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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1906
Page
12
The Western Montana office of the Standard is located at 130 Higs line avenue in Missoula. Telephone number 118 and advertising rates are available on application.
Chance for positions with the government across fields. Examinations announced for assistant geologist and geologic survey roles with salaries from 1090 to 1600 per year, plus an assayer of ores and bookkeeeping positions. Tests set in early April with eligibility for wives and relatives included.
The last of two weeks of union evangelistic services by the United and Presbyterian churches will be held tomorrow evening at the Presbyterian church in Missoula. Rev. Ernest Weight and Rev. Henry Van Engelen report successful audits, with a combined program featuring a choir and musical numbers, and a large attendance is expected.
Missoula March 2. The officers of the Missoula Woman’s group received a communication from the American Humane Society urging locals to use their influence in opposing the amendment. The note requests action from Missoula women in Albany, N.Y.
A period voice urges that nervous prostration in women stems from female disorders and promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as relief. Mrs. M. Shotwell of Brooklyn tests its curative claims after failing with doctors, noting regained vitality and youthfulness.
Congress faces debate over hour stock transportation rules. The Humane Society argues for a maximum 74 hours of travel without food, water, or rest, deeming current impudiments vicious and defective. Public societies urged to contact representatives to support the limit.
Missoula March 22. Local notes report various residents in town, land transfers, and injunctions. Transfers include Elmer F. Pildine lot 3 Mack Knowles addition $500 and K. Wilson lot 1 Knowles addition $350. A 169 acre land contest over tid timber lands is filed. Mildred Corbin and David Cannon with partners file farms near O'Brien Creek and Ronny. New owners at Cedar Street buy J. W. Wilson stock for about $231. Willam Freed and family arrive from Michigan planning a ranch near Missoula.
Local brief from Hamilton covers visits by J I Allan Steck & Co Cor valig Tylar Thompson of Mixsonia Mercantits Harvey Lori surveying the big ditch F L Bean Helena trip Justice Morris license case verdict John Scinley family to Butte marriages Stephen ks Rexests Mary Psenda visits by Jacob Thrasyskll and George McDonald business inquiries and staff changes at Anaconda Copper and Fl rit company Missouth turnout and R A O Nora Spokane trip for mill work.
The Y M C A board announces Lynn D. Ambrose will supervise three rooms until a new man arrives from the egat me. Ambrose will lead the physical work class previously run under Dir. Sulfershy. Classes resume Saturdays and Wednesdays with schedules from 10:10 to 11:80 and 4:19 to 6:80. Plumbing and heating repairs will restore normal operations. Subscriptions fund the Strandhican age program to sustain ongoing work.
March 23 report in The Standard notes the Higgins block will be remodeled by Conrad Kanes with an interior overhaul. Mr Kates confirms plans to modernize the building at about 15000 in expenditure. A new elevator is among the improvements. building cost totaled 87750.
From the American Magazine a young mountain man conducts a daring expedition with only a mattress and boat for transport. He and companions navigate 10 miles of rapid water, carrying instruments and provisions yet not clearly surveying. They endure extreme danger with minimal rest as they push toward a winter prospect.
A fragmented promotional piece extols Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets as a universal cure for digestive issues and related ailments. It links hoped cures for Napolean and general health benefits to modern science, urging daily use to maintain bodily harmony and energy.
A fragmented report recounts a Cape voyage plagued by harsh patrols and a tense chase. The crew, including Captain Gilleamand and companions, reportedly faced delays, weather hazards, and equipment troubles as they prepared for a homeward leg. Provisions were scarce, dogs and gear described, with boats secured and a return path via Cape Tiles debated.
Cleveland Moffett argues in Success Magazine that churches, though costly and beautiful, are unjustly blamed for wealth. He questions the idea that church debt and courtly service justify idle hours and unused spaces, urging a balance between sacred spaces and daily civic needs.
The report notes Ireland's birth and death totals for 1904 with 2,081 marriages and 393,811 births, showing a slight population increase of 0.02 percent over the previous year. Immigration politics and railroad worker exemptions shape the demographic picture, alongside two notable Pennsylvania railroad cases involving Max Anne Thomson and Mrs. George H Roberts.
In March near Leep water a barn mystery drew neighbors as a mare named Phoebe appeared to haunt a barn. Brillhart and town watchers investigated and found no security breaches until Phoebe was found released nightly, using a vent and flicking the latch to create the ghostly tale.
A fragmented OCR note describes a private performance of Cumpts Dumpty amid rain near the capitol. It recalls a warfare sketch from whlet to the Richmend and hints at theater secrecy and a private yerformance with reactions from ward linders and Melan.
The body of a carter was found near the main road between Frenkfolk and Wieshadet with his horses standing by the roadside. A police doctor said the carter was run over and killed by a motor vehicle. Authorities believe motorists moved the body into a field and drove away to avoid capture.
A garbled report notes an incoming editor for Punch, Owen Saatian, a Cambridge man from Charleville, with a growing reputation in literary circles. It contrasts him with prior editors from Oxbridge background and mentions his works such as The Battle of the Hays and Borrowed Plumes, while hinting at changes in tone and style under his leadership.
A garbed man presenting as a member of the Katzenberg family swindled in Madrid on March 28. The report notes a clever impersonation and the suspect’s confident demeanor as the ruse unfolded.
A con man posing as a Hinglish speaking English noble victimized many in Spanish towns. He met Cardinal Sancia in Toledo with courtesy and a luncheon, claimed English nobility, and asked for money. In Valencia he bore letters from a royal envoy and elsewhere called himself aide-de-camp to King Edward. He was arrested with forged papers and plans found on him.
In Norristown Pennsylvania Judge Swarts orders removal of a dog tombstone at St Peters Lutheran cemetery north of Wales. The marker, dedicated to a dog named Our Pel, stood on church grounds despite objections from trustees and a local property issue. Authorities warned of further action if the marker remained.
An exhausted mother, Mrs Jane Jennings, seeks a hasty midnight wedding for her daughter Lucy Drake to obtain her dying blessing and her late husband’s dress. The ceremony, held around twelve, is performed by Rev Dr Charabilas at the First Baptist Church amid family strain and strained finances.
A bride of a week, Mrs W B Sherwood, living near La Crosse, suddenly revived from a deathlike trance while doctors prepared her burial. Family and friends heard a shriek as she sat upright in the coffin and demanded to know why she was imprisoned.
The article traces Cinderella from ancient Egypt where a beauty’s slipper was dropped to Memphis by an eagle, to Rhodopa’s version and finally to French writer Charles Perrault who published Cendrillon in the late 1600s, shaping the familiar story.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe London in the era of George III with cobbled streets and heavy wagons. Sounds of beer stalls, dragging crates, iron signs, shopfronts, and constant hustling filled the crowded streets. The piece contrasts bustling past markets with quieter modern city life.
Hurgess Pennypacker of West Chester, Pa, lauds Philadelphia papers before Wilmington Young Men’s Christian Association, crediting them with shaping Pennsylvania’s state. He says newspapers stand at the outpost of the twentieth century and reflect public wants, while critiquing “almight” authority as improper.
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