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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1908
Page
12
The Anaconda Standard lists subscription rates with daily and Sunday options. Rates include $1.00 per month, $10.00 yearly prepaid, and a separate Sunday Standard yearly rate. Main office contact details and telephone numbers are provided.
A fragmented notice lists branch offices in Butte on East Broadway with a 2 percent reference and partial phone details. The message mentions Higgins avenue and separate telephone lines but state of contact is incomplete.
J Morton is listed as Manager Foreign Advertising with offices in New York Room 919 Brunswick Building 225 Fifth Avenue and Chicago office at 87 Washington Street. The notice provides location details for the company's foreign advertising department.
The Standard is on sale at news stands in New York Chicago Kanees City Minneapolis San Francisco Los Angeles Denver Salt Lake City Ogden Spokane Tacoma Seattle Portland. General business, letters and correspondence should be addressed to Anaconda, Mont.
The Montana state Democratic convention scheduled for next Wednesday in Bozeman is postponed due to travel disruption. Weather has eased but western and northern delegates cannot reach Bozeman by noon, so delaying ensures full state representation for selecting delegates to the Denver national convention.
The St Louis Post-Dispatch proposes a historical pageant as the centenary celebration feature. A staged reenactment would revive early village life from Laclede to Lewis and Clark, through the Louisiana Purchase era and civil war, with scenes and characters from King Edward to General Grant.
A citizen suggests a city history pageant from Fourth to Twelfth streets to educate and inspire patriotism. Anaconda marks twenty-fifth anniversary on July Fourth, and a staged recreation of early 1883 settlement tents at the park could serve as the centerpiece.
Iowa Republicans appear to have granted Mr Allison a life lease in the federal senate by timing his nomination with the party line on tariff revision. The piece argues he lacks leadership and opinion, having always followed the procession, and credits Cummins with political reversals and pledges that influenced the race.
The Butte club, idle since May 28, faces 12 straight postponements and cannot play before June 3 if possible. Spokane and Tacoma schedules were disrupted by weather, with only May 28 opening game played. Seattle plans a visit, offering a glimmer of progress amid a season marred by bad luck.
The piece argues Congress was a do nothing body despite claims to the contrary. It notes the currency issue was sidestepped, the Aldrich bill controlled the senate, and a commission led by Aldrich became the vehicle. Speaker Cannon pressured Republicans to pass a measure or risk losing bills and votes.
The passage argues the commission will spend years on the currency issue, delaying real reform. It predicts continued eleventh-hour measures unless Aldrich loses influence, claiming the Republican majority dodged the vital issues set by the president at session start.
London grumbles as King Edward plans a visit to Czar Nicholas. Parliament debates the propriety of state courtesy toward Russia amid criticism of Tsarist suppression of reform. Asquith defends the visit as long overdue, arguing etiquette requires monarchs to meet allied rulers on amicable terms.
St Petersburg June 7 Michael Budnikov a hussar who joined the Russian army in 1797 served 80 years and is 128 years old remains active living on his own farm and holding the rank of retired peasant with a 600 dollar pension He traveled from Tver to attend the royal wedding exhibition He recalls Napoleon’s invasion and knows General Kutuzoff and Skobeleff He bears the for valor medals of St George and numerous other honors including two life saving medals and a lottery prize recently won worth 2600 dollars.
A plain plastered stone house near Nuremberg’s city hall, built about 1680 from lithographic stone, stands out only by its material. Worth about $4,000 today, it is owned by Andreas Lichtenstein who repeatedly rejects buyers aiming to tear it down for stone. Bavaria hosts the largest lithographic quarries, attracting curious printers.
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt, a dramatic exchange unfolds as a woman rebukes a man, declaring they are not equal but ten, with her branding him as the cipher while she asserts herself as the active force in their tense exchange.
A humorous temperance vignette follows reporters in a saloon as a bald headed man orders sarsaparilla and recalls old colleagues who quit drink. The tale frames a moral about reform and restraint amid social chatter and old camaraderie.
Charges fly over convention tactics as anti Taft coalition presses contest plans. Delegates from Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Missouri North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania South Carolina and Tennessee face credential battles with key figures Crane Hemenway Dick Foraker and Vorys shaping a high stakes push.
With the Republican National Convention in Chicago looming, delegates move toward the city as contesting delegations argue their cases. Five Democratic conventions will choose delegates in Denver area states including Montana Bozeman New Mexico Roswell Virginia Roanoke Kentucky Lexington Utah Salt Lake City.
The text lists eight districts in Texas with delegates at large and 16 districts in Virginia with delegates, plus eight districts in West Virginia and one district. It also notes contests in Alaska and Arizona.
Harper's excerpts recount Wall Street in 1734 as a ragged street with a faltering market and slave displays at the eastern slip near the Long Island ferry. Along the line stood a Bayards sugar refining barn, a city hall begun in 1699, a Presbyterian church, and Trinity Church’s square wooden chapel at Broadway’s head.
A Chicago Tribune vignette notes the Fourth of July quiet after a long-ago wave of deaths. A foreigner asks how boys observe the day and learns the last of them perished a year earlier, while a crowd packs the ball park for the real celebration.
Townsend June 7 One of the most enthusiastic democratic conventions in Broadwater county was held yesterday with resolutions endorsing W J Bryan and instructing delegates to the state convention for him. Delegates elected include C S Muffley Harry Gulker Ross Deegan Dan Carl W C Whaley Thomas Sherlock John H Johnson Warren Parker Hugh Broderick James L Belcher Peter J Meloy G E Pool C A Whipple W E Tierney A A Stafford. Alternates named include George Danielson Fred Slavin R D Myles Thomas Lenahan J M McKay Jake Ross Thomas Hudson Bish Williams E H Goodman Fred Buzby John Huis T N Averill A B Rosman J P Keavns W Eversole.
In Chicago on June 7 the Christchurch Presbyterian Church at Orchard and Center streets announced a courting room. Equipped with cozy corners screens chaperons and soft lights it aims to aid Dan Cupid once adjoining property is secured. Rev J E Snyder proposed the idea a week ago and church leaders quickly approved the plan.
A London heiress, Mrs Augustine Rylands, left an estate valued near 17.5 million dollars. Death duties totaled about 2.275 million, with 10 percent on the first million and 15 percent on the rest. She gave nearly 2.5 million to charity and 1 million for a library in memory of her husband.
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