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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1902
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard outlines publication and postal details with pricing for daily and Sunday editions. It lists subscription rates for one year six months and three months, and notes printing frequency and entry at the Anaconda post office.
Rates listed for 10 to 16 page editions cost .064, one cent surcharge, 2% to 32 page editions two cents, 8% to 4 page editions three cents. Europe shipments double domestic rates. other foreign countries inquire at the office.
The Anaconda Standard lists office locations including Main Office in Anaconda Montana and branch offices in Butte Missoula and Great Falls with advertising rates on application. Eastern offices are in New York Nassau Street Chicago Washington Street Morton in charge. Newsstands and city agents are named in Chicago Minneapolis San Francisco Los Angeles Denver Lake Salt Lake Spokane Tacoma Seattle Portland with addresses. The issue date is Tuesday September 9 1902.
Early Maine dispatches show Republicans ahead by about forty thousand as President Roosevelt’s visit echoes in the state. Voters while Maine backed McKinley by over 28,000 in 1900, current returns suggest sizable Republican majorities may persist into November.
Reports from all parts of the country show extraordinarily heavy summer vacation travel. Railroads hotels and boarding houses report business well above last year with July gains of nine and six percent for major lines. Travel to New England and the Atlantic coast breaks records and Yellowstone park attracts more visitors than ever while Northern Pacific and Great Northern patronage remains immense.
Surgeon General George M. Sternberg argues malaria and yellow fever plagued Panama Canal laborers and would again threaten completion. He urges mandatory mosquito netting for all workers at night and a sustained crackdown on breeding sites with drainage and petroleum to eliminate mosquitoes.
Dr Sternberg argues that harmful soil in malarial regions arises from excavations that form rain pools. He urges abolishing standing water, mosquito netting at night, and careful excavation of the isthmus soil to restore health and prevent malaria.
Senator Paris Gibson defends the party against linking its name to litigation with corporations. Senator W A Clark denounces rumors of alliance with Amalgamated, arguing the conflict serves Heinze business aims and party control. The piece notes Johnson’s streetcar ordinance issues and Ohio city franchise challenges amid a general debate on public service taxation and franchise sales.
New York enacts a law banning divorce solicitation by circulars and ads to curb shyster advertising. A second statute requires a three month waiting period after court decree before either spouse can remarry, ensuring review for fraud and reform in divorce practice.
Ohio calls an extraordinary session as Cleveland Mayor Tom Johnson pushes a 3 cent street car fare and municipal ownership aims. He blocks old franchises, proposes new lines, and awards a 97 mile build with a $50,000 guarantee, but courts void the ordinance and franchise over management restrictions.
Forecasts place Washington Republicans at a Tacoma convention to decide on reciprocity and public-interest questions. Expected topics include equal taxation of property abolition of railroad lobby and creation of a railroad commission tied to President Hill's recent statewide tour.
The piece comments on German editorials about the Monroe doctrine, noting American public indifference and Roosevelt’s brief remarks. It states the doctrine defends the Americas without defiance and rejects any notion of opposing debts to Germany or other powers. It blames distorted opinions of German editors for the fuss.
Fedor Monteau of Siculian Roumania aged 120 wed to a younger sweetheart. Joseph Howard Wilson Jackson Milton Ames Ralph Rennison Charles Frank Roverbrook Ashton Miles hailed as Charleston resident spending summer in Atlantic City. Austen Chamberlain 39 youngest British cabinet member. Salberne 43 and Walter Long 46. Rev Daniel J O Sullivan of St Albans VT is Democratic candidate for Legislature. Senator George F Hoar praised as scholar of medieval writers. Rev J H Dockrey Harvard advocate Emancipation building for colored students. Armenian patriarch resigns amid turkish reform failures. John S Sewall Bangor Theological Seminary survivor of Perry expedition authoring history. Rt Rev Dr Nevill Dunedin plans syndicate to reform saloons and hotels. Milwaukee Mayor David S Rose jailed briefly in Janesville then released. Abyssinian king orders five Swiss electric motors for Djibouti Harrar railway government owned.
In a Butte Miner interview Senator W. A. Clark denies forming any political alliance with Amalgamated Copper. He says he will fight corporate influence in Democratic politics, defend a pure judiciary, and notes miners in his employ already work an eight hour shift. He rejects rumors and insists on transparent positions.
In a discussion on the Lane Skull, scientists and writers present alternate roots for human origin. Theories place humanity in tropical, polar, or preglacial Earth, with debate over evidence from fossils, geology, and ancient remains. The article notes ongoing uncertainty and speculative reasoning.
A collage of light snippets from Chicago Record-Herald and Cleveland Plain Dealer features mock dialogue and city oddities. Jokes cover politicians urged to run for governor, Uncle Sam duties, a coal seeker at a jeweler, and a bemused city man noting quirky behavior.
A collage of humorous lines contrasts a judge and a job applicant with a talkative woman and her former employers. A physician and millionaire debate wealth and care, while a garden spook jokes about a flower’s ghost in a midnight exchange.
A passage lists odd Pekin street names such as Horse Words Village and Sun Family Bull Village. It cites Arthur H. Smith noting a market town once called Bitter Water Shop renamed to Sweet Water Shop for euphony on tax lists.
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