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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1901
Page
7
The Principal Branch Office of the Standard is located at 21 Mast Broadway in Butte with telephone 422. Advertising rates are available on application.
A catalog of glassware styles with prices per dozen. Cut Glass ranges from $3 to $35, whiskey tumblers from $5 to $27, champagne tumblers from $5.50 to $30, claret glasses from $20 to $27, wine glasses from $8 to $25, sherry glasses from $8 to $82, saucer champagnes $15 to $30, hollow stem saucer champagnes $10 to $22, sherbet glasses $18 to $25, and goblets at $38 per dozen.
Diverse items from Butte expose services and ads including piano rentals from Orton Bros and Montana Music Co, dental and medical notes, traveling plans, a through sleeping car, and recent marriages of Allen G. Sproule with Viola Porter and George W. King with Dessie N. Masterson.
Helena August 15 The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railroad prepares to extend into Montana with surveying and traffic data. Surveying reaches the Yellowstone River between Miles City and Killings and construction may begin soon. Helena Butte and Great Falls claim the western terminus. possible Pacific coast extension.
The Curran Cannon bout at the saucer track featured three styles. Cannon won the first fall in 14 minutes 27 seconds. Curran won the Graeco Roman second fall in 22 minutes. The final 30 minute catch as catch can draw ended the match. Frank Goff issued a challenge to the winner and to wrestlers statewide.
In the city jail last night a varied spectacle unfolded as female inmates filled the quarters and police rounded up a group from the dark town for illegally obtaining money. Amid the jail’s homey quilts and beds, sleeping arrangements sparked a scramble while a man named Barney Curley was seen pocketing $6.55 before arrest. Jack Boyle was noted as drunk, and Thomas Hubbard faced a warrant for digging without a permit behind 636 East Broadway.
The program lists a 24 dog stake with matches including Silver Bow Jr against Castaway and Montana Jack against O Connell. Prizes offer 230 for first place, 20 for second, 10 for third, and five to next three winners. Widespread attendance expected as hares strengthen late season. In Washington a post office inspector reports the arrest of Walter Stratton in a Missouri Kansas Texas train hold up case with six of nine suspects accounted for.
The Virginia state Democratic platform denounces criminal trusts as a menace to public welfare and calls for strict corporate regulation. It endorses primary elections for selecting party candidates and directs the state committee to set primaries for federal and state offices. Mej William Anderson of Stock Bridge was named attorney general. the convention adjourned tonight.
In Carthage Missouri on August 15 J H Cook announced a call for a mass national conference of reform forces to meet in Kansas City on September 18 and 19 1961. The aim is to form and name a national third party aligned with reform principles and to reunite the people's party with other reform currents.
At Glen's Falls New York on August 1 grand circuit pacing shows Audubon Boy winning three straight heats in 2 09, 2 10, and 2 12. Royal R. Sheldon takes the free-for-all pace in two heats to 2 04 with Conner and Indiana fielding. Saratoga results list multiple races with winners including Alfred Vargrave, Isidor, Buron Pepper, Flora Pomona, Lucent, and other placers across five races.
The Great Falls cricket club met at the townsite company office to accept a challenge from the Butte club for a three day series to be played here next month. The Butte club was notified and asked to propose dates. Games will be scheduled after the local race meet.
Seattle Aug 15 Adolph Scruber who later died was found beside the Northern Pacific tracks near Leary this morning He said while able to talk that he rode in a box car with tramps who assaulted him to rob him They shot him rifled his pockets and he leaped from the train.
The Meagher guards held an annual militia picnic at Columbia Gardens featuring a Boer War reenactment styled as the battle of Spion Kop. Veterans depicted both sides with strong army spectacle including mounted Boers, English soldiers, an ambulance unit, and a paroled parade. Prizes were awarded for races and contests with Mrs Gates winning most popular lady and Dan Tewey's Southern noted for biscuits.
In San Francisco today a major navigation obstacle Arch Rock was destroyed using over 30 tons of nitro-gelatine. The submerged rock lay between Alcatraz Island and Rock Point and exploded by electric trigger. Debris scattered, a water and rock column over 1000 feet rose, and fish were killed.
The Commonwealth carries Oxford Cambridge athletes to meet Canadian university teams in Montreal and a Harvard Yale contest group in New York. English squad expects mixed results, confident for Canada but cautious about the United States. Dwight Davis wins tennis singles at Newport defeating Holcombe 1 6 6 3 6 2 6 4. Interscholastic match sees Harvard’s I C Wright beat Columbia’s R Leroy 6 3 7 5 2 6 3 to reach the final versus Princeton’s EB P Larned.
Buffalo, Aug 15 The League of American Wheelmen has chosen officers for the coming year M M Belding of New York as president C H Van Hoorn of Chicago as vice president Abbott Bassett of Boston as secretary treasurer
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