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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1908
Page
12
The Anaconda Standard announces STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY as publishers and proprietors. It states the paper is printed daily throughout the year and entered at the Anaconda Post Office as second class mail matter.
Daily and Sunday rates per month are one dollar. Annual payment in advance costs ten dollars. Sunday Standard rate is two dollars and fifty cents for a year. Main office is in the Standard Block, Anaconda Business Office contact at telephone number 1 for editorial rooms and 48 for general inquiries.
The Standard lists branch offices in Butte Milennia Higgins avenue J Morton manager foreign advertising and New York Chicago offices. Newsstands where The Standard is sold include locations in New York Chicago Kansas City Minneapolis San Francisco Los Angeles Denver Pasadena Salt Lake City Spokane Seattle Portland and Anaconda. All general correspondence should go to The Standard Publishing Company Anaconda Montana.
Advices from Rio Janeiro report that the nation’s sixteen battleships have arrived there. The fleet endured bombardment at Trinidad with no damage disclosed, and no mention of encounters with the Japanese squadron. If seaworthy, the excursionists aim for Punta Arenas to face the Straits of Magellan.
Former U S secretary of the treasury now a New York banker. Once seen as eliminated from 1932 presidential calculations, Shaw has been in Iowa discussing the race in a manner suggesting he believes he may still have a chance.
The Minnesota governor challenges Henry Gassaway Davis as a Parker ticket vice presidential candidate, arguing against relying on Maine influence and criticizing the idea of a barrel that should have been opened. The piece notes Davis’s thrifty cautions and questions whether pouring out the barrel would have helped the ticket.
The passage notes Sewall of Maine as a fit and virtuous choice for vice president, while contrasting other nominees. It recalls past Victorian era picks such as Old Bill English and Levi P. Morton and remarks on wealth as a factor in historical selections.
The London Times, 120 years old and long linked to the Walter family, reportedly has new owners planning modernization and a tariff-advancing stance. The paper, once influential in Parliament reporting and English politics, faces competition and a reshaped role amid evolving journalism.
A Portland water security scare sparked nationwide ridicule as eastern papers joked about Japanese spies mapping coastlines and bridges. The piece notes East Coast fear contrasted with Portland’s seriousness and hints at wartime intelligence lessons.
The piece notes many banks face receivership amid the financial turmoil. It highlights large centers as examples and questions whether every institution will compensate depositors the way one specific bank’s liquidation did. The tone remains cautious about broader outcomes for savers.
The institution near Wall Street has wound up its affairs. Assets total 223000, with 192000 earmarked for receivership expenses and 30000 to depositors. How did depositors receive such a small share in the liquidation, and what is the potential scope of permanent loss for depositors as the windup continues?
The first year under New Yorks new marriage license law brings crowds to City Hall as applicants must appear before local officers and the bride answers questions. Long lines at the clerk’s office trigger calls for reform, with newspapers statewide urging amendments to allow the groom to obtain licenses without the bride present.
A New York Republican faction debate centers on John Hughes and tariff, navy, Philippines, trusts, and railroad regulation. Critics say opportunists will back Hughes regardless of policy if his boom grows, while backers insist on evaluating his political creed. The prevailing view is that Hughes is emerging as a strong contender for next summer’s nomination.
A press comment contrasts fashion with social life, noting the gown reflects aspirations and soul. It also condemns Australian railways as bankrupt, year by year mired in debt, claiming private operation without public subsidies would have closed them long ago.
A St. Petersburg paper critiques Mr. Taft traveling abroad with warships, arguing the trip was not a pleasure voyage. It asserts autumn storms make the Pacific dangerous and suggests the minister of war arrived for reasons beyond seasickness studies.
Treasury, England notes that the mechanical nurse treats the case as a task rather than truly nursing the patient. She performs a clinical, mechanical process without the spirit of care, reducing nursing to a useful procedure rather than a fine art.
The New Orleans Picayune notes the burden on American ambassadors and ministers abroad. It discusses the constant importunity from fellow countrymen for introductions at court and to notable people, and the difficulty of refusing without creating powerful enemies at home.
The financial panic in America spurs thousands to head back to Europe. They may soon learn that wealth can be made on the continent as well as in America, and that greater happiness may lie across the Atlantic.
The Indianapolis Star notes coins fail to stack well and old coins share this flaw not from relief but design. Corriere della Sera argues the British army’s prestige remains intact despite corruption. The Englishman laments modern racehorses as speed machines lacking staying power and resilience.
A wry observation notes that boasts of never owing money often mask that friends suspect the speaker of misdeeds or hidden obligations. The remark hints at social signaling and the potential gap between claim and reality.
In Berlin a huge Popular demonstration by about 40 000 Socialists plus 30 000 sympathizers erupted after Chancellor von Buelow’s rejection of universal suffrage. Police intervened to prevent violence with massed forces guarding the palace and city halls as protests spread across Prussia.
The 1907 copper market seen a drastic fall from peak prices to low levels, contrasting with historic European dips. The piece outlines supply bottlenecks, freight blockades, and refinery curtailments that fueled demand and later contributed to oversupply, with exports to Europe and shifting sales impacting future delivery and production decisions. It notes major producers versus smaller firms, and the broader financial impact on copper stocks, refining, and associated industries.
In the city center several small groups marched in the outlying streets singing the Marseillaise. Police withdrew their main force at night, though patrols stayed to prevent new formations. Suburban meetings drew larger crowds than city events with stirring songs set to military music and the Marseillaise.
The piece notes Hamlin Garland leaving a novel to rough it in Wyoming, while reflecting on presidents who served in the cabinet. It traces how early republic leaders like Jefferson Madison Monroe Adams Van Buren and Buchanan gained cabinet experience, and contrasts that with post Buchanan practice, where presidents since have not typically relied on cabinet training.
Sir James Crichton-Browne praises total abstainers for virtue and stability but doubts genius within their ranks. Ambassadors Bryce and Henry Howard potential London successors are discussed, with Howard married to Cecelia Riggs and a career diplomat since 1865. Albert Kirby Fairfax, now Lord Fairfax, returns to Wall Street and prefers the United States despite his Scotch peerage.
Germanys crown prince starts daily 9 am at the interior ministry, commuting 18 miles from home. He spends hours at the desk and returns papers home to study in the evenings, learning the empire interior administration for future rule, and mirrors his fathers manner as he grows older.
A political letter dated December 31 criticizes the president’s push against Colorado courts, the land office, and perceived executive overreach. It defends Judge Lewis’s Colorado rulings, praises “true judges,” and asserts the writer bears personal responsibility for the statements. The note calls for constitutional restraint and a “square deal.”
Washington reports the annual Surgeon General Wyman review of bubonic plague in San Francisco noting 9 cases and 60 deaths as of November 19. He says origins are unknown, eradication will take time, and urges stronger interstate quarantine measures including water and food checks on passenger trains.
The coming week features national guard changes under the Dick bill, Taft addressing the Ohio society in Philadelphia, Bryan in Lincoln, and Hughes speeches in New York. The Nevada legislature convenes to address Goldfield labor troubles while the Thaw trial progresses. International notes cover Berlin suffrage debates, Mulai Hafid’s Fez proclamation, Abyssinia, and an Irish party conference in London.
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