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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1906
Page
18
The Anaconda Standard notes publishing company details including daily and Sunday rates, subscription terms, and office contact lines. It lists prices for daily and Sunday six months and one year, plus a Sunday Standard annual rate, with declarations about post office classification and business and editorial telephone lines.
The record lists branch office locations at 28 East Broadway Butte and 130 Higgins Avenue Missoula with respective telephone numbers 422 and 118. It provides contact points for regional services.
Advertising notice lists distribution points for The Standard across multiple cities including Buffalo New York Chicago Minneapolis San Francisco Los Angeles Denver Salt Lake City Ogden Spokane Tacoma Seattle Portland and Kansas City with offices in New York Chicago and Anaconda Montana. All general correspondence should go to Anaconda Mont.
The Woman’s club of Anaconda launches a city beautification effort with prizes for tree culture and yard improvement. Prizes motivate children and spread through schools, reflecting the belief that youth influence drives broader neighborhood changes. Citizens and property owners are urged to cooperate and support the plan.
Secretary Root tells the house committee on foreign affairs that drastic changes are needed in the consular service to improve handling of national affairs abroad. He speaks as a department director emphasizing diplomatist views and commercial benefits of reorganization. Business leaders in Washington urge a non political, more efficient system.
During Leominster's 1906 town meeting a voting error led a woman to receive and cast a full ballot by mistake. She marked and cast the ballot before the error was noticed and refused to reveal how she voted, leaving the ticket unidentified.
The article notes a Libonchester (Leominster) woman as the first recorded female voter for town officers in Massachusetts. It mentions 1888 Boston mayoral graft accusations alleging women voted Republican rather than school committee, but no investigation occurred.
The Senate raged over the railway rate bill with Senator Rayner urging court revise ICC findings while Tillman faced critics and Aldrich sparred. The clash highlighted tensions as Rail interests, South Carolina, and other members traded barbs and the measure advanced amid sharp exchanges.
In national political chatter this week word spreads that Russell A. Alger, serving in the U.S. Senate since 1902, plans to retire at the end of his term next year. Appointed from Michigan after McMillan's death, he rode a vindication campaign year later and has since been quiet, with the embalmed beef scandal lingering in memory.
The morning papers weigh two municipal issues. Glasgow's street railway report to Chicago hinders city ownership advocates. Dowie’s Zion City is described as a socialist project once cloaked in religion, with communal property and shared prosperity plans unraveling as progress stalled.
Thomas Brown a 29 year old in Norfolk Virginia killed Jessie Rees by throwing a lit lamp that exploded fatally burning her then took his own life in his jail cell by cutting his throat with a penknife His death was discovered by a fellow prisoner who heard a gurgling sound and found blood on the cell floor Brown had been a former Portsmouth figure and grew despondent as his trial neared He had briefly escaped during a recent fire but surrendered hours later.
Mary Plouff seeks a district court divorce from Paul Plouff after a police court conviction for assault. She alleges years of ill treatment since their 1904 marriage in Butte and asks for an injunction to prevent him from burning or disposing of $200 worth of household goods. An unrelated Finnish language document prompted Judge Donlan to scold counsel for presenting unreadable papers.
Miles City March 14 Special Dispatch to the Standard describes preparations for the Montana Stock association annual meeting on April 16 and the Custer County Woolgrowers association event on April 17. Committees met to arrange programs and a large celebration with prominent speakers. A stockgrowers committee of L. W. Stacy J. S. Truscott H. B. Wiley C. W. Butler and W. A. Jordan was formed and a reception panel of J. B. Collins M. W. Milligan R. H. Butler and Carl Calvin was appointed to greet attendees.
A federal Helena decision orders Na Lay known as Mrs. Tom Sing deported from Bozeman. Her husband Tom Sing was killed by Lu Sing, whose murder conviction awaits a supreme court ruling. Mrs Sing worries return to China may expose her to the same killers.
St. Petersburg March 14 Krysta loff former president of the workmen's council remains confined in a dungeon at the fortress of St Peter and St Paul and is said to be very ill from alleged mistreatment Wrustaloff believed to be the movement’s brains though the man is unnamed real name Nassar and described as a 28 year old Jew
John Jacob Anderson, noted author of Anderson's school histories, died at his Brooklyn home today in his eighty six year.
Mobile officials report the Bay quarantine board has set a citywide quarantine against Porto Cortez due to one yellow fever case detected there. Public health measures were activated to prevent spread and protect Mobile residents.
Bitter cold prompts postponement of the annual Butte Curling Club banquet from next Friday to a later date. Secretary McMillan announced the event will be moved to the Country Club clubhouse on the flat to avoid zero winds. The by laws set the annual meeting and officer elections for the first Wednesday in April, which may host the event.
The Republican City Convention of Butte Silver Bow Montana is summoned to meet March 21 1906 at noon at city hall to select one alderman candidate for each of eight wards and conduct other business. Delegates and alternates per ward are ten each. Primaries for delegates are March 16 1906 at 6 to 8 pm in ward locations including 215 East Quartz street courthouse Oates Roberts East Broadway Chauvin's store 346 East Park street water company pump station Gaylord Second streets Skubit hall South Main Whitmore store.
W. J. McDougall of Sheridan arrived in Butte with ore samples to be assayed. He notes many leasers working near Sheridan and profits from diamond drill activity on the Toledo property. Drillers were laid off briefly for repairs and piping installation, with secrecy surrounding surface prospects. Residents await results, hoping for town prosperity.
A grocer offers Galt's Blue Ribbon Ceylon tea at 65 cents per pound claiming it is the best. The promotion highlights the affordable price and quality for shoppers.
At a nine member executive board meeting in Seattle Mayor Ballinger's office, officials decided to formally launch the Alaska Yukon exposition on April 4. A dinner will be held that date and invitations issued to 50 trustees. Further details will be announced soon.
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