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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1902
Page
5
Gov Toole proclaimed Arbor Day in Montana but Anaconda offices closed and no ceremonies or tree planting occurred. The town treated it like a Sunday with no leaf stirred and no tribute to heroes, reflecting a hushed observance despite the holiday.
Greig's fishing tackle and baseball goods supply local shoppers while C A Korten, W M Enright and M W Warren visit from distant cities. Dance at Antlers hall Friday. Hammerslough promotes Pallard watches. Lost items and for sale notices abound as shoppers browse Strain's and Adams' department stores.
The ad promotes multiple sales at Adams Department Store and Strain's, with discounts on boys suits sunbonnets pants ginghams mosquito net and lace curtains. Items include a through sleeping car feature by Great Northern railway and a sale on ladies wrappers and Battenberg patterns. Limited quantities per customer. Deals run during morning hours.
Manager Phil Daniele prepares Mountain View park for its opening day next Sunday with a printers team versus the Anacondas in a featured ball game. The park promises top attractions, improved conveniences, and a lively season with ongoing parties and dances.
Mrs Winifred Brainard age 64 will cross sea for Ireland on Thursday to visit her sister. She has lived in the United States 49 years and in Anaconda 17 years with two daughters Mrs Moran and Mrs Marcille. Her husband died 30 years ago and she now lives with Mrs Marcille at 609 Cedar Street.
A large crowd gathered at the Margaret theater for Ed A. Davis as he prepares to depart for the East. The program featured Mrs. G. M. Pierce contralto, Mrs. H. F. Collins, Burt Storey, Jack Baglin, Henry Showers, and the mandolin club with varied vocal and instrumental numbers and an encore by Davis.
Henry Jockey was arrested last night on a charge of having relieved a stranger of eight dollars in the city. He was jailed in the city jail pending further proceedings.
The London Chronicle notes trips by John Alcock at 62 walking 12 miles in a little over three hours, while 102 year old Old Macleod completed Hyde Park Corner to Turnham Green and back in 2 hours 20 minutes. It recalls Jack the Greyhound John Cooke who once paced a mail coach London to Birmingham while performing somersaults.
The Mobile Register describes Galveston Texas plans for a three mile sea wall of cement and steel five feet thick at the top and sixteen feet at the base, rising about seventeen feet above mean low water. Foundations use piles shell filling and riprap, with land behind filled for two feet, brick driveway, a 60 foot grass embankment, and potential for artistic development as citizens push to realize the wall’s full possibilities.
A Queens jail prisoner concealed about $800 in bank notes sewn into the coat lining and carried a bag of 1,500 copper pennies. Sheriff De Brogen recounted how a keeper discovered the money after noticing a tear in the lining, leading to the man's confession and removal of the lining for safekeeping.
A Philadelphia Times excerpt notes how florid preachers adapt their appeals to local crowds. An English evangelist using phrases like dear London souls and dear Dublin souls drew strong but mixed reactions when he reached Cork, Ireland, during a southern tour.
A speaker asks if he fears returning home at night. He replies without hesitation that fear does not trouble him because his neighbors all owe him money and will not bother him.
The text argues that Judaism creates both isolation and obligation, hindering assimilative success under modern competition. It claims Jews as individuals fail to prosper, citing concentrated populations in Russia and very low average wealth in several regions, while noting widespread poverty and sweatshop vulnerability in London and New York.
From the Kemmerer camera Cheyenne shows progress as gambling houses close under new laws. Citizens form a law and order league to enforce existing ordinances and push for more measures to curb vice and immorality. The town’s appearance toward lawmakers from rural districts grows quieter this winter.
In New England near Randolph Massachusetts a physician of the old school sits beside Mary Wilkins's former home, a house flanked by a long cemetery that runs to east and west. villagers fear nightly returns as regional beliefs linger about graves facing the judge at the last day.
A missionary recently back from India laments slow progress in converting the natives due to difficulty in explaining Christian teachings to the ignorant. He urges clearer communication and more effective instruction to reach the populace.
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