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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1902
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard publisher notice appears with publishing house names and postal details. Subscription rates are listed for various terms, though text is garbled and partially unreadable.
Rates list for editions from 30 to 48 pages with prices from one to three cents. Europe and other foreign mail costs doubled. Main Office in Anaconda Montana offers advertising rate info. Branches in Butte Missoula Great Falls provide rates on request. Also lists Western and Eastern offices and newsstands for sales and distribution.
A St Louis exposition presentation at the mining congress session in Riutte argues the fair will be the largest and most lavish yet with vast acres money and exhibits. Montana pledges strong support expecting a cheerful climate and generous patronage for the 1904 event.
The article traces the consolidation trend among major circuses including Forepaugh Sells, Barnum Bailey, and Buffalo Bill's Wild West, noting earlier "white elephant" rivalries and the shift from small traveling tents to large, centralized shows. It reflects on historic attitudes toward circuses and compares today's consolidations with earlier minstrel-era dynamics.
The article recalls how, though small in scale, early circuses drew generous patronage from local communities. Audiences enjoyed simple entertainments as much as modern crowds savor the grand and lavish shows of today’s circus trusts.
The Standard notes Montana politics after Senator Clark’s victory. A committee vote tied as a proxy vote by Governor Toole, who held Clark’s proxy. The move prompts contempt for passively wielded influence and questions of party loyalty and governance.
In Stratford Connecticut the First Methodist Episcopal church offers $500 for land near the church. Mr Peck an atheist proposes to deed the land for $380 on condition the minister and congregation listen to ten hours of atheist preaching. The deal includes a decade of sermons to counter the talk.
Anti Quay union Republicans may nominate a full state ticket from governor to others and seek a fusion with Democrats for Pattison. Quay allies hold conferences in Philadelphia to influence the meeting and counter the anti Quay convention amid expected heated exchanges.
The marriage of General Grants granddaughter spurred a probe into the grooms lineage. The father using the title chevalier is traced to a Detroit native known as Ed Scovel or Old Shovel. The man disliked business and society yet possessed a melodic voice and sang in church choirs. He moved to New York to pursue singing.
Ed Scovel reemerges as Chevalier Eduardo de Scovello among Detroit’s opera circles after a fall from fame. He marries Piggie Roosevelt, a church figure and cousin to President Roosevelt, and the couple sails for Europe. The tale ends with the Scovellos’ highborn marriage linking Grant lineage to Detroit’s evolving recollections.
Mrs. W. A. Bower died after a lingering illness. Wife of W. A. Bower of the Standard's business office, she had made Anaconda her home after marriage and spent her final days near New York City under attentive care. The Bower family faces grief as relatives in the East prepare to care for their daughter.
The text notes that Italy's heir would be the Duke of Aosta as presumptive successor, while the Netherlands and Servia show in abeyance. Salic kings would pass to direct descendants of the current ruler for Russia Austria Italy and Belgium. Turkey's sultanate follows brother to brother rather than father to son.
General James Grant Wilson recalls Admiral Farragut’s 50 years of service and peak vitality building up to 1862. The admiral reportedly celebrated birthdays with a standing jump over a chair, until his sixty second year when he felt less equal to the feat.
A San Francisco man avoids surgery despite repeated threats of appendicitis while Wisconsin Congressman Babcock buys a Washington house once owned by John Ingalls for 15000. Doyen praises German doctors and Bergmann’s 6 am start. An Evian doctor uses homing pigeons to deliver prescriptions. Civil engineer Fuller becomes a Christian missionary to lead industrial work in South Rhodesia.
II accounts agree the Klondike dike boom has spent its force. Transport along the coast has slowed as travel to the region drops. Gold output may fall to under five percent of last year with labor supply exceeding demand and many facing hardship.
The Brooklyn Eagle notes a surge of American visitors to Berlin boosted by Prince Henry’s U.S. visit. Kaiser plans overhaul Unter den Linden into a grand boulevard while Americans stay at Bristol and Kempershof. Notables include Dr. Daniel Colt Gilman and Admiral Charles ONeil among others, with Berlin social life split into musical, medical, residential, and diplomatic sets. Excursions to Grunwald Spreewald Wannsee and other resorts are popular, and the Spreewalders maintain old customs.
In a letter to the interior minister Tolstoi denounces the persecution as cruel and unjust and declares he will continue writing works seen as dangerous. He offers to take all punishment himself and spare his disciples, noting authorities have no intention to auction against him while Vienna dispatches report no action against Count Tolstoi.
Col. William H. Krauss of Columbus led efforts to erect a granite arch memorial at Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery near Columbus Ohio. The 12 foot arch tops a boulder grave marker with Americans inscribed, a Confederate soldier statue above, and a tall flagpole with Old Glory. Krauss invited Confederate camps to send flowers for the unveiling, aided by William P. Harrison.
Interview with Senator McLaurin's private secretary John T. McCoy portrays McLaurin as determined to defeat William Penn Tillman and return to his South Carolina plantation to wage a supremacy battle. McCoy notes McLaurin could have been Interior Secretary but would not change his politics for office.
The plot of about two and a half acres holds 2,260 Confederate soldiers from states including Virginia 837 Kentucky 247 Tennessee 239 Alabama 481 Texas 22 Georgia 265 South Carolina 85 Arkansas 34 Mississippi 202 Florida 62 Maryland 9 Missouri 8 Louisiana 52 and about 280 unknowns. Land, leased during the war, was bought by the U S government on April 2 1879 and described as The Confederate cemetery formerly occupied by Camp Chase Rebel prison. Some interments were relocated from City cemetery southeast of Columbus.
In a Philadelphia cafe a man described as a coffee expert drinks coffee in three stages to judge quality. He starts plain to judge strength, then adds cream to gauge color, and finishes with sugar to assess taste. The proprietor explains each test informs him of the brew’s perfection.
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