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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1901
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard announces newspaper publishing details and office locations. It lists circulation rates, foreign mailing guidance, branch offices in Butte Missoula and Great Falls, and contact addresses for editorial and business inquiries.
The piece discusses proposals in England to appoint women as assistant curates, arguing changes in society and church practice, though the move remains unlikely. It notes increased roles for women as deaconesses and in church sisterhoods and cites The London Daily Telegraph on potential benefits and obstacles.
In St Thomas residents protest annexation, urging Denmark to resist ceding the Danish West Indies. They cite lessons from the Philippines and Cuba, with petitions signed by leading locals. Germany and other powers quietly oppose the sale amid Denmark's troubles and U.S. diplomacy.
The press dispatches say Hay forced a tougher deal with Denmark, buying landers like cattle and driving the price up to two and a half million more than Seward offered. His New York speech cites the golden rule as American diplomacy’s basis, yet the annexation of an unwilling people raises questions.
The passage ridicules British explanations for South African concentration camp deaths, citing Dr Franks report of arsenical poisoning from Boers painting affected areas with green paint. It argues such claims reveal desperation in covering up Britain’s grim colonial record.
A revived plan seeks to start a socialist colony in Mexico with Mexican government consent, echoing Owen’s Sinaloa experiment once predicted years ago after concessions were secured.
A magazine writer laments the spread of card games among British women while noting that gambling mirrored in earlier eras from the Georges to the Tudors. The piece cites Pepys, Johnson, Sheridan, and Queen Victoria’s era as contexts for high play’s persistence and compares English and American social patterns, including references to the Pan American exposition, Chinese exclusion acts, and public figures amid a broader satire of society’s fascination with gambling and vice.
A collected set of editorial snippets reflects debates on foreign policy including Britain's Civil War role and Russia’s intervention, Indian civilizing plans and ration policy, and a Congregational dinner remark contrasting politicians and statesmen.
The Brooklyn Eagle argues water and irrigation boost tree planting and rainfall, suggesting constitutional revision may reclaim the desert. The Cleveland Leader backs local self-government as the true principle, warning against state usurpation despite municipal misgovernance in New York.
Justice Mathew of London newly named lord justice of appeal is the nephew and namesake of Father Mathew the temperance advocate. Mayor Des Planches becomes the youngest Italian ambassador to Washington at 49, with a start as chief of the cabinet for Italy’s foreign affairs minister. State Senator Mo P Warner of Ohio proposes bartender licensing exams. A London witness in the Winans estate case praises a friend who avoids hereditary titles. The duchess of Marlborough plans a U.S. visit with her children and may spend Christmas at Idle Hour with W K Vanderbilt. An early map of America found in Wolfegg Castle’s library is dated 107 and ties America’s name to Amerigo Vespucci. J M Longyear of Marquette Michigan is cited.
A homeowner in Buffalo built a $500,000 mansion and now plans to move it stone by stone to Boston after rail near his property angered him. J N Adam, donor of the Pan American organ to Buffalo, is a merchant and reformer who once served on the Buffalo council and was elected to the board of aldermen. An English paper lists 10 noblemen who preach, including Lord Kinnard, a football expert and zealous lay preacher.
A Milwaukee scene recounts a novice woman at her first game asking naive questions while her companion and the peanut crowd show frustration. He explains baseball basics, later she mishears about fowls and asks about catching them as the crowd observes the play.
The New York Sun notes in 1895 50 000 arrests for intoxication in the state rising to 70 000 as population grows. Saloons climb from 3 000 to 27 000 in six years. In New York county arrests fall 3 000 while saloons drop 1 500. Brooklyn shows 8 000 fewer drunken arrests with saloons down 1 000. Buffalo Albany and others track declines. Allegany and Suffolk counties buck trend with increased saloons and arrests.
The Santa Fe sued an order barring cigarette smokers from employment and has dismissed several clerks for smoking. Applicants undergo exams and habit checks, with smoking cited as a disqualifier though occasional drinking is tolerated. Rail officials plan formal policy by year’s start.
Vienna reports Mauricio Jokal the Hungarian poet laureate faces ridicule again after his All Saints Day curse to the person who tore apart a wreath placed on his first wife Rosa Laborfalvy's grave. Police found the wreath was torn by his step daughter Arpad Feetty who left his home with her children after his second marriage.
Catalog note lists boys sweaters in multiple color combos and styles including turtle neck and sailor collar. Regular price listed as 1.75 dollars. shirts and blouse waists described in heavy outing flannel with Mothers' Friend waist band in sizes 4 to 12 years. pricing details incomplete.
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