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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1908
Page
18
The Anaconda Standard lists publishing details, subscription rates, and multiple office addresses. It notes main office in Anaconda with branches in Butte Missoula and other cities, with several national and regional newsstand locations and contact points for business and advertising inquiries.
Democratic leaders weigh Douglas as campaign manager amid doubts about Ollie James. The Bryan team seeks to win about 500,000 colored voters in regions hurt by anti Taft sentiment linked to Roosevelt Foraker. Douglas, a Massachusetts former governor with a shoe empire, is a hustler seen as potential campaign captain.
A Paris cable reports Paul Bourget, famed novelist and playwright, believes he has diabetes despite physicians saying he is physically well. He has burned his finished play The Emigrant after fear it would fail. His work is noted for exploring disillusionment, psychology, and pessimism.
The text reflects on Paul Bourget’sGrowing sense of incongruity as he studies the wicked and abnormal, lacking faith in God or human progress. It notes an idea of Swift’s remark that Bourget is "a tree dying at the top" as a metaphor for his mental strain.
An editorial charges that William Jennings Bryan sold campaign speeches to phonograph companies for five hundred dollars each, paid by two firms. It argues the payments, though criticized, reflect his right to earn income from his speeches and compares it to alternatives, stating he is thrifty and that the practice is not a commercial slant on his politics.
A read newspaper piece questions a Belgium plot against King Leopold III and notes his public appearances without guards. It recalls his roaming youth, scandals, and long 43 year reign since Lincoln’s second term, contrasting his rule with European monarchs and controversial policies.
In Jamaica Plain a barroom robbery left three men dead or dying after gunmen struck Tuesday night. Last night eleven people were shot including five police officers, with three officers and a woman likely to die. The piece contrasts Boston crime with Butte police force criticized in later lines.
A 1909 forecast notes a year rich in anniversaries as Abraham Lincoln born February 12, 1809 in Kentucky and Charles Darwin born in an English mansion share a centennial year. The Lincoln centennial will be observed in the United States.
Tributes to Darwin and other 1803 born figures mark observances. Mentions Poe Mendelssohn Chopin Fitzgerald Kinglake Tennyson Holmes and Gladstone. Commentary on ships, politics, capitals, and Olympic influence follows with fiscal and campaign humor, referencing Bryan Hearst Roosevelt Taft Foraker and Ohio trends.
In a Calgary Herald humor column, Andy McTavish visits a doctor after declaring he feels unwell. The doctor quizzes his drinking and smoking, learns Andy drinks whiskey and smokes two ounces daily, and asks him to quit. Andy leaves without paying, muttering he won’t take it.
In Culebra Panama Zone an American engineering corps led by Goethals transforms the canal project. The article lauds Goethals, Stevens, Wallace, and others, noting the army’s decisive role, the pace of excavation, and the crucial tasks of dirt removal, labor management, and sanitary work under Colonel Gorgas.
The Atlantic battleship fleet bade farewell to Hawaii as the flagship Connecticut led the line out of Honolulu at 2 30 pm. Ships weighed anchor for Auckland with an expected August 8 arrival. Rear Admiral Sperry thanked Honolulu for hospitality and praised the fair treatment of sailors, saying it would boost pride and contentment in the service.
A major fire in Corbin early today destroyed the Rosenburg butcher shop Wade's saloon and an adjoining store. Damages are estimated at 5000 dollars after the blaze was checked by valiant efforts. Local fire crews battled the flames in Helena on July 22.
Helena reports the first large flood bridge contract was let this summer, signaling the costly start of rebuilding. The project aims to restore damaged crossings and improve flood resilience for the region.
County commissioners authorize a project with Minneapolis Steel and Machinery for two bridges over the Prickly Pear at East Helena. The contract totals 7,945 dollars. The county estimates 100,000 dollars will cover flood damages to bridges and roads.
A heavy rainstorm over Pottsville Pennsylvania last night ended a long drought and allows reopening of many collieries idle for lack of water. Waterways were redirected to reservoirs, and breweries report their empty beer kegs impounded in mining villages used to transport water down the mountains.
Night riders attacked Illinois Central lines in Gracey Christian county Cerulean Trigg county and Otter Pond Caldwell county early today. At Gracey twenty masked riders seized the telephone exchange with two operators, set the station on fire and fled. At Cerulean the blaze was quiet. At Cobb gunfire followed the burning as riders departed. An earlier request to camp on company property near Otter Pond triggered protests.
Three civil actions totaling 95000 were filed in district court by heirs of William F. Copenhaver engineer, William J. Bules fireman, and James F. Rowe student fireman. They allege deaths from a boiler explosion on the Northern Pacific Railway at Mace Idaho last December.
Helena July 22 at a board meeting of the Odd Fellows home directors plans were ordered drawn immediately for the structure and work started as soon as possible. The site near Broad water was purchased last year.
The Democratic state committee of Pennsylvania re-elected State Chairman George M Dimeling of Clearfield without opposition and adopted resolutions endorsing Bryan and Kern while denouncing the Denver convention. They condemn the Denver credentials action and insist James M. Guffey remains the duly authorized Pennsylvania national committeeman.
In St. Louis on July 22 a blaze swept a South Second street boarding house injuring four men and a boy. Two victims escaping through second story windows were trapped in their rooms. Adam Klein aged 68 inhaled flames and Albert Trotwell aged 49 sustained internal injuries, with two others believed fatally hurt.
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