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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1903
Page
4
The Anaconda Standard publishes daily and Sunday editions with subscription rates in advance. It lists price options for one year six months three months one month and Sunday only, plus contact details for the Main Office and Editorial Rooms.
The Standard operates branches in Butte Missoula Great Falls and lists foreign advertising contacts in New York and Chicago. Newsstands in major cities carry the Standard with multiple distribution points and management by W J Morton in Anaconda Montana.
The city of Butte forgoes summer horse races this year as poolrooms grow year round. Supporters claim racing harmed by gambling venues, while critics note other local entertainments like gardens, ball games, and coursing rise in prominence. The shift follows a history of active racing in Butte and suggests broader changes in local leisure and economy.
A dialogue on whether any man is wholly bad leads to a Rochester New York divorce suit. Mrs. Renkle alleges years of cruelty including rattling dishes and scuffling feet, and a final insult of vivid red housepaint to drive her to madness, amid sporadic protests of meekness.
The prophecy warns that Vatican Quirinal relations will shape the next papal election. It recalls 1870 when Victor Emmanuel entered Rome, ending the Papacy’s temporal power, and outlines the Papal guarantees offered to the pope. The conclave debates whether the pope remains a prisoner within walls or seeks restored temporal authority.
The article describes Mrs. Renkle’s home as a vivid red dwelling with bright blue trimmings, portraying it as an extreme hardship and urging relief for a woman in such a plight. It argues the paint scheme represents intolerable conditions warranting sympathetic reconsideration by a judge.
The text notes Boer families seeking the return of ancestral family Bibles looted during conflict. Lord Roberts replies to petitions, but general response seems unlikely, as a thief would likely keep such sacred items. The incident underscores war’s reach beyond bodies to sacred records.
A Missouri political confrontation pits the mass of party voters against the state machine. Folk, praised for honesty and energy, faces strong machine opposition led by Gantt. The feud echoes Civil War tensions as Missouri politics wrestles with old Confederate loyalties and modern candidate aims.
Crawford Fairbanks of Terre Haute, a millionaire brewer, states he cannot be prevailed upon to accept the Democratic nomination for Indiana governor. Maeterlinck criticizes French drama, noting stronger German theater works. The Khedive’s Europe tour attracts interest. he is educated in Vienna and has a large family. Alfred H. Smith becomes New York Central general manager after a long rise from entry-level work. Sir Gilbert Parker urges a conference to unite higher education across English-speaking countries with plans for a permanent imperial council and allied journalism conference. Rear Admiral Francis A Cook slowly recovers from illness in Brooklyn naval hospital after long service. Miss Helen Gould hosts a girls’ club gathering at her Hudson River home.
Lord Hoberts at the War Office seeks return of family Bibles taken from Boer farmhouses during the looting campaign. Boer women fled to the hills while looters burned and plundered homes. British troops often destroyed or kept the Bibles as curiosities, leaving families bereft of ancestral records.
The article notes vast underground water reserves, with the deepest possible aquifers around six miles below the surface. It states crustal water equals about one third of oceanic water and could flood the globe to 3500 to 5000 feet if exposed. It describes slow underground movement, especially in the Dakota formation artesian wells.
Sir Ronard Malet recalls a tale where a cardinal at a party calm asks for absolution from a murderer who confessed after he took orders. Moments later an elderly marquis enters and reveals he was the first to confess, prompting shock at the cardinal’s memory of his earliest penitent.
Waterloo Iowa physician minister Dr John T Crippen will celebrate fifty years in the Methodist ministry this month. In 43 years he attended all Sundays except illness missing four in half a century. He dedicated two churches and faced a four week illness when doctors doubted his recovery. His wife asked what songs to sing at his funeral. he replied they might sing When Johnnie Goes Marching Home. His recovery followed that moment.
A French paper reports a London man who for years followed King Edward and the Prince of Wales at foreign watering places. Whenever he saw the royal drinking from a straw he seized it for his collection. Last year his amassed straws allowed him to have a hat fashioned from them.
A London News correspondent at Palling, Norfolk, sought permission to walk the marsh meadows to botanize. The owner hesitated and finally asked if the visitor would not carry a gun, highlighting wary land access and local scrutiny.
Report from Rome claims Cardinal Oreglia drove through the Vatican garden and commented on neglect. Readers question whether the remarks imply he would avoid or pursue papal duties or simply fault the garden’s upkeep. The piece notes the garden’s size and historic role as a restraint space.
Rome braces for a secret conclave with bricked approaches and a special mass for oath taking. The process uses the scrutinum to elect a pope, with six scrutineers directing, two from each order, and a two thirds plus one vote needed. If no result, votes are burned and a second necessit vote follows with Accedo or Accedu nemini phrases.
The text describes the conclave procedure for electing a pope. It notes that if no result is reached votes may be burned and the process restarts the next morning. Once a candidate is elected the cardinal deacon reads each voting motto to identify votes and the fisherman's ring is delivered to the new pope after ceremonial rites.
The army increased its duties after the Spanish War providing relief in Puerto Rico after hurricanes and aiding fair elections. In the Philippines it established schools with soldier teachers and enforced vaccination reducing smallpox and disease. In Cuba it helped create stable government and healthy cities, reducing epidemic risks. The army is described as constructive and life saving overall.
Ex Governor Garcelon of Maine, age about ninety, continues medical work within a 30 mile radius. He travels by Morgan horse to distant events, visits South America, the Pacific coast, and gulf states. He attends the American Society of Medicine meeting in New Orleans and never misses Lewiston public gatherings, as Lewiston’s pioneer native-born resident.
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