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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1903
Page
6
Public notice lists subscription rates for the Daily and Sunday edition, including one year ten dollars, six months five dollars, three months, and one month options, with advance payment required. Aimed at readers and subscribers in Anaconda.
The notice lists postage levels for 10 to 11 page editions at one cent, 2 to 32 page editions at two cents, and larger editions at four to five cents. It notes Europe rates are double and directs inquiries to the office in Anaconda with telephones and editorial rooms.
The Standard notes branch offices at Butte Missoula and Great Falls where advertising rates are provided on application.
Washington Bureau ds01 on Mth street N W lists Jabwaseecsoeseses with addresses at Nassau Street 87 and Washington Street cw Morton in charge, indicating office assignments and contact points.
The Standard is available at multiple outlets including New York City venues like L Jonas & Co Theater Ticket Office and Astor House, with additional listings in Chicago Minneapolis San Francisco Denver Salt Lake City Ogden Spokane Tacoma Seattle Portland and Kansas City. Correspondence should be sent to Standard Publishing Company Anaconda Montana.
Washington watchers note Colombia faces a prolonged fight over ratification as opponents press that the French concession is illegal and that paying 40 million dollars would secure only two years of rights. If delays mount, the United States may pivot to negotiating canal rights with Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
Following Congress passage of the Dick bill relating to the national militia the War Department has been flooded with inquiries about its exact provisions. An answer issued by the adjutant general’s office in Washington is cited.
The text explains that all able-bodied male citizens aged 18 to 45 belong to either the organized militia or the reserve militia. It notes the 1903 law and prior acts, and argues that exemptions did not prevent service by youths under 18 or men over 45 in wars, as history shows volunteers filling gaps.
Valley Forge hosts a dozen state societies for the 125th anniversary of Washingtons troops evacuation. Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts delivers the chief oration at the preserved Washington headquarters on the banks of the Schuylkill. The event is organized by the Valley Forge Anniversary Association which has preserved the site as a living memorial.
A Brooklyn advertising stunt using a mailed note and a beach date for The Telephone Girl musical comedy causes distress in families. Wary husbands fear infidelity while real telephone operators denounce the deceit and defend their professionalism.
Governor Hey-Forward pardoned Cato Gadsden who served twenty three years of a life sentence for stealing forty dollars worth of cottonseed. The sentence reflected old laws since revised, and many inmates remain under harsher terms than under current statutes. The governor’s intent to remedy all such cases is uncertain.
The piece decries lifetime prison sentences for petty seed theft and obsolete laws, cites Southern states, and condemns harsh justice. It riffs on political tangles from Roosevelt to Kruger, notes postal scandals, Balkan turmoil, and sensational crime in Belgrade and Buffalo.
The keynote of King Peter's program appears to stress benevolent despotism as its guiding principle.
From the Brooklyn Eagle a dialogue introduces Keroo as a new decorative art. The term Greek origin means to cover with wax and follows older crafts like pyrography and embroidery. The piece hints at creative exploration and novelty in design.
A display describes a Keroo kit using an alcohol lamp wooden base and metal plate to blend sealing wax into enamel like designs. Demonstrations include cloisonne and mosaic effects on photograph frames and decorative seals with Yale colors noted by a user confident in her own artistry.
A Philadelphia Press account quotes a Chicago traveler describing American attitudes toward drinks abroad. He compares cocktails in the United States with beer in England, absinthe in Paris, Italian vermouth, Château Romain wine near Rome, Lacrymae Christi on Vesuvius, and Turkish restrictions in Constantinople and Cairo, noting cultural contrasts and learning experiences.
A collage of jokes from various papers features playful barbs about school life, real estate schemes, healing crowds, and social manners. It includes lines about hazing, a parson and a colored brother, a promissory note, a divine healer, and sharp one liners on manners and secrets.
Boys' two-piece knee pants suits in fine wool fabrics and various colors, sizes 7 to 16, reduced to 3.95 to 6.50. Three-piece knee pants suits in blue and black worsteds, sizes 9 to 16, now 4.95 to 9.00. Also vests in white pique and striped patterns, sizes to 15 years, shirts sizes 12 to 14, value up to 1.25.
A catalog of discounted habutai silks and taffetas with marked-down yard prices, plus wash goods, linens, and hosiery. Items include 20-inch habutai priced at 28c yard, 24-inch black taf feta at 69c yard, and 19-inch silks at 33c yard, with further reductions on printed lawns, challies, zephyr ginghams, dimities, and remnants. Also featured are hosiery and silk ribbons with sale prices.
A long list of neckwear gloves lace trimmings and notions offered at deep discounts. Items include wash neckwear belts Swiss linens Madras and embroidered goods in white and color combos, gloves in various materials and colors, lace Valenciennes and silk ruchings, trims and remnants, hatpins pins and bags. Prices mainly well below regular tags with many two to five cent day pricing.
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