labor church led by Rev. George McNutt who argues current churches are closed to workers by a dollar culture. He plans innovative worship and a pastor chosen for body and mind, with a symbolic dedication involving a bird and open-door ministry for the weary.
A 20 year old Meriden Connecticut girl sues a engaged young man for forcibly kissing her after repeated refusals to kiss until marriage. The piece notes no Connecticut precedent and jokes Montana lacks similar instances, suggesting a biased view of the case and referencing Warm Springs for the woman.
The 1837 suit saw a man sued after he kissed a woman who bit his nose in retaliation. The acquittal cited a rule allowing retaliation at the moment of offense. The Standard notes this rule is not precedent and does not apply to the current Connecticut case.
In Birmingham, Governor Jelks defeated former Governor Johnston in a spirited race marking Jelks as the Democratic nominee for a second term. The contest occurred under Alabama's new constitution which eliminates the Negro vote, with Johnston opposing its radical revision. The tally also affected other state officers and congressional seats.
Speculation centers on the race to succeed McMillan in Michigan with the senator's son steering the state machine. A strong Republican minority resists the family grip while Julius Caesar Burrows and General Alger loom as alternative centers of influence amid Governor Bliss’s looming nomination.
Martinsburg West Virginia correspondent John Graves of the Cincinnati Enquirer faced a strange incident with a street sprinkler. After trouble with sprays, he loosened debris and pulled out four live snakes 18 inches long from the sprinkler tubes. The snakes reportedly entered the water line as young reptiles and grew inside the device.
Emile Zola learned to read late and is self educated. Prince Henry of Prussia holds a 900000 pound life policy with heirs affected by cause of death. John R Drexel gave his wife 200000 dollars for her birthday while summering at Newport. Ex Governor Hogg declines another run, cites 2 million earned since term. Duke of Argyll surveys Inveraray estates for minerals finding nickel copper and lead ore. The late Duke’s nickel silver mines once profited. Lord Kitchener offers a prophetic line as South Africa’s future unfolds at a sword presentation by Cape town corporation.
The Philadelphia Inquirer article critiques a modern experimental philosophy claim that women are growing larger and men smaller. It argues such data are uncertain, questions female dominance, and warns against women gaining too much power while maintaining affection for them.
The Brooklyn Eagle reviews Dr. Schenk who died in Styria at 62 for claiming prenatal sex determination by diet. He argued sugar intake dictates offspring sex and that maternal feeding decides outcomes before embryonic differentiation. His theories drew transient fame but faced faculty opposition in Vienna.
The general lauded the potential for a new America as London papers seize on the line. Maj Herbert Darling, 23, a police commissioner in Bloemfontein, earlier ran a Western Australia mine at 18 and led a contingent at 20, earning the nickname Baby Darling.
A European hotel in Bloomington NL posts quirky regulations and prices. Board costs 50 cents per square foot with meals extra and meals at 6 and 7. Guests are warned not to speak to the dumbwaiter, and self rising flour is offered for lunch. The safe is urged for valuables, and a 25 cent daily horses to hire is listed.
Aluminum is described as a beautiful metal with properties similar to silver gold copper and tin. It is praised for malleability ductility and abundance while noting inferiority in cost and strength but gaining ground daily.
At a London diplomatic reception the wife of the Chinese ambassador was mistakenly ushered into the gentlemen’s cloakroom. The error was understandable as Chinese ladies of rank typically do not attend public functions in town, and this lady’s feet are described as normal.
The official executioner of Tokio died last week in a curious incident. While crossing a railway track he was struck by a fast express. The body was found beside the track with a neatly decapitated head, and no other marks on the corpse.
Blair Irwin, a survivor of the famed 606 charge at Balaklava im mortalized by Tennyson, lives with his wife on the Ansel Smith place about four miles from Sharon village on the borders of Stoughton Massachusetts.
Paris reports Count Jean de Castellane politically rehabilitated but results show he stood for re election and was defeated by 9 votes. The claim of rehabilitation proves erroneous and he remains unseated after the general election.
Adolphe Reinard, a wealthy Vienna citizen, was found by detectives slipping into his own safe and hiding stolen money under the bedroom carpet after weeks of disappearances.
Governor Hogg of Texas rose from poverty after leaving office seven years ago. He built an oil fortune now valued at two million dollars and says he would not return to the governorship for less than that sum.
A collage of satirical lines from Puck Life Moonshine and others. Jokes about politics 1904 names and social scenes feature fussy fumbles and light gossip. Humorous quips touch elections babies names music and society chatter.
J Henshaw member of the geographic force in the United States geodetic and coast survey visited the Coates house last night en route from Iola Kansas to Versailles Missouri joining another party of United States mapmakers on a huge map project.
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