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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1902
Page
6
An Anaconda newspaper brief from STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY outlines daily and Sunday publication details with subscription rates in advance for various terms. The notice confirms postal registration and entry as second class matter.
Rates listed for 16 to 32 page editions from two to three cents per edition with increases for larger sizes. International mail requires inquiry for Europe and other foreign destinations.
Main Office Standard Block Anaconda Telephone numbers and service notes missing due to OCR errors. Branch offices at Missoula and Great Falls with advertising rates. Washington Bureau No 41 Post Building Eastern Offices New York Nassau Street. Newsstands listed in Chicago San Francisco Los Angeles Denver Salt Lake City Lake City Kane Little Rock Seattle Portland and other locations. Letters to Standard Publishing Company Anaconda Montana.
The piece recalls the 1898 destruction of Saint Pierre in Martinique after Admiral Cervera’s fleet passed by. It notes Martinique’s small size and St. Pierre’s population of over twenty five thousand, and urges compassion and prayer for the disaster’s victims.
Catherine Soffel, wife of a jail custodian, faced court in Pittsburg as a plea of guilty was entered on the charge with the shortest potential term. She left her seat at the dock as her attorney spoke and awaits further sentencing today.
The Los Angeles convention discusses color within club organizations and notes Indian women in Oklahoma and Indian Territory who are members and even preside at meetings. The piece questions what constitutes color and whether Indian women can be considered part of the color spectrum in these clubs.
A discussion on whether Indian women should gain club access while Negro women face exclusion. The text notes educated Negro women are the sought group and raises the enduring color question likened to Seward’s irrepressible conflict. The federated clubs may dodge this year's issue, but the conflict persists.
The piece attacks Republican senators for using historical massacres to justify brutal Philippine conquest. It notes Mahila generals admitting brutal orders, mocks their defense, and then shifts to Bernadotte’s exile from Napoleon to Charles XIV, praising Oscar II as wise and benevolent and hoping for his visit.
Outside Illinois the view favored Congressman Hopkins as the party choice to succeed Mason. Hitt, Hopkins rival in the Ninth District, heads the foreign affairs committee and is a ten term veteran, while Mason’s one term in the Senate was seen as unlikely to repeat. Hopkins won the convention with Cook County backing, yielding the party machine led by Governor Yates. Mason resents the result and vows to press his own senate hopes later.
A suggestion arises to invite King Oscar II of Sweden to the Louisiana Purchase exposition in St Louis. The plan remains at the suggestion stage but signs indicate the king might accept and tour the United States, a historic first for a European crowned head.
Anaconda Law and Order league addresses authorities and Margaret theater management over Sunday night performances. The Standard notes prize-ring exhibitions fizzled earlier and urges direct, merits-based handling by league, officials, and theater.
Communications report a Martinique volcanic disaster with estimates of more than 40,000 fatalities. The dispatch notes the loss of the Grappler repair ship with all hands near St Pierre as Mt Pelee erupted, marking one of the first ships to vanish.
The piece recounts a catastrophic Martinique eruption burying St Pierre and estimates up to 10,000 lives lost. It places the event among historic volcanic calamities, cites Krakatoa 1883 and Vesuvius, Etna, and Krakatoa’s dramatic darkening, and notes worldwide volcanic activity clustered near oceans with no reliable prediction.
Forty thousand people lose their lives as a cargo ship Morse, owned by J. S. Winslow & Co. of Portland, Maine, is suspected in the disaster. The vessel carried coal and had been reported near the time of the city's destruction, causing fears in shipping circles for her safety.
The article recalls two historic catastrophes in Martinique, a 1766 tornado and volcanic outbreak with brimstone and bitumen, plus a 1839 earthquake. It outlines the island’s geography, distances from Dominica and St Lucia, Mt. Pelee at 4430 feet, and major towns Fort de France and St. Pierre with populations around 17 000 and 25 000, totaling 181 599 in 1898 trading with France.
The excerpt traces Martinique from its discovery by Columbus on June 15, 1502 to its various occupations by England and France. It covers early Carib inhabitants, 17th century control shifts, Jewish resettlement in 1654, sugar and coffee plantings, slave labor, demographic makeup, and multiple captures by British fleets, ending with 1814 return to France.
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