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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1902
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard continues daily and Sunday publication under STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Subscription rates are listed for daily and Sunday editions with pricing for one year six months three months and one month payable in advance.
The Standard lists postage rates by edition size with Europe double rates and other countries via Main Office. It notes branch offices in Hutte Missoula and Great Falls for ads and provides Washington Bureau Post Building and Eastern offices in New York Chicago with contact persons. Newsstands in Chicago Minneapolis San Francisco Los Angeles Denver Salt Lake City Seattle Kane Coma and Portland are named.
The article argues Cuba under President Palma is facing growing opposition, with impeachment talk and a divided Congress. It notes Havana observers doubt the ability of Cubans to govern sensibly, warning that South American-style turmoil could invite strong U.S. intervention.
A £2,000,000 company plans a vast central electrical plant to light heat and power a 1700 square mile district with 300 coal fed steam engines. Electricity would be conveyed to individual plants, reducing coal handling pumping and ash removal.
The piece links central plants across Ohio Indiana and Illinois to future power gains while warning of harsh winter needs in the East. Anthracite coal now high at about 10 dollars per ton with a doubled price for the season threatens tens of thousands if relief and philanthropy do not reach the suffering eastern poor.
Tom O'Brien, the Deer Lodge prison trusted inmate, sent a postmarked Anaconda letter whose handwriting and style match prior correspondences. Authorities weigh what the missive reveals about his whereabouts and motives, noting his escape was easy due to his trusted status. The Standard prints the letter, offered as potential insight without asserting startling new facts. Yesterday's mail brought more details.
The piece notes accusations of colonizing tactics among Tammany figures with the claim that exposing it could reveal method and motive. It cites Devery claiming he merely entertains and feeds district citizens while asserting his campaign approach is effective. Investigators promise dramatic exposures of dishonest registration involving both sides.
A long column covers a correction about a Montana Press Association meeting date in Hamilton and a mix of editorials. It surveys topics from finance predictions by Russell Sage to submarine telegraphs, Roosevelt’s popularity, coal strikes, and Democratic politics with multiple named figures and places.
President EE Benjamin Andrews argues in a University of Chicago convocation that unmarried life is a social condition tied to rising comforts. He cites Webb and others to claim higher wages correlate with lower marriage and birth rates across classes, noting spinsters as a modern social fact and history’s pattern of wealthier nations producing fewer marriages.
The coast near Narragansett bay braces for a possible battle as Massachusetts Connecticut and New York naval and land forces prepare. Major General MacArthur reviews forts while signal stations wireless links and searchlights boost defenses. In West Virginia state troops in Thurmond guard mines after a refused order clash. The New River coal output drops to about one third.
The article portrays Tammany Hall in conflict as ward workers leaders and heelers clash using familiar colonization tactics, now intensified in an off year. Devery faces accusations his foes say break records, while he retorts with countercharges.
An English traveler notes eggs are universal, saying no part of the world lacks eggs. In Western China he struggled as locals did not recognize his egg drawings. He solved it by squatting, flapping his wings, and crowing, prompting the nation to provide hundreds of eggs.
Livingston dispatch reports the Park County socialist party held a convention nominating a complete county and legislative slate. Twelve delegates attended from Livingston precincts and Aldridge and Jardine mining camps. Fridley and Chico delegates were delayed by a park train. O. S. Anderson was named chairman and T. V. Madden secretary. nominees include W. F. Dick, J. F. Mabie, T. V. Madden, M. R. Laker, Hurst Beaver, and James Graham.
Helena August 29 Edward Mullen a Butte merchant filed a bankruptcy petition in the U S court today He has liabilities of 1385 29 and assets of 1500 Exempt assets total 212 indicated in the filing
Historians revive stories on King Eadward lineage linking him to William the Conqueror, George, James I, Henry VII and tracing descent to Alfred the Great. Some extend to early rulers and Roman emperors, with disputed claims of David via Roger dEste and the Guelph line. The London Chronicle notes the Queen Victoria connection.
Investigations show the Victory, Nelsons flagship at Trafalgar, is the oldest warship. Launched in 1765, it is now 17 years past its prime and bears the wear of time. The British Admiralty recently spent money to save the ship from ruin.
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