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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1917
Page
7
The principal branch office of the Standard is at 119 North Main Street, Butte. Telephones: Business department 422, editorial department 423. Advertising rates furnished on application.
When glasses fail to give comfort or sharp distant vision it warns of potential eye damage. The ad urges readers to visit their shop where extensive experience and careful examination of thousands of eyes can be applied to fitting glasses properly.
Butte notes list visitors from Helena Dillon Wisdom and Hamilton and Great Falls. Births include a boy to Sullivan and a girl to Morrison and a daughter to Wills. Local residents and visitors frequent shops and newsstands while others travel to Salt Lake, Hamilton and Missoula on short trips.
Reports claim Nikolai Lenine is still in hiding in Petrograd and in daily contact with followers. The Maximalists, who named him honorary chairman, push authorities to disclose his whereabouts after rioting in the capital.
London reports Swiss exporters to Germany face a Berlin order requiring payment in marks for three months after peace is proclaimed. The Berlin trade department notified Zurich dispatches that shipments will stop unless terms are agreed.
In upper New York, a young man with a leather box glimpses a placard for John J. Diogenes. Diogenes rejects lantern sales and reveals he is examining an applicant for a bank cashier position while X-ray scanning candidates.
The Butte News- Writers association annual picnic at Basin creek reservoir featured a rough game as Captain Stevens' Gunmen defeated Captain Berry's I W W 23 to 13. Hi Smarr stirred trouble with a 37 77 sign, Mort Donoghue hit a home run, and police were briefly pressed into service before lunch ended the fray.
Peking reports after the cabinet meeting a declaration of war against Germany may be issued on Monday. A 59-member war commission is meeting daily with the president to plan China’s participation in the war as newspapers say China will send troops to Europe.
Mike Zwinger a 26 year old German was arrested at 425 South Mahoney street by Patrolman O Donnell on a charge of failing to register for the army draft. He admitted illness at registration and said he had been in Butte since January 2. He will be held for United States authorities.
G W W Hanger of Washington DC, member of the U S board of mediation and conciliation, arrived in San Francisco to mediate between Southern Pacific and four railroad brotherhoods. He will hold preliminary talks with company and union reps as 8,500 workers had threatened a strike unless grievance decisions are modified to brotherhood satisfaction. The walkout remains deferred pending mediation results.
Mexico faces a cash shortage as financial strains mount and authorities seek funding sources for the next day’s government operations amid uncertain economic conditions in the region.
Reports from foreign countries that Mr Frederico Tedeschini had succeeded Cardinal Gasparri as papal secretary of State were denied today at the Vatican.
Petrograd officials debated a partial evacuation of idle and non-productive residents to ease the growing economic crisis. The proposal was favorably considered and sent to the minister of justice for approval after yesterday's conference.
Miss Rankin receives fan letters naming daughters Jeannette in her honor and displays a baby gallery photo. She keeps three secretaries, handles about 300 letters daily, and notes a growing price of duties, visitors, and errands from constituents while maintaining a steady House presence.
The remark notes a female member among over 400 male colleagues and jokes about possible legislative romance during the Sixty-fifth congress, suggesting the topic will be told later.
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