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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1908
Page
3
The Anaconda Standard announces its publishing company details, subscription rates, and multiple newspaper distribution points. It lists offices in Anaconda Butte Missoula Seattle Spokane and other cities with newsstand locations and contact avenues.
Murat Halstead, veteran Americana journalist and long time editor, died at 61 after a storied career in Ohio, Cincinnati, and Brooklyn. He reported in the Spanish American War era, authored books on Cuba, McKinley, the Philippines, and Dewey, and shaped Republican party journalism through major newspapers.
The Parker resolutions, printed this morning, are challenged as improper and should have remained unpublished. Critics argue they misrepresent the convention and favor Parker by those delegated to the convention. The piece contrasts Cleveland’s support for public credit with Bryan’s denunciations and notes split within the Democratic Party during the campaign.
A long, flawed render of political maneuvers ahead of the Denver gathering, arguing Bryanites must approve opponents of Bryan and that Parkerwill withhold resolutions. The piece questions Betsy Ross claims, relays history of the flag, and predicts press praise for Johnson while denouncing Bryan’s nomination odds.
Fragmented OCR recounts debate on publicity for campaign subscriptions. Vague notes claim a near nine hundred to about one hundred vote against a platform plank. Allegations involve Congressman Sherman and financiers influencing Roosevelts era campaigns.
A Helena dispatch reports a chaotic scene in national conventions with Harriman, Roosevelt, and Sherman tangled in fundraising and loyalty battles. The era’s clashes over publicity, vice presidential bids, and party unity unfold amid claims of leaks and shifting alliances. Also noted is a Montana auto accident injuring banker Mary Yaover and his transfer to Helena for treatment.
The piece surveys the 1908 federal revenue picture as the new fiscal year begins, noting July 1 start, ledgers opened, and expected receipts from distillers and taxes on alcohol, tobacco, cigarettes, and temperance beer. It discusses declines in distilleries revenues, rising cigarette taxes, and evolving enforcement under prohibition-era changes. The analysis highlights policy impacts, retail consumption trends, and the broad fiscal outlook for government finances.
The New York Sun reports German engineers face a dune barrier along a southwest Africa rail line linking a coast site to Bethanien. Persistent southwest winds create dunes 30 to 39 feet high that repeatedly bury tracks, prompting trials with walls, ventilation, dunes stabilization with vegetation, and a long steel tunnel concept to keep the route open.
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