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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1905
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard announces publishing details including publisher and proprietors, daily and Sunday editions, subscription rates, and office contact information. Rates include monthly, six months, and annual payments with emphasis on advance payments and the standard block main office in Anaconda.
A fragment lists branch offices for a business with locations in Butte Broadways East Main street and a New York and Chicago presence with contact numbers for J Morton manager and foreign advertising.
The Standard is on sale at numerous news stands including New York at Brentano's Union Square Chicago at Auditorium Annex Minneapolis at Kavanaugh's San Francisco at Palace Hotel and Hotel St Francis Denver Salt Lake City Ogden Spokane Tacoma Seattle Portland and Kansas City locations. Address all business letters to The Standard Publishing Company Anaconda Montana.
A Baltimore paper cites an official of the canal commission arguing that the canal zone must be made wide open to provide recreational facilities for workers. He likens Butte and other cities to the needed model and questions moral outcry, suggesting officials be turned over to Mayor MacGinniss for lying about Butte.
The article notes New Hampshire coastal views near Portsmouth with a naval yard on an adjacent Maine island hosting a Japanese Russian plenipotentiary peace talk. Portsmouth is linked to literature figures B P Shillaber and Aldrich, and Portsmouth/Kittery history includes shipbuilding feats like Ranger and early American flags. It mentions the Wet of 1812 and Cervera’s fleet context.
The text notes Portsmouth as the site for plenipotentiaries meeting in an ancient settlement, older than Boston, implying historical significance and possible incidents in American history.
Secretary Bonaparte submits names for two United States colliers Erie and Ontario. Naval officials clash with him over Diamond Pearl Prometheus Vestal and mythological versus practical naming. He suggests Fire and Fury as simpler alternatives amid debates on tradition and policy.
Dr Burt G Wilder of Cornell argues humanity is becoming brainier while the body declines. He cites brain collection including Twain's and claims future humans may be all brain with no body as evolution proceeds slowly yet surely. He notes ancient Olympic leaps of sixty feet as ancient athletes outpaced moderns in imagination.
A long essay muses on dwindling physical prowess and expanding brains. It cites Dr. Wilder and Dr. Carter noting growing head measurements among American students, imagines brains dominating future humans, and jokes about transportation by thought and self-sustaining nourishment. It also weaves in satirical asides about current events and figures.
A writer notes J. M. Barrie’s extreme shyness with attractive women. He avoids direct eye contact, reacts like a fish bone throat, and only after repeated invitations does a luncheon offer him a chance at pleasant company.
He looked into the girl’s eyes and became speechless at the meal. Afterward he managed a gasp asking if they should return to the theater and offered his arm. He then sought the stage manager and spoke rapidly for thirty minutes.
The passage portrays J. J. Hill as a railway man and constructor who stays away from stocks. It highlights his foresight and practical imagination surpassing most peers, with only E. H. Harriman as a comparable force in railway strategy and the Northern Pacific era.
William C. Gates known as Swiftwater Bill faces a second divorce suit from his third wife. In Dawson during Klondike days he drew much attention for marriages and courtships. The suit, filed last April, followed a previous denial and no child support was set. Mrs Gates, formerly a dance hall performer, is the younger sister in a two-sister marriage.
A New York City magistrate and bachelor judge humorously refused a Philadelphia couple’s marriage, accepting a rose for his unknown wife and joking he would be tempted to visit Philadelphia if the bride’s sister looked like her.
Mrs McMillan wife of United States Senator McMillan of Michigan maintains a pheasant farm at her summer home near Magnolia Massachusetts. Visitors admire the striking golden birds as they parade across the circular gravel in front of the veranda. The birds come in several varieties and are tended by one or two servants born with the birds. They have shown resilience to American climate changes with few losses.
In a heated railroad encounter during anti slavery agitation, Wendell Phillips questions a minister about stopping the importation of souls and the existence of slavery, implying moral action beyond geographic focus.
Frederick W. Vanderbilt follows Mrs W K Van derbilt Jr in rebuilding Adirondack camps in chrysanthemum land style. Mrs Willie K with her Blue lake camp spent lavishly but never used it, while her husband s uncle now lives there and adds two more buildings on his preserve in oriental design.
In Butte secret stud poker games were quietly operated in multiple saloons. County Attorney's office acted to shut them down, stopping games in at least 11 locations last night. No arrests were made, and further action awaits any repeat offenses.
Thomas Skelly, driver for James Connelly's milk wagon, lies unconscious at St James hospital. Bruises on his body suggest a fall or being thrown from a wagon. He was brought from the county jail after a comatose state and has grown worse since.
J. D. Beattie a retired capitalist of Helena is in the city. William H. Brown owner of mining interests in Soap Gulch returned yesterday from Turner Illinois where he spent nine months with his brother and sister. He expects to remain in Butte a few days and then go to his mines.
Russian plenipotentiary M. Witte told the Associated Press that peace terms depend on the emperor, with two Russian factions split over war and peace. He warned against judging Russia by Western standards and said the crisis may last years before Russia again asserts influence in Europe.
London reports Hakodate correspondent says Japan has practically completed occupation of Sakhalien and is forming a government. Shanghai correspondent notes 125 light infantry and 3,009 coolies landed on Sakhalien to aid the occupation and administration.
Elias Zerola is highlighted as a leading Brasil author who also excels as a scientist geographer philologist linguist and physician, underscoring his diverse scholarly impact.
Late tonight a Port Angeles dispatch reports US lightship No. 67 is being towed up the straits in a helpless state after a boiler explosion. The vessel carried mangled corpses and scalded men, was taken from Flattery Rocks by the Tri Color and is now with the tug Pioneer toward Neah Bay for repairs.
The Korean loan of $1,000,000 issued in Tokyo was oversubscribed four times, marking the first foreign loan ever floated in Japan.
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