The Anaconda Standard Publishing Info and Offices
The Anaconda Standard lists publication details including ownership, subscription rates, and office locations. It enumerates foreign advertising contacts, multiple city offices, and newsstand locations in New York Chicago Kansas City Minneapolis San Francisco Los Angeles Denver Pasadena Salt Lake City Ogden Spokane Tacoma Seattle Portland and notes all correspondence should go to Anaconda, Montana.
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New York City
Broadway
Thirty-eighth Street
Chicago
Auditorium Annex
P. O. News Co
Dearborn Street
Empire News
Jackson and
Dearborn
Kansas City
Yuma News Co
Ninth and Main
Minneapolis
Kavanaugh
South Third Street
San Francisco
van Ness Avenue
Los Angeles
Amos
Denver
Seventeenth Street
Pasadena
Cal
Hornung’s
Salt Lake City
Moon
Rosenfeld & Hanson's
Church Street
Ogden
Kind's
Twenty-fifth Street
Spokane
North Howard Street
John W. Graham & Co
Tacoma
Pacific Avenue
Seattle
International News Co
Portland
Oregon News Co
Sixth Street
Standard Publishing Company
Anaconda
Mont
Mutiny at Deer Lodge Prison Ends in Fatal Deputy Slaying
March 9 1998 dispatch reports a brief prison disturbance at Deer Lodge Montana in which two convicts attacked Warden Conley and Deputy Robinson. Conley survived the shooting while Robinson was killed. Authorities pursue accountability as wounded conspirators recover and face swift reckoning.
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Deer Lodge
Frank Conley
Robinson
Penitentiary
Montana
Conley
Russia's Chief Curse and the Vodka Monopoly
Sergius Volkhovsky argues the vodka monopoly ruins Russia as czar’s domain profits from saloons and poverty rises. M. Tchelyseff in the Duma advocates temperance, calling for closure of vodka shows and reform to cure the empire’s ills. The article contrasts grim Russian drink shops with American saloons and highlights a nation at a tipping point.
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Russia
Sergius Volkhovsky
St. Petersburg
Duma
M. Tchelyseff
Russia's tax dilemma and peasant demoralization
The speaker laments Russia's tax burden and the loss of noble leadership. He argues the imperial treasury needs profitable revenue sources beyond the demoralizing sale of the substance fueling peasant decline, noting such diversification may be impossible under heavy taxation.
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Russia
Roosevelt aide spins ghost stories on Evans fleet rumors
The article reports J T McCleary, second assistant postmaster general, at a New York banquet promoting merchant marine subsidies. He claimed the Evans fleet would reach Straits of Magellan, amid talk of Japanese threats. Washington officials reportedly dispute those assurances as untrue and unbecoming for a subordinate to spread.
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California
Roosevelt
J. T. McCleary
United States
McCleary
New York
American car in New York to Paris test visits Cheyenne
The New York to Paris automobile test reaches Cheyenne with crowds cheering the American go devil. Wyoming towns from the east boundary to the Erie canal line salute as the machine faces mud and snow on what may outpace Atlantic liners once the route from Madison Square to Place de la Concorde via Pasco Junction and Dawson City gains pace.
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New York
Paris
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Erie Canal
Butte
Anaconda
Madison Square
Place de la Concorde
Pasco Junction
Dawson City
Windmills Lifted From Ridicule To Utility On Farms
Dr. Wiley of the bureau of chemistry argues windmills can generate electricity for farm use including pumping water running a chopper heating a house and supplying kitchen fuel. He warns fuel may exhaust while wind remains a steady resource urging respect for windmills as a lasting helpful tool.
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Don Quixote
Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculture
Famine Threat Looms in India as Rain Fails Across Regions
The piece depicts an India gripped by famine after prolonged drought since September. It notes near total crop failure, December harvests ruined, and millions starving or working for the government on dam projects. It portrays exhausted men, women, and children awaiting relief amid a drought-stricken land.
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India
Famine’s toll in India as water dries and crops fail
The report describes millions of dry wells and scarce water from scattered tanks and pools, with crocodiles present in many public sources. Sick women and children drink this water to survive, while mango fruit now bears poison. Cattle wilt in the sun. rain is needed to avert mass slaughter and famine. The piece contrasts India’s suffering with Western views on economic hardship.
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India
Lines to a Laugh Jokes From Various Papers
A carnival of quips and cartoons from Chicago Tribune Philadelphia Press Baltimore American and more. A physician warns a patient and a bootblack jokes about dying while a Wiseman declines friendly advice. A revolving door gag and a cement future spark gentle laughs.
Postscripts and Global Trade Notes from the Era
Eleanor Duse buys the Capponi palace near Florence for 600000 francs. Paper made from tree fiber becomes a major product after 1890. Australian tin production reaches 12091 tons worth over 7300000 dollars in 1906. Ontario faces a fuel shortage as no coal is found. In Lonoke Arkansas six thousand acres yield four million bushels of rice valued at 500000 dollars. A Paris market basket of 63 peaches sells for 540 dollars. National transport costs total 1400000000 dollars annually, electrification could save 250000000. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel aims to create a new province in Central Africa and new dioceses in several regions.
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Eleanor Duse
Capponi
Florence
Italy
John P. Bray
Melbourne
Australia
Canada
Ontario
Lonoke
Ark
Paris
London
Society For the Propagation of the Gospel
Central
Africa
Manchuria
Singapore
Edmonton
Khartum
Northwest
Rhodesia
Mountain folk and tobacco in a stand against night riders
The piece argues mountain people may carry pistols and rifles, wear coonskin caps, go barefoot, chaw tobacco, or smoke cigars, yet oppose outside control by tobacco trusts or circulates of showing seed. It asserts pride in personal liberty and rejects night rider domination while respecting diverse choices in tobacco growing.
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Tobacco Trust
Railroad Discrimination Hit In Pana Shelbyville Run
From the Litchfield Monitor the Big Four railroad faces criticism as time table changes cause Sunday night trains to skip Shelbyville. Local fears include a surplus of bachelors in Shelbyville and an uptick in old maids in Pana unless service is amended.
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Litchfield Monitor
Big Four
Pana
Shelbyville
Albert Screamer Cherokee Indian Tenor Vocal Soloist
Albert M. Screamer, a Carlisle Indian School alum, formerly a clarinetist in the United States Indian Band, is featured for his voice culture training and plans to make a living as a tenor vocal soloist. His business cards describe him as a Cherokee Indian tenor vocal soloist.
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Ashville Gazette News
Albert Screamer
Albert M. Screamer
Albert
United States Indian Band
Carlisle
Easton Adopts Municipal Flag From Revolutionary War
The city of Easton has adopted a municipal flag described as a replica from the Revolutionary era. It features 18 red and white stripes in the upper corner and a blue field with a circle of eight white stars at the center.
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Philadelphia Record
Easton
What kind of coal do you use in your house
In Life a reader asks about coal type with a witty reply noting pea coal and vegetarian humor reflecting lifestyle jokes of the era.
Turmoil on Day Amid Oriental Strife Involving Tatsu Maru
Tokyo demands the release of the Tatsu Maru and punishment for officers linked to its seizure by Chinese authorities near Canton. The incident follows a report that rifles and ammunition bound for Macao were to be smuggled into China, sparking tensions and threatening broader Japan China diplomatic friction.
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Tokio
Japan
China
Tokio Foreign Office
Chinese Foreign Board
Tsin Min Tun
Middle Kingdom
Macao Harbor
Canton
Nina
Kobe
Ataka Shokai
Osaka
Kwong Yo & Co
Macao
Taotai
Hongkong
Chines
Chinese postal clash with Japan over Manchuria
Peking reports China aims to restore full sovereignty in Manchuria, prompting Japanese countermeasures. Japan tightens postal control, blocks Chinese mail, confiscates parcels, and operates a Dalny base post. China doubles its post offices from 43 to 84, plans 150 by April. Russia complicates traffic. China seeks a modus operandi with Japan, while preparing to join the international postal union in 1911.
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Peking
China
Manchuria
Japan
Manchurian
Department of Communications
Imperial Japanese Post
Dalny
Russia
Europe
East
Siberia
Imperial
International Postal Union
Postal Union
Berne
Foreign Board
Japan will not use force over Tatsu seizure unless China acts
A high official from the foreign office stated that Japan will not resort to force regarding the Tatsu seizure unless compelled by China's actions. The remark signals caution and a preference for restraint amid ongoing tensions.
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Foreign Office
Japan
Tatsu
China
China apologizes for flag incident over Tatsu Maru seizure
London dispatch reports China apologized to Japan for hauling down the Japanese flag on the steamer Tatsu Maru during seizure actions. China bound to punish responsible officers and to reply on seizure of the armed vessel and its cargo, with a later official response promised.
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London
China
Japan
Harriman Takes Over Central of Georgia Railroad
Macon Ga March 8 Chairman McLennon of the Georgia railroad commission issues a signed statement outlining Harriman plan to transfer Central of Georgia stock to Illinois Central. He cites Hanson testimony that Harriman bought stock June 16 1907 from Southern Railway for 3 million and used Thorne and Perry as agents. The transfer to Illinois Central expected after Illinois election results.
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Macon
McLennon
The
Georgia Railroad Commission
E. H. Harriman
Central of Georgia
Illinois Central
MclLennon
Hanson
the Central
Oakleigh Thorne
Marsden J. Perry
Southern Railway Company
Thorne
Perry
Harriman
Chicago
Representative Meyer Dead in New Orleans at 65
Representative Adolph Meyer of the First Louisiana district died at his home in New Orleans on March 8. A former assistant adjutant general in the Confederate army, he was 65 years old.
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New Orleans
Adolph Meyer
First
Louisiana
Famous Jockey Dead in Dallas After German Riding Career
Charles Jackson Van Dusen, once a famed jockey, died in Dallas today. His last rides were in Germany, where he rode several times for the Kaiser.
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Dallas
Tex
March
Charles Jackson van Dusen
Germany
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Standard Publishing Company, Publishers and Proprietors
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Standard Stock
East Broadway
Higgins Avenue
Morton
Brunswick Building
Fifth Avenue
Washington Street
Chicago Tribune
Wiseman
Dudley
Philadelphia Press
Baltimore
Chicago Record-Herald
Baltimore American
Postscripts
Kentucky Mountains
A. Screamer
Pan
Schilling
Georgia
Representative Meyer
Orton Brothers
Butte, Montana
Owsley Block
New Stupent
Rice & Fulton
Ind
Noroton Beauty
Ohio
State Nursery CO
Helena, Montana
E . No
Pacific Railway
Oregon Short Line Railway
Silver Bow
Northern Pacific
Durant
Great Northern
Miles’ Crossing
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