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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1907
Page
24
The Anaconda Standard announces subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions, listing monthly and yearly options and in advance payment terms. Includes office addresses at Standard Block Anaconda and telephone lines for business and editorial inquiries.
A listing of The Standard newspaper sale points and offices with branch addresses and phone numbers. It notes offices in New York Chicago Kansas City Minneapolis San Francisco Los Angeles Pasadena Denver Salt Lake City Ogden Spokane Tacoma Seattle and Portland and directs general correspondence to Anaconda Montana.
The Butte city council considers selling the dump tract used by the Milwaukee line or cleaning and beautifying it for public use. Rails lie across the flat and Milwaukee trains may soon run into Butte. a purchase could fund a remote dumping area while the railroad would aid cleanup. Aldermen favor action to avoid unsightly impressions for travelers and to improve depot grounds.
The piece foresees Joseph G. Cannon’s peaceful re-election as speaker of the House in the sixtieth Congress. It suggests the House’s organization will be largely unchanged with committees and chairmen forming a key task. It notes potential tariff changes, a fight for Ways and Means seats after retirements of Grosvenor, McCleary, Babcock, and Curtis.
The piece notes five Republican seats on the committee and potential new members if current members are dropped. It cites Mr. Payne as head of the Ways and Means Committee predicting next winter may see legislation outside appropriation bills, with a Philippine tariff review and minor corrections to the rate law. He doubts major tariff revision or trust legislation, says rebates harmed trusts, rails pledging better conduct, and suggests listening for further ideas next winter.
The article describes intrusive Hughes booster activity in New York independent of Governor Charles Evans Hughes. Mailings show anti Roosevelt undertones with poems and slogans. rumors say Roosevelt fears Hughes rising to replace him, while Taft Cannon and Knox faces appear weak among key party leaders and black voters.
The Indian Territory's absorption shows the end of tribal relations with the U S government deeming assimilation into citizenship as progress. The Bureau of Indian Affairs predicts future erosion of tribal ties and a loss of the red man image though bloodlines remain. The Boston Transcript warns sentiment will resist this policy.
The article argues Mr. Leupp seeks to break up reservations and push whites onto them or encourage Indians to work as laborers off the reservation. It claims both paths educate Indians in white ways by observation and absorption, noting natives resist direct instruction yet learn in context.
Oregon introduces a novel liquor rule requiring a five dollar annual license to purchase alcohol. Names of licensees are printed every six months in the Papers, enabling bartenders and the public to know who drinks. Severe penalties accompany noncompliance, affecting locals who cannot relocate.
The U S Army transport Sherman arrived in San Francisco after five days and nights in a typhoon off Nagasaki. Heavy seas swept the bow and progress was slow but the ship set a new transport service distance record by contacting Mare Island. It carried the Sixteenth Infantry, Sixth Engineering Corps, and numerous cabin passengers.
A collage of light humor quotes from Puck Washington Star Illustrated Bits and Chicago Daily News, including peaches at Peck's, money cannot buy pleasures with bill collectors, a remark by Skrappy, Amber Pete on a tour car incident, a magnate calling a scene a gallery play, a stage money fine, a bathing mystery, and a retired businessman urged into social life by family duties.
A dusty little toy dog and a red rusting toy soldier stand in the old chair where the boy once placed them. Time has passed yet the faithful toys await a touch from a little hand and a smile from a familiar face. The boy is grown, but the toys endure in the same quiet place.
William Livesy, a blacksmith linked to Rainville Sten Livesy, was ordered committed after a sanity exam. He confessed a plan to bore a hole through the earth and rebalance Butte while claiming a past English marriage and a dream to bridge the ocean. He struggled with a cell door, aided by doctors deeming his condition curable. The report notes Butte Commercial Bank offers 4 percent on time deposits.
Special Correspondence notes several black laborers held as witnesses in the Dougherty murder case at Straw are released from the county jail. They will return to work under guard by a special deputy, saving the county $1.50 per day and jail costs while the men are employed.
Special correspondence from Lewistown reports architect G D Eastman of Butte prepared plans adopted by J P Barnes M L Woodman and J T Wunderlin to erect a concrete building faced with pressed brick on the Day house site. The structure aims to be the handsomest business block in Fergus county.
San Francisco reports the cruisers Maryland Pennsylvania Colorado and West Virginia now at Honolulu are slated to depart on Wednesday and are expected to reach this port around September 24.
A Butte service at Temple B Nai Israel led by Rev. G Lipkind focused on Isaiah and the day of atonement. The sermon preached universal welcome, forgiveness, and reconciliation touching both devout and nonbelievers. Atonement ideals were linked to inner contrition and social harmony. At service end, wage earners were invited to open check accounts at Butte Commercial Bank on Hamilton Street.
Winchester Virginia September 17 Governor Guild and many Massachusetts dignitaries witnessed the dedication of a Civil War monument. The memorial honors Massachusetts soldiers who died in the Shenandoah Valley and was funded by a Massachusetts legislature appropriation.
San Juan Porto Rico September 17 Acting on Governor Post recommendation the executive council has decided to enforce compulsory vaccination on the island. six hundred thousand vaccine points have been ordered.
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