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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1913
Page
11
The Anaconda Standard lists publishing details including printer marks, subscription rates, and office contact information. It notes daily and Sunday editions, prepaid annual rates, and a network of newsstands and agents across major cities with offices in Anaconda and Chicago New York and Denver.
The board of Silver Bow district No 1 seeks a $100,000 bond issue in a special election on May 1 to replace the old Washington school on East Broadway. Some trustees doubt the building’s safety. the city inspector condemned it, and the district will vote to fund a modern replacement. The move follows concern over potential dangers and aims to ensure safe schooling.
A farmer near Dallas, A. E. Shepler, reports two men swindled him of 5000 dollars by a fake arrangement to care for their seven year old niece. They demanded cash to prove competence, then fled with a bag of money as sawdust. Similar scam letters reappear from Madrid and figures tied to a Russian banker.
The piece details runaway bunko schemes targeting Americans with promises of riches and marriages, citing a Chicago matrimony scam and a Dutch man’s quick pullout after sending 80 percent guilders. It also covers California political diplomacy over alien land ownership and a U S Geological Survey denial of gold finds in Pushmataha county Oklahoma, noting false assays and fool's gold.
A long clipped column riffs on politics in Washington and state affairs. It notes Republicans and Progressives souring at the president over office changes, claims of public leadership shifts in Montana and California, and social satire about May Day events, fashion, and local clubs in Los Angeles. The piece blends national critique with regional color and playful jabs at figures like Bryan, Sulzer, and Pankhurst.
Cincinnati Inquirer columnist Luke M'Luke riffs on gender roles and society with pointed quips about education, marriage, fashion, and independence. The piece satirizes modern habits, home life, and urban living while poking fun at clothing ads and domestic expectations.
Allied triumph at Scutari hailed as a stunning victory with Prince Danilo of Montenegro warmly praised. Essaad Pasha leads Turkish forces and claims he was duped into surrender by General Valso of the allied side.
A satirical portrait of a town storekeeper, age four, brunette, baldheaded, slipping jerky hat, nose sniffing like a rat. He meddles in neighbors affairs, asks personal questions, hoards gossip, reads the paper in every moment, and boasts a growing bank balance he won t reveal. He coddles property, sponges on public life, and clings to cigars and matches while showing pain at spending. His large family engages in antics, while he profits from fellow citizens permissively. It will take reincarnations to learn the truth he misses.
A speaker argues that pity for the poor reinforces inequality and that true healing comes from recognizing fellow humans as equals with equal rights. He urges justice, fairness, and honesty as better remedies than mere kindness, noting inequality persists when sentiment fails to demand rights.
A fragmented, sensational row of vignettes begins with Jim Smith a stern clerk and a dying pit of tales. It recalls a doctor’s grim prognosis a clerical resignation and a flight to the West where Smith drinks and wrecks himself. The piece shifts to a Harriman medal tale and ends with a western fable about death choices and a gooseberry bush.
A jagged collage of jokes and dialogues from Punch The New Junior Partner and Puck. It features a punning exchange about coats smelling of petrol a quip about a well known town figure and a builder joking about becoming foreman in a day plus a Columbus mutiny moment.
Sensational testimony before Interstate Commerce Commissioner Charles H. Prouty at an inquiry into the New York New Haven Hartford Boston and Maine and Maine Central railways is believed to lead to the resignation of Charles Sanger Mellen as president of these roads.
A compilation of opinion snippets from multiple papers discusses calls for reform and political shifts. Mentions Durleson, Wilson health concerns, a looming postmaster role, and leaders like Jomes Safer and Judge Taft, reflecting early 20th century political rhetoric and media reaction.
In New York a dinner speech by Mrs. Phelps Stokes featured examples of rude treatment toward shop workers. She recalled a railroad station scene where a ticket agent repeatedly told a customer the fare, while a boy enjoyed the ritual, highlighting everyday impatience and the need for courtesy. The remarks appeared in the New York Times.
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