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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1909
Page
5
Fragmentary OCR text offers limited readable items with repeated phrases and garbled names about a peace bird and a hard jolt, plus stray foreign terms, lacking coherent events, dates, or identifiable organizations. No clear individuals or places emerge to form a substantiated summary.
August 1875 reports from Constantinople and London describe rising tensions over Crete. Protests mount as Britain France Russia urge restraint while troop movements and naval deployments signal potential reoccupation by protective powers. The Greek populace faces boycotts and demonstrations amid a fragile situation.
A band of armed peasants entered a fortress at Canvas lakt Alght to stop the removal of She Gyag. Derision marchers arrived in Wen in the evening to attend a partisan rally.
Report from Calvudor states ships equipped with blueprints and gear may reach northern sections of fapreels. Debris and propulsion tests hint at a possible Jenne arrival. The Peary bee is referenced as a potential relayed connection under review.
A disrupted Montana irrigation tour unfolds with Senator Carter leading a statement on delays. Delegates plan to inspect the Huntley and Crow projects while addressing settlers on land and cost concerns, including possible reductions in maintenance expenses and additional pasture lands.
A Denver and Rio Grande wreck near Colorado Springs injured ten, with six crew fatalities. Engineer Lesaig disappeared after the crash while the driver, thought to have harmed himself, was found in Denver. Fireman Lassie died. Mrs. Lassie, witness to the scene, survived. Estimated material damage around $75,000. train traffic halted as salvage began.
Dr George Pardee of Oakland, a leading irrigation advocate, decries Secretary Ballinger as pursuing hedging and inaction. He cites Roosevelt era policies, alleges withheld dam projects, and argues Taft’s administration failed to advance water power and public energy for the people amid rival corporate interests.
A grand cathedral near the East South Temple district was formally opened with ceremony led by Cardinal Cibbons. Bishop O Connell of San Francisco presided, while Cardinal Cibbons commended the diocese and a letter from Pope Pius authorized the dedication. A large pilgrimage attended by bishops and dignitaries celebrated the $2,600,000 project and its 10 year progress.
A letter criticizes inserting political influence into census supervision. It claims census supervisors and enumerators should be free of political bias, with appointments previously made on recommendations from senators and representatives. The writer argues exposing the process to politics undermines fair counting and calls for depoliticized administration.
Report of Shriners completing a lengthy pilgrimage from Heatle to Nome last month. Representatives on lodge business installed a tempte and nine candidates were initiated in Nowe with a ceremonial rite.
A sensational homicide in New York’s Chinatown involves the stabbing of a woman identified as Elsie Miegel. Police report a chaotic scene with blood, a severed neck area, and traces of idol on a stone near Yuan Chin & Co. Six American women claiming to be wives of Chinese men were found in the house. Chinamen Shree Chinamen were arrested. their knowledge of the murder is unknown. Leon is charged and remanded on bail in the case, details unclear.
Liverpool August 16 Vic Cunard and crew faced a serious blaze aboard the Cunarder Lucania off Saluriay evening. The vessel keeled, funnels touched a crane, and firemen on the gangway were swept into the water but rescued. Salvage teams and powerful pumps towed the Lucania toward Glasgow for repairs.
Borg SV ne Oitatia Aug. fe Phe sirikkus avk laborers of the Croadiin Dacite rainy wit retuen in work to monrrow. A anats meeting of strikers and friends, minbering (.00), was ad rept today by Mayor Folleler, who Urged the men. tea resume work and attmst their grievances 640 hoand of orhicreton. Surrending the crowel were 600 splnt vithes Tndal, reds to qatell any inevement toward dix order. After prolonged discussion, the IER devepted The WAyers proposition.
Marie Hand nel, a mother, committed suicide by gas in a bathroom after bathing and arousing her three children aged one, two, and twelve. The gas-filled room was found by a man who broke open the door. the four bodies were discovered wrapped in a quilt, with the infant secured in the mother's arms.
A vast fire swept Osaka and nearby areas after a shipping incident near Kobe caused embers to spread across five square miles. The blaze destroyed government offices, a museum, schools, hospitals, factories, and private homes, with thousands evacuated and field hospitals set up. Firefighters, militia, and engineers attempted to stop the flames, blowing down houses and aiding civilians and wounded residents.
San Francisco voters face a complex direct primary with many candidates for city offices. The upcoming process will select party nominees for mayor, supervisors, sheriff, and district attorney among factions and unions, with notable figures such as Charlene M. Fickert and Frank J. Sullivan among contenders.
Seattle reports show immigration authorities arresting a group from Fairbanks and Montreal as undesirable aliens. Women and men are detained here awaiting deportation or charges for immoral imports while raids spurred by government steps to wipe out vice in Alaska continue.
Denver august coverage of the twelfth annual Trans Mississippian Commercial Congress to be held for one week with 5000 to 7000 delegates. Topics include railroad transport, Panama Canal, irrigation, natural resources, banks, mining, immigration, and separate statehood for Arizona and New Mexico. Delegates include five women from Denver Colorado and Texas. Government briefings will detail federal public works, including the Panama Canal.
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