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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1913
Page
6
The item notes that Standard Publishing Company is a publisher and proprietor entity entered at the Anaconda post office as second class mail matter. It records the mailing status and ownership phrase for the periodical.
Daily and Sunday for month one dollar. Daily and Sunday one year when paid in advance ten dollars. Sunday Standard one year priced at two dollars fifty cents. Main Office Standard Block Ana Independent? Office contact details include Bell phone and Independent phone numbers.
Butte branch details list offices and contact numbers including Bell and Independent phone lines. Managers and satellite offices in New York Fifth Avenue building and Chicago Tribune Building are noted for foreign advertising services.
A catalog of newsstand locations and agencies across several U S cities is provided with addresses. The list includes outlets in New York Detroit Chicago St Paul Kansas City San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego Denver Salt Lake City Ogden Spokane Tacoma Seattle Portland Rochester and other locales.
General letters and correspondence should be directed to the STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY in Anaconda Montana.
Local notices record an event dated Thursday December 11 1915. Names, places, and details are partially legible with focus on the date and the formal public notice context. Further clarity is limited by OCR fragmentation.
A plan by the National League under Gov. John Tener to pension Adrian Anson, Chicago’s famed Cap, signals Tener's shift to honoring early baseball builders. Anson, a pillar of the old school, helped redeem the sport after a major scandal, with rival Comiskey also lauded for his lasting influence.
The Springfield Republican backs the administration policy in the Mexican crisis noting only Mexico’s people can solve the rem issue. It cites growing faith in watchful waiting and Washington’s approach as promising for constitutionalist success.
The piece weighs U S positions on the Mexican civil war favoring Carranza and warns against foreign intervention while praising a nonintervention stance. It calls for a strong national militia reserve system and explains the need to organize state militias into divisions under a national framework.
Secretary of War Garrison in his annual report criticizes the organized state militia as flawed and urges Congress to pass the militia pay bill to create a national reserve. He notes small militia losses in officers, calls for better theoretical and practical training, and warns against neglecting rifle practice and field instruction. He also cites high costs of mounts for artillery and cavalry and recommends federal funding to maintain a militia nucleus. Only seventy eight regular army officers serve as militia instructors, an inadequate figure.
In his annual report the secretary states he will not urge closing many small army posts now, focusing instead on future decisions. He notes immediate needs for field artillery and ammunition and prefers using current posts rather than costly new construction this session. The plan aims to keep a regiment at posts or closely cluster units for practicality, with most posts likely to remain garrisoned unless abandoned for border concentration. The decision on garrisoning temporary vacancies depends on developments in Mexico.
Walt Mason mocks a tavern rule that guests without baggage must pay in advance. The narrator clashes with a clerk who insists on upfront payment, ending with the adage that a guest's visible assets prove their worth. The poem satirizes social expectations and hospitality norms.
The piece argues evolution is ongoing, not finished, with the human spirit maturing through moral striving. It likens destiny to the gradual emergence of nobleness, truth, and greatness of soul, shaped by selection and survival. Nature seeks a coming man, as a gardener shapes plants.
A column montage quotes diverse newspaper lines from the era. It notes jokes about General Huerta, suffragists, Woodrow Wilson, and other public figures. The snippets reflect press gossip, political satire, and light commentary across multiple city papers.
The Cincinnati Enquirer column mocks marriage norms and gender roles with gibes about divorce over coffee, stockings, and fashion prices. It riffs on male beer habits and female expectations, ending with a jokey note about a man feeling dizzy after a morning skipped breakfast.
A collection of light jokes and quips from period publications. Items include a wife and pudding metaphor, a surgeon offering cut rates, a blameless office drudge, a golfer missing again, and a shopper debating store outcomes.
The article notes sailors on the herring boats avoid whistling and ban milk or burnt bread aboard. They fear the hare’s name and may punish rivals by throwing a dead hare into their boat. Some believe odd numbered crews bring luck, unless a member has red hair.
Illustrations depict Mexican constitutionalists sabotaging a railroad with a locomotive chained to the tracks. The locomotive backs up, ripping up rails as the driver carries out a bold act causing damage and added costs for the railroad magnates.
A compact rendition of Rudyard Kipling's verse advising calm under pressure and steady self trust. It emphasizes doubt, honesty, resilience, balance, and courage across trials. The final lines promise possession of the earth for a true man.
In San Francisco Herman Whitaker a British subject and 18 year resident plans naturalization so his wife can vote. His move mirrors a larger effort while Mrs Mackenzie Gordon also seeks citizenship but declines the same path, planning to pursue her case to the U S Supreme Court after California rulings against her.
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