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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1920
Page
12
Wheat closes strong with December at 2.97 and March at 2.414, amid high elevator interest and reports of French purchases. Corn and oats rise, while provisions decline. steel price shifts reflect government crop data and demand from buyers, with silvers and metals steadier amid mixed market signals.
Special Dispatch reports Billings August 10 Earl Wade posted 1000 bond for killing three cattle owned by neighbor T M Hamlett. Wade returned home and shot six more head of the same herd raising total slain to nine. Wade was rearrested and issued a warrant for Hamlett for allowing cattle to run at large.
Substantial advances on varied domestic developments were trimmed by liquidation in special issues. Notable gains included Crucible and Mexican Petroleum up 4 points, with Bald win Pan American Chandler Motors Central Leather Retail Stores and others rising. Overall turnover around 525,000 shares as profits and selling pressures shaped a cautious close.
Chicago, Aug 10 cattle receipts around 9 000 with steers mostly higher and bulk at 15.14 to 17.40. hog receipts 22 000 with market lower than yesterday but lights and butchers steady to higher. sheep and lambs mixed with fat lambs and feeding lambs showing gains. other cities like St Paul Spokane and Omaha report similar activity and price ranges.
Dotty and Happy Giggles meet Daddy Caterpillar and Mamma Caterpillar near a deserted bird nest. They learn the nest will be repurposed by beetles and moths and eventually return to the land of After a While as the materials are reused. The tale ends with most of the nest disappearing by morning.
Special Dispatch to the Standard from Billings Aug 10 In late 1860s J Lutz of Wheeling West Virginia claimed to be the first locate where Billings now stands He crossed from Deadwood South Carolina as Northern Pacific built through the area and reached the spot first His tent was the initial structure near the bank run by H H Mund A dancehall stood beside the tent guarding cash Lutz 64 years old now plans to depart for Colorado and California and remains in the laundry business at Wheeling.
Special Dispatch reports in Billings that two persons died yesterday from tumors. Mrs Ware aged 48 died at a hospital and H B Ritter aged 50 died at his home. Mrs Ware’s funeral set for Wednesday. Ritter’s arrangements not yet made. Separately W L Spiegelmire was arrested for indorsing several C O D checks while in temporary charge of Continental Oil at Basin Wyoming and turned over to Basin officers.
Glendive reports a public library with 2,500 volumes and weekly hours, the council chamber repurposed for library use, and a 650 seat Vallancey theater under construction to be finished by Oct 15. Plans for a larger fair and crop prospects in Dawson county are noted along with a drought of grasshoppers averted by action.
Aug 10. Searching parties of 30 riders comb the hills around Pony to locate James Cummings who has not been seen for over two weeks. His saddle horse arrived with the saddle loose, and his cabin was found open. Cummings, an old timer who served with the Canadian mounted police, is believed to have met an accident in the mountains. News expected tonight from the search party.
Astrologers call August 11 1920 an unim portant day with veneral aspects favoring publicity and publishing yet warning of bitter public contests and a possible national libel suit. Women are urged to guard opinions amid shifting thought and rising gossip while forecasts foresee tests of public trust, opportunities for youth, and epochal changes ahead.
The largest motorboat afloat is Africa, 445 feet long and 60 feet wide, with a 14,000 ton carrying capacity. Diesel engines deliver 4,500 horsepower.
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