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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1914
Page
11
The Anaconda Standard lists publishing and mailing details with various subscription rates and addresses. It references the Portoffice in Anaconda, a 10% Sunday rate, and multiple city and business lines including Bell and Independent phones, with manager Morton and foreign advertising.
The Democratic State Committee of Indiana will meet in Indianapolis on Thursday to reorganize after district conventions last week. Results favor Thomas Taggart and his allies, though observers say it does not imply Wilson’s defeat. The president did not influence the Indiana dispute and remained abroad at Pass Christian, Miss., focusing on holidays and rest.
A segment from Indiana suggests a temporary personal triumph that does not reflect broader discontent with the administration and its policies among Indiana Democrats. The report cautions readers against reading the gesture as a sustained political shift.
In an Indianapolis interview Vice President Marshall urges Democrats to pause major reform bills and let tariff and currency laws take effect. He cites two turning measures passed this year as long sought by the people and argues for a period of rest to allow business to improve without further disruption.
Reports from the Chisana district in Alaska note gold silver tin and lead discoveries but warn of extreme inaccessibility. A government surveyor says the area may become a heavy metal producer yet the trail to Chisana has claimed many lives. The camp lies near the Arctic circle at 3800 to 5100 feet, timberline, with fuel and supplies freighted from outside at high cost. The district covers about fifteen square miles.
Dr Silas Weir Mitchell died yesterday after a career marked by significant medical and scientific work. He studied nervous diseases and physiology, published over 100 papers, and gained fame as a writer of poetry and fiction. A Philadelphia native, he remained tied to his birthplace throughout life and belonged to multiple learned societies.
A Saturday dispatch notes the US registered 1,125,000 automobiles, up 100 percent since 1911, with New York state leading at 135,000 and California highest by population proportion. Montana shows about 6,000. Nevada 1,140, the lowest. estimates up to 1,490,000 exist, yet even the lower figure shows the US using about twice as many cars as nine major European nations combined.
The new year brings Sweden's compulsory old age insurance for all residents aged sixteen to sixty six. Citizens contribute to the people's pension, and after sixty six they receive annual pensions for life. Wealthy individuals may return pensions to the fund to aid those more in need, and pensions are based on contributions rather than need.
The piece weighs a proposed Alaska government railroad against a new pension law. It notes incomes affect pension amounts, with a minimum support for those earning under 82.60 yearly, and argues for Alaska development over broad trust legislation. It cites Alaska’s $500 million output in forty years and presidential approval signaling possible passage despite opposition.
A syndicated column surveys domestic life and social quirks with satirical lines about divorce, finance, fashion, and urban life. It riffs on gender roles, religious differences, taxicab culture, and public behavior in a series of witty, observational vignettes.
A fragmentary meditation on identity and faces, contrasting the self with its reflection. The speaker frets over recognizing the image in the mirror, rejects photographers, and muses on the invisibility of soul and God. Images of God and Jesus unsettled by the glare of portraits, preferring darkness to clear sight.
A humorous verse by Walt Mason celebrates a fresh year’s vow to reform habits and live virtuously. It satirically imagines joining moral fogies, shunning reckless drinking, gambling, and vice, while pledging strength to keep vows and pursue a noble life. The piece parrots 1900s newspaper verse style with playful rhymes and social satire.
A collage of jokes about politics, neighbors, lawyers, and daily life. Bits include a voter warned not to influence a vote, a neighbor’s furniture moving in, a lawyer with six children, a tale of stars versus paint signs, and a husband notifying his wife before dinner.
An exhibit titled RMAN EXPOSITION showcases a capwoman figure Ret at Due soldort in Isis to illustrate Germany's wide-reaching achievements over the last century across numerous fields of human activity.
In a sixty mile per hour gale, airmen Mr Chanteloup and Mr Gustav Hamel performed aerial loops at Hendon England. Chanteloup did loops from 1000 to 1200 feet and a backward loop of 1000 feet. Hamel completed three quick single loops and two more, and even flew upside down. His monoplane was damaged on landing but he escaped uninjured.
A Boston educator introduces a barometer based prosperity indicator claiming high pressure signals activity and success while low pressure brings crime and gloom. April to July see lower mood and fewer opportunities, suggesting a simple weather cue can steer achievement and wealth.
A mosaic of brief funny anecdotes and courtroom sketches from a bygone era. Jokes about a pupil guessing the earth’s opposite point, a jailed priest, a reader-illiterate farmer, and a wry farmer who claims his cart dates to a wheelbarrow. Also notes on Irish and Scottish figures, a salesman and reader banter, and a light legal mischief.
A collage of newspaper snips notes unsettled Mexican rumors about Huerta, Roosevelt’s shifting backgrounds, and a Chicago mayoral push against plumes. Other items cite a Pittsburg Dispatch quip about a mayor, a New Orleans critique of streetcar seating, and Buenos Aires seeking exemptions to import materials for housing projects.
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