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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1903
Page
6
Short notice from Anaconda Standard outlines daily and Sunday publication options with subscription rates and mail handling details. Addresses and phone numbers for the main and editorial offices are listed.
The notice lists branch offices at Butte 28 East Broadway with phone 422 Missoula 110 West Main Street with phone 118 Great Falls Postoffice News Stand managed by W J Morton Nassau Street listing Nassau Street New York Office and Chicago Office 87 Washington Street as points of contact for foreign advertisements.
The notice lists newsstands for The Standard in major cities including New York City Brentano's Union Square Chicago Vanderslice 217 Dearborn Street Auditorium Annex Minneapolis Kavanaugh's South Third Street San Francisco Palace Hotel Denver 906 Seventeenth Street Salt Lake City 51 West Second South Salt Lake News Co Ogden Kings 425 Twenty-fifth Street Spokane 108 North Howard Tacoma 1121 Pacific Avenue Seattle Hanbury's 201 First Avenue South Portland Hotel Kansas City Ricksicker's Ninth and Walnut Address corrections go to Standard Publishing Company Anaconda Montana.
The dispatches report Cuba largely at peace but note Cuban factions seek pay as soldiers who aided Spain. Washington’s Maine memory fuels back-pay demands and bonded debt questions. Critics warn of threats to force payment, while annexation advocates anticipate a renewed chorus if trouble grows.
The article marks John Ericsson's centenary birth in Sweden and notes services worldwide including a statue dedication in Battery Park. It recalls his naval weapon innovations, early submarine concepts, and the Monitor’s rapid construction and voyage to Hampton Roads amid initial naval skepticism.
On the hundredth anniversary of John Ericsson birth, critics recall his pivotal role in naval history. His Ericsson shipyard invention enabled the ironclad era, sinking the Confederate ram Merrimac after it terrorized Hampton Roads. The event influenced cautious powers to rethink intervention in the Civil War.
A Philadelphia based self styled alchemist attracts attention with a plan to make gold from baser metals at low cost. Reports say a plant exists, machinery is set up and notable businessmen show interest. The piece notes such schemes appeal despite typically failing promises.
Kansas school trustees push contracts banning courtship and marriage during the school year. About 7 000 women teachers face such clauses amid resignations and protests. Supporters cite discipline while critics call it an abridgment of personal liberty and urge review by women’s clubs nationwide.
A 1903 science summary notes a upheaval in views of matter and energy. It highlights the breaking up of the atom and transmutation of matter, with Sir Oliver Lodge explaining how electrons form atoms and radiation reshapes fundamental ideas.
The article surveys radical ideas about matter and electrons, noting radium as a source of novel atomic forms and heat radiation. It cautions that current atomic theories may soon be outdated and compares scientific progress to a standing committee asking to meet again.
The article describes the intense harvest rush in Kansas with hoboes pressed into fields, farmers aiding each other through cooperative work, and the urgency to cut grain at the right maturity to avoid losses from weather and delay. It contrasts Kansas practices with Montana ranching and touches on other dated mentions.
The piece notes Adrian IV the sole English pope and oddly calls him Nicholas Brakespeare. It recounts his background as an English beggar turned monk near Avignon in France where he pursued study.
In 1187 at age 37 Adrian IV was elected abbot then pope. He became a cardinal bishop and was elected pope against his inclination. Henry I offered formal congratulations. Adrian IV compelled Frederick I to yield homage, even kissing the pope and holding his stirrup as the emperor mounted.
Princes Street hotel keepers face a rat invasion from an ivy bank gardens. Rats emerge by day and enter open windows via drains and water pipes. Despite many methods, a mongoose drive has been tried to curb the infestation.
A Swedish missionary seeking foothold in Abyssinia faced King Menelek who pressed him on Jewish presence in Europe. The king ordered the man carried beyond the frontier and told not to return until he had converted all Jews and heathen between Sweden and Abyssinia.
A once famed Tweed banquet hall beneath New York City Hall now serves as a storage room for the city record office. The basement room once hosted secret banquets and private prize fights during Tweed era governance, but its grand history has faded into routine business use.
Three years after the dowager empress opposed all things foreign the court in Peking hosted entertainment. Yu Keng and two daughters of an ex-minister danced a minuet in French peasant costumes while four Chinese princesses performed a quadrille. The empress watched with pleasure as a contrasting earlier scandal of a woman dressing as a man was noted.
A Russian court tale recounts the Dowager Czarina reading a document about a political prisoner. On the margin a note by Alexander II reads Pardon impossible to be sent to Siberia. She strikes out the comma and reorders the phrase to read Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia.
George B McClellan, son of the Union general, emerges as a Tammany candidate for mayor confronting Jusion and Seth Low. A popular but untested figure, he has long been involved in Tammany politics and served in Congress.
John Morley described the House of Commons in a technical debate as a listless audience watching a dull play performed by actors speaking an unknown tongue. The remark portrays the session as tedious and incomprehensible to listeners.
A scatter of brief notes covers currency miscounts in San Francisco, a defaulter treasurer McDonellsd and a donor attempt. name change request by Prof. Irwin Rautenstrauer of Washington University. a Webster Springs family tallies to 25 feet across eight sons. Maryland lists three ex governors including White Carroll and Jackson.
A political writer portrays Aldrich of Rhode Island as a powerful Senate figure guiding the Republican platform of 1904. The piece notes United States Senator Aldrich touring Alaska with a Senate committee, and mentions Bird S. McGuire, the new Oklahoma delegate, and Rooseveltian alignment. It also discusses the English guard at royal ceremonies and a Clark University president’s stance on bachelors taxes. Another focus is the guard’s annual pay and duties.
About 50 Jerusalem natives led a 10 000 strong crowd in an elaborate oriental dedication on 16 acres on a hill at the world’s fair. Senator Burton opened the ceremonies with Francis and Tavytor speeches. Corner stone laid after a 30 minute rite. lamb sacrifice omitted due to sentiment. Cost estimated at 1.4 million dollars and the project sparked a Roosevelt Burton rift over stock promotion.
A humorous nostalgia piece imagining a prehistory of learning when knowledge was simple and universal. The speaker laments a world without libraries and modern specialties, where poetry prose and Greek dialogue sufficed and geography rested on Anaximander’s map. The poem playfully contrasts past ease with present complexity and metaphysical chatter.
Helena reports the death in Dayton Ohio of Mahel Fravel sister of Lieut Ira F Fravel of the 24th Infantry stationed at Fort Harrison. She died of tuberculosis at nearly 23 after a year of illness. Also notes a Helena wedding Ira H Haddow and Miss Agnes Dooley. St Ignatius feast with Bishop Brondel. French coal investor Remy in town seeking Montana shipments. Labor Day athletic contests planned in Havre.
Big Timber reports H B Mitchell and colleagues returning from fishing near the Boulder headwaters with J K Sheridan of the Big Timber Pioneer. The county board of commissioners adjourns until August 5 after equalization hearings. Bozeman notes a woman assaulted by Jack Frasier and the sheriff pursuing a Deer Lodge County check forger.
In St. Petersburg on July 31 an official decree places all Armenian church property and revenue in Russia, totaling 15 million dollars, under the crown. Russian ministers will administer in trust to curb Armenian national funds misuse. Prince Mestschersky launches Friendly Words to aid officials against revolutionary workers and peasants. The czar orders the journal read in public schools.
Whatcom, Oregon July 30 John Berg the Whatcom wrestler and Pacific coast heavyweight champion defeated Frank Coleman to claim the middleweight championship of America by taking two of three falls in the match.
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