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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1901
Page
6
The Anaconda Standard lists subscription prices for Daily and Sunday editions and notes rates by page count. It also provides mailing rules for copies, foreign postage guidance, and indicates branch and bureau locations in Butte Missoula Great Falls Washington Cairo Chicago with contact notes.
The Standard can be found at Chicago Pest Office and Auditorium Annex, San Francisco Palace Hotel, Denver Glenarm Street and Seventeenth Street locations, Salt Lake Second South Street and Salt Lake News Co. All general business letters and correspondence should be addressed to Anaconda, Mont.
The Anaconda Standard reports a larger bona fide paid circulation than any Montana daily or Sunday paper, with six months to date averages ending June 20, 1901. Daily figure listed as 11,872 and Sunday figure noted in the excerpt.
William P Hazen reported that eight days earlier anarchists in Paterson New Jersey planned to assassinate President McKinley and Eine Humbert. Hazen, head of New York secret service, tracked the Paterson group with agents and an Italian spy before being ordered to cease all work on the case.
The speech delivered by President McKinley on the day before his assassination calls for reciprocity as a national policy. It marks a shift in American trade methods driven by manufacturers who see foreign markets as essential to national prosperity.
The National Association of Manufacturers calls for reciprocal trade amid a shift toward free trade ideals once foreseen by Garfield. Congress delays, Kasson resigns amid rancor, and protective tariffs endure as Babecock faces intensified criticism while lawmakers pledge tariff defense.
A dispatch notes that Secretary Root witnessed Roosevelt taking the oath, echoing a 20 year old moment when Chester A. Arthur took the oath in New York. It recalls Hay and Lincoln’s private secretaries, and Lincoln’s habits of facing danger openly without constant precautions.
An elderly woman from Grimesville, after being stopped at the Milburn house rope line, hands a small bouquet to a policeman to pass to Mrs. McKinley. The gesture, made from her own yard, moves the president’s wife to place the flowers on her breast for the day, reflecting broad public sympathy.
An article argues President Roosevelt’s non smoking status neither harms nor defines his character. It asserts many great men never smoked and condemns forced smoking as a liberty violation. It notes Roosevelt’s appetite, varied exercise, and active lifestyle without detailing any final outcome.
The text lists a physician's life milestones and daily habits. It notes attendance at an inauguration ceremony forty three years ago, and states he sleeps eight hours nightly. Physical attributes include height five feet eight inches, weight one hundred eighty five pounds, chest forty two inches, collar sixteen and a half, hat seven and a quarter, and shoe nine and a half.
The article reports President Roosevelt signaling a policy departure from McKinley’s line as he assumed office. It notes Roosevelt’s caution to ease business anxiety and mentions McKinley’s radical speech the day before his assassination, which shaped public discourse until the Milburn House tragedy.
The piece condemns racial segregation in the Adirondacks where three Black men including Prof J H Torbet were denied hotel meals shelter and service. It links such treatment to deep seated US racism and argues assimilation has failed. It also mocks baseball and political figures of the era with satirical comments.
Strenuously insisting on forcing the vice presidency onto Roosevelt against his will, Senator Wellington warns that any business in Washington today could backfire on the plan.
Several papers attack the New York Journal as an inciter of anarchy, yet many exhibit a surprisingly accurate tone of Satan rebuking sin in their rebukes and editorial framing.
Editorial urges Congress to empower the secretary of war general of the army and admiral of the navy to order immediate execution for any man who makes a murderous assault on the president. Proclaims this measure would vindicate government majesty and defend civil society against such attacks.
Editorials from the St Paul Pioneer Press and New York Herald urge criminalizing anarchist activity and propaganda, arguing communities must protect themselves against anarchist threats. They advocate enacting federal crime laws defining anarchy and subjecting attackers of the president to swift martial justice.
The Philadelphia Press argues for harsh action against anarchists, labeling them foreigners and enemies of society. It urges rigid exclusion and measures like those used in Chicago to cleanse New Jersey of anarchists amid claims they undermine organized life.
The piece contrasts a long era with few presidential assassinations to a modern period of frequent plots. It notes existing restrictions on importing European anarchists and argues that anarchism cannot thrive on American soil unless fostered. It condemns turning class against class and manipulating public gullibility, hatred, and vanity.
A Springfield Republican editorial argues tolerance of anarchist societies has failed. It calls for criminal treatment of members, surveillance, arrests, suppression of publications and meetings, removal of street parades, and even life imprisonment as possible punishment.
Justice Keogh visited Dublin's Four Courts and sat with Justice Barton in Nisi Prius. Trixtun Beale proposes profit sharing to end labor disputes. Empress Frederick's short tenure noted beside Victoria's long reign. Fall River merchants plan a $10,000 loving cup for Matthew C. D. Borden after averting strikes. Jones and Clarke back a statewide Democratic primary for senator with joint tour. Longevity trends among European sovereigns called to attention. Anthropologist Starr studied Iroquois, welcomed as a wisest speaker.
Professor Starr forms a strong attachment to the intelligent descendants of a famed tribe known for strength bravery and prowess as the council discusses cultural ties and heritage.
Edward Thorndike reports experiments with three Cebus monkeys to test learning from human guidance. The results show no imitation of door mechanisms. monkeys learn by impulse selection and environmental cues, placing them between mammals and humans in mental capacities.
Fragmentary text notes a comparison of a monkey with humans within a mental genus. It implies a debate on classification and the merit of animal intelligence in relation to mankind. The passage hints at scientific or philosophical discussion without full context or clear conclusions.
A remark notes that in a nation of gentlemen the disease producing din accompanying modern city life would be conspicuously absent, implying moral or social reform would quiet urban noise and vice.
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