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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1908
Page
18
The Anaconda Standard lists publishers and proprietors, daily publication, and subscription pricing. It notes mailing status, office addresses in Anaconda, and branch offices in Butte with contact telephone lines.
W. J. Morton, Manager Foreign Advertising, New York Office Room 919 Brunswick Building 225 Fifth Avenue. Chicago Office S7 Washington Street. The Standard is on sale at news stands in New York City Hotalings News Stands No 1 Park Row Thirty eighth and Broadway Twenty ninth and Broadway Chicago Auditorium Annex P O News Co 17 Dearborn Street Empire News Stand Jackson and Dearborn Kansas City Varna News Co Ninth and Main Minneapolis Kavanaughs 60 South Third Street San Francisco 18 Van Ness Avenue Hotel St Francis News Stand Los Angeles Amos 711 South Olive Denver 6 Seventeenth Street Salt Lake Moon's Book Store Rosenfeld Hansons 24 Church Street Ogden Kind 1144 Twenty fifth Spokane North Howard Street John W Graham Co 1 2 North Howard Tacoma Pacific Avenue Seattle Hotel Seattle News Stand International News Co Oregon News Co 147 Sixth Portland Address All general business letters and correspondence to Anaconda Mont.
List of scheduled appearances by Governor Edwin Norris across Montana in October and November. Cities include Red Lodge Billings Miles City Forsyth Bozeman Lewistown Townsend Great Falls Stockett Boulder South Butte Deer Lodge Helena Anaconda Butte and Lima with dates ranging October 2 to November 2.
Thomas D Long announces speaking appearances across Montana with dates in Dillon Lewistown Missoula Great Falls Stevensville Culbertson Havre Victor Hamilton Helena Anaconda Philipsburg Butte Plains Kalispell and Plains November. Events span Oct 15 to Nov in multiple cities including Oct 19 Oct 21 23 24 25 28 29 30 and Nov dates.
Thomas J Walsh announces a speaking tour with engagements in Livingston Red Lodge Nings Glasgow Fort Benton Great Falls Lewistown White Sulphur Spes Missoula Butte Dillon Helena and end dates in October and November. Listings show locations and dates including Oct 2 16 19 21 22 23 27 30 31 and Nov 2 across Montana cities.
Chanler argues for Bryan in campaign talks and contrasts himself with Hughes, Taft ally. Rumors of a Tammany pact to carry New York and deliver the electoral vote to Taft are dismissed as mere talk. Most forecasts favor Chanler winning New York without any deal.
Sherman’s Midwestern swing in Chicago drew chilly receptions and subdued applause. The article notes his faltering attempt at polished wit, urging a plain conversational tone. It highlights mixed newspaper reactions, including Hearst coverage and Daily Journal commentary, focusing on his self pledge to Speak for Willie and himself.
In a humorous aside the speaker notes Roosevelt can recite tongue twisters and mocks the Republican campaign as a weak imitation of a minstrel show. The mockery envisions Fairbanks, Stevenson, Hamlin, and Adams all praising their leaders with diminutive nicknames.
The piece argues Taft’s campaign is troubled by poor leadership from Hitchcock and fundraising failures. It suggests Roosevelt might take over Taft’s money drive, citing a past 1904 cash appeal to Harriman that yielded substantial funds after a White House meeting.
The article argues Speaker Cannon cites a 1904 conference on tariff policy to explain house opposition to tariff revision. It contrasts Roosevelt's dramatic second term with tariff granularity, notes McKinley and Taft, and questions Cannon's finances while challenging Bryan to disclose his funds.
The piece denounces President Castro of Venezuela as slow and evasive, accusing him of feigning illness to dodge international matters. It argues that U S pressure has failed to shift Venezuela's stance, threatening capital investment as sanctions and diplomacy continue.
A disjointed 1904 political roundup critiques Castro the United States and Taft era figures. It references Foraker Wu Ting Fang Roosevelt Hughes Cannon and Taft while mixing sports notes about Detroit and Chicago games with season themes and international tensions.
A city visitor chats with a village barber who survives on more than grooming. He lists numerous side ventures including Sars and tobacco, laundry wagon service, newspaper and picture postcards, hair-growers, writing paper, real estate, book and magazine agents, lamp mantles, pool table, knife sharpening, clocks, and an electrical massage machine. His wife runs boarders, dressmaking, dancing lessons, home millinery, and baked goods, showing a diversified income sustaining the shop.
Vendors and manufacturers of freight and pleasure vehicles gather in Chicago for the Carriage Builders Association thirty sixth annual meeting. In 1872 the trade formed a national body to unite leaders, drive innovation, and promote schooling for apprentices. The industry now spans 900,000 carriages valued at about 56 million dollars, with 5,000 establishments employing 66,000 people and exporting over three million dollars in vehicles worldwide. Hickory remains key, but supplies tighten as forests are depleted, prompting calls for conservation and smarter timber use.
The Valley County News notes a changing view on lawlessness as Walter Long is convicted. It laments the young defendant's wasted potential and the parents’ pain while urging youths to avoid cigarettes and cheap whiskey, warning that penalties follow violations of law and moral standards.
The remark contrasts how life’s reflections differ from the glorified romance found in Nick Carter style yellow-back novels, noting that true lawlessness and its allure appear only within those cheap pulp covers.
The state fair awarded first prize to Flathead County for the best apple specimen and second to Carbon County. Carbon’s horticultural prowess is praised, notably its Clarke Fork valley. Local pride is tempered by modesty among Carbon residents compared with Western Montana rivals.
The Carbon County News notes no fish tale has appeared after weeks of advertising a prize for the best story. The piece emphasizes that there has been no liar among Carbon county residents, implying skepticism about the claims received so far.
From Tit Bits, the belief that ships named after royal persons are unlucky persists in the navy. Historic lore cites disasters involving Royal James, Royal George, Royal Charlotte, Victoria, Royalist, and Queen. The piece notes ships with royal names repeatedly meeting ruin, including sinking, fire, and loss of crews.
In Roundup land contest near Roundup against Mile City entrants the court ruled coal theory evidence insufficient to prove mining value. Geologists assessing land a mile and a half away could not establish actual coal on the entry. The register dismissed the contest, noting failure to prove the land is more valuable for coal than for timber and stone.
A Rochester Herald item reports a western steel mill awaiting a carload of special nuts when flour carloads were misrouted onto the same siding. The ensuing switch order and a furious phone exchange ended with a pun about making “doughnut” from the flour, illustrating a comic mix up in freight handling.
Harper's Weekly recounts Bishop Potter's baptism tale in a Massachusetts fishing village. A nervous father holds his first child awkwardly with legs toward the font until an old mariner shouts from the rear to turn the baby’s head toward the wind, prompting comic relief.
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