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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1919
Page
7
Rent planes from Orton Bros and a News Stand ad appear in Butte notes. A daughter born August 11 to Mr and Mrs Thomas Morgan at 801 Hornet street and a son to Mr and Mrs Charles T Jennings at Deaconess hospital, 3118 Phillips avenue. Leahy fined $10 for driving without attaching his numbers. Judge Grimes announced the penalty.
Visitors arriving in Butte for social travel include W. Robnett and A. J. McIntyre as guests at the Thornton, Mrs. J. R. Scott from Dillon, Lucille Hoover from Bozeman, Esther Anderson from Helena, A. Webb from Miles City, F. Constant from Helena, Mrs. G. C. Perkins from Harlowton, E. W. Tandy from Anaconda, Mrs. J. C. Fitzpatrick from Alder, R. O. Wilson from Missoula, George W. James from Lewistown, W. W. Wellman from Helena, William Rea Jr. from Billings, Mrs. Charles D. McLure from Great Falls, HL Mason from Jackson, F. Blakeley from Philipsburg, M. A. Whalen from the capital, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hardgrin from Dell, and Mr. and Mrs. R. He Dyer from Sheridan with daughter. many remained at the Legal.
Marie Smith of Juneau Alaska left her husband after meeting Greek Peter Kost who promised life in the outside world. She later lived in Seattle and Butte, faced pressure for a divorce, and was cast into prostitution after being expelled by Kost. Police and federal authorities questioned her, Kost pleaded guilty, and he served four months then was deported. She died in a county clinic after a troubled life marked by exploitation and a virulent blood disease.
A dying patient described as friendless and outcast died yesterday after being sent to the poor farm a week earlier. Her body was later identified by a federal operative at an undertaker’s parlor, suggesting a concealed federal connection to her death.
A message from the Leggat hotel reported Carl Bergstrom of Gold Creek was thrown from a buggy and badly injured. A doctor was summoned and the prognosis was not yet clear late last night. Bergstrom, a pioneer resident, is well known in the state and once involved with Stromberg & Mullins, with many friends in Butte.
Al Connelly, a switchman with the Butte Anaconda and Pacific railroad, was taken to the city jail late last night and may face an insanity commission. He was found wandering naked in his yard at 342 East Curtis Street. Monday evening he started a fire in his yard which was extinguished by the south Side station.
The Winter Garden company also known as the Shuberts filed suits in U S district court seeking 500000 dollars damages from about 300 leading stage and screen stars over the strike called by the Actors Equity association.
Striking workers at the Chicago packing plants in the Stockyards returned to work this morning as police guards were withdrawn following a Saturday agreement reached by officials and strikers.
A large South Side club meeting led by T. J. Bennetts discussed improvements for Butte including paving Harrison avenue, removing telegraph poles, and installing a center-city style sighting system. Other topics covered Northern Pacific crossing ducting, admitting women, social events, and a potential club house with gym.
United States Deputy Marshal Groft detained a man who gave the name Hoffman after he appeared at the federal building seeking passports to Germany. He was held for a sanity investigation amid evidence of monomaniacal religious fixation and about 400 handwritten cards found in his possession.
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