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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1903
Page
20
The Anaconda Standard shows pricing and office information for subscriptions and contact addresses. It lists rates for daily and Sunday editions and provides main office location Standard Block Anaconda and business phone numbers for Malloria rooms.
Directory item lists branch locations with street addresses and telephone numbers in Butte Missoula and Great Falls. It notes Butte 28 Fast Broadway, Missoula 110 West Main Street, Great Falls Postoffice News Stand.
J Morton manager foreign advertising lists New York Chicago Minneapolis San Francisco Denver Salt Lake City Ogden Spokane Tacoma Seattle Portland and Kansas City newsstand locations. General correspondence should go to the Standard Publishing Company Anaconda Montana.
Governor Taft reaches terms with the friars for the sale of about 400000 acres to the Philippine government. The deal, approved by the war department and with the pope's assent, sets a price near 7.25 million dollars for improved land and buildings, resolving a long running title dispute and paving private ownership opportunities.
Waiting for results from Greater New York point to Bees Mc Laughlin’s retirement and Brooklyn leadership shifting to State Senator McCarren. The piece notes New York’s historic power to dictate the party’s presidential nominee and questions who will lead next year’s ticket.
The article weighs favored New Yorker nominees including Parker and Whitney against tariff reform and trust opposition. It notes New York’s influence on platform and the split between free trade and tariff revision. It warns western Democrats push for revision to curb trusts, while Whitney and Cleveland are linked to trusts.
A column reflects on Joseph Smith birthday traditions, Nauvoo and early Mormon histories, then shifts to satire on public figures and Christmas season, noting Chicago union label funeral, President Roosevelt's children, and comments on Colombia and Panama amid holiday imagery.
Colonel Robert L. Meade of the marine corps retires from active service today due to disability. A brother of General Meade of Gettysburg fame, he served in the Civil and Spanish wars, the Philippine Insurrection, and the Peking campaign. He faced earlier accusations of drunkenness, was acquitted, and had sought retirement as a brigadier general after a disputed process involving the commandant post. His Mare Island command precedes his successor Colonel P. C. Pope from Boston.
Mrs Mary A Rogers was yesterday sentenced to hang in Bennington Vermont for the murder of her husband a river bank luring at night. The account notes a contrast with western gun killings and labels Rogers as a degraded figure in a long trial revealing chilling motives and methods.
Salt Lake December 22 A seven month old baby named Albert Miller was shot and killed by his nine year old brother George while parents were briefly away. The child found a small caliber rifle and was playing hunting when the fatal shot pierced the baby's brain.
In Missoula on December 22, final proof orders issued. Joseph Sharrett filed 120 acres near Superior. Benjamin Waugh of Bonner completed final proof on a Bitter Root preemption tract of 160 acres.
Special Correspondence reports Hamilton high school students have spent two weeks preparing for Christmas exercises to be held in the assembly room on the afternoon of December 24.
A Sabetha resident describes a notably short woman who measures seven feet ten inches around the waist and weighs over 500 pounds, prompting humorous reflections on her unusual figure and potential encirclement by a tall, long-armed Kansas cornhusker.
The Cornell Store offers Christmas gifts noted for weight and prestige, selling first class woods. Visit the store to guarantee the right item at the right price without shopping around.
Chicago officers arrested five Columbus laboratories instructors in a fashionable district for teaching liquor manufacture contrary to regulations. The group faces an injunction suit for 10000 dollars, with claims the academy taught compounding rectifying and distilling of all spirits including imitation liquors and aged New Whiskies. Charles Norton heads the academy and defends the methods as legitimate.
Smallpox erupts in Cache and Box Elder counties in northern Utah with 77 reported cases in Box Elder and Mantua town alone tallying 49. Officials urge state health board to order quarantine as disease remains mild with no deaths reported yet.
Hamilton churches arrange Christmas trees with details for the Presbyterian church service at 8 oclock featuring Sunday school recitations by children and the Methodist church event at 7 30 when Santa Claus will arrive with his bundle.
Sunday School will host a Santa Claus greeting at 7 30. St Pauls Episcopal church plans a Christmas tree on New Year's Eve. The Catholic church holds a midnight mass on Christmas Eve with a second at 5 a m. Father Machen leaves for Stevensville to say mass at 10. St Pauls will have two services with Rev J W Fogarty and Rev J E Burkhardt to deliver a Christmas sermon the following Sunday.
Chicago reports Railway Age's note that U S total track on Jan 1 1904 will be 20855 miles with 6723 miles added this year. Western states show limited new lines while Nebraska has none. several Eastern states report no new trackage and a western list details lines and mileage.
Alexandretta report says Attarain, a naturalized American, has been liberated after arrest caused United States Consul Davis to depart. The Alexandretta governor apologized to Consul Davis in a formal official call. Admiral Cotton departed tonight aboard the San Francisco bound for Beirut.
Two cars of cotton bound for Japan caught fire while a westbound freight from Rosebud arrived. Firefighters extinguished the blaze near the water tank but most of the cargo was destroyed.
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