Anaconda County Board Adopts Lower Tax Levy After Equalization
Deer Lodge County commissioners adjourn after a busy session reducing the county levy from 12 mills to 11. The board completed equalization with protests from about 1,000 of 3,200 taxpayers and set a projected county valuation near 8.25 million dollars, raising the county from a fifth to a fourth class. Salary increases for next elected officials are anticipated.
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Deer Lodge
Popol Lung
Cccivesecctna
Gia Tas
Anaconda
Stock Inspector Fund
Bounty Fund
Fish and Game Warden Fund
Phil Greenan
Elks Minstrel Set at Butte Aug 4 1903
The Elks announce a minstrel at Butte on August 4 1903. The B A P railway offers an 80 cent round trip fare from Anaconda to Butte and back. Return tickets must be stamped at the Broadway theater. A special train will depart Butte at 1 am after the show.
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Elks’ Minstrel
Butte
B A. & P. Ruiway
Broadway
Plums and prices on a Boston street
On a Boston street two plum vendors with handcarts competed for customers. One advertised 6 cents a dozen and initially did little business. Passers by paused at the rival cart offering the same price, illustrating a simple moral about attention and sales.
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Boston
Woes Of Montana Crittenton Work Spurred By Helena Plan
Mrs. W M Wolfe of the Florence Crittenton home reports in Anaconda on Montana efforts. She urges guardian boards in towns to monitor girls for 3 to 5 years after discharge and endorses an industrial school at Helena to train girls in crafts and independence.
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Montana
Helena
Anaconda
Florence Crittenton Homes
Judge Hayes Faces Contested Win Line Over Unpaid Fines
A city committee including Alder men Carriher Collins and Macdonald examined Judge Hayes books at City Hall after a dispute with Mayor Frinke. They found $175 in fines not turned over to the treasurer. Hayes says the money was earned salary and will be paid once his warrant is signed, arguing fines should be returned if he was not the police judge. The issue remains unresolved as legal action over Hayes’ office continues.
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Carriher
Collins
Macdonald
Frinke
Judge Hayes
Po Hce
Miss Evans Named Maid of Honor by Anaconda Elks
Mies Kit Evans is elected maid of honor for the Anaconda lodge at the state meeting in Butte tomorrow. She will join the reception committee at the grand ball hosted by the Erie at Columbia Gardens Pavilion.
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Ft. T. Wi
Butte
Anaconda & Paciic
Dixecursion Rates to Gregson Springs
Beginning Saturday May 23 and weekly thereafter the B A P railway offers round trip fares to Gregson Springs from Anaconda and from Butte Tickets are valid on all trains from noon Saturday to noon Monday
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Gregson Springs
Anaconda
Gregson
Butte
Anderson & Klas sen Goes Out of Business Notice
All parties knowing themselves indebted to the firm of Anderson and Kla sen Please settle at once. Bills unpaid after the 15th of this month will be placed with a collector.
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Anderson & Klassen
Eastman camera for sale at Steuernagel's
Good as new Eastman camera offered cheap at Steuernagel's store.
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Eastman
Steuernagel’s
Anaconda Hunters Prep For Open Season On Grouse And Pheasants
Anaconda residents gear up for the grouse and other birds opening Saturday. Reports claim grouse are plentiful and many parties head to the hills this week. Deputized wardens will enforce the law to prevent pre opening slaughter, with penalties up to 250 dollars or three months in jail.
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Anaconda
Narrow escape near Silver Lake saloon
Cal Callahan the cartoonist led a group to Silver Lake where a boat ride ended in a rifle misfire. A young woman from Butte, shaken but uninjured, hid in the canyon until dusk after the bullet shattered the saloon window and narrowly missed bystanders playing cards.
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Silver Lake
Cal Callahan
Cal
Butte
Grape Nuts and Postum Touted as Health Boost
An advertisement touts predigested Grape Nuts and Postum as a cure for stomach illness and weakness. A testimonial from a long bedridden patient credits the products with rapid health gains, weight gain, better sleep, and restored appetite, claiming coffee withdrawal aided recovery. It also mentions a $7,500 cooks contest and an extension offer by mail.
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Pole
Postum Con
Battle Creek
Mich
Harper and Hayes Answer to Anaconda Quo Warranto Pleadings
Attorneys for W. W. Harper treasurer and R. J. Hayes police magistrate filed answers to Tobin and McHugh suits alleging they did not qualify within law and cannot be ousted. Plaintiffs claim Harper and Hayes usurp the offices. defendants contend they were elected and qualified and that Tobin and McHugh failed to take oath timely. The cases hinge on date of election notification and whether plaintiffs abandoned rights by not taking oath within ten days.
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W. W. Harper
City of
Anaconda
R. J. Hayes
Michael P. Tobin
C. C. McHugh
Tobin
McHugh
Harper
Hayes
District Court
Harper and Hayes
Miner Dies From Injuries At Daniels Shaft
Thomas Floyd 36 died at St Ann's hospital last evening after a fall down a Daniels mine shaft on the first of the month. A timber man born in Astoria Ore he had lived in Montana two years and married widow Flora Parker three months ago. Remains are at Walsh's funeral rooms with arrangements to follow.
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Thomas Floyd
St. Ann's Hospital
Daniels
Floyd
Dodd
Deer Lodge
Astoria
Ore
Montana
Flora Parker
Walsh
Among the Policemen Girl Still at Large
The girl Harrity identified a disguise wearing man near Godard's on Main street after a Monday night assault on her. Police search continues with no arrest by early morning. The city reacts with outrage while officers pursue the suspect.
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Martin Harrity
Old Lake Park
Powere
Godard
Main Street
Marchion
Harrity
Clarence Preston
Hearst Free Library
Preston
Cedar Street
St. Elmo
J. M. Godard
Frank Smith
Hartz
John Howarth
Fourth Street
Birch
Smith
Beryl Hastings
Mainville
Armstrong
Beryl
City Sales and Notices Sweep Across Anaconda
Classified items show sales at Strain's with 25 c dances at A. O. H. hall and wares from wash silks to Canton funnels. Marriage licenses issued to Dennis Baradoni and Ellen Schevenius. local professionals, visits, and travel noted among Butte and Davenport mentions.
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Dennis Baradoni
Ellen Schevenius
Buttle
Justice of the Peace
Hendricks
Bennett Partners Learn of His Death in Idaho
New York August 11 news that Philo Bennett senior partner of Bennett Sloan Co wholesale grocery and tea importing firm was killed in Thunder Mountain Idaho had not reached the firm members until today. A Boise telegraph confirmed the accident and Dr R Melville Cramer sent word. Bennett with Dr Cramer S B Whittier and J Gage had gone west three weeks earlier to inspect mines and for pleasure. His home was New Haven Conn previously a leading Republican and later a Bryan associate elect.
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New York
Philo & Bennett
Bennett, Sloan & Co
Thunder Mountain
Idaho
R. Melville Cramer
Boise
Bennett
Cramer
B. Whittier
Brooklyn
J. Gage
Philadelphia
It Isn’t The Man With The Loudest Action
The text urges setting a clear home beautifying mark through painting and decorating. It emphasizes that fuss or splurge does not equate to quality work and advises directing pulling pushing and thinking toward the home improvement goal based on experience.
Local notes from Anaconda and Butte rail and parish events
Lost-Gold locket prize offered for return. Clergy travels noted with Father Allaeys funeral in Butte. Assessors and officials move between Anaconda Helena. New York traveler Bert Clawson and Mrs Clawson seen in Anaconda. Through sleeping car service to Minneapolis. Auctions and sales ads appear plus family notices and social events.
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Bert Clawson
New York
Anaconda
Mrs. Clawson
Community thanks for support after bereavement
The family of Ed Devine expresses gratitude to the Musicians' Union the Ladies and Knights of Security the League of the Sacred Heart and all neighbors and friends for their kind assistance during their late bereavement.
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Musicians’ Union
the Ladies and Knights of Security
League of the Sacred Heart
ED Devine
Sheriff and McCabe Return After Habeas Corpus Hearing
Sheriff Btorrar escorted William McCabe to Butte yesterday after McCabe was held to answer extortion charges. McCabe appeared before Judge McClernan on a writ of habeas corpus directed by Judge Holloway. They returned last evening and McCabe is expected to post bonds for appearance.
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W. HH. Trippet
Butte
McCabe
MccClernan
Btorrar
William McCabe
District Court
McClernan
Outlaw Martins Killed in Pawhuska Fight
Deputies arrive from Guthrie to recover bodies of Will and Sam Martin from Osage lands eight miles south of Pawhuska Oklahoma. Will Martin dies at the scene. Sam Martin wounded. Deputy Marshal Hines wounded and listed critical. Rewards totaling twelve thousand dollars had been offered.
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Pawhuska
Will Martin
Sam Martin
Clarence Simmons
Washing without soap or water a foolish aim for dandruff
The article argues against treating dandruff with germ-rising substances like cantharides vaseline and glycerine and promotes Newbro's Herpicide as effective by attacking the parasitic scalp germ. It claims Herpicide is the original genuine germicide and offers samples by mail from the Herpicide Co Detroit Mich.
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Newbro
Drugenets
Herpicide Co
Detroit
Mich
Engineers killed in freight wreck near Red Dick interlock
The Wabash fast freight derailed at Red Dick interlocking in Bloomington Illinois the night before, killing engineer Fel bert Hulskep of Chicago and seriously injuring fireman Harry McDonald and brakeman William Cupples of Decatur. The derailment occurred as the train prepared to cross the interlocking with the Three L road and a derailing switch was found against the lead locomotive. Property losses are heavy.
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Bloomington
Aug
Red Dick
Dil
Felbert Hulskep
Chicago
Harry McDonald
William Cupples
Decatur
Munyon's Dyspepsia Cure and Witch Hazel Soap Ad
Munyon's Dyspepsia Cure promises to let you eat freely while curing dizziness constipation nervousness and sleeplessness and restoring stomach strength. Munyon's Witch Hazel Soap claims to soften skin to velvet smoothness and improve complexion across markets.
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Miss Evans
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Edna Ehret
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John H. Tolan
Budweiser
Anheuser-Busch Brewing Ass' N Co
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Father Pirnat
St. Peter's Parish
Father Allayes
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Hiram W. Rodgers
Judge MetClernan
Father Barry
St. Paul's Parish
Father Allaeys
Father Coopman
J. W. Smart
Iowa
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Great Northern Railway
Minneapolis
St. Paul
N. E. Levengood
Missouri
Ed. Devine
St. Paul's
Asmle
Edward Chassay
Great Falls
PD. R. McRae
Onaene Lappin
East Commercial
Welling Napton
Owlahoma
Guthrie
Dan
Schatzlein Paint Co
W. Broadway, Butte
Munyon
Anaconda, Montana
John S. Marshall
Mgr
Daly Bank and Trust Company OF
John R. Toole
M. B. Greenwood
Louis V. Bennett
Fr. & Norgbeck
Ass't
Yegen Bros. Savings Bank
Park, Anaconda
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Cc. Yegen
P. Yegen
K. FP. Moffitt
Milwaukee
VAL. Blatz Brewing CO
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