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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1903
Page
18
The Anaconda Standard lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions and provides address and telephone details for the main office Standard Block Anaconda and the business office. The notice outlines rates for one year six months three months one month and Sunday editions.
The Standard is available at multiple city news stands including New York Brentano's and Union Square Chicago Vanderslices and Auditorium Annex. Minneapolis Kavanaugh's. San Francisco Palace Hotel. Denver 6 Seventeenth Street. Salt Lake City West Second South and Salt Lake News Co.. Ogden Twenty Fifth Street. Spokane North Howard. Tacoma Pacific Avenue. Seattle Hanbury's First Avenue. Portland Hotel. Kansas City Ricksicker's Ninth and Walnut. General correspondence to Anaconda Montana.
The Standard wishes its patrons a Merry Christmas as Montana communities shift from past gloom to holiday cheer. The message notes improved conditions and busy payroll days fueling joyful greetings for the season.
The article suggests Sir Thomas Lipton may enter the America's Cup race again after a recent honor ceremony. It notes his past statements about retirement and hints he is reconsidering, with praise for the public reception if he competes. It also comments on yacht designers Fife and Herreshoff and Lipton’s repeated late finishes.
Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune, criticizes the expansion craze at a New England society banquet. He questions extending the Union by subjugating distant semi tropical and revolutionary communities by roaming the oceans. He predicts a future where the public will question such expansion.
A high ranking Republican proposes incorporating overseas islands into the United States, a plan that could spark editorials denouncing Reid as a traitor. The piece notes editors may echo past accusatory rhetoric once aimed at Whitelaw Reid’s stance.
The article recalls mistletoe traditions in England where porch kissing once thrived and a later Lancashire custom where women kiss men for a coin or dismissal threats. It notes parish pump kissing in copyhold districts and Basque Yuletide kissing with mortuary omens. It also surveys tall New York buildings and late 1908 crime notes alongside mentions of Colombia and gifts to the University of Chicago and Rockefeller.
A vivid description details a government counterfeit typewriter scheme producing fake letters on house stationery. Trick letters are drafted to answer pension questions and signed by congressmen, creating the illusion of personal correspondence as voters feel special attention.
Plans approved for a towering skyscraper on lower Broadway described as the tallest on earth. It will have five basement stories, forty above ground, and a sixty foot tower, reaching 615 feet above the curb.
Merchants of dry goods display beautiful novelties in stockings, highlighting variety and seasonal appeal beyond essential wares.
The line suggests mistletoe cannot heal the dispute between Colombia and Panama and hints at ongoing tension without promising reconciliation or diplomacy.
The text muses on Christmas exchanges and warns against thinking of the eggnog when it turns sour, likening it to chloroform. It notes that the time has come to adopt resolutions to take effect January 1, 1904, with moves to finalize them soon after.
Holiday season arrives with festive traditions and community gatherings as residents celebrate Christmas. Stores showcase decorations and families plan meals and surprises, marking widespread cheerful anticipation across towns.
Rev. Victor M. Haughton was installed as rector of Christ Episcopal Church Exeter New Hampshire succeeding his father who led from 1865 until retirement for health. Miss Florence Graham Offutt of Lexington Kentucky a director of physical culture in a girls academy ends engagement over expectation she quit her occupation after marriage. Death of Mrs Seth Howard at Phillips Maine frees a Union church pew last time since 1835 when her husband bought it. Mrs James Brown Potter enters political work alongside stage duties including a Britisher pledge for imperial protection recital.
Anecdotes from music halls supporting Chamberlain and a chorus of workers. William Collins, once involved in Booth’s capture, is now insane in Albion Lunatic Asylum. New York professionals adopt barber midnights as a novelty. Rev Dr Roberts notes church growth to 1.1 million members and 4 million constituents with missions in 15 foreign countries. Congressman Cushman returns from Alaska and a rough sea voyage. Mabel Parker faces forgery trial and sketches her jury. Senator McCreary discusses Hay’s ascent aided by Kentucky roots.
A grizzled spectator in the Harvard Yale game seats himself among the crowd and shares a warm, approving glance with a nearby attractive young woman as he follows the action with keen interest. The scene captures a human moment amid the sports clash.
The scene shows John the Oranageman joking with a girl about a game at a five cent sale. He quips it is like a tug of war where the workers pull against the other side, eliciting amused reactions.
Senator McCreary recalls Jefferson Davis during the Mexican War citing Davis eloping with Taylor’s daughter and a victory under Taylor’s command. Taylor congratulates Davis and quips about his choice of husband for his daughter.
The death of Rev Murdo Macaskill marks the end of an era as the last foe of liberal theology in Scotland. He led anti Dods Bruce and Henry Drummond campaigns, opposed the Declaratory Act and Highland abuses threatened, resisted church union, then joined after the settlement but lost influence and was seen as an empty potsherd by followers. He once ruled ecclesiastical Scotland north of the Grampians.
Officers of the ordnance department tested the new automobile battery wagon and forge in Washington area hills and rough roads. The machine’s winch proved unnecessary so far. A Fort Myer demonstration showed on site horse shoeing and shop work. A spring march with field artillery is planned.
A broker from the financial vortex seeks admission at the pearly gates. Saint Peter asks for identity and the joke sets up a whimsical heaven entry scene drawing on Wall Street imagery.
A Wall Street broker recounts small charitable acts to St. Peter, noting two cents to a decrepit woman and one cent to a freezing newsboy, claiming both are recorded. Gabriel confirms credits. The broker jokes to return the three cents and tell him to go to hell, concluding with dark humor.
An ex Massachusetts governor at a cattle show explains his knack for remembering people. An old farmer recalls the moment, asking about Jack and the old white horse, and the governor admits he remembered by a white strand on the horse.
In seven years Utah recorded a single execution last month when a convicted murderer chose between hanging or shooting and was quickly slain. The trial featured testimony claimed to be directed by heavenly revelation, revealing enduring local traditions and superstitions.
Dr. Fishberg, medical examiner for the United States Hebrew societies, reports that among 3.0 Hebrews observed only 6 percent had the Jew nose with a hook. Straight noses accounted for 68 percent, broad noses 12 percent, and retrousse noses 14 percent.
A historical note ranks uniform colors by lethality. Red uniforms score best in enemy fire, rifle green follows, brown third, and Austrian bluish gray proves the least fatal. The assessment emphasizes color impact on exposure in combat.
A North Yorkshire inn tale recounts a farmer stopping a waiter and asking for a very good ale, claiming it is just enough to drink. The moment the quart is served the ale vanishes as the farmer drinks it, leaving the scene with curiosity about the outcome.
A farmer humorously declares a desire for “another quart” and remarks on the “very decent stuff” as he is dismounting. The exchange shows rustic, lighthearted banter between laborers and residents.
A collage of humorous clippings from newspapers includes sly one liners and exchanges. Jokes touch on birth, marriage licenses, insanity tests, and hangover banter with quick witticisms from Chicago Tribune Philadelphia Record and others.
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