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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1916
Page
8
A listing of grocery items including Swift and Armour hams, turkey, roast beef, veal, pork, and poultry with per pound prices. The ad notes bread flour, mutton roast, lean pork, pork chops, and fresh stewing chickens arriving Friday. Prices range from about 18 to 125 per pound for certain meats and establish a broad consumer catalog.
Miss Helen Tallon from Butte high school earned the right to represent the school at the Interscholastic Declamation Contest in Missoula next month. Geo Haggerty won the silver medal and Herbert Eberle took third place after six contestants appeared at the final Tutte Auditorium contest. About 80 students tried for the honor in the preliminary rounds. music was provided by the high school choir. judges were Miss Sarepta Sanders Rev T C Brockway and Thomas J Davis.
The old city council held its final meeting last night approving ordinances for alley paving from Main to Mercury Silver, district 0.206 street work, and a uniform parking plan south of the Northern Pacific line. They discussed safety zones at Park with Main and Park with Arizona, opened bids for an incinerating plant, and considered attic remodeling, license reductions, and pensions for widows. Alderman Corry and judiciary committee debated the back salary cases. Mrs Pace’s monthly widow's salary was approved after votes.
The Republic Rubber Company's Youngstown plant, employing 1800 workers, closed for inventory and will not reopen under current shop conditions and wage demands. Machinists seek an eight hour day with ten hours pay and a closed shop. In New York, Rev Josiah Strong died in a hospital at age 97, after leading the American Institute for Social Science and the Social Center Association.
April 28 reports from London state a German air off the coast announced that a submarine had been captured after an engagement. The brief dispatch notes the capture without further details on personnel or location.
In Moscow Idaho on April 28 the Idaho University team overcame the University of Montana 6 to 2 after a ninth inning rally. The batteries were Wade and Berger for Idaho with Kent and Crawford for Montana.
Berlin stock market remains internally normal with a more favorable tone as concessions from the United States are anticipated rather than confirmed. Traders and the public speculate on potential moves though no new word has come from Washington.
Former lightweight champion Wolgast won the referee's decision over Joe Flynn of Denver after a 15 round match. Wolgast dominated, as Flynn battled gamely but could not overcome the seasoned fighter. Broken plate glass salvage is handled by the plate glass insurance companies, who cut the glass into pieces for resale.
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