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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1902
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard lists publishing company details, printing frequency, and subscription rates. It notes entry at the Anaconda post office as second class mail matter and items payable in advance for daily and Sunday editions across various durations.
The Standard lists postage rates for editions from 1 to 82 pages and discounted rates for Europe and other countries. It notes office and branch locations in Anaconda Butte Missoula Great Falls plus Washington and Eastern offices in New York Chicago Minneapolis San Francisco Denver and Salt Lake City with newsstands in major cities. General correspondence should be sent to Anaconda Montana.
The article argues Portland's secession from the Pacific Northwest League does not damage the league's strength or finances. It suggests expanding to Victoria, Vancouver, Pendleton, Baker City, Missoula, Boise, Pocatello, Salt Lake, and Ogden could bring better overall support. It notes Seattle and Butte outdrew Portland, and maintains the league will survive with or without Portland.
The piece notes an amendment by Senator Fairbanks to require aliens seeking citizenship to read an extract from the U.S. Constitution in the immigrant’s language. It recalls Senator Morgan of Alabama who once proposed a reading test for the ten commandments, saying education on the Christian basis of American government is essential before citizenship.
The speaker argues that when men pledge citizenship and undergo naturalization, judges should read the Ten Commandments to imprint fundamental moral principles on new citizens. He suggests this moment could leave the new citizen with a purer view of their citizenship.
A Montana judge condemns juries for leniency in murder cases as the Underwood trial yields a fifteen year sentence for killing an infant. The piece critiques past juries in Deer Lodge and Silver Bow for light punishments and compromise verdicts, arguing juries often doubt guilt and favor mercy over justice.
In Owosso Michigan Frank Morrison wooed Odta Leavening despite a generations old Mor rison Leavening feud. He planned to marry her at a secluded log cabin and use two quarts of nitroglycerin to kill all six people if their families refused to sign a marriage paper.
Morrison coerces the four parents to sign an oath forcing the immediate marriage of Frank L. Morrison and Ovta Leavening. The document pledges to end old feuds and not interfere, with threats of dynamite if signed.
The article notes that the Fifty seventh congress will be remembered mainly for its persistent inactivity as it ends its last session. It contrasts political focus with broader worldly concerns and suggests a diffused sense of futility in legislative action.
A Deadwood Pioneer-Times reader recounts a mother’s plea to a teacher about assigning easier homework. The note describes a muddled arithmetic problem involving gallons, pints, and bottles, plus a request to substitute water for a future assignment due to lack of funds.
Reginald Birch, an artist and Bohemian student, joined a Mark Tapley club setup to honor absent members. One year Birch alone dined with a plate laid for others, drank to their health, and astonished fellow diners who deemed him mad.
George W. Prenter, a Pittsburg watchman of 24 years, owns a rare Maccabean coin made in 140 B.C. valued at about $7,000. A Frenchman who found it abroad gave it to him, and after a nearby attempted robbery Prenter moved the coin to a safe place, noting only one other such piece exists.
At age 17 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands visited a Swiss hotel area with a bear pit nearby. She fed a young bear daily and once entered the pit to feed it. The bear attacked, she fled with scratches and a torn dress and still bears the marks of the encounter.
The Belgians report the king has had a railroad car built for his personal use, described as the most luxurious in Europe. It includes a kitchen, the king’s dressing room and bedroom, a central sitting room, followed by Princess Clementine’s dressing room and bedroom, and two rooms for the suite with a splendidly decorated royal salon accessed through a fine double doorway.
Mrs. Chester KE Coulter president of the Utah State Federation of Women’s Clubs has been elected to the state lower house by Weber County Republicans. A Michigan Law graduate, she is the first state federation president to win legislative office.
A compendium of curiosities notes many figures: over 100000 women employed in German industry with fewer than 24000 organized. 90000 pounds of snails reach Paris daily from Burgundy and Provence. British shipbuilding tonnage at its lowest since 1897. Switzerland runs seven sanatoriums, France has 28 with only two charging. Italian clergy long lived. 57 percent exceed psalmist term. 167000 rats destroyed in London docks over 18 months due to plague scare. 23000 tables from Nippur per Hilprecht. British civil service over 60000, post office over 100000. a captured 1812 frigate used as Royal Naval Reserve drill ship. intact wine found with 30 bottles in Venice Campanile ruins.
Norfolk twins wearers offered heavy all wool cassimere and worsted suits in navy black and fancy checks. Sizes 3 to 15, regular price 4.50. Spoil today.
Readable text notes woolen frieze in Oxford and Cambridge with stout dining lining and an ordinary price of 4.75, indicating a sale price. The fragment hints at apparel pricing and delivery context.
Made of heavy cheviot and cassimere in plain blue and black. Pants are well made and withstand rough usage. The actual value is in a pair. Today.
Advertises boys' all wool sweaters in cardinal and navy blue with red, maroon and white options. Priced normally at 1.50, special today 9S8c.
A il pure silk black satin duchesse twenty inch wide with a rich lustrous finish offers satisfactory wear. Its true worth is 125 dollars a yard and advertised at a discount bargain.
A catalog of discounted ladies goods including lisle lace hose and silk striped varieties, kid gloves in multiple colors and sizes, perfumes soaps and toilet waters, gift sets, and travel wear. Special bargains claim prices well below former values as stock is cleared.
Unclear items include collar and cart boxes handkerchiefs and elove boxes with alligator finish. Offers claim 10 000 rolls of toilet paper large size and good quality valued at 100 per unit. Silk ribbons 1 to 5 inches wide offered at special yard prices.
Advertises linens at low prices including 36 inch damask tray cloths priced at 1.50 each, bleached damask and Irish linen pieces with various values, napkins, towels, and Marseilles spreads. notes quality and patterns with multiple price points.
The Academy of St Peters burg offers 7000 roubles in prizes for best treatises on fish poison after frequent deaths from raw smoked fish. The blue foxes of the Pribylots islands are monogamous. an attempted shift to polygamy by killing males failed. Italy reports phylloxera ravaging vineyards, boosting demand for American vines to graft onto old stock.
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