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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1902
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard publishes its full subscription rate card listing prices for daily and Sunday editions, with options for various durations. Rates shown include yearly, six months, three months, and monthly terms with advance payment required.
The Standard lists postage rates for page editions from one to 48 pages with two and three cent rates and double rates for Europe. For other foreign destinations readers should inquire at the Main Office in the Standard Block, Anaconda. The paper also notes editorial and business telephone lines and branch offices in Butte, Missoula, and Great Falls with advertising rates available on application.
The Standard Publishing Company details eastern and western office addresses and newsstand locations. It lists Chicago New York Annapolis Seattle Spokane Portland and other cities with specific street addresses and outlets for newspaper distribution. The note directs general correspondence to Anaconda Montana.
The article reviews slow election counting in Montana and argues for improved methods or voting machines to speed up results. It notes reporters’ struggles, urges a noon publication standard by the day after elections, and discusses past inaccuracies in reported totals versus precinct tallies. It mentions Supreme Court votes and the Standard’s efforts to publish timely returns.
The chatter centers on the president’s assertive strategy to push legislation. Observers say he will whip senators and representatives into line, signaling a heightened effort to secure votes and discipline.
The piece cites Secretary Root avoiding a direct rule on boxing in the military, leaving enforcement to post commanders. It notes past tolerance of prize fighting among officers and enlisted men during leisure hours, and criticizes a recent push for a department rule as unnecessary interference.
The article notes a substantial Republican victory in a midterm election during President Roosevelt's term, with Democrats losing ground and Roosevelt likely to push a more aggressive agenda. It highlights Speaker Henderson's failed tariff stance in Iowa’s Third District and its impact on party fortunes.
Stephen M. Griswold, bank president, ex state senator and churchman, nears 40 years as an usher at Plymouth church in Brooklyn. Anna, Countess de Castellane, sleeps in Mme de Sevigne’s great bed famed for its gilded cedar, stones and masterful panels. Residents in Providence discuss Governor Charles Dean Kimball’s weight with bets culminating in a scales test. Charles Hawtrey performs in northern England as “Mae” the rain maker stirs peas for a storm effect.
A collage of brief humorous notes from multiple papers notesLondon police court fines for fast driving. jokes about American coin and Bible ownership in New Jersey. a Kansas hot sweet potato mishap injuring a woman. church leadership changes in Iowa. a quip about drinking from clear water to gin. quotes on England as a gentleman’s home. and a Cincinnati gambling raid with $250,000 seized.
Amusing clippings and snatches from various papers mix jokes about sports, politics, hospital wards and legal quips. The jokes involve a pigskin game, a tiger, a legislator named Marse Tom, and remarks on lawmaking, burglars, a colic ward and a literary life trading.
An advertisement offers extra heavy double wool mittens and Zoe Paul items as well as today’s to day sale on ladies mittens in black plain and fancy weaves. Regularly 50 cents a pair, today 35 cents per pair.
Belts in plain red with harness buckle and white wash. regular price 50e, to close 15c each. Satin and tackle belt samples with steel points and jewels. worth to £2.50 each. Ladies solid leather pocket books with card case, mounted in sterling silver and filigree aluminum. worth $1.00 each.
Complete assortments of widths and sizes offered at bargain prices. Girls pebble event shoes 90c a pair, girl’s kid shoes 6 to 11 1.00, women’s Oxford ties and lace boots 1.34 a pair, women’s lace and button kid shoes 3.50 a pair, women’s patent leather shoes 6.00, infants’ fine kid shoes 1.00 a pair.
WOMEN'S and children's wool underwear at reduced prices to day flannelette night dresses at reduced prices to day New wool waists at 2.00 well worth 4.00 Women's and misses heavy cloth jackets satin lined at 12.50 each Alaska sell and offer coats superior qualities at prices that will satisfy you that we sell furs at lower prices than they are sold for in New York or any other eastern city We have not marked them upon the contrary we are selling them to day at the old prices and in some instances at less
A newspaper ad promotes men and boys shoes at cut prices. Mens satin calf congress shoes sell for two dollars and twenty five cents. kid and box calf lace shoes with calf lining go for two dollars and ninety five cents. Boys heavy quality school shoes priced at one dollar fifty cents per pair.
Sale ad lists boys wool suits at 3.25 each with two-piece sets in sizes 3 to 14 and a special 5.25 bundle. Overcoats 3.95 to 5.00, reefers in frieze at 2.98, knee pants and heavy wool sweaters at low prices. Winter caps and gloves offered, flannel blouses and other garments included.
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