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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1900
Page
11
The notice catalogs dresses for girls in sizes 1 to 6 years with fabrics including ginghams lawn calico and lawn. Prices range from 50 cents to $2.50 with styles featuring ruffles lace embroidery and yolk belts. Garments include dresses waists and skirts in light blue checks plain blue navy trims and floral designs.
Harmony marked the adjourned republican central committee session with prominent figures like ex-Governor Rickards G W Irvin Byron Cook and others in attendance. Delegates fixed caucus and primary dates for the 24th and 25th with a convention set for the 27th at 10 am.
The fifth annual state tennis tournament in Helena featured singles wins by Bailey over Wiesman 6-2 6-? and Keasman over Matteson 6-4 6-4, with doubles HillmanWard defeating ReedCarl Reed 6-4 9-7 and RotkinsChessman beating MattesonJones 6-4 8-6 as Great Falls visitors join Helena players in competitive play. A social dance and refreshments followed the day’s events.
An official of the Great Northern explains the shutdown on the Sydney Great Falls cut-off is partial. Eight miles south from the main line will keep work progressing toward Portage Coulee with the first bridge foundations and material movement. Rainbow Falls bridge work will start once foundations and steel arrive, via the Silver Smelter line. The intermediate section between Portage Coulee and Great Falls is to be addressed.
The speaker notes bridge material is slow to arrive and the work is heavy. An intermediate section is unnecessary now and can be postponed until the bridge itself is built. It would be a useless expense at present.
The Great Falls wool exchange ended its season with the last sale recorded. Major lots sold include Floweree 20,000 pounds and Koshland & Co and Jeremiah Williams & Co tied on Daye 16,000 pounds, with other consignments totaling over 60,000 pounds. In warehouses and cars awaiting shipment sit 3,0000 pounds, while cumulative Great Northern shipments reach 6,529,000 pounds this season, confirming Great Falls as a leading U S wool market.
A catalog note offers fabric 45 inches wide in best quality and every preferred shade priced at value 1.00 yard. The listing emphasizes range and affordability for shoppers seeking standard fabric for sewing and crafts.
In Harper’s Bazar Bagster rails against patent medicines and their danger to the nation. Quilby doubts, while Bagster asserts the widespread harm and urges natural health as the cure. He cites a few sensational patents yet warns users toward ruin.
The life of Charles H. Hoyt, famed American playwright, released from an asylum to care for by an attendant, shows a fortune of about $400,000 including $197,000 cash and bonds and $46,000 annual income. His career spanned law and journalism before success in stage comedy, with hits like A Parlor Match earning $3,000 to Evans & Hoey and A Midnight Bell praised by Bronson Howard.
The tale tells of Helena businessman Hiram S. Blanchard praising his wife who drove a water wagon through a line of fire to reach him during a ferocious Montana blaze. The dash through flames scorched the wagon harness and horses but saved Blanchard from certain death.
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