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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1913
Page
6
STANDARD PUBLISHING CoCOM Company, Publishers and Proprietors, stored at the Post Office in Anaconda as Second-Class Mail Matter.
Rates show subscriptions by month and year with different options. Entries mention Standard and Main Office blocks plus independent phones and numbers, indicating a local newspaper’s listing of billing channels and contact lines.
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A fragmented listing names newspapers and news agents across multiple cities from New York to Spokane. It notes addresses for agents and directs all business letters to the Standard Publishing Company in Anaconda Montana.
In the early hours yesterday, highwaymen broke records by raiding Thornton Butte’s leading hotel in the business district beside city hall and the police station. Previously such crime was limited to saloons in the outskirts and crowd-pedestrian robberies. The daring act signals a grim year with many undetected and unpunished offenses in Butte.
The piece argues against raid actions and destruction of socialist headquarters. It contends violence fails to deter beliefs, suggests permitting socialism to run its course, and asserts election to office will expose and topple socialist leaders through their own errors and incompetence.
An article argues farmers are gaining power in Washington and government support expands rural services. It notes growing attention and a future role for Uncle Sam in building country roads and rural delivery, comparing past postal expansion to anticipated projects and public works.
The text argues federal involvement in road building could be safe if partnered with states and notes Congress is receptive to farmer demands. It says farmers can secure aid by pressing Congress, citing political leverage and a shift from manufacturing to farming interests.
European steamship firms plan active entry into the Panama canal trade as soon as it opens, with 32 organized lines ready and 60 ships being built for canal routes. American lines lag in readiness, while Suez’s traffic growth highlights European urgency and the global commerce transformation expected from the canal.
The Denver recall move against Judge Ben B Lindsey illustrates how recall can depose good leaders as easily as bad. Lindsey, a progressive who backed recall, fears a costly campaign that has left him near poverty while foes may force another election. Montana should study this risk before adopting recall in its constitution.
Curious couple from Missouri attempt a six month trial separation with no contact except a monthly payment. The wife travels to Colorado and the pair agree to reunite if they still want to stay married after the period. If not, they will pursue a legal divorce, avoiding sudden court action.
A mosaic of dated opinions and quips. references to trial marriage and divorce ideas, Bulgaria’s war damage, Montana hotel robbers, Underwood Simmons, Seattle’s press rivaling the London Times, a girl baseball hoax in Washington, Titanic era oaths, Pancho Villa era politics, gunpoint night clerk satire, Balkan and Mexican conflicts, Balkan peace terms, and Pacific Coast pennant standings.
A New York Sun piece recalls Carter Glass of Lynchburg Virginia once riding the district to greet voters and even chat with a boy by a cornfield fence. Other anecdotes tell of a weary traveler in a smoking car losing his $30 in chips and a debt bound Saint Foix failing to collect a loan while barbered. The Pathfinder adds a tale of an actor urged to pawn his diamond ring when the show falters.
Lowell arrives in Berlin and delivers a lecture before a University audience. Count Wolf von Baudissin welcomes him as Professor Edward Meyer represents the philosophy faculty. A student chorus sings patriotic songs including The Star Spangled Banner in German. Herr von Trott zu Solz hosts a luncheon and the university senate a dinner in his honor.
A humorous verse laments extreme heat and the repeated question Is this hot enough for you? The speaker vows patience and peace until Berserk blood rises, imagining slaying a foe and cooling the world with canned heat. The piece ends with a defiant grin at the scorching day.
A description contrasts handwriting with personal mannerisms as a telltale identity. Scotland Yard notes that walk, posture, and habits reveal more than facial traits. Autograph quirks of Asquith, Bonar Law, Lloyd George, Churchill, McKenna, and Birrell illustrate how individuals betray themselves in small, habitual acts.
A Cincinnati Enquirer humor piece riffs on male and female behavior with wry aphorisms. It jokes that no man matches the ideal of fiction, notes homesickness after long travel, mocks insanity, and contrasts advice with cash needs while lampooning drinking culture and olives for boys.
A verse from the Baltimore Sun pleads for a happy world free of bickering and hate. It envisions sunshine music blossoms and mutual care, urging an end to warlike talk and deceit and a welcome at the gate through hope and trust.
Importers bring large Mocha goatskins from Aden on the Gulf of Aden into this country. Abyssinians and Somalis are noted as expert skinning practitioners. The merchant rarely uses a knife after killing and uses a bellows to remove the skin. Somali women also show high skill and care in the process.
A collage of jokes and cartoon captions from era newspapers including exchanges about mail posts posthole diggers robes and halos, a sparring pair about beggars and quarters, a boarding house gossip joke, a hen and parcel post egg pun, a mother and son cat torturing birthday joke, and shoe polish commentary, all in period tone.
The New York World reviews a sleep agent called anabiose discovered by Professor Bakhmetieff of Moscow. It purportedly places humans and animals in suspended animation, reversible by light, humidity, and warmth. Applications claim include avoiding duties, silencing pets, and delaying witnesses, with no food or drink needed during suspension.
The passage discusses using a sleeping drug to quiet family tensions until a man lands a job and notes risks of wifely visits. It envisions criminals subjected to further experiments and a future where suspended individuals awaken as part of descendants. Professor Bakhmetieff is claimed to have discovered the substance, though many suspect leakage to railroad presidents and others who induce brief un consciousness and memory loss.
A collection of brief notes touches on Smyrna planning an electric street railway, the banana’s rise in Germany, Missouri farms yielding over a million bushels of corn, and a 198 year old Copenhagen yacht still in service. Also recounted are Eskimo anecdotes about moose, and a report on The Roadmender by Michael Fairless written on a dying author’s bed with minimal nourishment.
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