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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1902
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard shows STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY as publishers. It lists mail handling details and subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions, including durations of one year six months three months one month and Sunday one year.
The notice lists edition sizes and prices for domestic and foreign mailing options. It specifies rates for one to three cent papers and mentions Europe as a special case with double rates. It directs inquiries to the Main Office in the Standard Block, Anaconda, and provides telephone contacts for business and editorial rooms.
The Standard notes branch offices at Butte Missoula and Great Falls where advertising rates are provided on application. Washington Bureau No 4 Post Building and Eastern offices listed with contact at Nassau Street and Washington Street under W J Morion in charge.
The Standard is carried at Chicago Postoffice News Stand and Chicago Auditorium Annex. San Francisco Palace Hotel, Los Angeles 422 South Main Street and 906 Seventeenth Street entry. Salt Lake 51 West Second South Street. Spokane 10% North TeIward, Tacoma 1208 Pacific Avenue, Seattle 216 Pike Street, Portland Portland Hotel. All general correspondence to Araconda Montana.
A bizarre panorama unfolds from Outlaw Tracy boasting of Merrill’s death to a Colorado train hold up with many passengers. The piece mocks pursuit tales, notes New York papers overstate danger, and contrasts with a comic strand about Dr Root resisting Roosevelt era office moves.
The town's newspapers flood readers with minutiae from the Roosevelts' daily life. A bootmaker delivers news of two pairs hobnailed shoes ordered for walking after a ride. An 11-year-old girl named Ethel trips when a wet road causes a horse to slip, but sustains no injury.
Madrid dispatches reveal sharply contrasting judgments on King Alfonso as he governs at seventeen, with one cable praising his wit and decisiveness and another accusing him of eccentricity and debauchery. The piece also surveys a seismic shift in American attitudes toward national irrigation policy driven by Westward development and endorsement from Presidents and Congress.
A collage of editorials rails at Mary MacLane criticising reporters and public gossip. Opinions from Baltimore to Chicago label her controversial persona, while notes from Denver to Minneapolis praise or scold her genius and profits.
Benjamin Lupton accuses Professor Oscar Collins of hypnotizing his 18 year old son from Jersey City and making him act like a monkey with jumping between chairs and perching on mantelpieces. Police aided in recovering the boy who then revealed further unsettling details.
The elder Lupton seeks to annul the marriage through legal action while charging Collins with kidnapping. The case offers courts a chance to rule on hypnotism. If the marriage stands and the professor is cleared, Lupton may feel mocked for his son.
A terse note notes Corn King John W Gates turning a quick corner and credits Mr Tracy as the most truthful man who ever broke jail or shot a partner. It adds Gates is a good sailor so no serious trouble arises near the regal caecum.
A compilation of editorials lampoon Oyster Bay as the president’s summer retreat. Writers joke that the town’s political magnetism and media presence inflate rooms prices and draw reporters, photographers, and public attention, shaping national interest around the president’s stay.
A store offers about 50 dozen waists in fabrics like cotton, madras, pique, and India linen. Prices ranged from $1.50 to $3.75, now divided into two lots to undercut the cheapest items in each group.
Hand made bows and stocks priced at 5.00 and 6.00 were cut to 2.00. Stocks listed at 7T5c and 1.00 dropped to 25c. Fancy belts also reduced to half and below.
Table item advertises gowns chemises skirts and corset covers with values ranging from 1 50 to 2 00. The listing promises good value and highlights price points for readers seeking affordable apparel.
The issue notes the arrival of Standard patterns and fashion publications for August. Designers are offered at 0c per copy with a yearly price of $1.00. Fashion sheets are being distributed freely to attract readers.
All the silks advertise at 47¢ and 67¢ a yard suit many uses such as waists skirts linings and children's dresses. Fine imported batistes reduced in proportion.
The advertisement touts a 25 percent annual discount sale with 1,000 new style summer bows at 25c each and fancy socks with lace effects at 25c per pair plus Kalbriggan underwear at 50c per garment.
The Chicago Chronicle warns that removing President Roosevelt would bring Mr. Hay to the presidency and laments that the country could not endure such a calamity, urging vigilant protection around the leader.
Historic remarks by Don M. Dickinson on Joseph H. Choate in London attract blunt editorials from Springfield to Milwaukee. Critics mock the Choate presidential buzz as a British audience pleaser and question its relevance to U.S. voters.
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