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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1905
Page
4
The Anaconda Standard notes STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY as publishers and proprietors. It states it is printed daily and entered at the Anaconda post office as second class mail matter.
The notice lists monthly and long term subscription prices for Daily and Sunday editions. Rates include per month, six months in advance, and one year in advance. It references the Main Office in Standard Block Anaconda and provides office telephone numbers No 1 editorial rooms and No 48.
A carriage of office addresses appears with locations in Butte and New York. Listings include East Broadway, Main Street, and Nassau Street, plus Chicago and telephone references for W. J. Morton as manager of foreign advertising.
The Standard is available at several news stands across major cities. Locations include Brentano's Union Square New York Auditorium Annex Chicago Kavanaugh's South Third Street Minneapolis Palace Hotel and Hotel St. Francis San Francisco and 6 Seventeenth Street Denver Salt Lake City Salt Lake News Co Ogden Kind's 24 Twenty-fifth Street Spokane 108 North Howard Street Tacoma 1121 Pacific Avenue Seattle Hotel Seattle and 210 Columbia Street Portland Portland Hotel Kansas City Mo Ricksicker's Ninth and Walnut Streets. All correspondence should go to The Standard Publishing Company Anaconda Montana.
The article chronicles an extraordinary run by the Twentieth Century Limited over the Lake Shore and New York Central lines aimed at an eighteen hour record and a possible fourteen hour Chicago to New York stretch. Engineers claim to exceed the proposed fast schedule in several divisions, testing limits and proving bold performance.
Eagles to convene in Anaconda this week for the third annual Montana gathering. Across 25 local aeries and a state membership exceeding five thousand, the western fraternal order girds for three days of social events and hospitable entertainment, with a full convention program planned.
On June 17, Nevada celebrated the turning of water from the Truckee Carson canal, a federal irrigation milestone. The completed section will irrigate about fifty thousand acres, with a plan to reach three hundred thousand more. The project diverts Carson and Truckee rivers from Sierra snow and stores water for desert plains.
Butte contemplates a summer special election to vote on two major items. Voters would decide public playgrounds and baths for youths and a $400 000 bond issue. City finances show debt around $430 000 with 6 percent interest and plans to issue bonds at 4 1 3 percent to retire it.
W D Darst of Great Falls claims a new forcing mix and underground layers can yield 30 000 bushels of potatoes per acre every 60 days. He says a patent is approved and promises public demonstration after obtaining funds.
Government engineers planned a canal system feeding from the Truckee river to a Carson basin reservoir near the sink. The plan grants homesteads of up to eighty acres with ten yearly installments covering irrigation costs. After ten years, if half the land is reclaimed, the farm and water rights become permanent property.
The Sunday Standard notes census figures showing about 340000 Norwegians and 580000 Swedes in the United States. It explains ratios to populations in Sweden and Norway and notes figures exclude American-born children of Swedish or Norwegian parents.
The Sunday Standard outlines a biographical sketch of Gen Maximo Gomez and notes his death while defending a long career as a Cuban liberator. It counters claims that he profited from a three million dollar U S gift, stating only a small portion reached him and his scattered funds after the American occupation.
The passage notes Gomez could have taken a California ranch and cash from Spain if he quit his Cuban fight, but he remained devoted. It credits his career as creditable for money matters, highlighting thriftlessness, lifelong enlistment in a just cause, and his role in Cuba's liberation as seen by the narrator.
Rev M E Bachman of Millersville Pennsylvania quits his church to return to the forge, citing insufficient salary for a large family. His father was a skilled edge tool dresser and taught him the trade before ordination.
A 19th or early 20th century discussion outlines tuberculosis as the Great White Plague. It notes the disease kills about one in four, mainly affects the lungs, and urges broad public action to arrest its spread, referencing Osler and historic crusades.
In a vivid Outing narrative, Ewart Scott Grogan recalls stalking a lion on an open plain. A puff adder interrupts the hunt as the hunter inches toward a distant tuft of grass, risking a dangerous pursuit.
A hunter stalking a lion in noon heat approaches a patch of grass. He sees the lion’s face then loses sight as the beast resumes feeding. A shot is fired and the scene ends with the plain dancing in heat and smoke drifting overhead.
Recreation notes frequent hand to hand fighting in the Russian Japanese war despite high power rifles. Experts defer Springfield distribution and study a bayonet rod concept that doubles as a cleaning tool but is impractical. The proposed bayonet is short, weakly secured, and ineffective against adversaries, likened to a broom handle in moral impact.
The text distinguishes being in love from loving, calling the former selfish and bondage like. True loving is freedom for both self and others, valuing the loved one for their best strength, use, and happiness rather than for personal gain.
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