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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1920
Page
10
An old advertisement proclaims R B Abbott Co offers a product called Sulphuid for rheumatism. It touts the treatment as a wonderful remedy and compares it to hot sulphur baths. The copy makes broad health claims and promises rapid relief and guaranteed results.
A Friday evening mass meeting in Anaconda will form a fourteenth council of first class Boy Scouts. Names of many proposed members include Abbott Jackson Boone St Clut Blair Mor Fow Applegate Wellcome Adams Campbell Cunningham Ehihorne James Fitzgerald and more. A public session at Margaret theater on April 30 will address the council formation and invite attendees. New fishing licenses are now on sale through Duval Hardware.
A weathered track meet saw seniors secure four firsts and three seconds, while juniors earned two firsts and four seconds amid a cold wind and brief snowstorm. Beal and Sul ean each posted 16 points, with Boyles as the top individual scorer. The program lists heats and placements across high hurdles and sprint events, concluding with a 400 yard dash and related races.
The article lists polling places by precinct, detailing centers along Pine Maple Hickory Oak and other streets, including Dewey Hall, Mill Creek schoolhouse, Warm Springs hotel, Beaver’s barn, and Fish Trap hotel, with districts like Georgetown and Net Gulch. It notes varied polling sites such as schools, hotels, and community buildings and mentions Creek, Mill Creek, and Cedar areas among the precincts.
Workmen sent by the Belgian government begin clearing and reinforcing the ruins of the Church of St. Martin and the old Cloth Hall at Ypres. The plan preserves the wreckage while adding carefully laid masonry and spacio us lawns to create dignified approach to the fallen monuments.
Fragmentary notes describe a Hatfield clan member in Charleston West Virginia who married his fourth wife after objecting to a $2 license fee, claiming he paid no more than $1 previously. The report references several feud-era details, a horse incident, and a chaotic set of figures and names with unclear coherence.
London April headlines report a church debate on women confessors at the Lambeth conference. Edith Pickton Turberville quotes letters from girls urging female confessors in major Anglican churches. The Rev Henry Hose says women would not confess to women citing psychological objections to trust.
The old Powell County Courthouse frame, erected in 1868, will be moved east of its current site as a brick and stone addition expanded the building. The courthouse business will move to the Kohrs Memorial Library basement for the summer while the frame structure is dismantled and the site prepared for the new arrangement.
In Bath New York fishermen allegedly blocked Cold Spring brook and used scoop nets to drive trout into nets. The local fishing club held an indignation meeting and will bring the poaching incident to the state conservation commission. About 50 000 trout were stocked in nearby streams last fall.
The will provides ten dollar bequests to any nieces and nephews at Stephanie Larue's funeral and limits burial costs to under one hundred dollars. It specifies a preferred burial attire and directs funds for masses for her soul. The residue of the estate goes to relatives. includes named heirs and a bequest for a war-related placeholder.
A live lion escaped from a circus and roamed the countryside for about a week before being captured about 30 miles from Hammonton New Jersey. Residents including Mrs ALA Carpenter Mrs Nathaniel Black and Councilman Harry P Mottola heard the roaring late at night and saw the animal near market rear area.
County Attorney D H Morgan and a sworn affidavit led to the dismissal of district court cases against Joseph Devine and Stella Martin More. Private detectives Van Wert and Smith, hired by the Anti-Saloon League and Anaconda Law Enforcement, failed to serve subpoenas and end with few guilty verdicts. The raid last September targeted liquor sales and confiscations, costing about 1000 dollars, with several defendants acquitted in lower courts.
Members of Anaconda council of what was Knights and Tacties of Security prepare to welcome delegates at the district convention to be held April 2. The entertainment committee includes Mark W King Frank Gagmien Watts Alta Alice Hoskins Bessie Hedge Anna Zugel Alexander Ta com Bill Wright William Beil. Anaconda council is the largest in Montana and officials expect strong turnout after talks in Butte with other councils.
A New York grand jury indicted itinerant rioter Thomas W. Simpkin for first degree murder in the death of Dr. James Wright Markoe, a noted surgeon, during a service at St. George's last Sunday. The charging document details the shooting at the church and names the victim and defendant.
Michael Thomas of Chicago faced double tragedy after losing his job and taking his two young sons to the Loop. An elevator ride ended in disaster when his son Paul’s arm was caught in a door, crushed to death, leaving the father devastated by the loss and the moment.
A pigeon owned by John Blair hatched a hen chick from an egg laid by an out hen. The bird now cares for the chick in the local yard.
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