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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1901
Page
4
The Anaconda Standard lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions, rates by duration, and international postage. It notes branch offices in Butte Missoula and Great Falls with advertising rates on request and provides addresses for eastern and other U S bureaus and newsstands in major cities.
The Anaconda Standard touts a larger bona fide paid circulation than all Montana dailies combined, reporting daily and Sunday averages for six months since June 3, 1901, with Daily 11,872 and Sunday figures listed.
Buffalo telegrams report no forbidding symptoms in President McKinley’s wound as hours pass. Medical authorities say risks of peritonitis or blood poisoning are receding and recovery could come within a fortnight, with renewed public confidence in official bulletins.
The piece denounces Carrie Nation's temperance advocacy as harmful and calls her a public nuisance. It notes New Yorkers refused to patronize the show and blanks out the managers attempted profits from her mental state, predicting the venture will fail.
The St Louis exposition of 1904 is projected at about 30 million dollars. The national government has appropriated five million for expenses plus a quarter million for a government building. Missouri and the city contribute multi millions, and state and local subscriptions total around twenty five million. The site spans about eleven hundred acres with six hundred forty acres already planned for buildings.
The Buffalo show covers about 350 acres including the midway and leans toward historical displays. Plans include a monster Napoleon statue and reproductions of homes of Washington and Jefferson. The aim is a grand exposition surpassing the 1893 Columbian Exposition in scale.
An essayic report notes how rivalries among sugar and coffee interests mirror socialists' critiques of competition. In Cincinnati a beer price cut during hot weather was undone as manufacturers later push a larger glass for the same price, harming consumers and bolstering calls for government control.
In a Denver Republican interview Colonel A S Burt recalls two years in the Philippines with the Twenty-fifth regiment. He says fighting continues and may last years with insurgents not fully subdued, notes Cebu and Sunar hostilities, and critiques Aguinaldo. Burt praises Filipino soldiers and reflects on a long military career starting in 1861.
An 1900s Virginia tale notes a minister kissing the bride after a wedding led to disrepute in Chincoteague. Joseph Mebuff and Agnes Tulley sought Rev James Porter’s service. after the ceremony both participants exchanged blows over the kissing controversy.
The article notes Rev James Porter kissing no more brides after an incident where a minister accepted a twenty dollar fee. It warns clergy to heed the event as ministers’ behavior faces public scrutiny. The New York Herald forecasts a busy 1901 2 theatrical season with many new plays and notable actors.
Reports from Copenhagen say Denmark will sell the Danish West Indies for sixteen million kroner. The piece argues buyout is cheaper than conquest, notes the small slave population and sugar industry, and suggests Congress must appropriate funds if acquisition proceeds. It also touches on Roosevelt, Czolgosz, and broader Pan European concerns.
An American writer argues England could raise money by selling national relics to the United States. He cites Shakespeare’s house, the Cheshire Cheese, and museums of Carlyle, Cowper, and Wesley, proposing transplanting them to New York or Chicago with attractions and high admission. He estimates potential profits and urges bold exploitation of famous sites.
Early reports say actors anxious to play Boston Corbett, the man who fired at Wilkes Booth, in a production. Meanwhile a steel strike victim’s condition worsens at the bedside, and six physicians note possible improvement in the president’s preventable risks.
The Portland Oregonian notes that rumors misattribute statements and actions to admirals Howison Cervera Sampson Schley. It questions whether the battle of Santiago occurred as described and flags incorrect telegrams and orders attributed in circulation.
A San Francisco Chronicle report describes a rheumatic, sandy-eyed older man who married multiple young women. Although unpopular, the women who believed him loved him and fought among themselves for his freedom, exposing the puzzling whims of some women.
A St Louis correspondent reports in London that few have heard of St Louis or the Louisiana Purchase. Commentary from Philadelphia notes upcoming royal pomp and a heralds college. England's new king has distant ancestry. Japan's Mikado lineage reaches 25 centuries. Austria Hungary traces a 900-year-old throne.
Senator Depew is invited to deliver the opening address on December 1 at the Charleston exposition. Camille Saint-Saens has been named a Knight of the Pour le Merite by Germany for his contributions to musical literature, a decision noted with satisfaction in France. The Kaiser elevates Princess Frederick Carl of Hesse to chief of the Hessian regiment No 80, with her husband Prince Frederick Carl serving as captain in the 81st Hessian Infantry, drawing attention to their rank difference. Vilma Parla-
The Heidelberg magistrates purchased a portrait by ghy of Prof. Kuno Fischer and placed it in the city gallery. Capt. R. G. F. Candage of Brookline Mass will give the annual address at the 21st Farmers National Congress session in Sioux Falls on October 1. A Copenhagen journal notes Professor Sinding’s discovery in Helsingor burying Major-General Ohlrogge’s bas relief as Thorvaldsen’s work. A Paris newspaper recalls a Cripsi remark about prison and reform.
A collage of light quips from various papers features a shy sailor finding joy in the sea, Uncle Eben lampooning laziness, a bold claim of women entering all lines of work with a burglar among them, a night fear of a possible hidden woman, and a merchant's job test that ends with a whistleless boy hired for silence.
Louisville youth recalls a prankish kiss from Mary Anderson when she was a 17 year old neighborhood neighbor and budding actress. He describes the chase through a house to the garret and remembers three resounding smacks he later associates with the future star.
A man claims that all city councils in the United States should be believed, sparking laughter from his wife who plays along yet signals doubt. The exchange reflects skeptical humor about municipal governance.
Sven Hedin reports a second Dead Sea in the Tibetan highlands a vast salt lake barren of life. He and companions could not reach shore by boat and had to wade out two boat lengths the water coating legs and clothes with salt.
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