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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1903
Page
6
The excerpt lists subscription rates for the Anaconda Standard published daily with mail delivery options including daily and Sunday editions. Prices are given for various durations such as one year, six months, and three months with family plans and other combinations.
The Standard lists postal rates for various editions, requests readers inquire about overseas rates at the main office in Anaconda, and notes branch offices in Butte Missoula and Great Falls with advertising rates. It also provides office addresses in New York Chicago San Francisco and other cities and directs general correspondence to the Anaconda publishing company.
Watson E Gaily circulator for the Anaconda Standard declares the newspaper’s paid circulation at 4 080 478 copies for 1902, an average of 11 204 daily and 14 007 on Sundays. Subscribed and sworn before Notary W Peckover on the 5th day of 1E 1903.
The appointment of a Black man as collector of the port of Charleston stirs Southern Republicans. Alabama may reconsider its support for Roosevelt at the next convention, while Marcus Hanna and southern delegations loom as potential factors in the 1924 Republican nominating process. The effect resumes a long-standing pattern of Southern votes shaping national outcomes.
The piece notes a rising pattern of missing key witnesses in high profile cases. Louis Disbrow’s acquittal in the Clarence Foster murder hinged on Annie Pearsall’s disappearance. A new murder case faces the same issue as the husband of Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer has vanished, undermining the prosecution’s case against William Hooper Young.
After a Derby Connecticut murder arrest, Jerome met with Pulitzer who pledged to stay in New York or inform the district attorney about his whereabouts. He vanished about six weeks ago and four detectives have searched without success. The passage notes Young’s hidden Mormon Church backing via his father.
Reports from Dover indicate the ix Delaware legislature faces a stalemate as Democrats offer a four year and a two year senate split to anti Addicks Republicans in exchange for discarding election laws. Addicks faction rejects any deal removing John Edward Addicks, suggesting possible two year vacancy and continued division.
Experts acknowledge a major advance in treating blood poisoning after Dr Charles Barrows at Bellevue hospital New York reports a puerperal poisoning case. Dr Egbert Grandin calls it the most important medical contribution of the generation while Dr William Polk cautions that more cases are needed to confirm efficacy.
Demand for railroad equipment remains heavy with unfilled orders at American Car & Foundry, Pressed Steel Car, Standard Car, American Locomotive Works, Baldwin Locomotive Works and steel rail mills. Anticipated capacity expansions by United States Steel and others, plus large rail car and locomotive orders from Chesapeake & Ohio, Boston & Maine, Rock Island, and several railroads, push earnings higher.
The report details vast rail investments totaling over 200 million for 1993. Major sums are allocated to Pennsylvania projects in New York real estate options, and New York Central earmarks 25 million for NYC. Other lines include Baltimore & Ohio with 20 million, Union Pacific around 40 million, Chicago Rock Island 2 million, and Atchison plans 20 million for Oklahoma lines spanning about 1,000 miles.
Disjointed observations link coal shortages faced by John Mitchell and Scranton officials to broader political theater. References to Butte, Delaware, South Carolina, and Wyoming figure amid notes on labor, legislation, and a Helena charity ball. The piece blends satire with current events, highlighting public figures, parties, and regional tensions.
The article argues Americans overestimate domestic originality, citing Edison, Bell, Morse, and Fulton as imitators of earlier European or non American work. It credits others as the true pioneers in anesthesia antiseptic surgery and electrical theory with names like Davy Lister Tesla Pupin and stresses national humility.
A March ceremony will place a bust of the late Sir Arthur Sullivan on the Thames embankment facing the Savoy Theatre, a hub of the composer's triumphs. The item also notes public figures and events, including evangelist Gypsy Smith, Peter B. Olney as a New York mayoral contender, and remarks by Chauncey Depew and Woodrow Wilson on education and politics.
A collage of quips and banter from 19th and early 20th century papers. Jokes touch politics honesty slang and social missteps with nightly reviews of politicians sheriffs vendors and foreign visitors. The tone blends wry irony with regional flavor.
As a young man Lord Salisbury wrote fiction that remained unpublished. A persistent suitor recently pressed to publish the works, but Salisbury refused, seeking to keep his later years honorable and untainted by the writings.
Over one hundred styles of flannel waists offered in a clearance sale. Quality fabrics described as French thimnel with neat tailoring, tucks, and trimmed options. Sizes and many color selections including reds, all at 14 off the marked price.
Large sale notice offers dozens of white agerean and black net veils with embroidered dots and face borders. Includes chiffon hats and draperies with reductions from regular market values, highlighting dramatic price cuts and fancy designs.
Newly arrived ALD silk waists feature peau de soie fabric and neat stitching. Offered at an excellent value of 10 dollars, these up to date styles present a strong fashion option for value seekers.
Marvelous Indeed showcases heavy linen Oxfords Panama canvas and similar weaves with over two hundred new exclusive Knickerbocker waists and Fairfax waists in white linen. We are sole agents in Butte for these imported tailor made garments offered at reasonable prices.
Store advertises French flannels at 50 cents per yard for wraps robes and dressing sacks. Limited quantity offered in a departmental sale.
A composite poem fragment weaving an Arab market scene with a sea song. It blends Rembrandt imagery and eastern market symbolism with seafaring praise, noting merchants and guards, then shifts to a rousing nautical chorus about sails, wind, and brave voyages at dawn. Noted author Helen Turner appears in Harper's.
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