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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1912
Page
3
Publisher details for STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY include rates and offices in Anaconda Butte and other cities. It lists editorial contacts, foreign advertising, and numerous newsstand agents across the United States with addresses and phone numbers.
The city of Washington today serves as the campaign nerve center for all presidential hopefuls. Each candidate maintains main headquarters and a publicity bureau in the capital, with supplementary offices elsewhere. Washington hosts the central press agents as campaigns position for the convention. The era of dark horses, it seems, has passed.
A garbled passage discusses cross Atlantic views of sensational foreign items. It references John C. Griffithe and an author’s club dinner in London, noting American demand for vivid horrors and moral contrasts between nations. The text is fragmentary with many OCR errors.
A reflective piece debates English and American newspapers depicting real life, urging clearer cross border friendliness. It contrasts sensational foreign quotes with domestic clarity, critiques press control, and cites a Welsh minister’s allegory. It also surveys holiday scheduling and a proposed shift to Monday observances to ease industrial productivity.
Historical note outlines federal stance on homestead entries where settlers settle on outsurveyed lands with intent to claim eventually. It contrasts state supreme court rulings from Washington and Minnesota with federal authority, stating interior decisions prevail unless reversed by U S Supreme Court. The discussion covers sections sixteen and thirty-six and prior related case history.
The record details 1908 homestead filing by Ott on state land, later Interior department actions and a December ruling, with indemnity implications if a section is surveyed after loss. Fragments reference suffragettes, La Follette, Bryan, and a political jabbering scene surrounding Roosevelt and Dixon, plus theatrical notes on The Rose and a March lion joke.
Special dispatch from Bozeman reports the readjustment of county boundaries completed by Gallatin County Surveyor Fred Brown in cooperation with I Robertson Parke Meagher Walter Spach Broadwater and Walter Parnes Madison. If county commissions approve the action Attorney Joel M. Smith will consult the Attorney General to determine legislative steps. Brown will submit maps to Gallatin on Monday March 4 and to other county seats on following days.
A meeting of labor leaders planned for Kansas City was postponed indefinitely. Reports from Chicago in February said the gathering aimed to perfect a regional organization of railroad shopmen west of the Mississippi to seek a wage increase. J A Franklin and AMIF Ryan, presidents of unions, confirmed the postponement and that plans remain unsettled.
Washington March 1 President Taft issued a proclamation enabling South Dakota to exchange 00,002 acres of school lands for national forest land. The exchange, a first step in a forest service program, follows governors' talks on added lands within national forests and involves negotiations with other states.
Gers government notes joint U S action urging withdrawal from Central Mexico. Foreign office has not yet moved but anticipates possible identical steps by Germany, signaling a coordinated direction in the crisis.
Supreme Court reverses a Lewis and Clark county case. G W Smith vs Henry Zimmer and county officials. The decision holds that the board of commissioners bears general road supervision but individual members may be held liable for dereliction, and the supervisor must act in emergencies or face removal. Justice Hollaway dissented. Iowa City area report notes North Liberty hosts five heavy men totaling 4580 pounds and a mayoral challenge.
ABE MARTIN and Constant Vander are mentioned in a garbled note about a vaudeville show at Molotcon. The text hints at a nonsensical sequence relating to tobacco, a show, and odd items such as weed, turnips, and eggs, but the core facts are unclear.
In Cingeland Obie Lombardo violently struck Tony Pitchen with a corncob pipe during a late card game. Pitchen suffered facial injuries and died last night. Lombardo was jailed, facing charges as the investigation proceeds.
In Maine related bribery charges, State Senator L. A. Ane Atrows faces trial in Lawrence County court following indictments tied to a $200 bribe from an insurance investigator. The case centers on alleged favors for an Insurance bill amid connections to insurance men and the Shell Oil Company matter involving refinery plans.
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