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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1913
Page
3
The Anaconda Standard publishes subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions, with annual prepayment options. It lists main and branch offices, contact numbers, and foreign advertising contacts in New York, Chicago, Detroit, and other cities, detailing addresses and agencies across the West.
Figures from school authorities show Mile district enrollment up 27 this year. End of first month counts 6,722 students, compared with 6, five hundred last year. Reports from evaluable sources note higher attendance, indicating population growth. The piece also touches Roosevelt’s Progressive era remarks and party dynamics in Butte politics.
Beverly’s industrial school, tied to reverberating claims of presidential summer history, serves seventh and eighth graders pressed to work instead of high school. In operation only a short time, it has graduated fourteen boys. Trustees compare earnings, noting a 250 percent rise over 326 weeks of shop work, averaging $300 yearly at completion.
The article discusses proposals to reform the presidential term to a single seven or eight year term and to limit incumbents to one term. It cites opinions from newspapers like the New York World and Chicago American, noting public sentiment favors change post election and references past attempts to secure a third term for Roosevelt. It emphasizes pushback against a third term and debate over extending or preserving current limits.
A reported nomination of Henry Mason Pindell as ambassador to Russia prompts questions about party loyalties and prior support for Bryan. The piece notes Pindell’s Democratic credentials, his past opposition to Bryan, and editorials suggesting intraparty fault lines between the president and secretary of state. It also cites a Coast Banker account praising Montana and Montanans at a Montana bankers meeting.
The passage surveys Montana like conditions, praising Moyne state progress and copper output while noting bank strength and development. It references Livingston, Bozeman, independence, and mentions copper wealth from Butte districts, along with broader economic and political observations across the Central West. It also touches on sports, tariffs, and notable figures in a sprawling, opinionated ledger from the era.
Fragmented text mentions China, Japanese and Chinese relations, US cities like New York and Philadelphia, and references to a world championship contest. It notes political movements, trade, and public concerns about influence, with phrases implying turmoil in Wall Street and ongoing extermination efforts against mosquitoes.
The piece presents fragmented, dramatic scenes of family distress and pursuit. A father muses on selling a child as a freakish temptation while a tramp threatens violence. A boy named Johnnie runs away, only to be lured back by a familiar household cynicism and the unchanged cat.
Mrs Leonard A Thomas drew up to the Newport Casino and smoked a cigarette in front of the building. The incident drew warm amusement from Newport society as many residents shopped or discussed the scene. It marks the first time a Newport column figure is noted smoking in public at the casino drawing room area.
A fragmented scholarly meditation on biographical fiction argues that a writer’s own life shapes a great historical novel. The piece extols intimate truth over external dramatization, praising literary craft while claiming only personal experience conveys genuine power.
The piece extols rain as music sweeter than any concert with fiddles and drums. It describes rain reviving a scorched earth, bringing life and hope after extended drought, and imagines a world renewed by nighttime downpours. The poem celebrates rain as a holy benediction for land and people.
A garbled article collage quotes several U.S. papers remarking on politics culture and entertainment. References include Senator historian Lewis rome politics sea serpents movies on farms and sauerkraut prices with brief editorials and jokes from Chicago Cleveland New York Minneapolis Milwaukee and Washington sources.
A jumble of antiquated quips and social musings critiques rest on gender roles fashion trends and old time morals. The text wanders through references to hoop skirts streetcars marriage and material culture with playful oddities and misfit phrases.
A man claims he hails from a very large family. He asks, How many are there of you. He answers, there were ten of us boys and each had a slater. The other exclaims, Good gracious. Then there were twenty of you. He replies, Ma, anke the beaetful titan, eleven.
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