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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1903
Page
22
The Anaconda Standard outlines subscription rates and office contacts. It notes daily and Sunday delivery options, with prices for various terms, and lists main and business office locations and telephone numbers.
Branch offices listed for Butte Missoula and Great Falls with street addresses and telephone numbers. Butte shows 28 East Broadway and telephone 422. Missoula lists 110 West Main Street and telephone 11S. Great Falls mentions Postoffice News Stand as a location.
W J Morton announces management of foreign advertising from the New York office and references the Chicago office with addresses 150 Nassau street and 8? Washington street.
The Standard can be found at several newsstands across major cities. Listings include Brentano's in New York Union Square Vanderslices in Chicago Auditorium Annex in Chicago Kavanaugh's 50 South Third Minneapolis Palace Hotel San Francisco 6 Seventeenth Street Denver Salt Lake News Co. Salt Lake City Frind's Ogden 24 Twenty-Fifth Spokane North Howard Tacoma 1121 Pacific Avenue Seattle Hanbury's 41 First Avenue South Portland Hotel Portland Oregon Ricksicker's Ninth and Walnut Kansas City Missouri. All business letters and correspondence should be addressed to Anaconda Montana.
A Montana political shift emerges as the United Copper company under Heinze forms a party to oppose trusts. The convention proclaims anti trust principles while aiming to split into two camps, though the two party notion faltered and observers note larger turnout than expected.
A convention discussion centers on Standard Oil, Heinze copper interests and political maneuvering. References to Knapp, Clark, and various factions highlight tensions, with Panama and Colombia policy and the forthcoming canal project shaping the tone and expectations of readers. General Warren draws party attention at the debutante event.
President Roosevelt frames his annual message around labor and capital, noting a new commerce and labor department. He seeks to bridge a political chasm, defends law over power, and comments on land conservation, irrigation, and naturalization with cautious recommendations.
The piece notes Congress listened with rapt attention while the reading clerk avoided disruption. It jokes about Mr Heinze’s potential votes in Montana and predicts Roosevelt’s long message, with Hearst offering commentary. It mentions Christmas preparations and the sharp focus on holiday shopping.
George Davis, a Baltimore socialite, was robbed after a dinner party in Denver. The thieves took 35 cents and the pearl studs, mocking Davis’s watch and etiquette. Davis escaped unharmed, joking that losing the valuables was perhaps due to bad form.
Prescott Arizona residents George and Mrs. Ruffner found a hat left by Charles Erwin decades earlier near the natural bridge and falls in the petrified forest. The rim showed a torn crown with cords bearing the initials C E, a curious relic that endured until the early 20th century.
Mrs Ruffner brings home a stone she discovered during travels. She regards it as one of the choice curses of her journeys, a curio she now keeps as a reminder of distant places.
Shiel reports unearthed in Sippara a 4000 B C school building with seven rooms one filled with clay tablets mostly unreadable but some intact in Sumerian hymns primers grammars and arithmetic. Other tablets are copy books showing pupil work and dated Hammurabi indicating long use after construction.
Professor Sandford Bell of Clark University and formerly at North Indiana Normal School Velparaiso Indiana has compiled a table on loves ages. He concludes neither sex is safe from Cupid's darts after age three. Over fifteen years he studied 80 cases and used 1700 respondent syllabi from pupils and alumni to show a woman's heart matures at 22 and a man's at 24.
The blast at Newgate reveals a further stretch of Londons ancient Roman wall, once guarding the city. Much of the wall is traced with sections used as cellars, and the sole above ground portion remains at four bastions near St Giles Cripplegate. Ground rise and modern building plans threaten more finds of antiques.
Rumor says the Russian statesman De Witte travels anonymously to observe American conditions. He plans to avoid formalities typically imposed on foreign visitors and, as a Hebrew, will be contrasted with Russian treatment of race. The piece notes growing similarity between U.S. and Russia in assimilation of other races.
Jim Davis of Danville Indiana owns a setter that went blind last year after diphtheria. The dog hunts as well as ever with total eyesight loss and moves quickly though occasionally bumps fences, relying on an almost perfect nose.
A terse note describes a flock of birds seen moving with speed comparable to a quick dog on the field. The sighting emphasizes their swift, darting pattern across the open terrain.
Three leading supporters of the British and Foreign Bible Society visit Canada to mark the centenary. Archdeacon Madden of Liverpool, G H Bondfield, and Sir Algernon Coote highlight global reach, noting 180 million Bibles in 370 languages and high translation gaps in India and the South Seas.
A study notes men marry at different ages by country with Sweden highest and United States lowest. Women likewise show Sweden high and Russia low. Legal minimums vary: Germany 21 for men 18 for women. England 16 and 14. France 18 and 15. United States often 21 for men and 18 for women with state exceptions. France leads late marriages for men and Belgium for women.
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