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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1913
Page
8
A letter to the editor protests steep car steps hindering rides to Columbia Gardens. The author, a middle aged woman, urges the company to lower steps, noting current design favors the young or those with escorts. She describes the humiliations of boarding and calls for a petition and possible car modifications.
New York July 31 Offerings of blood by members of the Middleton family failed to save Leight Bourne Middleton who died this afternoon after ten days at death's door with aplastic anaemia. His father brother wife cousin and a college mate donated blood within ten days. He was struck while on his wedding trip two months ago. The bride gave 15 percent of her blood and his mother wished to add more but physicians forbade it.
The first day of August thirty two years ago saw a Helena stage bring four tender feet to Butte. They stayed at the Centennial hotel, explored sights like the Gagnon mine and Davis mill, and faced tainted Well water before choosing beer. One of the four lives in Los Angeles, two remained in Butte in real estate and wages, and the fourth died about 15 years ago, a reflection on fortune and struggle.
The excerpt describes a group of four individuals traveling to Butte. One person amassed wealth, another died, a third struggled with a small business, and the fourth earned wages.
In Missoula and Butte you hear old-time newspaper lore and local humor. A cub reporter remembers moonlight parties and asks for a moon picture while townsfolk gossip about the secretary of the navy, cats, horses, and a dog, all framed by Bitter Root vacation ads and Northern Pacific fares.
Baltimore July 31 Miss Elizabeth Goucher youngest daughter of Dr John F Goucher president emeritus of Goucher college and friend of President Wilsons daughters is to enter the mission field in China under the Women s Foreign Missionary society. She will spend at least five years in educational work with headquarters at Nanking. She spent last year in preparatory work at Columbia College New York Miss Goucher will leave Baltimore Aug 9 The United States produces about 88 cen of the worlds ovsierse ps.
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