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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1903
Page
18
The Anaconda Standard lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions with annual and half year options and details for mail matter. It notes the main office location, Standard Block in Anaconda, and telephone numbers for business and editorial rooms.
Reading shows a compact directory of city street addresses and telephone numbers. Butte addresses and numbers for Broadway, Missoula lines on Main Street, and a Great Falls Postoffice News Stand listing are included.
W J Morton of the Foreign Advertising office lists The Standard available at newsstands in New York Union Square Brentano's Chicago Vanderslices Dearborn Street Auditorium Annex Minneapolis Kavanaugh's South Third Street San Francisco Palace hotel Denver Seventeenth Street Salt Lake City West Second South Salt Lake City Salt Lake News Co Ogden Kinds Twenty fifth Spokane Howard Street Tacoma Pacific Avenue Seattle Hanbury's First Avenue South Portland Portland Hotel Kansas City Ricksickers Ninth and Walnut All mail to Anaconda Montana.
Obituary tribute to Herbert Spencer noting his 83 years, lifelong illness, and prolific, encyclopedic writings. The piece praises his mastery of logic, deduction and induction, his influence on contemporary thought, and his secular approach to morals culminating in Principles of Ethics.
The report says Mr. Heinze failed to organize a party and stage a Helena convention alongside the legislative session. It notes a mis-timed appearance, a lack of key Montana figures, and public doubt about the venture as fair-trial bills passed in the house.
Advance notices praised performers who failed to appear as expected. Some intended to join the movement but withdrew at the last moment, foreseeing the program’s doom. Mr. Heinze could have altered dates, but the show went on, leaving Butte brass band echoes in Helena. The music was praised despite the misfire.
Helena staff notes the state senate approved two fair trial reform bills with near unanimity and prepared one amended measure to return to the house. Additional senate bills alongside noncontroversial proposals move toward final passage as the extraordinary session nears its end.
A Helena special committee clears senate and house clerks and members after finding a lapse in recording the journals during the last winter session. A bill submitting an eight hour day amendment to voters was not entered in the journal as required. The committee deem the lapse non malicious, blaming it on routine legislative slip and noting journals are like time locks on a bank safe.
A Chicago editorial notes a week of pressure between the Senate led by Mr Aldrich and Speaker Cannon in the House over the adjournment of the Cuban reciprocity extra session. Newspapers denounce the Senate for dictation while Cannon supports a timely disposal of business, highlighting growing Senate dominance over the House.
A national analysis argues the House of Representatives is controlled by a small managing faction, sidelining the rest. The Standard notes a new member from Montana admitting the dominance of a few in Congress. Questions arise about the Senate and overall representation. There is speculation that Mr. Heinze's party could gain aggressive, Kilkenny-cat features in power struggles.
AMontana era column lampoons Heinze allied politics and Helena happenings. It notes 21 to 4 senate vote on fair true bills, mockingly praises or critiques figures like Heinne, Langley, and Abdul Hamid while predicting political theatrics. Christmas and national mood threads run through the piece.
Representing the finest from Grenoble, these gloves stand unmatched for service and fit. Made in up to date colors, they outshine rivals, with a $1.50 real kid glove offered at under $2 a pair, a value neighbors will praise for lasting wear.
Millinery news notes pronounced savings on ready to wear felt hats for women in styles and shapes priced today from $2.25 to $6.60. Also featured are shoulder shawls and free wool fascinators in gray black and white, a white fascinator yard square, black ostrich plumes sixteen inches long at $2.75, and sale prices on bleached twill crash and linen crash yard goods for towels and kitchen use.
Miss Mary E Jenkins has been elected president of the Syracuse New York Herald Publishing Company. She is a capable businesswoman with long experience in the newspaper trade. Also noted are philanthropic gifts by Isidore Newman in New Orleans and a glimpse of empresses and Sage in public discourse. The Wisconsin Mayflower Society re elected Mrs James Sidney Peck as governor, the only woman governor of a state Mayflower Descendants society in the country. The group votes funds for a Provincetown monument.
Hemmed sheets 72x90 inches good soft sheeting torn and ironed priced 1c each. Hemmed sheets 81x90 inches fine undressed sheeting torn and ironed priced 65c each. Hem stitched sheets 81x90 inches soft finished round thread sheeting torn and ironed priced $1 each.
Hemmed pillow cases 50 by 36 inches with wide rem and three inch chain offered for sale. Described as best quality pillow muslin 30 cents each, previously 1 ic. Today only per item.
Three quarter size bedspreads in medium weight are washable and priced at 850 each. Full size heavy honeycomb bedspreads in four ply cotton yarn keep white after laundering and cost 1.50 each. These items are offered in a retail sale.
Ex tra large Marseilles bedspreads in splendid firm quality with handsome raised floral patterns offered at 2.25 each in this sale.
The article surveys scattered items: the Mayflower signers from 1620, Lord Wolseley’s critical memoir of British policy, Viscount Hayashi’s translations and liberal stance, Ohio politics with Hildebrant and Hanna, Patterson and Scott reminiscences, Lady Curzon’s Chicago visit and English slips, a father’s death letter printed for patrons, beach bonfire piano project in Atlantic City, Russell Sage’s meal routine, London’s plan to billet city children in villages, Vida Goldstein’s senate bid, John W. Ford’s parochial life and library, and praise for Mary Johnston’s pirate fiction by the London Sphere.
The Association of Piano Manufacturers announces the largest bonfire in Atlantic City next summer during its annual convention. Many old worn-out square pianos will be burned in the event, drawing attention to the gathering and its playful, quirky tone.
A mother in Iowa writes a forceful letter to the school teacher, insisting her son must be educated and expressing a firm stance on the teacher’s instruction. She claims to have legal rights and demands that no attention be paid to the father’s opinions, urging the student to learn without distraction.
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