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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1903
Page
4
The Anaconda Standard Publishers and Proprietors operate daily and Sunday editions with subscription rates payable in advance. The item lists office locations in Standard Block Anaconda and telephone numbers for business and editorial rooms.
The notice lists branch offices in Butte Missoula Great Falls New York Chicago Minneapolis San Francisco Denver Salt Lake City Ogden Spokane Tacoma Seattle Portland and Kansas City with newsstands and address references. It directs all business letters to The Standard Publishing Company in Anaconda Montana.
The piece weighs the moral, social, and legal questions raised by lynching and racial oppression. It notes ten million African Americans, varying public attitudes, and the peril faced by blacks while pondering whether violence can be restrained without endorsing brutality. It frames a national, urgent ethical problem for the United States.
The piece argues President Roosevelt would break absentee records if he keeps his two month stay at Oyster Bay while noting past presidents like Adams Jefferson and Grant faced similar summers. It contrasts Washington’s health and comfort with sea breezes at Oyster Bay and cites Sagamore Hill conferences with Hay and Hanna as part of ongoing governance.
A column explores the possibility of William Bourke Cockran renouncing U S allegiance to join the British parliament as an Irish orator. It notes his eloquence, potential to shine as Ireland's advocate, and questions his fit given American politics and his erratic public life.
In Devon, Mingo County, West Virginia, a brutal lynching followed a reported assault by a Black man on a white girl. The mob dragged him to a tree and subjected him to horrific mutilation before burning him with kerosene, prompting debate on mob justice versus law and race hate.
A critical editorial denounces Butte’s spring politics and the advertised wide-open policy as reckless. It warns that vice and a surge of outsiders follow the policy's announcement, urging a civic uprising to protect the city’s reputation, while noting the effects have not yet fully ripened.
Professor Franz Wirdhoff of Vienna's University has been charged by the Vienna Academy of Science to tour European galleries and determine how many works attributed to Raphael are genuine. He asserts that fewer than half of the pictured and drawn pieces credited to Raphael are authentic, with the rest imitations or by his pupils.
Thomas F. Walsh, born in Ireland in 1851, now a Colorado mining magnate, expects a visit next fall from King Leopold of Belgium. He will entertain the royal guest at his Massachusetts avenue home in Washington after making a vast fortune through mining and industry.
Berlin print denies attributing to Emperor William a remark praising Americans as conquerors while acknowledging American qualities and their important role in national work. The denial asserts the quote is not his but recognizes American contributions within broader praise.
Mall Caine records a scene at the Vatican where the venerable nanogenarian Pope Les XIII is described as the hero of a bravest deed. The pope allegedly confessed during their first meeting that he has never read any of the author's books.
The New York Sun piece satirically reports Ruskin University plans at Glen Ellyn to stage marital psychology as a remedy for divorce. It notes Ada C. Sweet as dean of the women’s department, promoting model wives through stenography, art in nature, and housewifery, while deriding mathematics and stressing male ego.
A fragmentary narrative traces John Merkowitsch a prince of Servia born to a Belgrade merchant and Helena daughter of Vicarageorgeviteh, with a seven year marriage, plus biographical notes on Sir Walter Besant, George Frampton, and a tale of a Washington secretary's supper visit. It includes theater anecdotes about authenticity on stage and a violent climax with a patrol wagon.
A collage of quips and snatches from historical papers features jokes on love and marriage, money, and public figures. Lines include exchanges about engagement and watching through keyholes, a quip on wealth and inheritance, and a courtroom wit about a vice president’s unpopularity.
The World To-Day notes the Paris death of Max 6 Reil on May 24 1903. His wit and clear outlook fostered better European understanding and a friendlier mood among nations. His satire amused three nations for 30 years and reflected a world with multiple national identities.
Paul Blouet born in Brittany March 2 1848 educated in Paris took AB degree in 1865 began writing served in the French army fought in the Franco Prussian War captured at Sedan 1870 later wounded in the Commune conflict left the service. He moved to England 1873 and started a long journalistic career teaching French at St Pauls School London. He published John Bull and His Islands and other works and lectured in the United States in 1887. He also wrote The Price of Wealth a play produced only once in Detroit by Olga Nethersole and her brother Louis.
Theresa Hardsty of Madisonville Kentucky at eighty eight still earns a substantial living weaving wool and cotton carpets on a loom she inherited from her mother. The age of the loom and reel are legendary with roots tracing to Maryland and 1832. She weaves six to seven yards daily and nine yards on her eightieth third birthday, earning ten cents a yard while recalling a life of field work and long walks in Kentucky.
Judge Jageard granted a divorce to Pamelia E. Dolan from William A. Dolan in a case tied to a Saint Paul church circle romance. Pamelia, once Miss Pottgeiser, was a noted contralto who left for New York two years earlier and reportedly formed an attachment with the priest, ending with the dissolution of the marriage.
The case reveals a marriage split centered on church ties with a priest who misread his path and returned to the church doors. The court granted a divorce on the basis of desertion. Father Dolan is reported to be in a monastery.
A Chinatown raid led to eleven men detained in a third story room. Detective Drennan refused a bribe and blocked an escape plan as one prisoner proposed using a roof route and a decoy friend to slip away. The men were taken to the station, the escape thwarted.
A lyrical voice describes a bird in a tree whose singing brings comfort and happiness. The speaker notes the bird, called lazy-bird, charms listeners and evokes roses, twilight, and a heavenlike June, while ignoring frost and snowstorms. The excerpt ends with a reference to Washington Star.
A playful verse from Tit Bits about Jack Spratt and family meals. It names Mrs Spratt, William Spratt, Sister Lil, Sister Jane, Lycurgus, and junior John, each consuming whimsical foods such as Foodine Rususeaies Wheat Fata and Bath Mitts. The poem humorously critiques breakfast choices with invented terms and fanciful dishes.
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