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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1909
Page
16
The Anaconda Standard lists subscription rates and office contact details. It notes daily and Sunday editions with monthly and yearly prepaid prices, and identifies the main and business offices in Anaconda.
Branch offices listed in Butte at East Broadway with Bell and Independent phone numbers. Bell phone 422 and Independent phone 1422 cited for contact, located on Higgins Avenue with telephone 8.
W J Morton announces The Standard is available at numerous newsstands across major cities including New York Chicago Kansas City Minneapolis San Francisco Los Angeles Denver Houston Salt Lake City Ogden Spokane Tacoma Seattle Portland with specific addresses in each location. All business correspondence should go to the Standard Publishing Company Anaconda Montana.
A contemporary review finds Taft’s initial 100 days friendly overall with a cautious record. It notes a shift of attention from the White House to the Senate, limited executive drama, and tentative moves such as a proposed corporate earnings tax while cautioning about tariff legislation’s uncertain impact on his early reputation.
Washington state notes warn the late Olympia session may repeal two laws the wardrobe rule for district judges and the statewide anti cigarette measure. The piece discusses potential extra sessions and doubts the tobacco ban will pass constitutional muster while adult smokers defend their long standing rights.
The piece argues that youths should be barred from tobacco while adults retain rights, noting similar laws in other states have faltered and suggesting the issue may reach the U S Supreme Court. It frames smoking as a public health concern and mentions growing boys versus grown men.
Prominent professors urge academic reform citing President Wilson who warned that college life now centers on sideshows and athletics. Harvard's new president echoes regret that intellectual achievement is belittled while athletics become the drawing card, reflecting a trend among leading institutions.
A new old age pension law in Massachusetts compels equal employer and employee contributions for about twenty seven thousand workers of the Boston and Maine railroad. Minimum pension is two hundred dollars with added employer funds for current retirees. A trustees board will manage the fund under state insurance department supervision. plan requires two thirds employee approval to take effect and once in force becomes binding with tax exemption. If adopted other railways may follow.
A Paris department store magnate M Chauchard leaves a lavish will with a ten thousand dollar coffin and gold shroud for his funeral The eight million goes to a woman not his wife while three million to a former cabinet officer and clerk sums total two hundred thousand for five thousand two hundred workers The Paris poor receive twenty thousand The homes listed for public aid total 173694 less than twelve cents per person The will faces possible nullification amid family contests and the estate is said to exceed twenty million dollars.
W D Boyce publisher of a Chicago weekly prepares a pioneering East Africa trip targeting aerial photography from a captive balloon. He aims to surpass Roosevelt by obtaining hard to reach jungle pictures from above the clouds, though he has no prior expedition experience.
The article highlights James Boyce planning a novel air exploration of Africa by balloon. It speculates on risks and potential profits, noting scientific and public benefits if the journey succeeds. It suggests the balloon could offer unique aerial observations while the expedition hovers above jungles and wildlife.
The piece, a plain Persian trousers design, sits in a New York shop window as a striking novelty. It appears like a walking skirt at first glance but reveals itself as two walking skirts when the wearer moves. It buttons only at the back and suits street wear, golf, bowling, riding, hunting, or theater to the ballroom.
The Sun enters Cancer marking summer start on the hundred seventy second day. Astrological signs favor commerce and public/private undertakings in coming weeks but warn of labor troubles frauds and potential destructive storms. Watch for fickleness and excess, especially for those born now through June 28.
The article recalls past debates on Atwater’s claim that small alcohol amounts act as food. It highlights a British government commission finding beer has nutritive value and is a nourishing alcoholic beverage rather than merely drink. It notes beer is eaten with nourishment like soup and differs from wine or spirits.
Special Dispatch to the Standard Helena June 20 medals awarded to Helena Catholic school pupils for class merit and athletic prowess. Adelaide McNamara won a gold for best essay on Womanhood. Carl Gabisch Mamie Hayes won Christian doctrine awards. Victor Hebert won senior athletics. Harold Joyce Henry Toohey Earnest Immel James Flynn also honored. Dozens of girls received honors for deportment at St Vincent's and boarding school.
A medical commission report explains good beer and stout as beneficial beverages when used in moderation. It discusses hypnotic effects from hops, low pathogenic risk, and climatic influences on diet, while cautioning against alcohol abuse and recognizing harms of excess.
The article recounts Yale figures President Hadley and Professor Henry Beers as famed for absentmindedness. Hadley mistook a conductor for a friend on a streetcar and misplaced a nickel, then chased his own watch to rush back. Beers posted a 4 o clock return notice but lingered longer than planned, turning to kill time before returning.
Haroutine Adrounie, a Christian educator who fled Turkey to avoid punishment for saving Tarsus from slaughter, has arrived in New York. Disguised on horseback he warned the American consul in Mersina of massacre threats, risking his life to save thousands and earning his co religionists gratitude at the cost of exile.
Frederic J. Haskin portrays the American mission in Egypt as a driving force in modernizing schooling, medicine, and morals since 1854. It runs 180 schools, a college, a seminary, and five hospitals, educating Copts Moslems and Christians while promoting sanitation and women’s education amid cultural tensions.
FE W Glaze writes to patrons that his Kansas university bound son finishes this year and dad plans to attend if possible. He will be away Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday the 8th 9th and 10th, urging sales to continue via a want ad in one publication.
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