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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1917
Page
9
A wedding clipping pasted on a Finlander hall door was altered to claim a well known scale. Joe Harrington and Morgan son tore down the clipping and were arrested. Morganson was later justified and freed by Judge Whitty.
Mike Sewanger a German who was arrested in Mahoney alley Saturday night by Patrolman O'Donnell for failure to register for the army draft has been turned over to United States authorities as a slacker.
Applicants faced rapid questions to test mental alertness for officer training at Fort Harrison. Some answered redheaded cousin or Kamchatka peninsula with speed, others faltered or took offense. The process favored those with quick, correct thinking over physical fitness, shaping who would join the 186 Montana men at Fort Wright and the Regular Army.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald McDougall of 821 South Jackson street depart Butte after 49 years here for Dubuque to seek improvement in Mr. McDougall health. He has been ill for months and remains in hospital, with plans to visit Kansas City relatives after a sanitarium stay. Friends regret their departure and wish them well on the Eastward journey.
A memorial bell given by Mrs Patrick Clark to the Poor Clare monastery in Spokane was christened and placed in the tower on the feast of St Clare. During the ceremony a young woman received the habit and another took her simple vows, marking the occasion.
A Montana hearing before United States Commissioner Van Etten dismissed the federal charge of being a slacker against J Prank Sullivan. Sullivan admitted perjury in an affidavit claiming he was over 21 to gain admission to practice law, citing support for his widowed mother. The proceeding focused on age authenticity with testimony from Sullivan and his mother, Mrs. Mary Sullivan, while federal prosecutors pressed for disbarment or legal action in state court.
A vintage advertisement promotes Joyo as a clean liquid foot tonic promising instant relief for sore tired or sweating feet. It mocks traditional foot baths and touts easy application with a simple rub on and quick results available at first class drug stores.
In Big Hole country a recruiter from the 11-20 ranch and J A Jones places posted a job offer at three dollars a day with board plus fear of crop theft. Men demanded five dollars, laughed off the offer, and warned of haystack vigilante threats as Bauer and laborers canvassed town from the Lutte hotel.
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