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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1904
Page
3
The Anaconda Standard lists publishing company details and offices in multiple cities. It includes contact avenues, subscription options, and branch office locations from Anaconda to San Francisco and beyond, with payment terms and service notes for daily and Sunday editions.
A year end summary reviews a string of disasters, detailing wrecks, drownings, and losses across railways and ships in December 1904 and 1905. Notable events include a Pere Marquette train wreck killing 29, the Kiowa steamer sinking, the Iroquois theatre fire with about 500 deaths, and massive flood and hurricane tolls. The piece also covers next year’s expedition plans led by Pumpelly and Harvard researchers, with aims to uncover ancient traces in Western Australia and Asia, and notes Missouri legislators debating pay and reforms.
The article discusses legislative salaries in several states, noting New York pays legislators about 4000 a year while sessions last four to six months. It argues the fiscal and political dynamics of salary levels, influence from wealthy interests, and debates over increasing pay amid concerns about corruption and propriety.
The text records a long, fragmentary discussion of degeneration theory led by Max Nordau and others, contrasting Darwinian and religious views on immortality, morality, and the role of science. It references public figures, institutions, and a cultural clash over whether science undermines faith and human nature. The passage also touches on political notes about President Roosevelt era policies and a New Year’s reflection on future events.
Cal Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the distinguished author, was 59 years old recently and received hearty congratulations from friends worldwide. The text also describes Katarina Arpanlova, a Macedonian woman, in a sensational wartime portrait, noting her age appearance and attire, plus a sweeping discussion of Maryland voting reforms and race restrictions in a historic constitutional debate.
Fragmentary text suggests an offer of 23000 dollars for a work associated with Milton and a figure named J. Pont Morgan in London. Source is garbled. cannot confirm events, dates, or participants beyond these mentions.
Chicago faced a grim morning as fires destroyed venues and morgues overflowed. Officials reported 342 partial death certificates, with families lined up for funerals while police detained theater operator William Malin and a stagehand. A grieving father searched for his missing children, and ministers rushed between funerals in a city-wide response to Monday’s catastrophe.
Chicago reporters and coroner officials struggle to tally dead and missing after the Troquais theater fire. Officials report 582 dead or missing, with 459 identified and 18 percent unidentified, as bodies moved from public morgues to private undertakers causing record-keeping gaps. Arrests planned to widen the inquiry. protests and worker strikes impact burials and relief efforts amid chaos.
Philadelphia January 1 Jessie Bartlett Davis wife of WIL J. Davis part owner and manager of the Iroquois theater Chicago speaks on the catastrophe. She blames public demand for excitement and color as causing risks on stage. She notes curtain missteps and lack of fear among theatergoers could avert dangerous stampedes. Francis Wilson agrees and calls for gradual incline in theater design to reduce panic.
Chicago Jan 1 police chief orders summoning manager Davis at Iroquois theater to headquarters to guarantee Moonlight double show cast will not flee during the inquiry. Detectives watch hotels while theater men face the chief. Coroner in New York directs centralized morgue plan identifying the dead including Otto Derry Mrs Ressa John Kwane cs etc.
Fragmentary OCR lists individuals and places including MRE M COOGAN AMY and AMY PONE a seven year old student ADA SLURS, Stans WERNISH Nathan Lolt Keokuk Anne Radcliffe St Marys Ontario Madison Wis Jen Pierce and other teachers or staff in a North Midwest district.
Boxeman reports a telegraph to the Standard noting Mrs. Ry Reinhart announced her sister Mrs. Anzin Eifla of Chicago was among the victims in the Iroquoia theater five Wednesday. Mrs. Foluhar departed on this morning's Chicago train. Mrs. Ketmar, six years with Willison company, is mourned by many friends here.
A fragmentary descriptive piece portrays Nathantel Hiwiherne de al Utiheime and a sonsym biography with vivid physical details. It notes an unusual girl from Calwinet Michigan, 15 years old at 38 pounds, whose weight gain puzzles doctors yet she shows health gains and a cheerful disposition amid tall tales of wealth and a Waldarte Astoria suite lifestyle.
A fragmented early text describes tension over "plat of heat" and refrigerated cars. Workers who bring extra pints are disciplined by superiors. A sympathetic passenger who provided three pints faced consequences, illustrating row over comfort and supply in transit.
A fragmentary reminiscence speaks of unknown droaths and aging cities spared by recent floods. It recalls waters rising near the Adriatic realm, gondolas moving freely, and a grand bronze horse in a great square. The passage nods to Napoleon, Venice, and doges fate amid calamities resembling Galveston’s disaster.
English newspaper column of exchanges prints a want ad seeking a big young brindle bulldog to take charge of a stone yard. The advertiser offers a second-hand tombstone in exchange. Contact address listed as I, Exeter.
A shaky scene indoors ends with a mislaid pair of eyeglasses clattered by a gavel as speakers attempt to proceed. Unclear names and fragmented phrasing resemble a clipped legislative or meeting report with humorous missteps.
White men served as pallbearers at the funeral of Jas len Ormand an elderly African American woman of Allanin Ga died recently. The pallbearers had known her since slavery and several had been nursed by her in infancy.
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