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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1908
Page
18
Public notice compendium listing Standard Publishing Company contact info. Include main office in Anaconda Montana, branch offices in Butte and other cities, and various newspaper distribution stands across major western cities. Also notes subscription rates and advertising offices.
Republicans secured a narrow Maine victory by seven to eight thousand amid a tight liquor controversy. The result suggests prohibition loses ground in the state, while Arkansas shows broader Democratic gains, offering mixed signals for national political sentiment.
The Helena gathering weighs Roosevelt irrigation forestry policy and the Kohr letter. It notes Montana Republicans split between policy critics and staunch backers of Taft aligned with Roosevelt, questioning whether the convention will endorse a candidate who will carry out Roosevelt’s aims.
An Ohio judge sparked wide attention by ruling a husband’s cigarette habit justifies divorce. Scores of women wrote from states like Montana and Idaho detailing smoking troubles and seeking Ohio citizenship requirements. The decision followed a wife’s claim that her husband often rose at night to smoke.
A young wife faces no remedy against her offending husband except divorce. She may retaliate by striking him with a pillow or knocking out his cigarette lighter, but such actions offer only temporary relief and risk harsh retaliation.
The piece reviews the circuit court ruling on the Hepburn bill commodity clause and its contention that unlimited federal power conflicts with property and liberty. It notes enforcement delay, the coming Supreme Court case, and Montana railroad commission proposals while criticizing the Montana panel and Montana railroad commission costs and efficacy. It ends by urging that a state commission could handle railroad issues as well as a special body, a view the Standard says many Montanans share.
Thomas A. Edison argues the Wright flyer cannot solve aerial flight and predicts future machines will rise without ground momentum, be driven into the wind, and soar or skim the surface. He says success lies in applying mechanical knowledge in a new way.
The piece surveys political clashes as Bryan Taft and Hughes vie for support with sharp barbs and forecasted outcomes. It notes debatable optimism in New York and Maine, plus a famed last Balaklava survivor. It hints at an inventor’s aviation dream and a shift from prior work.
Jules Simoneau died at 89 in Monterey California. He ran a Bohemian hangout for writers and artists and was known as a friend of Robert Louis Stevenson. The notes also mention John Henry Porter’s long journey from Redbank Virginia to Pontiac Illinois with a baby carriage and a separate boast of potato-eating champion George Benjamin of Naugatuck valley, Waterbury Connecticut defeating Thomas Burke.
To Bertha Schultz a Hamburg dressmaker, $10,000 was left on the condition she not marry a man in an intellectual occupation. She is engaged to an accountant, and both seek to convince the court that the work is mechanical and not intellectual.
Frederic J. Haskin reviews the 1888 campaign where Cleveland pressed tariff reform, Harrison led a costly fight amid Tammany Hall influence, and the election hinged on New York. The piece notes the white Cleveland hats and the campaign’s dignified tone despite rivalry and intrigue.
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