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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1908
Page
18
The Anaconda Standard lists publication details subscription rates and extensive office and newsstand locations. It names main offices in Anaconda and branch offices in Butte Missoula and other cities with contact points for advertising and distribution.
The article notes President Roosevelt plans to travel to Africa with his son Kermit for a year of big game hunting. It contrasts reactions from supporters and critics while acknowledging past explorers and hunters in Africa and questioning other famous figures' motives.
Massive flood and rainfall isolate towns across Montana. The Butte Anaconda & Pacific and Northern Pacific rail lines halt service, communications collapse, and county highways buckle under water. Helena remains connected by Western Union, while Deer Lodge and surrounding valleys flood. Officials warn relief may take days as the storm persists.
A severe rainstorm proves the need for elevated tracks. The Northern Pacific project in Hell Cate canyon between Garrison and Missoula began a year ago to prevent washouts. The Montana rail lines face spring freshets as major threat and the completed work should greatly reduce flood danger.
The Montana railroads including Northern Pacific Great Northern Oregon Short Line invest heavily to harden tracks against spring freshets. Recent two week storms caused widespread disruption and stranded travelers, prompting officials to urge patience as repairs continue.
The article notes Mae McKenzies plan to return to the stage after testifying for the defense in the Harry Thaw trial, contrasting her fading public profile with Nan Patterson Evelyn Thaws potential comeback and urging renewed public encouragement for the glitter of the old life.
Paris faces rising gambling fever as Premier Clemenceau pushes to curb baccarat at watering places. He battles a law that lets casinos operate, highlighting Enghien's spring casino and recent personal crises in clubs. A raid averted a famous actress losing jewels on a card turn.
A June magazine piece by F E B Simmons surveys notable achievements of men past sixty. It highlights Blucher at 72 at Waterloo, Von Moltke directing Germany into his 90s, Winfield Scott at 75, Dix at 64 at Civil War start, Farragut peaking at 60 with four pivotal years, and Benjamin Franklin joining a court after age 70.
The article lists elder statesmen and writers who remained active past life milestones. It cites figures such as Adams, Jackson, Harrison, Taylor, Buchanan, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Johnson reaching or crossing age sixty in office, plus Emerson, Holmes, Lowell, Whittier, Longfellow, Bancroft, Bryant, and Bigelow producing or shaping work well into later years.
Johnstown report says Peter Zenich of Steubenville was arrested in Pittsburg for embezzling about $84,000 from the Servians. Bozo Cossovic, a wealthy local banker, faces embezzlement charges of $25,000. Both men connected to the Servian Orthodox Insurance company accused of failing to pay European death benefits.
A collage of light humor and witty exchanges from various papers. Jests about heat and metals, chatter, asylum questions, hens and coops, babies as joys, youth in business, mistaken proposals, literary meters, and a melodramatic plan to elope ending with a fade.
Futurist forecast by Frederic J. Haskin argues the farmer rails future progress through science, industry, and education. He predicts farmers become chemists and botanists, doubled farm land use, and electric cooking, transforming agriculture by 2000.
Quebec plans a grand pageant on the Plains of Abraham with 300 performers from Quebec Montreal and Ottawa under Frank Las elles to reenact Wolfe Montcalm and Champlain era scenes before 20 000 spectators. Guests include the Prince of Wales and Fairbanks as the pageant unfolds along the St Lawrence with living pictures of early events and a final parade of British and French generals.
Louie Kennells a Greek stabbed and killed Minnie Connor age 29 then fatally shot himself after being banished from her house. He hid at the Connor home waiting for the woman and died by suicide at the scene.
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