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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1901
Page
4
Public notice of subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions with year and half year rates. Details include foreign rates, postage requirements, and mailing instructions. Office addresses and telephones for the Standard Publishing Company listed for multiple locations and foreign inquiries.
The Anaconda Standard asserts its paid circulation is larger than all other Montana dailies combined. The six month report through June 1991 lists daily circulation at 11,872 and Sunday circulation at an unspecified amount.
Mark Twain, at about age sixty, prepares to campaign in New York on behalf of Seth Low for mayor. The essayist notes his restless vigor, past exploits from river pilot to financier to world traveler, and his habit of taking up popular causes with vigor and humor.
An article argues President Roosevelt’s era will be remembered for diminishing sectionalism. It notes a shift from regional divides to a national commonality, with free labor in the North vs slavery in the South fading as a lasting historical influence.
The article argues the North's free labor system spurred wealth and industrial growth, accelerating progress and ending sectionalism. It asserts the war produced nationwide free labor, aligning the country’s social and economic type and enabling southern adaptation to new industrial opportunities.
Patrick Crowe offers to surrender and face trial if the bounty is withdrawn. He cites overwhelming hardship from staying hidden and questions the value of hard labor, arguing the evidence against him is weak and that he may be acquitted if the reward is canceled.
After President McKinley's death, plans for a Washington memorial raised broad support but may stall. Past memorial efforts show slow fundraising and corruption risks, with Washington and Lincoln cited as examples. Congress may still rescue the project from a similar fate.
It is decided that after the Pan American Exposition buildings are removed a monument will mark the spot where President McKinley stood when struck by the fatal bullet. The site will be on private ground and marked with care until the monument is erected. The form of the monument remains to be determined.
A tablet marks the house where Lincoln died across from Ford's Theatre and a brass plaque in the Pennsylvania Railroad station in Washington shows where Garfield fell after being shot. The text urges fitting monuments at these martyrdom sites.
ISS Thomas predicts American English will become the world standard due to mass influence. Railroads travel and a growing press aid linguistic homogenization, with newspapers shaping style and vocab. The era’s terse, vigorous American idiom eclipses classical forms, guiding future English evolution.
The piece argues navigation laws unjustly hinder ocean trade and urges reforms. It cites congressional action enabling an American registry for two English ships, with a condition to build two vessels in American yards, showing how policy can promote shipbuilding without bounties and improve wages.
An Indianapolis Sentinel note argues that youth should be cultivated in politics through apprenticeship rather than immediate power. It contends young men deserve equal opportunity only through gradual responsibility, ensuring they are prepared when called to propagate democratic doctrine.
The western Republicans show strong support for reciprocity and withdrawal of protection from trust controlled products. Yet reform hopes should be tempered as the eastern wing has historically dominated party policy and could override western sentiment.
The Indianapolis News argues that American life moves too fast. It blames mistaking pursuit for the outcome, noting that relentless striving exhausts people without yielding true rewards or the desired fruits of effort.
Editorial argues for prioritizing girls education and college access to benefit future generations. Emphasizes mothers influence on sons and society, urging support for girls schooling to improve opportunities for both genders.
The column sketches diverse figures: G F Watts pursues sculpture with a Tennyson statue. Henry Savage Landor, wiry and endurance ready. Isaac Stephenson funds Marinette Free Library with city support. a Bergen museum bust honors Dr G Armauer Hanson. Kentucky senators campaign. Booker T. Washington vacationing in Gauley valley. Harvey Scott wills $13,500 to burn. Roosevelt’s short name cabinet and close circle noted.
Secretary Loeb and Wits secretary served under New York governor Youngs. The brief note lists single syllable names, highlighting the administration staff.
The Detroit Tribune debates the word assassin tracing to hashasin and hashish, and to a Crusades era Moslem leader, contrasting Arab derivations with a pyramids etymology claim. It notes similar usages in Muslim hotels and concludes the term arose from drug-influenced murder bands with theater of Hash.
The London Globe notes the sultan’s workshops near the Yildiz Kiosk employ 50 to 60 workers, mainly soldiers and officers, who craft cabinet work and ivory inlays for foreign princes. A Belgian-born general of division directs operations, while a French expert runs a porcelain factory supplying sterling wares for the palace.
The baby princess at the Quirinal is said to be named Yolanda inspired by Yolanda of France duchess of Savoy. The queen admired her ancestress from Chronicles and chose the name if a girl were to be born. Yolanda of France was known as a diplomat and adept homemaker who managed a large household and charitable works.
The account describes household tasks like meat cutting, rations for men-at-arms, and textile work followed by Louis inviting his sister to Plessis les Tours. He aimed to force quarrels with her Burgundy ally to seize her lands, while advisors warned of imprisonment if she refused. She visited anyway, outsmarted Louis, who then let her depart in peace.
The article surveys exotic foods once prized by travelers and ancient and colonial cultures. Locusts and grasshoppers in various preparations appear in Africa, India, Poitiers, and French forage, with caterpillars, palm worms, white ants, and horned caterpillar larvae cited as delicacies.
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