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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1912
Page
12
The Anaconda Standard lists publishing and subscription data with rates and multiple office addresses. It notes daily and Sunday edition costs, and provides main and branch office locations including Bell and Independent phones and major city addresses.
A dense OCR fragment lists various newsstand and news agency locations in cities including New York Detroit Chicago St Paul Minneapolis Kansas City San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego and Denver. It notes addresses and agents linked to standard publishing operations in Anaconda Montana.
The New York press quotes Senator Dixon of Montana and Judge Lindsey of Colorado on naming Roosevelt for both president and vice president. Progressives challenge customs and the constitution as out of date while courting a shared ticket. The Atlantic City road congress hosts Wilson and Taft with non political addresses amid campaign tensions.
The American Association for Highway Improvement, the American Automobile Association, and the National Association of Road Machinery and Material Manufacturers plan a joint congress in Atlantic City. More than fifty state, county, and local associations will be represented, with automobile tours arranged nationwide. Exhibits cover eighty thousand square feet, half already reserved by leading manufacturers.
Acknowledged as a valued and upright figure Captain A Nichols, Civil War veteran, miner and businessman, is laid to rest in Butte with the state praising his sterling integrity and long service. He later moved to Missoula where he died suddenly, leaving a memory cherished by Montanans.
Reports from Montana promise excellent crops this fall and rising copper prices, signaling good times for the state despite national campaigns. A Metropolitan piece offers a scientific take on ghost stories, arguing apparitions are nonphysical and tied to hallucinations, though some scientists still support spirit communication.
A mosaic of derisive comments on scholars politicians and events. The piece mocks Professor Janes and his dead influence while venturing opinions on Mexico Britain Germany and Taft. It references Gambler Rosenthal police corruption Mount McKinley and the Cuban revolution in a rapid-fire, opinionated collage.
Beaverhead County High School directors met and elected G. T. Paul president T. D. Olmsted vice president and Miss Margaret Ross secretary for the coming year. Re‑elected were L. B. Foote Catherine Paxton Anna Johnson B. A. Tower and J Kerr. Edith McDowell’s successor in domestic science is Miss Elizabeth Condit. Robert Mosher remains in commercial. Edith Ketchum named assistant in mathematics and English. The board urged a county vote on bonds to add a building for industrial arts domestic science agriculture and a gymnasium.
Representative Seii of New York quits committee after charging that Secretary Wilson secured his son Jasper a job with the Teaver Reservoir irrigation company last year. Representative Ruby also involved as the house committee met to hear the charges.
Arthur Day the receiver for the company states Joel Wilson draws zero dollars per year as compensation.
In Great Falls a wealthy real estate man named Soild and Miss Caroline Pharsell were wed in a spring ceremony attended by family. The Rev A G Lunde then unexpectedly united George Soli d with Miss Anna Wiprud of Dutton as the second couple.
Courtroom scenes reveal fears of retaliation linked to the Rosenthal murder probe. The district attorney probes links between Webber, Rose, Becker, and others amid claims of a gray car used in the killing. Perjury charges arise as witnesses discuss connections to baths, gambling, and a larger conspiracy.
Report from the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee unveils an omnibus measure bundling ten water site bills. It authorizes dam construction across navigable streams in Tennessee Montana and Missouri and across the Mississippi River between Iowa and Illinois in Rock Island County. The text links water power issues to broader global plague references in Russia and Central Asia.
Moreaux, a Montana land promoter based in Chicago, convicted in Kansas City of embezzling 1282 dollars from Bass Thore and Acre Ranch company funds. Jury fixed his sentence at three years in the penitentiary. No witness testified for the prosecution. Moreaux plans an appeal.
A Chicago review of post convention disputes alleges Roosevelt and supporters used venom to mislead the public and accuse fraud. Mondell criticizes pre-convention contests as fiction driven by prearranged schemes to steal votes from Republican candidates and ally with a third party.
Harry Anderson was acquitted in federal court on a liquor selling to Indians charge. The government’s key witness, Indian Ainsley, faced a perjury hearing before U S Commissioner J H Brass and was bound over for grand jury action after reportedly admitting to perjury on the stand.
California novelist and suffrage leader Gertrude Atherton has returned to San Francisco to register for the September primary. She says she will campaign for Woodrow Wilson and has canceled a trip to Germany to exercise her new voting rights.
In this historical note the claim is made that Kansas derives its name from a proofreading error. It suggests early Kansas Indians were called Kaws and a missionary text was misread turning "She" into "ne," leading to the modern name Kansas.
Report says miners and trolley workers faced cloudburst disaster while 2000 picnic attendees were stranded on the hills of Oakford park. As of late, no fatalities were confirmed though the scene prompted rescue efforts and service disruption.
Brownaville Pa July 24 Horsemen racing through water up to saddle girths covered nine miles to reach Smoke mining village and alert miners and families as a reservoir broke prompting evacuation to hills. Ten families fled waterlogged homes and camped on slopes as rain continued.
As an alarm spread through the mine more than 500 men were at work when workers moved to safety. The incident prompted emergency response precautions as crews secured the area and checked for injuries. Authorities began a full assessment of the mine's safety procedures.
Flood damage estimated at one million dollars followed the breaking of two dams on the Wisconsin river north of Wausau. Three bridges were washed out and a fourth damaged while electric power and streetcar service were shut down. The Tomahawk Brokaw structures failed as floodwaters reached the waterworks, flooding streets and city hall areas. no lives reported. A report of farmhouses swept away lacked confirmation.
In Seattle during a brief thunderstorm today one-tenth of an inch of rain fell in five minutes. The downpour was the most severe in nearly three years.
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