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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1901
Page
8
Rates for daily and Sunday editions are listed by term ranging from one month to one year. Public mailings and international rates are noted with current prices and office addresses for inquiries at No. 1 No. 4.
The Anaconda Standard reported the largest paid circulation in Montana for 1900, with average daily readers at 11,891 and Sunday readers at 14,184, surpassing all other Montana papers.
The piece argues since Gladstone's death the English liberals have fractured into rival factions. strong leaders exist but fail to unite on live issues. It contends Liberal collapse allowed Tory wins, citing Boer War scandals, fiscal strain, and naval weakness as causes, urging renewal from the liberal camp.
President Council of the Alabama mechanical college argues that ten million African Americans in the South enjoy unprecedented chances for material progress. He cites open avenues in work, money, and savings, with the workshop schoolroom and church as accessible civilizing agencies, despite some regional opposition.
The text argues that race progress hinges on education and industrial discipline rather than suffrage. It praises certain black leaders while warning that without white cooperation progress stalls. It condemns Liberia Haiti San Domingo experiments and cautions southern districts against neglect, noting urban colonies show regression. Colonization is viewed as returning to barbarism for ten million people.
The 1900 census is criticized as unreliable due to partisan manipulation in Maryland. Enumerators in Republican districts allegedly pad lists and plunder graveyards to inflate figures, while Democratic areas show inflated disease rumors. The piece calls for a permanent expert census under civil service rules to restore accuracy.
A Lima directive, in concert with undertakers, bans Sunday funerals and restricts burial permits. Clergy, mourners, and the public are left unconsulted as officials urge weekday deaths, arguing Sunday funerals cause extravagance and disrupt rest, with Monday or Tuesday deaths preferred.
The excerpt discusses how Aleman and others may choose to die when convenient, noting wealthier families can delay deaths with ice and embalming. It contrasts this with the middle and lower classes who lack resources and must die on days chosen by undertakers or risk spoilage, highlighting class disparities in burial timing.
A lengthy column defends Depew by dismissing the third term idea as unwise and undemocratic. It contrasts historical restraint with current power concerns and mocks McKinley booster rhetoric and unwritten constitutional tradition.
The Transcript argues that the United States lacks a proper diplomatic service with essential traditions and customs. It contends diplomacy requires native ability and sustained care, suggesting the nation may realize the truth that diplomacy is a demanding profession.
W. H. Winters sends a lengthy open letter to H. D. Moore arguing that fire insurance fits the dictionary notion of a commodity and that Montana should bar insurance trusts under section 321. He cites legal authorities and contrasts Montana with other states, insisting insurance policies are commodities traded across states and that anti-compact laws apply.
The British transport Armenian arrived in Bermuda with the first Boer prisoners to be quartered on Darrell's and Tucker's islands. Health officers visit only at present and no infectious cases are reported. Prisoners, a mix of Dutch and Europeans, appear ragged but in good spirits. Water is scarce and camps lack condensing apparatus.
London reporters say the parliamentary committee ruled that the Board of Trade appoint an arbitrator to decide between the Yerkes and Ganz electrical systems for the underground. The committee approved legislation to allow Charles T. Yerkes to electrify the roads, pending arbitration by two engineers and the arbitrator.
Mr. Yerkes told the Associated Press the parliamentary committee's meeting result was eminently satisfactory and that with the project in proper hands construction will move quickly. He asserted Americans will prove the American system superior to European methods.
Cedar Rapids Iowa June 8 1938 Parvin longtime grand secretary of the Iowa Masonic grand lodge died today. He was one of the most widely known Masons in the country and likely the last of Iowa’s original pioneers.
William Drea bach a pioneer in California wheat and long known as the Wheat King died in San Francisco after a brief illness. He was known to shipping and wheat circles worldwide and was about fifty years old.
Williamson West Virginia June 28 Strikers have added strength by securing cooperation of Alma mines men who organized a union yesterday with 70 members Leaders estimate today only 21 men are employed in all mines in the field.
Commander Frederick Robinson Smith U S N retired dies at 61 in Binghamton New York on June 28. He graduated from Annapolis in 1861 and served with distinction in the Civil War. He was promoted to commander in 1870.
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