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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1908
Page
4
The Anaconda Standard lists publication facts and office details for Standard Publishing Company, with offices in Anaconda and branch info in Butte. It includes mailing rates, address lines, and lists of newsstands in major cities.
Weather across the nation shows fierce blizzards and storms driving destruction in southern regions. Early week snowfall hits England. Northwest enjoys several clear days while a fall in temperature is noted nationwide. Montana and the Red River region report notable cold and wind. overall, weather contrasts across states.
Georgia faces a heated struggle as lawmakers consider allowing beer and light wines sales. The Savannah Chamber of Commerce backs change while Governor Hoke Smith, once a prohibitionist, now leads temperance opponents. Prohibitionists mobilize statewide to resist any beer move.
Former actress and singer Mee Mebelle Villaan Covey plans to study in Paris for an operatic career. She says she will not return to performance just for money, aims to support her private use of a house in New York, and follows instructions from the tenor Jean St Tesske to engage in music developing in this country.
The article surveys Nevada's growth driven by mining, noting towns like Goldfield Tonopah Ely and Manhattan expanding into commercial centers. It cites capital inflows, staged improvements, and cautionary lessons from wildcat schemes, while highlighting migration of investors and the prospect of continued development this year.
Fragmented passages mention hunger, a Conrad boom, Santa Barbara police, a governor, and various political and social references. The text hints at unrest, local figures, and timing around April and June, with scattered allusions to Central American events, a theater crowd, and a sports note about Detroit.
London reports Premier Asquith in the House of Commons today reaffirmed adherence to the Home Rule pledges. He corrected an omission from a Reform Club speech and endorsed Churchill’s pledges made during the Manchester campaign.
Governor Hughes proclaims business areas as thrive sites with high standards and free trade. He argues business people come from all walks, reflecting national morals and intelligence, while condemning corruption, gambling, and exploitation and urging ethical conduct to protect workers and investors.
A hungry laborer, unable to find work or money, pawned his false teeth to a dentist. After failing to secure aid, he tried milking a cow on a farm to obtain milk for food, and was later hired to do chores and milking, redeeming his teeth with the earnings.
A lyrical reminiscence of a mossy riverbank fishing hole sheltered by Imes with tiger trout and weeds. The narrator recalls childhood visits, tackle, baits, and the lure of springs, birds, brooks, and memories awakened by the familiar water and gear.
The Mitsui family ranks among Japan is oldest and strongest conglomerates with vast holdings in steamship lines mining cotton yarn and wholesale dry goods Their influence spans banking foreign and domestic trade shipping fisheries insurance retail and iron Works They pioneered cash retailing and government backed carrier services and now hold major stakes in Japan s central bank export of raw silk and rice trade with extensive imports and US agency ties to GE and other firms
The Mitsui group, tracing back to the sixteenth century, controls Miike mine holdings since 1880, employing over 3000 miners across 16,000 acres and shipping coal by 200 barges. Beyond coal, they own silver, copper, lead, and sulphur interests, with deep leverage in Japan’s industrial and financial life through stakes in the Bank of Japan, Yokohama Specie Bank, Nippon Kaisha, and other major firms.
Spacial Dispatch reports George Murray a well known ranchman and sheepman in the Dillon area was seriously injured while tearing down a log house intended for relocation to a ranch east of Dillon. A log slipped pinning him and breaking bones near the ankles.
Dr R Johnson, a dentist in Great Falls, leads a suit claiming House Bill 203, aiming to license professions and occupations, was unconstitutional and mishandled by the Montana Legislature. He alleges improper passage, journal omissions, and failure to record yeas and nays, urging voiding key city ordinances and triggering a special session to fix errors.
Special Dispatch from Deer Lodge reports the May term of Powell county court will open Wednesday May 11 in Bozeman. Nine criminal cases remain on the calendar and several civil cases are ready for trial. The term is expected to extend through most of May to dispose of pending business.
The Red Line steamer Philadelphia arrived at San Juan on a Saturday from Puerto Cabello. Twenty passengers were sent to quarantine. The voyage brings word of alarming conditions in Venezuela where many people are fleeing due to the plague.
The fragment from April 2 notes J. H. Bickford Doad of Chicago and Hy Bickford as a desocrate editor of the Chisago Inter, indicating an early 20th century Chicago journalism reference.
Ocena, 27, died today at Presbyterian hospital after an appendicitis operation. Born in Menia Ireland he worked in Leadville and Denver, Col and long served as managing editor of the Denver Times.
Special Dispatch to We Standard Washington April 30 forest Service today made the following appointments of guards for the Montana national forests David W Cory Pally A Clack eis and Clark south forest Christian BE Hanson Sanford Shepherd Bis Hole north DB B McGregor Ernest H Inley H P Bates Lolo William Reeder Little Bell George I McPadder Elkhorn Francis Baker Gol tintin Robert L Hess Charles Dinnis Charles T Howell Frank E Benning Herman Bockman Kontenat Mallory B Noble Madison Claude Stougnton Peter Prettywood Will I Davis Henry C Weidner Rufus 2%. Clay Touts Farry Horace McKlderry McGinness Cabinet north
Special Dispatch reports a statewide oratorical contest among students from the state agricultural college university normal school and distant Wesleyan university to be held by Friday evening in Helena. Judges include L. T. Eaton Deer Lodge W. J. Ryn Big Timber O. M. Harvey Livingston and D. S. William Whitehall.
Manchester April 26 The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company mills., including the largest cotton concern, began a period of adjustment with all work closed tonight. Operations will be restricted to a four day work week, affecting 12,006 hands across 17 mills as the company adjusts to new conditions.
In La Crosse Wisconsin on April 30 Shelby residents suspected arson amid a disorderly house blaze. A man narrowly escaped death as several lives were saved by a bystander or local man, while others evacuated.
From the Pittsburg Gazette Times the note laments the unfair salary of a baseball umpire. The writer argues it is unreasonable to expect a man to work through a long season with such pay.
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