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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1919
Page
14
Advert says rooms taken over in the Silver Block at 204 West Commercial Avenue with several airy spaces for rent, describing available ice and lighting in the rooms.
Anaconda residents report a cabin near the Old George mine ransacked by youths who shot out windows kicked doors and stole provisions. Mrs. D G Brownell, owner of the cabin, faces another loss after a saddle horse was recently killed in an accidental pasture incident at Nate Hayes ranch.
At the Margaret tonight the Pantages bill features Jazz and Hokum with The Footlight Revue leading the lineup. Al Woniman presents jazz and patter, Canfield and Rose charm as a Jewish talk duo, and Anita Arliss delivers songs with refined tone. The show includes The Hideaway, a tense playlet, and a murder tale.
Notice lists a Wage-Earners Welfare association meeting on Thursday Aug 7 at 5 pm at the mill and smelter men's hall with important business and a call for all delegates. Also bids invited for a modern two story concrete dining hall building at White Sulphur Springs with contact J H Scott Box 245. Attention bridgemen tonight a bridge and structural iron workers meeting with a strike vote to be taken. Melvin Webb Recording Secretary.
Members of the Presbyterian church and Sunday school and friends will travel to Silver Lake for the annual basket picnic and field day. A special round trip train departs Anaconda at 9 a.m. adults 85 cents, children 35 cents. Refreshments provided. picnickers bring lunches. Sports include a married ladies face potato race three legged race tug of war baseball and children's races.
A series of brief notes lists residents and visitors in Anaconda and nearby towns. Names include R W McCullough, Charles Ralston, George Knight, J R Troeltzsch, Mrs W J Fitzmaurice, Miss Mary Vanesco, Thomas Leonard, Mrs J A Magness, Miss Anna Vanisko, Miss Selena Graham, Charles Shovlin, Mrs Mary Mahoney, Miss Aileen McGrath, Thomas J Fagan and Miss Helen, John Meenahan, James Holhan, H W Rodgers. Also a short piece discusses engineering views on tunneling under the English Channel and travel times between Paris and London.
Describes Sherman’s 1864 march to the sea with the Fourteenth Corps covering 273 miles and the artillery of the Seventieth Corps advancing 202 miles along the route.
Employers value wartime discipline and practical skills gained by service members returning from war. The article notes quick judgment, loyalty, focus, courage in crises, and mastery of concrete trades as assets in civilian work. Under Col Arthur Woods, the war department assists veterans in finding jobs when their prior positions are filled.
The readable fragment lists numerous individuals tied to Montana towns such as Livingston Helena Great Falls and Missoula along with distant places including Seattle and Minneapolis. Names include Jorge Knight Dan B Butte J.R. Troeltzsch W C Spater and Elmer J. Carter among others. The scattered items resemble a social or financial roll call with no clear event or dates.
The article extols discharged American soldiers nicknamed Huskies returning from war. Col Woods lists 48 applicants, offering them to business leaders as ideal hires: strong, well trained, adaptable, patriotic, and eager to work, urging employers to add them to their organizations.
Real estate notice offering a five room house and a three room house on Birch street with a 50 by 140 feet lot and a corner 50 by 70 feet lot on Ash street. Birch street homes priced 2600 with 200 down and 20 monthly payments. East Eighth street house 1850 with 100 down and 20 monthly. Includes furniture with the Ash street property, price 1250. Eight percent interest on financing.
JAMES H. MURPHY offers S-room and 6-room modern apartments at 111 E Park Ave and on Third and Sixth streets. One 3-room modern unit near Washington Street priced at 3000. Contact J I Sanderson at 315 B Park Ave, phone 583, for details.
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