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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1903
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard shows pricing for daily and Sunday editions with annual, semiannual, quarterly, monthly, and Sunday only options. Rates include 12 month commitments and advance payment terms as published by the STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
The Standard lists postage rates for editions from 2 to 14 pages and 20 to 48 pages with international mail options to Europe and other foreign countries available on inquiry. It also provides telephone numbers for the Business Office and Editorial Room and notes branch offices in Butte Missoula and Great Falls for advertising rate information.
Watson E. Gaily declares the Anaconda Standard issued 4,080,478 complete copies in 1902, an average of 11,204 daily and 14,007 on Sundays, sworn before Notary F. W. Peckover in Deer Lodge County Montana.
The passage of trust related measures provokes wide debate in Congress and among the public. Senator Hoar's bill faces critics while Republicans aim to refine it, risking limited time for Roosevelt's Cuba treaty and tariff revision amid ongoing trust discourse.
The article critiques Governor Toole’s call for a long Helena session and a constitutional revision focus rather than a 60 day legislative program. It notes his opinion on removing judicial elections from politics and warns that using special elections could increase partisan influence rather than reduce it.
The piece argues that state party conventions heavily influence judiciary selections and that costly elections burden Montana. It notes most courts are reputable, with a few exceptions, and suggests reforms or alternatives to partisan elections to preserve public trust.
The piece argues that city printing bills are large and newspapers secure contracts by bidding low. It recalls a recent case in Butte where the Standard, a major local taxpayer, won a bid over rivals, a pattern mirrored in Anaconda. The author suggests proprietors prefer quiet acceptance over creating a fuss.
The New York Rising Post surveys eminent New Yorkers on Senator Tom Platt’s fitness for re election to the United States senate. Theodore Pomeroy Lawson Purdy Rev S W Pratt George M Pinney Jr all affirm he should be returned praising experience party loyalty and reliable leadership in the gold standard era 1896 and his work in congress.
The passage discusses how efforts to advance party interests reflect on national welfare. It notes a New York Evening Post critic and suggests readers should infer the senator s influence, given his past skill at shaping party majorities and fending off newspaper criticism.
The piece critiques Governor Toole and state election reforms, noting his proposed changes to primaries direct legislation and judiciary elections. It questions polling methods and calls for fair counting, while contrasting Morocco and U S politics with humor. It remarks on the legislature's slow start and the editor's bereavement.
The Kansas City Journal profiles convict Joseph Bruner of Lansing prison who transformed from uneducated hunger to a multilingual, educated librarian and prison school supervisor. It discusses a proposed state plan for compulsory inmate education and notes shifting views on crime punishment from brutal public justice to rehabilitative approaches, praising Warden Jewett for enabling inmate self improvement.
The four envoys to the Lashaw at Tan ser were seized and imprisoned. The Lashaw, with 80 men and his aide-de-camp, punished the malcontents by torturing the aide and dragging the Bashaw through mud. Villagers defended the Bashaw, then the Shereefa’s son allowed release after the deputation was freed and the matter settled in Tangier.
A Boston shipment to Rockland Maine included four pairs of oversized shoes sized Ui FF or about one inch long. Made for a saw mill worker in Tirrell Arkansas who traveled to Memphis for custom footwear. Special lasts and handwork delayed production three weeks, claimed as the largest wearables ever crafted in Massachusetts.
The article notes France’s only living ex-president M Casimir-Perier marking a Seth birthday in November. He was 23 at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War and served in Paris siege, earning the Legion of Honor. He joined the Chamber in 1874 and became president in 1887 after Carnot’s assassination, resigning in 1887.
French alcohol producers fear a new acetylene synthesis method. The Nord Agriculture Society memorialized the government at a recent meeting urging a duty of 5 cents per pound on carburets to protect their industry as the process remains costly and not yet competitive.
French-Italiana duelists M. Merignac and M. Wirchoffer with seconds Breittmayer and Luselez left Paris for Naples to duel Sigvori Verga and Pessina of Italy. The contests aim to test the superiority of national swordsmanship styles amid a sharp controversy.
Paris embraces a new billiards variant introduced by American champion Jacob Schaefer. The game uses three walls blue white and red with players striking the white and alternating caroms off red or blue. Early reports praise its fascination but note slow scoring.
The Johannesburg Chamber of Mines offers cash prizes for practical suggestions to prevent miner's consumption caused by fine dust from rising machines. Awards include first prize 2300 dollars and a golf medal, second prize 1250 dollars, and third prize 500 dollars.
Mulliken of New York sold Rembrandt's Old Woman and Velasquez's The Grape Seller along with Turner's Dustanborough Castle in London for 828105 and 12775 and 4827 dollars respectively. An anonymous portrait of Edward Vie brought 202 dollars. Van Dyck pieces Edmund Waller and Earl of Arundel realized 4176 and 2520 dollars.
A tortoise estimated at 400 years old and weighing 666 pounds, claimed as the largest ever reported, traveled across the United States on a limited train from the Galapagos Islands, once part of Walter Rothschild's private collection in London. Cabbages replace cacti as nourishment in civilization.
Morocco remains less than fully civilized despite the sultan owning a motor and playing billiards well. Reports note villages suffering ill treatment during recent disturbances and the situation frames a fragile stability amid reform efforts.
Mrs. Martin KB Ingalls, a missionary to Burmah from 191, has died at Theatre. Clyde Fitch, the dramatist, is constructing a Queen Anne style home near Greenwich, Conn on an elevated site with views of Long Island Sound. Aneta
The column lists art and relics including a curos collection bought by Mr Fitch in Italy and valued around £0,000 with seventeenth century pieces. It notes the Trinity church Boston statue nearing completion, and a parade of political and literary remarks from figures like Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Mommsen, plus anecdotes about Grover Cleveland's duck shooting days and early career.
In a Brooklyn scene a salesman extols a double reflecting window mirror to a skeptical Lady. He demonstrates hanging it by a ring in the front window so she can view callers without opening the door, appealing to those who value a good invention.
Prist lawn handkerchiefs with hem stitched and fast colored borders offered at 3 cents each, originally 12 cents. Limited stock of B00 dozen units in this sale.
Four dollar ladies neckwear offered at twenty five cents. Also twenty dozen finer tailored stocks on sample line with slight muss, in black and colors. Items valued up to four hundred each.
A shopper and seller discuss mirrors that let a person check who is at the door or peek into neighbors’ homes from a window. The mirrors are offered at $4.98 on the condition the buyer keeps it secret.
A Brooklyn Eagle item recalls John Sherwin Crosby speaking on The Next Step. The reference mentions missing part of the address and the audience’s reaction to his talk.
A quirky note imagines Marconi living in a music flat where daily echoes clash. It suggests a wireless piano as the next invention, with a playful reference to Brooklyn Bagte.
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