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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1902
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard lists publishing and proprietors for STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY. It notes daily and Sunday editions with subscription rates payable in advance for various terms. Minor garbled titles reference rates for one year six months three months and other periods.
Rates show 1 to 16 page editions cost one cent per issue. 2 to 32 page editions cost two cents. 36 page editions cost three cents. European mail doubles these rates. Additional foreign country details available on inquiry.
The Standard Publishing Company lists its main office in Anaconda Montana and branch offices in Butte Missoula and Great Falls with advertising rates available on application. Eastern offices are in New York Chicago and Washington with a nationwide network of newsstands in major cities.
Deer Lodge Democrats announce a campaign rally tonight at the Margaret theater featuring John M. Evans as speaker and former Montana Chief Justice W. Y. Pemberton. The piece notes a contrast with last week’s Republican gathering and affirms Deer Lodge’s leaning toward Democratic traditions amid third-party influence claims in the state.
Edmund B. Kirby of Nelson addresses the Canadian mining institute on mining government influence and taxation. He argues heavy taxes deter mining and exploration, while newspapers largely support his view, defending English law though wary of law’s reach in policy.
The article notes British taxation cuts profits for low grade ores in British Columbia while hundreds of prospectors opened districts after Rossland and North Star. Only 78 of 14 526 crown granted claims yielded ore in 1991, most tonnage came from about a dozen mines, unlike booming U S mining.
The miner criticizes the idea of a democrat who votes for Holloway as a myth. The text asserts Judge Leslie deserves full party support and that such backing is a safe forecast.
The weekly Bradstreet summary argues that forced idle ness from the coal strike is limited and notes care in judging reports. It cautions against exaggeration and suggests most eastern plants still run while criticizing press tone and endorsing cautious policy toward Baer. It also discusses socialist activism in Montana and the integrity of its campaign.
In a Kansas tale resembling a modern Jekyll and Hyde, Edith Willets lived as a devoted wife and mother at home while secretly pursuing a double life. Neighbors only recently learned of her estranged visits to a mythical uncle with a claimed $60,000 fortune she supposedly would inherit.
The piece recounts a reality spent at a musical college in Lindsborg where Bundy funds a woman’s education with plans to wed after graduation. She meets Elliott from Milwaukee, and Ticott falls for her. Elliott persuades her to marry last year. Many suitors pursued her, and her trips to Jefferson county reveal to her husband the strain on finances as he remains convinced of her fidelity. The Montana political section notes calm statewide campaigning with earnest activity and limited turmoil, highlighting Butte’s subdued mood despite Heinze faction tensions.
A local French mayor in St Emiland hanged himself using his scarf of office leaving a note about being driven to death by official cares and the inability to please all. The report also mentions Brady's surgery, new wartime litter design, and other unrelated items.
A collage of quips and comic dialogs from early 20th century papers. Jests range from revolutionists debating rules of warfare to light exchanges about illnesses, heaven, and witty wedding inquiries. The compact items showcase regional humor and social foibles with terse punchlines.
The Kansas City Journal criticizes the misuse of realism in books plays and painting. It argues true realism depicts complex human life with both virtue and vice, not solely vulgar or corrupt scenes. The piece contrasts Zola Balzac and Ant except as examples and urges future masters to portray balanced humanity.
Lady Somerset discusses the temperance movement and Carrie Nation in England. She doubts Nation’s effectiveness, praising earnest effort but condemning her law breaking approach and suggesting no laws were repealed or amended by breaking laws.
Representative Williams of Mississippi tells of his first sighting of a white domestic servant. He recalls boarding at a Centralia Illinois dining room and mistaking two women for chairs with a Hoosier jokingly guiding him, reflecting manners and social customs of the era.
A speaker growled that the diner was from Mississippi. The other man guessed eighty, then urged the diner to sit and eat as a waitress stood ready to serve. The diner was astonished and embarrassed by the exchange during the meal.
The City Record is billed as the world's largest newspaper by Tip in the New York Press. It is published daily except Sundays and holidays, sometimes reaching 383 pages. Supervisor Philip Cowen notes its humor eases life’s misery and highlights the paper’s editors and manager.
A government appointed committee in Sweden recommends sleep durations to support study. Four year olds should sleep 12 hours, seven year olds 11 hours, nine year olds nine to ten hours, and ages fourteen to twenty one nine to ten hours. The report links anaemia and weakness in children to insufficient sleep.
The Bank of France suffers its first robbery since 1800 Napoleon founders. The article notes the vaults guard vast specie jewels and notes, the nation’s war chest, once deemed impregnable, and highlights advancing methods that threaten traditional safeguards.
Miss Kate Livingstone of Finnish Isle of Mull, a cousin of Dr. Livingstone, has reached her 107th birthday. She is now very feeble with failing hearing and memory under the weight of her advanced years.
Countess Blanca de Jeneppe arrived with dogs maid and valuables to attend a performance of the Prince of Pilsen at the Studebaker theater in Chicago. A lobby mural of her in boy’s clothes prompted threats to remove it, but the image was pulled from public view after an exchange with manager Brown.
Advertisement notes heavy comforters and white wool blankets priced per pair or set. Highlights include gray blankets at 1.50, silkine covered items, and full size crochet spreads with Marseilles patterns offered at 1.00 to 3.00 per item. Deals available today.
The World of Butte showcases low prices on calico four cents a yard and moquette rugs four dollars, with Silkoline fabric, glassine soap, Castile soap, and cotton hose offered at bargain rates.
Countess Jeneppe, new to the stage, draws attention in the Prince of Pilsen run. She performs 28 minutes weekly and plays the violin, while her Paris husband and Baron de Jeneppe frame a noted European connection. She plans a Boston stay with an auto and two horses for the tour.
The New York Press reports a sable cloak worth 16000 dollars linked to Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. A Parisian furrier is involved and urged to beware of counterfeit sales and forged documentation as the case circulates among New York women.
Mrs Fish of Boston caused a fashion stir by commissioning a deep circular sleeveless sable robe, reportedly costing at least 16 000 dollars. The stolen from Marie Antoinette era model features a fur hood, white and gold silk lining, and a Valenciennes lace interior.
An anecdote from the Indianapolis Journal recalls a Quay faction member in Florida chasing alligators. The uninitiated hunter, lost near Might, asks a passerby for distance to Miami and is told two whoops, prompting a humorous exchange about local terms. Henry C. Rouse, NY financier and head of the Missouri Kansas & Texas railroad, has proceeded to the Philippines with General Miles.
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