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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1912
Page
7
Office notices confirm the address 19 South Montana Street remains the primary location. The office states it is always open for service and inquiries. Local readers are advised to visit the site during posted hours.
Larry Duggan and Bo Nori are listed with a Main Street address and a Bell phone number in a graphic local classifieds style notice. The damaged OCR text preserves a small contact section for an undertaker and embalmer service.
City service advertises a complete line of carriages touring cars and taxicabs with 24 hour availability and phone contact 1157.
Market notes from New York August 17 describe reaction tendency in railway shares with Canadian Pacific weakest amid anticipated opposition to a stock increase. Lehigh Valley and Reading show heavy selling. steel declines late in the session. Bond activity weak while copper and other metals trade quietly. general outlook hints at a continued rally after yesterday's advance.
Ian G. Blythe of Who's Who fame and a Satur day Evening Post writer tours the West as a publicity booster for Montana. He registers in Helena's Montana club and seeks Taft sentiment while boasting a thousand acre Gallatin valley ranch with 10000 cattle and streams for trout. He recalls past beef writings and hints at future writing while praising his estate.
Special dispatch from the Standard in Red Lodge reports Northern Pacific agent Lars Smith, 40, found dead in the depot box car with his head blown off. The pistol lay nearby. he fired around 9:30 pm to end his life when no one would be present. He left letters to his wife and parents, saying he tired of life. He leaves a widow and two children. his parents live in Kansas.
Special Dispatch to the Standard reports a historic move by Carhan county democratic center committee voting to hold the county convention outside the county seat. Joliet was chosen as the site with September 12 set for nominating county and legislative officers. pre primaries are September 7. Delegates to the state convention at Great Falls on August 22 were chosen by the central committees.
Sheriff Jon Killorn of Park county arrived this morning and and started the search for convicts Jowell and McAdams who escaped from train No. 41 two miles west of Pipestone Sunday morning. Several men remain on the lookout and it is believed the fugitives are still in Tell’s canyon. A local resident strongly believes an aid network exists in the area.
A garbled dispatch describes a Montana topic about a labor charge and a five member public school board. Names include Nye Brings Detrich Dwyer Lewistown Moots and Fulton Harmon Chad. A Romanian shepherd, Alexander Romota, is noted as arrested.
Fragmentary report alleges a charge of criminal assault against Dung Wurmin. Text shows mis-spelled words and unclear place names. the article claims innocence and mentions a nine mile distance from a location called Truster.
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