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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1903
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard prints a pricing note for subscriptions with daily and Sunday options. Rates shown include one year 10.00, six months 5.00, three months 2.0, one month 1.00, and Sunday only yearly terms. The notice indicates prepaid subscriptions and mail handling.
The Standard lists postage rates for editions of 19 to 48 pages and notes double rates for Europe. It directs inquiries for foreign rates to the Main Office Anaconda and lists branch offices in Butte Missoula and Great Falls. It provides contact details and street addresses for offices and newsstands including New York Chicago Denver Portland Seattle and Spokane.
A fragmentary telegram narrative compares the US Navy Kearsarge to German naval displays at Kiel and to Yale's triumphs in London. The piece lightly mocks coastal ceremony and weighs American heroism against foreign admiration, noting public interest in ships and the Kaiser’s compliments.
On a sunny August day residents from Deer Lodge valley arrived by excursion trains to tour Anaconda company's new smelting plant two miles from pioneer gathering grounds. Led by President Sealion, visitors inspected the towering stack and main flue stretching four thousand feet to the base chimneys, noting ample seating and service areas for crowds.
President Seallon defends the smokestack project as a remedy for local woes. The plant, the largest of its kind in Montana, promises jobs and economic growth while addressing worker and valley concerns with fair dealings and substantial investment.
The Illinois Telegraph and Telephone company uses a new automatic device to handle calls, sparking praise in the Chicago Journal. The piece notes the device could replace the telephone girl, arguing progress brings efficiency and new jobs despite job losses, and urges acceptance of advancing labor-saving machinery.
Dunkirk marks five hundred years of Notre Dame des Dunes as the statue trusted to Saint Mios is transferred from Fishermen's chapel. The shrine dates to late medieval times after a virgin statue was found in sand unblocking brackish water and drawing royal worship from Charles V and Leo XIII.
The article recalls how during the French revolution a sacred statue was hidden by an army officer's wife to protect it. The chapel became a powder magazine and was damaged by an explosion. After the monarchy’s restoration a new chapel was built, and the statue is now moved to a larger church.
The piece notes an announced shift to extreme heat across the nation as weather experts forecast sizzling conditions from soon into late summer. It contrasts Eastern cold with predicted widespread heat impacting resorts, growers, and ice vendors, while hinting at political and social commentary interwoven through the era’s topics.
The text mocks Peter for avoiding speeches at ceremonies where the key aim is summary punishment of the assassins. It notes Yale’s repeated triumphs over Harvard and hints at looming foreign displeasure and potential trouble for Peter with the skuptshtina on his hands.
Wealthy Cuban plant er Henry Roso said to have given much of his fortune to Cuban revolutionists is confined in a New York asylum for the insane. His estate once in the millions is now around fifty thousand dollars, per reports from Philadelphia and Lancaster.
A humorous New York Press vignette notes family squabbles dominate meal times with breakfast sparks, dinner bringing peace, and both spouses reacting to moods after waking. The author cheekily contrasts fault-finding breakfasts with calmer post tea hours in domestic life.
Rousing Friday bargain sale offers wide selection of ladies neckwear and trimmings. Heavy emphasis on Swiss stocks, laces, embroideries, and handkerchiefs at unusually low prices to reduce stock quickly. Includes creams, whites, linens, and assorted decorative trims.
Fifteen pieces ingrain carpets wool filling priced at 50c per yard down from 65c. Ten pieces Swiss curtains 36 inches wide at 36c per yard, regular 200 per yard. Thirty pieces tapestry Brussels carpets offered at 63c per yard. Fifteen pieces cretonne sateen and denims 36 inches wide priced at 65c per yard. One hundred pairs lace curtains regularly 3.00 per pair now advertised at sale pricing.
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