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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1902
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard issue text notes standard publishing company line with proprietors and daily schedule. It lists subscription rates payable in advance for daily and Sunday editions including various term lengths. The snippet ends with garbled terms and illegible prices.
The notice lists mailing charges based on edition size and destination. One cent for 10 to 11 pages, two cents for 36 to 48 pages, with 32 page editions at two cents. Europe deliveries cost double, and three cents applies to 26 other foreign countries. inquiries were encouraged.
The Standard lists branch offices at Butte Missoula and Great Falls with telephone numbers and application details for celebra tions.
Washington Bureau No 41 Post Building Eastern Offices in New York Chicago and Washington W J Morton in charge The Standard available at news stands in Chicago San Francisco Los Angeles Denver Salt Lake Spokane Tacoma Seattle and Portland with addresses and street lines provided All general correspondence to the Standard Publishing Company Anaconda Montana.
The Madrid coronation of Alphonso XIII unfolds with sunrise guns and city illumination. Despite lavish display, observers note Spain’s decline, comparing the young king’s frail health and feeble reign to a fading imperial era, as the capital glitters in southern festive ambiance.
A Chicago drummer Frank B. King claimed Kansas City women have larger feet, provoking sharp denials from Kansas City residents who call the remark a Chicago canard. KC matrons boast southern roots and small feet, while locals vow to protect the city’s reputation and welcome for visitors.
The passage paints Spain as decayed after conquest with lost morale and widespread corruption. It argues Spaniards are lazy, quarrelsome, and tormented by anarchism and graft, forcing many youths into the church. Riots flare as Alfonso assumes the throne amid a bleak future.
The piece cites sections of the laws of war defending humane conduct and condemns cruel treatment. It comments on Alfonso XIII’s Spain, Cuba’s flag, and mounting tensions as events unfold in Madrid and London. It mentions Kipling, Doyle, King Edward, and U S relations with Spain.
The article denounces General Bell’s Batangas order to execute a Filipino prisoner for every American or ally killed, alleging it abuses General Order 100 from 1863. It argues the punishment conflicts with Lieber’s instructions and condemns retaliation as barbaric.
A collection of light captions and jokes from various papers. Snappy lines cover domestic scenes, campus life, theatre dreams, and social wit. The items include lines about a fireman, a history class, a box party at the opera, a widow on Boulevard, and Shakespeare’s enduring fame as actors chase his works.
The president named ministers plenipotentiary to Cuba and Edward Bragg of Wisconsin as consul at Havana. He sent nominations to the senate including John Gardner Coolidge secretary of legation at Pekin, Dewey Bailey U S marshal for Colorado, Edward Stanley and several land office receivers and registers, and Navy officers John Bernandou to lieutenant commander and Charles Bookwalter and W S Turpin to lieutenants junior grade.
Reports from Barbadoes and Jamaica describe 2,000,000 tons of volcanic dust from St Vincent falling on the island and dust at high altitudes in Jamaica. A lava sea and sulfur fumes occupy the crater region, with new fissures and dense smoke over the landscape. Volcanic activity in Martinique and Dominica suggests a regional linkage.
Destructive fall 200 feet of a hog runway caused by a collapsing viaduct traps up to 1,000 people in the island plant area. Firemen rescue survivors as sulphuric fumes intensify illness and deaths amid looting and mass displacement. Rescue efforts and grim injuries follow, including driver Michael Malloy’s fatal crush near the stockyards.
A pair of beggars with thick brogues approached on Park Row asking for food and shelter. The narrator fed them at Dolans then gave them per diems and directed them to a shelter on Fourteenth Street. The next night one reappeared asking, Are we a stranger here sor, with the partner missing.
New York May 16 Cornelius N Bliss national treasurer of the West Indies relief fund announced this afternoon that the organization has collected a total of 18218 dollars for relief work.
Wilson indicated a national strike may be called and engineers, firemen, and pump runners could be used or kept at work at the discretion of national and district officers. Mitchell reported no settlement talks, while mine properties and rail coal crews adjust for a prolonged stoppage.
A Philadelphia Times note from the register of wills shows a visitor asking to view Mrs. Henry Jones's will before her death. The clerk explains that wills are public after death, prompting the woman to leave disappointed at not learning whom the testator left her diamonds to.
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