Standard Publishing Company Advertises Rates and Offices
Public notice from Standard Publishing Company outlines subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions, monthly and yearly rates, and addresses for main office in Anaconda and business manager contact numbers. The fragmented OCR text mentions post office registration and various office lines.
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Standard Publishing Company
Ofice
Anaconda
Bell Phone
Independent Phon Editorial
Cresovese Daverée
Independent Phone
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY ADVERTISING OFFICES
Rutte Branch lists general advertising offices across major cities, including New York Fifth Avenue building and Chicago Madison Dearborn site. It notes managers and agents, with multiple newspaper and news company contacts in cities from San Francisco to Seattle and Ogden.
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J. J. Mortom
New York
Fifth Avenue
Chicago
Hartford
Madison and
Dearborn Streets
Eddy Street
Soa Angelese
Kemp’s
San Diego
F. M. Child's
Denver
Washington Street
Portland
Bowman News Company
The Last Moment For Christmas Shopping in Town
Despite clerks unions and urging from merchants, many shoppers delay gift buying to the last day or hour before Christmas. Newspapers push registration after Thanksgiving while stores anticipate crowds, yet the season is described as good and generous in spirit despite high living costs.
Joshers Club Santa Clauses Butte Christmas Gift Drive
A few years ago in Butte a group of young men formed the Joshers club to play Santa Claus by leaving baskets of provisions at poor families doors. The annual distribution yesterday expanded greatly with loaned automobiles and more generous staples. Hundreds of needy families received beef pork flour sacks and potatoes as the club’s simple season gift. The work emphasizes meeting need over judging worth and marks a blessed holiday for many households.
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Butte
Santa Caus
Joshers’ Club
Bishop Aves Delivers Sermon on Mexico’s Peon Wages
Two Sundays earlier Henry D. Aves Protestant Episcopal bishop of Mexico preached in Houston Texas. He described conditions in the disturbed republic to the south and stressed the miserable state of Mexico's peon labor. He blamed extremely small wages for much turbulence and noted that many hold an unjust view of the Mexican lower class. He said the peon appears indolent and shiftless, but questioned how he could be otherwise on a salary of
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Henry D. Aves
Mexico
Houston
Texas
Houston Post
Church Missions Face Mexican Labor Plight and Reform
A bishop laments Guatemala’s or Mexico’s labor oppression, warning that greed for cheap labor pervades the country. He calls for Christian churches to press for just labor conditions, crediting centralized government and religious effort as keys to peace and progress amid recent revolutions and upheaval.
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bLoldiv
Mexico
Card system at Anaconda mines sparks Butte union vote
Officials from Anaconda and the Butte Miners Union will likely resolve differences over the new card system adopted at Butte mines earlier this month. The referendum among workers showed a small majority against the system, with less than half voting. Cards are issued by a central office to control hiring and curb abuses alleged in the past, with several thousand already issued and no refusals reported.
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Anaconda Company
Butte Miners’ Union
West
Butte
Wise Up On Parcel Post Rules Ahead Of January First
A simple statement of parcel post rules explains that packages must not contain perishables or items that could injure handlers or mailbags. Secure wrapping and clear sender addresses are required with only special parcel post stamps. Packages are limited to seventy two inches in size and eleven pounds in weight, prompting users to measure accurately to avoid post office delays.
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Parcel Post Service
Post Office
Postal scales and maps enable easy parcel pricing
A nostalgic collage notes postal rate tools a sender uses to compute cost for parcels from an ounce to eleven pounds, including bulk and girth limits, stamps, and branch office drop off. The piece mixes holiday sarcasm with social humor about suffragists, politicians, and Christmas commerce.
Negro Pugilist Plans Lake Geneva Summer Home Club
Chicago reports jack Johnson eyes a summer home and a 10 man negro syndicate forming the Lincoln Social Athletic club at Lake Geneva. The plan faces mayor autosky opposition with potential police action noted. Separate note mentions a Texas city mayor naming four women to the police department.
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Chicago
Jack Johnson
Caclong
Lake Geneva
Johnson
Anderson
Lincoln Social Athletic Club
Social Club
Frank Autosky
Outrages Against Indians of Peru Reported by American Consul
American consul Stuart Fuller, returning to Washington from Iquitos, Peru, reports outrages against Putay rub ber district Indians by foreign rubber operators. His findings, sent to Congress, highlight a perplexing Latin American issue as British firms dominate Peru's rubber field and the Peruvian government claims abuses have ceased.
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Washington
Stuart Fuller
Iquitos
Peru
Putay
State Department
Fuller
Consul Fuller
United States
Department
Congress
Miscellany of curiosities and urban notes from 1912
A collage of short items covering pests, customs, costs and curiosities. From a French dinamo to Paris automobilists, Milwaukee workers forming co op buying clubs, curfew arrests in St Paul, and a debate at Haskell on whether Indians should be exterminated. Also notes on salt balance in tissues and a Harvard reminiscence.
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Chicago Street Railways
St. Paul
London
Milwaukee
Texas
Rhode Island
Germany
Persia
Melbourne
Haskell Institute
Lawrence
Kansas City Journal
St. Nicholas
Henry Glace
Mauch Chunk
Mgr. Glace
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Packerton
Oliver Wendell Homes
Clarke
Harvard
James
French Academy of Science
Paris
France
Hundred Club
International Hotel
M. Forest
Railroad Me of High Degree Expenditure Record
A project to build a railroad from Providence to New York began May 22, 1912 and finished November 9, 1912. The expenditure on the railroad and related steamship line totaled 2 million dollars, with further obligations of 2,006,008 dollars recorded by the end of the period.
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Providence
New York
Attorney General Wickersham to weigh civil suits over railroads
Washington reports Attorney General Wickersham will consider civil action to restrain New York New Haven Hartford and Grand Trunk railways from alleged Sherman anti trust violation. He will study the question as indictments and grand jury inquiries examined records and witnesses.
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Washington
Wickersham
New York
New Haven & Hartford
Grand Trunk
The Crescent and The Vienna Roll Origin
A note on the crescent shaped Vienna roll tracing its origin to the 16th century siege of Vienna. Bakers adopted the Turkish emblem after hearing underground mining sounds in wartime bakehouses. Also, Japan saw wages rise fifty percent in ten years with living costs up thirty three percent.
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Vienna
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