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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1918
Page
4
Republicans of River Bow county gather at the Empress theater this afternoon at 1 o clock to adopt a campaign platform. Officials state the meeting is not meant to interfere with primary law operations or current candidates, but to outline party positions for voters. Leading county and city Republicans will attend.
A 16 member board of instruction for youths was named at a city county officials conference to oversee personal instruction for selectives. The program aims to send ready, loyal, intelligent men to camp, reducing delays by teaching army life and regulations before induction. Names include Senator Lee Mantle as chairman and Capt. L. P. Sanders as vice chair.
Holy Trinity East Park M Sahl nen pastor holds 10 am loyalty service and 8 10 pm evening. Lowell Avenue Methodist led by Coy RR Sims preaches at 11 am on An Unanswered Prayer Why and 7 30 pm First Things First. Trinity Methodist Episcopal notes Epworth League studies 10 am and 7 30 pm worship. Orville Methodist led by Rev F ulford with Sunday school at 11 am and evening service at 7 30 pm, Lord's Supper observed. Emanuel Lutheran announces Swedish service 11 am and English 8 pm with district Dorcas program midweek. 12th Street Scandinavian LDS and Immanuel Methodist list consideration of classes and no Sunday school tomorrow. St Andrews Centerville and other churches report sermons, services, and Sunday schedules across the city with varied times and special programs.
Washington reports American forces in France have honed new warfare methods and will supply instructors for US units being formed. Officers, including Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt, are ordered back to lead brigades in the 12 new divisions. The plan centers on two veteran infantry regiments as a nucleus for each division.
Aug 2 dispatch from Amsterdam reports Germany resisting Austrian Polish annexation while Austria presses a Polish solution. Turkish Bulgarian frictions worsen as both sides trade sharp claims. German-Turkish rift grows amid Brest-Litovsk fallout. Dutch workers resist Krupp neutral labor as Essen police struggle. Turkey asserts independent Caucasus approach, hinting at broader pivot in war dynamics.
Incensed at German influence, Aland Island residents dynamited fortifications to block German control and Sweden’s influence. Finnish government ordered dismantling of coastal forts except Viborg and Helsingfors, triggering Swedish sympathy and criticism for action. Also notes Grand Army convention arrangements and Harvey Tucker’s police commission trial this afternoon.
The notice describes weekend gatherings with cottages ready for occupancy and dining services praised as a specialty. Guests may stay in the hotel or cottages and dancing features the Whitehall orchestra.
London reports a Soviet investigating commission has ordered the arrest of Maxim Gorky. The Petrograd Daily Express dispatch claims Gorky’s paper is permanently suppressed. Copenhagen telegraph confirms the action.
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