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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1903
Page
4
The Anaconda Standard lists daily and Sunday subscription rates and outlines postal and foreign travel handling. It provides pricing for 2, 4, and 6 page editions and details the Washington and Eastern office locations and newsstand outlets in major cities.
The Standard looks back on the past year detailing war, trials, gains, and losses while praising Montana's mining growth and population shifts. It urges citizens to begin the new year with resolve for further progress and abundance in the coming twelve months.
Reports say this Christmas surpassed all earlier events with the Salvation Army leading extensive charity. It notes 2 250 complete dinners for 11 000 beneficiaries, baskets with turkey and groceries, a garment table for the needy, and wide press coverage of Congresman Tim Sullivan’s 6 000 fed. The piece highlights the scale and communal spirit of the holiday aid.
An editorial voice highlights charitable acts and generosity as a contrast to government policy. It notes a major arbitration milestone rivaling 1890s tensions and reflects on The Hague proposal, Roosevelt’s role, and the constitutional limits of executive power in the judiciary.
The article argues against bypassing Congress on revenue related treaties and highlights constitutional rules. It notes that treaties require Senate advice and consent with a three fifths vote for ratification and that treaties become the supreme law of the land alongside federal laws.
Tuesday evening talks among Butte city council members Business Men's Association and Silver Bow county legislators show progress toward desired city revenue legislation. Opposition mainly from county government interests questions powers and prestige, but participants seem ready to push reforms that benefit the city while sparing county revenue. The meeting sparks broader interest and may halt no proposed measures.
The article notes Butte business men have long avoided politics yet now show renewed concern for city government. After several meetings and discussions, members of the Business Men's Association pledge active participation in caucuses and primaries, hoping reforms and better governance will benefit both the city and its merchants. The piece also weaves in lighter year end observations and broader political remarks.
Poem exhorting to ring out the old year and announce the new. It calls for casting out pride, war, and gloom while welcoming truth, peace, and a broader, kinder humanity through a series of litany-like refrains. It envisions renewal with noble manners and shared good.
A New North-West correspondent from Deer Lodge reports on a Christmas ball in Butte hosted by Judge Irvine and his wife with ample supper and dancing. The piece notes notable attendees from Silver Bow and Rocker City and jokes about the dancers and poetry of motion.
Fragmentary lines speak of the Methodist church and resolutions while noting the sultan of Morocco and the president of Venezuela as unhappy in the new year. The text appears garbled and contains no clear event or report.
A garbled humor piece imitates dialects and political banter. Voices mock a congress pack moving to Washington, discuss vacations, and claim honest legislation remains elusive, with snippets attributed to Uncle Bhen Brother Dickey and others.
The speech indicates Bentover declines signing for a multi part eyelopedee offering, citing the heavy cost and time to read. He notes the burden of paying for it would leave him too tired to enjoy reading and to earn the price. He then remarks about the weather turning northwest.
The article records Eleanora Duse in a discussion with a male friend about women’s rights and natural inferiority, challenging the notion. It also covers debate over a memorial arch to Jefferson Davis in Richmond, with opinions that it should be a commemorative arch and not a triumphal monument, and notes Prof. Barrett Wendell suggesting Boston’s harbor district nickname the hub of the universe.
The Harvard Lampean reports a faculty meeting discussion on the length of the upcoming Christmas vacation. Prof Wendell voices skepticism about vacations for Boston residents while others debate equal time for all faculty, revealing campus tensions. A separate note recounts a Philadelphia scandal and a banknote mutilation tale received by a Treasury official, with vague details on the incident and attempted redemption.
Fragmentary dialogue recalls a case or rumor about Jason Bilist and a truck. References to promise, breach of promise, and lawsuits against Jim and Rot hint at a dramatic legal or social verdict.
A fragmented Brooklyn Bugle item presents dialogue about coal sizes and expansion in warm versus cold weather, with a dealer explaining how temperature affects coal expansion and packing.
The readable remnants mention Papas and Willie with garbled phrases about drums and silos. No clear event date place or outcome is discernible in the fragment.
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