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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1902
Page
19
A veteran reporter recalls early scoop adventures in a western city. He describes a first special edition amid a city light dispute, late watches, and a dramatic theater panic where luck and careful interviewing produced a clean scoop.
In a Sunday Standard feature, Old Brown, master linotype operator, tended No. 4 with care and ritual until his death. After his passing the machine failed, bucking, jamming, and finally breaking its semi human arm and collapsing in a chain of mechanical misfortune.
London Answers recounts a tale in which a traveler jokes about preferring the stage coach to railway travel. The old man quips that a wheel failing leaves a greeting, while a boiler burst on a train prompts a startled inquiry about where the passengers are.
A reminiscences volume by Dean Hole cites a loyal clergyman’s prayer for Queen Adelaide wife of William IV. The prayer asks the Queen to become a new man as she ages, to live a chaste life and to bear righteous offspring for God, ending with a vivid simile likening her to a male goat on the mountains.
A traveler misses the Great Falls passenger train and rides a night freight to Helena. He secures a permit at the superintendent office, boards caboose 18 on train 41, endures a rough but atmospheric ride with coal cars, and enjoys meals, stories, and bunk rest before arriving in Helena in time for an engagement.
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