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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1907
Page
18
The Anaconda Standard lists STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY as publishers and proprietors. It notes publication daily and states entry at the Post Office in Anaconda as second class mail matter.
Subscription rates shown include Daily and Sunday options per month and per year when paid in advance. The notice references the Main Office Standard Block in Anaconda and lists telephone numbers for the editorial rooms and business office, indicating how to contact for subscriptions.
Branch offices listed in Butte Missoula and New York Chicago Denver Salt Lake City Ogden Spokane Seattle Portland and other cities. News stands in New York Chicago San Francisco Los Angeles Pasadena Denver Salt Lake City Spokane Tacoma Seattle and Portland carry The Standard. General correspondence to STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY Anaconda Mont.
The piece argues that government control of telegraphic communications is being urged alongside postal service issues. It notes mixed sentiment, questions the postal comparison, and warns that government ownership may not satisfy the public or telegraph workers. It cites wages, hours, and dissatisfaction in the postal system as context.
The president of the board of fire underwriters warns that dense lower Manhattan towers pose a grave fire risk. Chiefs from fire service and inspectors testify that fires could obliterate streets, with sprinklers and fireproofing failing and firefighters far away unable to help. A sweeping conflagration could wreck insurance profits and cause multi-billion losses.
The passage condemns sky-scraper construction in New York for undermining fire safety and air quality. It argues many tall buildings are not fireproof, warns of the risk to investors and trusts, cites foreign-height regulations, and predicts a catastrophic fire followed by public astonishment.
Idaho senator Borah remains under indictment for alleged conspiracy to affect timber lands. He vows to push the case on its merits, while reports suggest Oregon prosecutions may be abandoned due to funds or negotiations, and the senate may frown on his presence until resolution.
The article notes Vancouver riots and growing Canadian concerns over Japanese and other Orientals entering Canada. It highlights heavy head taxes on Chinamen, potential Japanese settlement and labor in the Northwest, and London's colonial press urging white-only limits under occidental ideals. The United States watches the controversy with interest as similar issues loom.
A Keystone Telephone company order from Philadelphia instructs hundreds of telephone girls to omit the word please when addressing patrons. Patrons are urged to follow suit to save time, with Butte lines soon to be automated and running. The piece notes Philadelphia's famed politeness and anticipates smoother calls once the new system is fully in place.
A mixed set of satirical remarks references Peary Wellman and 1907 stock bear versus bull markets, Lusitania and seas, Wall Street imagery, Oklahoma statehood, Taft and Fairbanks. It mentions a pending 1908 pole race, coal shortages, and general political and social jabs with local pride and vaudeville theater allusions.
A compilation of homemaking advice covering cleaning methods color-safe grease removal with ammonia and soap preserving honey preventing rust with lard and oven heat making coat covers from old nightdress materials crafting emery board edges from small boards sharpening knives with emery cloth and ideas for decorative fabric embellishments using eyelet flowers and clover heads for cushions and fillings.
A reader suggests economical embroidery and trimming ideas for children's clothing and dresses. It describes Dutch linen tape trims for bean dresses, lace allover for kimonos, belted waist patterns, Mandarin sleeves, V-neck collars, and silk inserted edgings. It also advises simple embroidery stitches, lace caps for babies, and repairs for broken corsets using featherbone to reinforce hips and steels.
Prof Shaller Mathews of the University of Chicago compares marriage to a picnic. Lady Lechmere, famed hunter, travels with husband Ben Vanasek who once sold Milwaukee papers and played cornet. he won a grand prize in Paris. John R. McLean nears completion of an Italianate Washington residence ahead of social season. William Straight, U S consul at Mukden, set to marry Miss Mary Harriman. California fruit trials at Tsingtau suggest vast future orchards. August Delattre, father of copper plate engraving, dies. Thomas Read, once Maj. Lee’s orderly, now 82 in Minneapolis recalls Civil War figures Grant and Read.
An Indianapolis News item recounts a boy skates with one shoe and one barefoot foot on a New Jersey and Walnut street corner. A passerby asks about the missing shoe, and the boy jokes that he has no second shoe at home as he continues hop and glide along the street.
A Maryland court case reveals a plaintiff claiming lifelong financial stability. During cross examination the lawyer asks about bankruptcy and payment suspension. The plaintiff replies he never stopped payment, stating he paid all he owed when the suspension occurred.
None of the injured remained in danger. The hospitalized victims suffer mostly slight concussions bruises and sprains with condition not critical.
By Associated Press investigation opens into yesterday’s disaster near Canaan New Hampshire where a freight and express train collision left more than twenty dead and many injured. Rail officials cite a train order blunder as cause while the guilty operator remains unnamed. Station Agent Greeley of Canaan station, who transmitted the fatal order, was temporarily removed.
San Francisco on September 16 four jurors were added to the panel to try former Attorney General Tirey L. Ford, chief counsel of United Railroads, for bribery of Supervisor Lonergan. Of the eight jurors accepted, two previously convicted VP Glass of Pacific Telephone is named, while one juror was dismissed for alleged ties to a defendant’s employee. The defense did not use peremptory challenges against Mortensen and Stange, surprising observers.
Casa Blanca September 16. With the submission of all tribes now practically assured, the mission of General Crude into Morocco is viewed as complete. Observers say the war is over and once calm returns, troops stationed around Casa Blanca will be sent to eight seaports to establish a police system.
The body of Luciles H. Perkins, a Lawrence lawyer who died June 1 after a fall from his roof, was exhumed by court order and his stomach will be tested for poison. Perkins carried a $100,000 policy with Mutual Life Insurance, which refuses payout, claiming suicide.
Washington dispatch reports that Santo Domingo congress passed a resolution delegating full executive power to act on the $20,000,000 loan contract. The vote was 14 in favor, 2 against.
Albion Michigan Sept 16 The Michigan conference of the Methodist Episcopal church adopted a resolution urging Michigan's U S senators to press in the Senate an amendment to the U S Constitution to prohibit polygamy.
Twenty five members of the American Press Humorists Association led by President T A Daley arrived in Los Angeles for the annual convention.
Mulai Hafid must earn sultan class status through reputation. A Moor is stereotyped as a wild eyed figure with flowing garments and a turban. John W. Gates will not settle in England, plans recreation there then moves to France to lease a shooting preserve before returning to America. William J. Wilgus, NY Central VP, urged Chicago electrification to curb engine smoke. he helped electrify New York trains. Colonel Robinson, who saved Seward on Lincoln’s assassination night, died in California. A statistician lists the 100 largest fortunes, led by Rockefeller, with 51 Americans, 12 English, and others across Europe and the world.
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