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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1913
Page
11
The Anaconda Standard lists subscription rates including 7 daily and Sunday per month for 1.00, annual payments 810.00, Sunday Standard 2.00 yearly. Main office in Anaconda with branches and contact phones, plus notices of newsstands and agency locations in multiple cities.
The direct primary law, adopted by voters, requires parties to nominate under this law for municipalities with over 2000 population. March 9 is the last filing date for nominating petitions, with conventions on March 4 and the city election on April 7 in Butte. Independent or non partisan candidates cannot use existing party names.
Professors studying money value argue rising gold production helps push prices higher while others claim no new major gold fields remain. Hoover, a mining engineer, cautions diminishing future gold supply but notes cumulative gold worsens the world’s price level. Back East, 1906 campaign rhetoric on free silver is recalled as scaremongering that didn’t avert Bryan supporters.
The article ponders a hypothetical outcome if free silver had won in 1906 and argues prices might not have been higher, noting any inflation would have been blamed on silver. It then shifts to a Chicago focus on child labor, moral decline, and the economic stresses facing unskilled workers as highlighted by national bodies and city commissions.
A year after the English post office department seized control of the national telephone network, the purchase faced arbitration. The court awarded 62 576 320 pounds, 42 074 320 less than sought, causing a stock drop and singling in only par in final settlement. Under government supervision, public utility is rising alongside telegraph.
The article argues against hurried ward changes in Butte. It notes no petition supports redrawing boundaries, cites limited Republican support, and questions the plan’s origin in city hall or a socialist club. It urges deferring action until after spring elections and suggests considering two new southern wards instead.
Fitch leads a DOJ linked inquiry into white slave trafficking. In New York he consults with philanthropists forming a national plan to reclaim trafficking victims, aiming to mobilize a broad reform effort.
The piece discusses establishing more than two thousand shelters nationwide to assist women who renounce their past, serving as refuges until they secure steady, honorable work. It notes Rockefeller Jr as a major financial backer and urges stricter enforcement of anti white slavery laws to reduce the need for such refuges. Montana’s laws are praised for progress since passage two years ago.
A shaggy collage of quotes from Philadelphia Record and Milwaukee Sentinel lament smoking, highlight money trust fears, and note social quirks. References to law, court debates, and a Stockton divorce tease curiosity about personal habits and public opinion.
A compilation of brisk, humorous anecdotes from a Baltimore Democratic convention. It recalls sergeants at arms, wit from Col John Boland of Toledo, Capt Joseph Dowling of Dayton, and a quip about political hair parts. The piece weaves in jokes about Cardinal Gibbons, a barber shop scene, and a sequence from a Boston Herald vignette.
Helena January 19 The Rev B J Stanley chaplain of the house of representatives arrived in Montana in 1871 riding from Corinne on horseback sleeping on ground and scraping snow to bed. He traveled 200 miles quarterly and served many towns building churches and aiding regional faith. He joined the Montana conference nearly 30 years ago and is the oldest serving minister in state history with a long record in Stevensville Victor Corvallis Hamilton and the Upper Clearwater region.
A long column discusses suffrage gains and opposition in the United States, noting widespread but uneven support for women’s voting rights and comparing it to public reaction to railroad service during snow disruptions. It quotes Governor Stewart’s constitutional reform proposal and includes observations on Illinois politics and a playful critique of price shocks in Chicago eateries, plus Progressive party maneuverings in Helena.
A Prominent advocate in Western Montana argues that electrifying regional railways would curb forest fires, since locomotive sparks are a major ignition source. He notes strong prospects for adoption in the region if pursued.
Fragmented local column mixes brash fantasy about Armageddon with musings on public interest in math teaching, Montana county changes, and 1916 political speculation. It cites The Hon Florian, railways expansion, and Roosevelt opposition while touching on ice harvest and frost impact on industry and editors.
Snippets from several papers mix quips about engagements letters and curses in a string of playful lines. References include jokes about wreck blame and a factory penny darning system. The tone mimics light gossip and social banter from turn of the century humor pages.
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