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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1910
Page
12
The Anaconda Standard lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions with monthly and yearly options and emphasizes advance payments. It also provides office contact information for the Standard Block on Main Street, and business and editorial room phones.
Butte address 28 East Broadway with Bell phone a2 Independent line 1 422 at 134 Higgins Avenue and telephone s provided.
W J Morton outlines advertising offices in New York Chicago and Denver with distribution points for The Standard. The notice lists News Stand locations in New York Chicago Kansas City Minneapolis San Francisco Los Angeles Denver Houston Salt Lake Ogden Spokane Tacoma Seattle and Portland. All general business letters should be addressed to Anaconda Montana.
The Butte Choral Society prepares for its first public performance tomorrow night amid praise for local talent and faith in a creditable presentation. The Standard urges a large turnout to support education through music and to encourage ongoing community choral efforts.
Two months remain until the Butte municipal election though primaries and conventions begin in one month. Citizens are urged to engage early, electors should take responsibility for ward representation, and not leave nominating power to a small minority. The piece argues alderman races shape city leadership and civic outcomes.
If so disposed, cut a big figure in the matter of selecting the alderman from his ward. Too little attention is given by most citizens to selecting the men who run city affairs. Municipal affairs would be conducted more satisfactorily if the whole body of citizens took a deep interest, and this spring is a good time to begin agitating the matter.
A dispatch reports no progress on Taft administration measures, Republican divisions, and a leadership vacuum in Congress. Senator Aldrich is expected back from Florida this week, with leaders calling for decisive moves to restore order. The long session could extend through spring and beyond as preparations for the autumn elections begin.
The New York Republican Party faces leadership turmoil and factional strife. Senator Root convened a war council dinner, signaling a potential shift in power but offering no clear program. Questions linger on his aptitude to organize a statewide political machine amid Hughes opposition and internal bribery scandals.
John L Sullivan argues in the Chicago Tribune that preachers should overlook minor faults and address a man’s real heart. He says many could be moved toward goodness if spoken to about interests and directed toward proper channels, disputing the idea that virtue equals loneliness.
A veteran speaker urges ministers to speak plainly and address everyday concerns. He recalls gang respect for nonconformity and cites Moody Gypsy Smith and John L. Sullivan on using language audiences understand to reach hearts. He warns a sermon that rises above daily life fails to connect.
Outside of France millions rejoice that the Seine flood nearly spared the magnificent city from utter ruin. Crest heights were inches from catastrophe and surface cavings threaten priceless art treasures and buildings. Losses will be enormous if further collapses occur.
A gloomy forecast warns that lovers of gold face misfortune and oppressors may suffer. Jupiter Uranus Neptune favor the day, Saturn is afflicted, suggesting danger for avarice harming others. Business, study, travel prosper. cooking, poultry, hiring, and ethics in work look positive.
In a revival service Rev. P. Bishop preaches on the prodigal son, urging self reflection among church members who have drifted from faith. He cites the prodigal’s return as a path to humility and rekindled devotion, warning that some readers are “starving for something better” and may be drifting toward ruin.
Gennevillieres faces a crisis as 6,000 rag pickers, a quarter children, endure freezing conditions after the Seine dam burst. Authorities relocate survivors to public buildings while officials urge calm despite fears of a plague risk. pumps are operated but some residents cut hoses before police intervened.
Peking dispatch states an imperial edict rejects the provincial representatives request for an early parliament. The throne maintains the plan for an imperial assembly now and a parliament after nine years, in line with the constitutional scheme.
Chattanooga crowds greet Captain Joseph F. Shipp with bands playing Dixie and Home Sweet Home after his release from prison in Washington for contempt of court tied to Ed Johnson lynching. Ten thousand citizens surge in the station as his wife and former officials receive ovations amid the tumult.
New York reports the city’s new subway will become the world’s most expensive project. Current costs total about $80 million after $35 million initial build and $345,000 in extensions, with the full plan projected at $240 million once stations, power houses, and cars are completed.
Missoula Jan 30 After a good rehearsal and a social session the Missoula band reorganized this afternoon for the coming year. Edwin Fox was re elected president Charlee Green secretary H H Schander manager H L Allen director and F E Martz sergeant. The band plans another concert soon and another of its popular dances with bright prospects for the season.
Stiff slashed Lowry at Cascade hotel then fell through a basement window of a partially built Cascade school. Carpentry workers slept nearby as the assailant, razor in hand, fled but was later captured after emergency escape.
Chicago, Jan. 30. Two hundred people including many women and girls fled a dancing hall when laborer Carmina Sicoli opened fire with a revolver. Dancers escaped via windows and fire escapes as shots went wild. Sicoli was overpowered and locked up after anger over ejection from the hall.
New York January 30 Tom L Johnson former mayor of Cleveland Ohio was found at the Hotel St George with his wife and a nurse. They had been guests for ten days and confirmation of cirrhosis of the liver was lacking. None of the Johnson party could be seen today.
The St Paul mine sealed since November 13 due to a deadly fire will be unsealed tomorrow or Tuesday. authorities believe about 40 bodies may be in the water at the mine bottom and more than 200 corpses lie on the second level in the aftermath of the disaster.
The French cruiser Chateaurenault ran aground near Arzilla twenty miles southwest of Cape Jartar tel today. Heavy sea and high wind kept other warships from approaching. The position is critical and it is feared the cruiser may be lost.
A London Chronicle report notes widespread smoking in South American churches. A Peru visitor saw a cigar in La Merced Church, Lima, while a bishop prepared to preach also smoked. A preacher wore episcopal robes and used a handkerchief to catch ashes. Lima Cathedral even places a spittoon in each chapter stall.
Henry Hill, noted lecturer, discusses the life and habits of the house fly. He notes mysteries such as why a fly climbs up clean windows and walks down slanted picture glass, and why it rests head downward on walls, offering a field for interesting study.
An Illinois Central westbound train struck and killed Mrs. Roy Covert at a crossing near Loudonville and fatally injured her husband. Farther along the line, the train hit an automobile outside Crestline killing J. H. Siglock, 60, and Charles Echelberger of Hayesville. Curtiss Doerrer of Mansfield, riding in the car, suffered a crushed shoulder a broken leg and internal injuries.
New York financier Lewis Tewkesbury lies in a hospital in a suspected dying condition after a Friday fall that fractured his skull. Once a New Hampshire druggist turn broker, he spurned a New York fortune pursuit, wed a partner’s widow, faced her $125,000 suit for alleged misappropriation, and spent about $500,000 in two months.
Cincinnati police arrested six people on suspicion in the death of Mrs. Jesse Vanzandt. Her body was found in the family kitchen, bound and gagged, with the stove still burning. Detectives say Jesse Vanzandt, the husband, had spent time at the raided house with Alice Berry, sister of an arrestee, and her testimony may yield formal charges.
Rabbi Stephen Wise urged that divorce not be a privilege of the rich and warned that easy divorce endangers the nation. He called for freedom in education industry and citizenship and for women to marry with choice but not as a means to guaranteed livelihood.
State Inspector Hoe reports wholesale horse slaughter in Chicago for human consumption. Meat is cut into roasts steaks and sausages and sold to free lunch vendors in Chicago and to farming districts and mining camps with foreign workers. Previously believed shipped to Copenhagen, the practice prompts calls for new state law. noted slaughterhouses are small establishments and meat sold as cheap as six cents a pound at boarding houses.
New York January 30 Congressmen Otto Foelker plans to propose a house bill to suspend tariffs on meats for one year to drive prices down. Alderman Frank Dowling will introduce a local ordinance this week to bar selling stored eggs meats fish and other foods as fresh.
Ishpeming Mich Jan 30 Artil Hytonen a mine worker driven mad by his sick baby stabbed the child to death today After his wife returned from church he took her to a barn and blew her and himself to pieces with dynamite in a tragic murder suicide scene
Chicago January 30 police telegrams sent to Omaha asking for a search for E. Walter Barnes an actor wanted here after the shooting of his wife Mrs Aleta Barnes and mother in law Mrs Mary Servoss Mrs Servoss believed to be mortally wounded while Mrs Barnes one of the two injured not considered fatally hurt
Henry W Taft of New York brother of the president is ill with erysipelas and will be moved to Good Samaritan hospital for rest and care tomorrow. His condition is not serious but placement ensures proper treatment.
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