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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1912
Page
13
The Anaconda Standard announces its publishing company and postoffice mailing status. It lists subscription rates for Daily and Sunday editions, including monthly and yearly payments, and provides office addresses and contact numbers for the main office, business office, and editorial rooms.
Listings of regional agents and offices for the Standard Publishing Company. Includes addresses in New York Chicago Detroit St Paul Minneapolis Kansas City San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego Denver Salt Lake City Ogden Spokane Tacoma Seattle Portland and more. Directs general correspondence to the Standard Publishing Company in Anaconda Montana.
The Chicago Record-Herald compares national popular and electoral votes to gauge votes per electoral vote. It notes total 14,267,404 votes and 531 electoral votes, about 26,868 votes per electoral vote, but shows wide variation by candidate with Taft needing 421,676 per vote, Wilson 14,147, Roosevelt 44,852, and Debs winning no electors. It depends on how the popular vote is distributed.
Denver voters authorize a $300,000 plan to stage an elaborate West exhibition to lure Eastbound visitors for the Panama Expositions in San Francisco and San Diego in 1915. The program promises live gold mines, tribal tepees, buffalo and elk, Custer’s last fight reenactment, cowboy roundups, wild horse rides, and a 30 mile prairie fire, aiming to capture the spirit of the old West with full authenticity.
Helen Gould selects a husband with careful deliberation reflecting her wisdom. The prospective groom is Mr. Shepard of St. Louis, long prominent in railroad affairs in the West and presently assistant to the president of the Missouri railroad interests.
Helen Gould, heiress to the Gould fortune after Jay Gould’s death in 1892, expanded her wealth through investments and devoted half her life to philanthropy. She funded relief for Spanish American War soldiers, campaigned against polygamy, supported railroad workers and YMCA buildings, and hosted city waifs at her Tarrytown estate. Her philanthropic reach touched naval men and women’s groups nationwide.
The piece argues against claims that stock declines reflect a money panic aimed at hindering tariff reform pursued by the Democrats. It contends such declines are normal near year end and that, despite minority status concerns, Democrats must carry through on their pledges to revise tariffs with prudence yet determination.
Representative Rainey of Illinois proposes a bureau of farm power within the agriculture department to study labor saving machinery for farms. The unit would assess power sources, self propelled vehicles, threshing, planting, harvesting and dairy devices, and provide data to help farmers buy appropriately sized machines and cut costs. The American Society of Agricultural Engineers backs the measure and urges farmers and manufacturers to support it.
A collage of 1912 era notes cites farm labor shortages and the need for machinery amid vast investments in equipment and buildings. It critiques agriculture's lack of energy research, mentions Santa Claus crops, Morgan Untermyer debates, egg markets, and political hints, ending with reflections on Helena and parliamentary life as days and purses shrink.
President Taft will make New Haven his permanent home when he assumes the Kent professorship at a Yale college next spring. He has asked a friend to locate a house and will join the law school faculty to lecture on constitutional and international law. The corporation will formally tender the professorship at its next meeting and Taft is to receive a salary to be fixed later alongside the Kent foundation income.
Chicago December meeting yields no action on summer tourist rates until next month. No change planned for continental fares in the coming year, but the rule of 2 cents per mile in each direction is likely to be enforced.
Across Butte many churches publish Christmas week schedules with multiple services. St John’s Episcopal led with 8 am Holy Communion and 11 am sermon, while First Presbyterian and Mountain View Methodist also announce morning and evening Christmas rites. Other denominations from St Marks to Grace plan choirs, tree events, and special lectures, inviting all parishioners and visitors to attend.
Central Presbyterian at Utah and First lists 11 am and 7 30 pm services led by Dr Charles Zimmerli with Sunday school at 12 15 pm under Mrs F A Anderson, and a 6 30 pm Christian Endeavor plus Wednesday prayer at 8 pm. Unity Methodist Episcopal under R T Western with 11 am and 7 30 pm sermons, 2 30 pm Sabbath school, Monday prayer at 7 30, a 3 pm Christmas carol service, and a Christmas tree program Friday at 7 30. Silver Bow Park Methodist Episcopal under R T Western with 3 pm Sabbath school and a Christmas tree and programme Monday. Trinity Methodist under Paul M Adams with morning and likely additional services listed.
Munich dispatch says Prince Ludwig the new prince regent of Bavaria will become king, while King Otto, unaware of his royal status, will be dethroned in all probability next year.
Albany December 20 Gen Daniel Sickles of New York failed to account to the state for about 28 000 paid as chairman of the New York monuments commission no vouchers were filed and Attorney General Carmody says he will seek restoration of the funds from commission members to return the money to the state treasury.
Nathan B. Weinberg and Joseph Mendel, recent Idaho arrivals, faced Vancouver police court for conspiracy to defraud the public. They allegedly induced men to join a Masonic order under false pretenses, claiming admission to bona fide lodges. Found guilty, they were fined 200 dollars or six months in jail.
Chicago reports Martin Pako aged 30 who confessed to attacking more than 20 women died from a bullet wound inflicted by Detective Frank Wulff during an arrest attempt after he attacked Mrs. Grace Reichert. The shooting occurred yesterday as authorities closed in on Pako following the assault.
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