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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1907
Page
18
The Anaconda Standard listing shows publishing company names, daily and Sunday rates, and contact offices. It notes subscription options for daily and Sunday editions, monthly and annual pricing, and office telephone numbers.
Branch offices listed for Butte Missoula and Chicago with phone numbers and manager W J Morton for foreign advertising. New York and Chicago offices noted with street addresses and office rooms.
The Standard is available at news stands in New York City Broadways 38th Street Hotaling's and other locations in Chicago Auditorium Annex P O News Co Dearborn Empire News Stand and more. Readers in Kansas City Minneapolis San Francisco Los Angeles Pasadena Denver Salt Lake City Ogden Spokane Tacoma Seattle Portland and Anaconda Montana can access it at listed outlets. all business correspondence should go to Anaconda Montana.
President Roosevelt landed in Cairo and spoke to locals about Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit and the drift of American progress. He urged reading the book for amusement yet warned against being misled while emphasizing naval strength and national resource conservation during his Louisiana canebrake trip.
A sculptor hunts freckled marble for a project when the model arrives, lifting the artist from doubt. Bob Fitzsimmons remains linked to the story, showing prize fighters stay before the public even after death.
The Inland Waterway Commission meets in Memphis to discuss a proposed all water route from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. A $2,000,000 congressional petition is under consideration while engineers' reports are reviewed and Minnesota and lake-region states are heard in support. The main route would run from the Mississippi River to Allouez Bay, Lake Superior, with cost estimates around 7,000,000 though ten years old and rising with today’s prices. J. J. Hill and allies are reportedly among the leading promoters of the vast project.
Helena hosts state conventions including the Montana woolgrowers meeting with many sheep owners present. Speeches by Senator Carter and others frame the gathering as a milestone for Montana's export economy in wool and mutton. Butte visitors showcase mutual West-East hospitality and a prize band helps enliven the event. The state fair is viewed as a likely huge success.
The article extols mellow autumn as a time for rest after summer activity. It notes farm folk should relax and talk with neighbors about winter plans while leaves fall and winter’s hard work awaits after January. The piece hints at a milder start to winter than usual.
Former prize fighter Robert Fitzsimmons visited a New York sculptor who chose him as the model for a marble statue. The artist cast his face shoulders arms and hips and promised to sculpt him from life with no rush for payment, seeking only artistic recognition.
American homeseekers drive demand for Northwest farming land and prompt Canada to reconsider policy. Immigration into the Northwest Territory has surged over two years, described by Lethbridge pioneers as an insane land mania of Americans.
The article compares Northwest Territory land conditions to historic U S westward expansion, noting settlers migrate west seeking opportunities as land prices rise. It asserts Canada offers abundant good land and that many immigrants view Canada as a Mecca for settlement and prosperity.
English railway workers face 12 to 15 hour days and a new death benefit plan. Union activity expands among drug clerks in the Atlantic states, miners in Des Moines push for an old age home, and strikes rise mainly in building and textile trades. Wages rise for carpenters in Stockton and iron workers in Toronto, while New Orleans’ labor council seeks equality with Black workers. New Zealand dairy workers organize, and factory unions form in Britain with large memberships. The report notes a Springfield mass blacklist among paper mills.
A humorous column's bite on credibility and luck. It lampoons alibis and the social chatter around wealth and gossip. The piece mocks fortune's mood and the dentist as a participant in life’s lottery, ending with a jab at a land owner and public reckoning.
Johnnie Wise faces market moves as copper purchases rise. Investors monitor pricing trends and demand in a cautious session.
Tom L. Johnson, free trader and Three cent fare advocate, seeks a fourth Cleveland mayoral term. Theodore E. Burton, Republican leader in the House, vows economical city government and fair street railway rates with no corporate favoritism. Burton rejected campaign contributions from public service firms, challenging despotism.
A miscellany of 19th century curiosities from laws in Georgia on Sunday fishing to a hen’s thousandth egg in a Swiss village. Items cover Bohemian travelers seeking higher salaries, diamond cutting shifts to the United States, a British official’s death, a claim about the Jefferson Davis se alphabet, color photography advances, a Montreal co op restaurant plan, Italian rail links, Peru rubber trade routes, an ossified body donation to Harvard, a Wellington monument update, Mantuan sensational asylum case, cigar conditioning notes, and Signorina Fatimi Miris’s stage prowess in London with frequent costume changes.
A collage of scraps from era papers with quips about a Boston judge admitting to killing his wife and a child’s cake confusion. It also includes light humor from Punch and Harper's Bazaar and a stock promotion joke from Life about a penny stock scam and a barber trade.
A poem from the Denver Post recalls a mother singing to a sleepy boy on a farm. The verses weave memories of a creaking chair and the Suwanee River song that gave rest and solace in boyhood, with the speaker noting no other song matched its charm.
The Fort Worth Record sketches rural life with night sounds as a gauge of time, noting dogs barking coffee grinders pigs squealing and wagons moving at nearly 4 a m as a quirky country signal. The piece mixes humor with rural atmosphere and local color.
The Rev. Ellis Bishop leaves St. Stephen's Boston to chair pastoral theology at Mindetown Conn. Norman Aiken, Springfield builder and rail era pioneer, dies at 87. Mrs Croker and family aboard the Lusitania. Vanderbilt amid subway delays. Plympton at 80. Headlines reflect era figures and transport notes.
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