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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1902
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard announces publication by STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY with daily and Sunday editions. Subscription rates are listed for one year six months three months and one month in advance.
The Standard publishes postage rates: 19 to 16 page editions one half cent. 2 to 32 page editions five to six cents. three cents for other editions. Europe rates double domestic charges. Inquiries at Main Office. Editorial rooms listed in Anaconda Missoula and Great Falls offices for advertising rates.
Washington Bureau No 4 Post Muilding Eastern Offices New York Nassau Street Chicago Washington Street W J Morton in charge The Standard can be found at news stands in Chicago Postoffice News Stand Auditorium Annex San Francisco Palace Hotel Los Angeles 422 South Main Street Denver 4 seventeenth Street Salt Lake 51 West Second South Street Salt Lake New Co Spokane North Howard Tacoma 1202 Pacific Avenue Seattle Pike Street Portland Hotel Addressed to Standard Publishing Company Anaconda Montana
In Springfield John P Hopkins defeats Carter H Harrison for Illinois Democratic state central committee chair. The result shows Harrison cannot command Illinois party influence despite Chicago strength. The convention avoids endorsing the Kansas City platform and Bryan gains little prestige from the event.
Miss Mary Custis Lee daughter of Gen Rob ert E Lee was arrested in Alexandria on a charge under Virginia Jim Crow statutes after boarding a Washington to Virginia train in a negro car. Conductor ordered movement, police escorted her to the station, crowd gathered, mayor released her with case to be tried next day. she forfeited the appearance bond.
The conductors strict enforcement of law and willingness to be bound by it if acting differently reveal fresh evidence of racial tensions. It shows whites in the South under certain conditions may violate laws designed to maintain racial separation.
A Missouri reader questions the distinction between doctor of laws and doctor of jurisprudence citing Cleveland's honorary degree as an example of a redundant title. The writer argues the honor reveals how new degrees replace old ones and mocks Cleveland's legal legacy and expertise.
The Vermont Republican convention nears amid a fierce nominating battle among Gen. J. G. McCullouch Fletcher Proctor and Percival W. Clement. Wealthy backers flood the scene as debates over prohibition and license intensify. Clement campaigns with a lavish private car and evening dress to attract supporters.
The piece forecasts a stormy Republican convention over Clement and Proctor bids with a local-option plank likely. Clement may refuse to run as an independent if his anti-prohibition stance is not adopted, while another Republican could run on the license issue, signaling a fierce fall contest.
A Kansas county suit revisits a divorce that granted custody on grounds of alleged infidelity. The wife testified she never erred and that her husband knew of the agreed scheme to secure the divorce. The judge mused on the unlikely public dishonor and the case echoed Hardy’s heroine in its dramatic twist.
The Texas man known as Professor Strooks rose from a Santa Fe railroad section gang earning six cents a day to become president of Baylor University in Waco. His drive and discipline impressed founder R. C. Burleson, and after graduating Baylor he pursued a postgraduate course at Harvard. He will assume leadership at term's end.
The Springfield Republican mocks Arkansas Governor Jeff Davis over Baptist church charges and a drunken spree. It notes the Second Baptist Church of Little Rock expelled him for disorderly conduct and drinking with Black railroad passengers, while poking fun at local temperance norms.
Windsor to Ascot procession lights up the course as King Edward absent. Ard Patrick, Derby winner, is named winner of the Prince of Wales stake after a bumping incident. Scullion takes the Ascot handicap with Cabine second Rambling Katie third. Former President Cleveland receives Doctor of Jurisprudence at Villanova with other honorary degrees conferred.
An expert credits rock crystal spectacles with major medical benefits noting a 40 percent drop in global blindness due to eyewear. He adds they have eliminated many eye related headaches and improved overall eye health in modern medicine.
A London missionary told of sending a milking stool to a Black farm worker in Africa. The worker, beaten and with an empty pail, explained the stool was nice but would not sit on it, highlighting a violent, racist incident and dismissive attitude toward labor.
Lord Kelvin then Professor Thompson left Glasgow to receive knighthood. A substitute professor named Day covered for Sir William as students were amply served. Upon the knight’s return a board inscription read Work ye while it is called the Day for the Knight cometh when no man can work.
A Manx rural practice after a death sees relatives join the funeral family in church but remain seated and refrain from outward participation during services. The Sun day after a funeral is termed mourning Sunday and gathers kin who are available.
In a dialogue a top lawyer says Plant estate fees of about 40 million would yield about a million in legal fees. A physician asks if a surgeon saving Plant’s life could bill $100,000. The lawyer says no, fees are fixed by the courts. The doctor notes lawyers preserve themselves, while physicians preserve others.
One hundred high school pupils wrote Mr. Howells to express thanks and appreciation after reading one of his novels in their fiction course. Five letters came via the professor overseeing the class with a note that the author’s influence on his generation should not be ignored, prompting an autograph reply.
Lord Rosebery receives multiple honors including election as chancellor of London University succeeding the late Lord Kimberley and an honorary degree from the Welsh university amid continued recognition. The news notes recent elect of the British statesman.
An assortment of textile pieces and fabrics offered at discounted prices. Includes AT 63e linen batiste with colored silk stripes at 81.25 regular, AT 1.10 silk batiste natural color with silk embroidery, regular 750, silk batiste 46 inches wide fancy striped at L635 a yard, 82.75 regular, PONGEE SILKS extra wide natural colors embroidered with silk dots reduced from 2.00 to 1.19, PONGEE waist patterns embroidered and marked today at 4.95 each from 10.00.
Silk Box coats for women and misses in black taf feta and maire silk with white silk lining and a full box back. Originally priced at 18.00, they are offered today at half price as part of the raglan collection, some elaborately trimmed others plain.
Exceptional value wash waists offered in pink red light cadet and dark line colors. Mercerized chambray fabric with neat stitching and fine finish. Priced at $1.75, available sizes 34 to 44.
The piece links the honorary president of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Liberal league to curious scenes from travel and immigration. It profiles the Four Francois circus family with mixed origins and a Polish girl in Chicago with a famously long name. It notes Pension Commissioner Ware’s interest in good roads and a Kansas farmer joke, and ends with ex Governor Pattison’s disdain for social form and Secretary Shaw’s Burlington cottage stay.
The secretary reflects on fish stories being fiction yet vows to prove accuracy. The article recalls Fort Hamilton era figures Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jefferson Jackson, noting Jackson’s 1849 baptism at St. John’s Church within Fort Hamilton and the preserved baptismal font as a historical artifact.
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