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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1912
Page
16
A report from Anaconda details that publishers and proprietors faced intervention at the local post office over mail matter labeled second Cisco. The incident centers on postal handling and the parties involved.
The notice shows monthly subscriptions at 81.0 fy and Sundar at per month, with yearly prepayment options. A separate standard office block rate appears as 2.5 per year, and a location mention Conda 115 8 116 appears as stray or misread data.
Rutte Branch lists East Broadway as location with Bell Telephone number 42 and Independent Telephone number 1422. J Morten is manager, with Forelen Ad New York office on Fifth Avenue.
The item lists various news agencies and offices across major cities with addresses, noting that general business letters and correspondence should be addressed to the Standard Publishing Company in Anaconda, Montana. The fragment reads like a directory snippet for the Standard.
Anaconda hosts the Episcopal convocation as Bishop Brewer presents a hopeful annual address on Montana church progress. The report lauds moral and spiritual advancement, praises settler prospects, and hints the bishop’s return could crown past achievements.
The article notes senators will delay appropriation bills until July 1 due to national conventions. With no Senate quorum during conventions, important bills will wait past legislative adjournment in Baltimore. Clerks remain employed despite temporary funds, but rushed action may keep provisions that would otherwise be cut.
The senate has delayed appropriation bills and failed to clear its calendar. With many absentees, a recess plan was adopted after three weeks of inaction and little serious effort to expedite legislation.
The Standard notes Montana law makes publicly defying the American flag a misdemeanor with a $100 fine or jail. Speakers on Butte streets have maligned the flag, often visitors, while loyal citizens urge the mayor and authorities to enforce the law to curb disloyalty and disorder.
Indications point to the Republican National Convention nominating President Taft for a second term. The piece argues that repudiating Taft would betray the party and its platform, labeling any alternative as admitting defeat and incompetence.
The Butte payroll set a record and speaks to local prosperity yet agitators sow discontent among miners and employers. The Anaconda Copper Mining Company maintains strong, safe employment relations and provides generous injury and widow relief as Marcus Daly’s plan persists. Broad minded company officers are credited for stability despite rhetoric.
The passage portrays miners as sincere and earnest in seeking the best service conditions. It lauds their loyalty, family values, and civic responsibility while noting their resistance to those who would stir trouble.
Arrangements by the British admiralty prepare enforcement of oil fuel deposits to supply naval vessels. The government eyes aviation growth with a Salisbury plain school for 179 pupils, 14 civilians. Attar of roses price soars, Fifth Avenue dealers struggle to meet orders. A suffragist anecdote recalls a parade banner incident. Judge Hough lampoons endless patent case records. Edinburgh’s St Giles clock to be replaced by a silent piece, museum display. W T Stead’s decorative insignia tale ends with a czar clasped by a trousers button. Comments on radium energy versus coal for ships, and fused silica as a new length standard warrant note.
Two national delegates from rival camps met at the Congress Hotel Chicago. A novelty cocktail with a lemon peel hat marks the drinker as a Roosevelt or Taft supporter based on whether the hat stays in the ring. The drink, created by Charlies W. Svendsen, aims to reveal political affiliation.
Marie von Glaser recalls a Mövenpick of memory from a 19th century dinner hosted by Johann Strauss in Vienna. Adalbert von Goldschmidt arrives late and joins the party as Strauss cryptically notes a change in the fatal number before laying early June roses on his bier.
Signor Marconi reports a method to send wireless messages across the desert without poles or masts. Wires laid along the sand for a short distance guide signals, as dry nonconductive sand enhances performance.
The Miles City piece mocks a Chicago hype about Teddy Rosen felt riding a real cow pony, contrasts old cowboy entry lore with a derby hat look, and denounces land swindle fears while praising western honesty. It cites uniform western land laws and a Minnesota bread-label anecdote to illustrate credibility.
The Chester Signal writes on the rapid fatalities among the birdmen, noting the peril of their missions and predicting it may soon end with the last aviator taking permanent wings in memory of fallen pilots.
A Moore Inland Empire column notes that someone who questions local unemployment may be the same person funding distant mail order jobs. The piece links local labor markets with outsourcing trends and broader economic choices.
The Stevensville Register notes a persistent but questionable approach to finding a presidential candidate. The piece frames the effort as shifty and investigative, hinting at underhanded methods amid the nation’s high stakes political process.
The Havre Promoter notes a River Press editorial urging Montana residents to buy Montana products including Montana flour. It argues Montana wheat is as good as any, often milled locally before being sold back as a Minnesota product, and challenges the belief that eastern or Minnesota flour yields better bread or pastries.
Lewistown News lauds the three year homestead act as a major win for the West and the country. It cites Senate champions Borah Dixon Warren and Smoot and House advocate Pray, notes initial Secretary Fisher opposition, and credits Taft for signing. The piece argues the law curbs farmer migration to Canada by offering public land terms superior to U S options, keeping wealth and citizens from leaving.
The Townsend Star notes a strong get-together sentiment fueling railroad construction mine expansion agricultural development and town building across Broadwater County. The cooperation promises substantial achievements and a bright future with notable industrial progress ahead.
The saying advises that a clever man who doubles grass where one grew is fine, but a gazabo who destroys good range with weeds gains nothing and earns the scorn of stockmen.
From the Miles City Star only one man thus far has had the nerve to say he wants to be vice president William Cox Redfield of Brooklyn has announced his desire for second place on the democratic ticket and he wears side whiskers.
The Sheridan Forum notes that several Western states are mounting targeted campaigns to draw in new settlers. Officials stress attractive terms and accessible lands to boost population and development across rural regions.
Aviator Claude Grahame White will marry Dorothy Taylor in a quiet June 27 ceremony at Widford parish church Essex England. The couple met last December on a mid Atlantic voyage aboard the Olympic and plan an aviation charity exhibition the day before the wedding in Hyland.
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