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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1902
Page
6
The snippet lists publication and subscription details with rates for daily and Sunday editions, ranges for different periods, and mentions Anaconda postal processing information. The remainder appears as garbled OCR text.
Postage rates listed for 10 to 16 page editions at one cent and 2 to 32 page editions at two cents three cents for 86 10 48 page editions Europe rates double non Europe rates. Inquire at Main Office Standard Block Anaconda Telephone numbers editorials roots.
The Standard lists branch offices at Butte Missoula and Great Falls with advertising rates on application Washington bureau No 4 Post Building eastern offices in New York Chicago and Washington Street Under the management of W J Morton It notes news stands in Chicago Minneapolis San Francisco Los Angeles Denver Salt Lake Spokane Tacoma Seattle Portland and Araconda It asks general business letters to the Standard Publishing Company Araconda Mont dated Saturday September 6 1902
Senator Paris Gibson’s Thursday Cascade club speech urges Montana Democrats to nominate leaders free from copper interests amid intra party wrangling over Amalgamated power. He calls for unity, rejects corporate dictation, and stresses loyal, principled opposition to interference by business groups.
R Platt decides to let New York Republicans endorse Roosevelt but not bind the state to a full 1904 pledge. Upstate Republicans push for a full Roosevelt term, yet Platt remains firm, offering only what he deems necessary and no more. He would prefer no endorsement at all if possible.
The Wall Street faction opposed to President Roosevelt relies on Senator Platt to curb Republican strength in upstate areas where the party's base is polled, aiming to prevent any reckless moves by the state GOP.
News from Missoula reports that starting today a nine hour workday is in effect for all workers at Big Blackfoot Milling company Anaconda Mining company and Western Lumber company across Missoula and Ravalli counties. The move follows last spring’s talks with leaders like J R Toole and Seallon, with reductions aimed at fairness and steady production.
Montana editors and publishers travel to Hamilton in Bitter Root valley for the state press association annual meeting. The gathering emphasizes fraternal renewal plus routine business with read papers. Attendees enjoy Hamilton’s scenic area in a picnic style outing.
Senators Quay and Penrose met with Reading Company head President Baer to discuss the coal strike. Baer said politics would not be allowed to interfere and that the strike’s side had no concessions to offer, a statement issued after the conference.
Lorain Ohio hosts a circus tent campaign stop led by Mayor Johnson and Rev Herbert Bigelow to promote the Democratic ticket. The event features 5500 seating, 100 teams, 10 wagons and a mobile cooking outfit with canvas crews. Johnson aims to reform Ohio politics and seek the Democratic presidential nomination while leveraging local committees for logistics.
Brown University's Joan Carter Brown Library declined a $00,100 offer for a rare Waldseemuller map that first named America. The piece, once lost and found in a Prince Waldenburg library, could fetch far more at a London auction, and a German government purchase is rumored.
Mrs Semple daughter of John Tyler notes White House improvements to preserve chandeliers from President Monroe era. She recalls chandeliers fit for oil lamps candles gas and electricity, funded from the president's salary, with 244 boxes of candies used for one evening.
Mrs Nancy B Irving earned Colorado attention by guarding her Angora goats with armed force. She once appeared in Chicago as Diogenes and offered 1500 dollars to any honest man. Her skepticism grew after goats were raided at her goat ranch in Pion Mesa and her backers plan Mohair manufacture with a Chicago capitalist.
A rich Philadelphia bachelor brought back a Chinaman as valet after San Francisco friends praised Orientals as servants. The valet kept a found half dollar for honesty, then claimed he hid a scarfpin he supposedly found on the floor as evidence of honesty.
Patrick Logue of Altoona Pennsylvania faces charges of cruelty to animals over an offense described as excessive kindness toward an especially intelligent horse he owns. The case centers on Logue's reluctance to part with the animal.
The Springfield Republican chronicles Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr hosting a Newport gala at Beaulieu with a 10 PM arrival through a grand midway theater style amusements and a midnight private stage performance by a New York troupe The event features a cake walk supper dances and lavish decorations with Duchess of Marlborough present and total costs estimated around 30000 to 100000 reflecting prosperous yet unequal times and social contrast.
For four years a horse remained in its stable and was not exercised. Logue feeds and tends the animal but refuses to take it out. The Humane Society has filed a suit to compel daily work or exercise for the horse.
A medley of brief items notes a missionary in Japan taking charge at Colgate University, Tolstoi anxious to return home under surveillance, a $10,000 Johns Hopkins donation to gynecological wards, and Anton Ambrose distributing $58,000 for Slavonic relief. Also mentioned are a government physician appointment for Dr. Samuel Patterson Stafford, Whitney’s Adirondack elk project, a stage scandal, and a Cleveland politician’s improbable career arc from plowboy to bustles manufacturer.
A collage of humorous quotes from various papers features a dime museum manager and a tattooed man, a judge named Helen and her engagement, a drowned comrade questioned about a spot, a valorous knight and a playful exchange about platonic love.
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