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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1913
Page
16
The Anaconda Standard lists subscription rates for pane and Sunday issues with monthly and yearly options. It also names office addresses, contact numbers, and the Butte branch, plus distribution points in Chicago St. Paul San Francisco and other cities.
The piece surveys New York Chicago and San Francisco on New Year's Eve reform aims to curb drunken revelry. It notes church choirs municipal music and police measures, contrasts with past rowdy scenes, and mentions Dr. Cook's polar claims and Baldwin's counterclaims as secular distractions from daily concerns.
The weeklong public feuding between Governor Glynn and District Attorney Whitman centers on proposed broadening of investigative powers. Spe cial Investigator Osborne disputes who originated the idea, while both officials defend actions aimed at pursuing graft beyond New York counties. Militant British suffragists and naval power reports also appear amid political and international turmoil.
An Indianapolis News excerpt argues against state control of telegraph and telephone services noting England's post office telegraph loss over forty years averaging 2 million dollars annually and current British telephone losses, urging caution about government takeover.
A Cincinnati Enquirer excerpt reflects on Sarah Bernhardt and the era’s humor about fat versus lean figures. It notes critics mocked a plump, vivacious star while contrasting the melancholy fat man and the merry lean villain, with musings on fashion and social attitudes toward appearance.
A writer argues that recent earth tremors in the Panama region may be connected to readjusted surface weights after material from Overbalayces was removed and deposited elsewhere. He notes heavy blasting, including 40 tons of dynamite used to destroy the Gamboa dike, as possibly contributing to the shocks in nearby areas like Culebra.
Mrs. French B. Chadwick, wife of retired Rear Admiral Chadwick, exhibited a four and a half pound stretcher carrier at the New York Safety and Sanitation Exposition. She said John Hays Hammond endorsed it for mining use and it would join safety gear in Western and Southern mining camps.
The piece muses on the approach of the new year 1914, urging self-improvement over mere calendar change. It notes the reluctance to depart the old year, the value of resolutions, and the idea that personal effort, not time, makes a year better.
Sir James Dewar, pioneer of liquid and solid hydrogen, celebrated his seventieth birthday. He co invented cordite smokeless powder and has long pursued chemical research with deep interest.
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