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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1916
Page
10
Terresa O'Donnell, a Montana educator with experience in city and country schools and five years as principal, campaigns for state superintendent. She highlights her work in Washington Colorado Wyoming and appeals to voters to elect a woman who understands public school needs.
John Powers, a lifelong Butte resident born and raised there, seeks the clerk and recorder post as a Democrat. He notes work at major local mines and aims to be a courteous, efficient official if nominated and elected.
A 1916 piece extols the Sells-Floto circus as more than entertainment, presenting man’s dominion over nature as a divine crown. It lauds courage, brains, and industry powering the show’s vast staff, animals, and infrastructure, with a Sunday parade and Monday morning opening.
Richard Daxon announces good progress at Tarbox properties as air power gear arrives from Butte Machinery. Ore shipping likely soon. shafts being sunk by hand now but will accelerate once power drills and equipment are in place. Station and crosscut planned near 800-foot level with drift work to expose ore bodies on 400, 500, and 600-foot levels. Smelter costing about 1 million dollars slated to handle much of Coeur d Alene mine output.
Kellogg Idaho Aug 19 The first sod was turned today on the ground to be occupied by the Bunker Hill Sullivan smelter at Kellogg.
The estate of the late John Kirk seeks an administrator as T. J. Harrington petitions, noting neglect by the former administrator W. T. Kirk. John Kirk left $43,000 in property including the Pipe Stone Springs hotel, with a Sept hearing set for 10 a.m. The bond was previously $80,600 and American Surety of New York requested a bond change.
Detectives searched the railroad right of way between Butte and Silver Row last night for a stolen package tied to George Brown. He confessed looting the Bonner store till but says about 575 was taken, with 140 in coins and checks. He claims most of it was thrown from a train window. investigators could not locate the parcel. Brown faces district court on robbery charges. his brother offered to replace the stolen funds if his sibling escapes prosecution.
A weekend Oregon Short Line special carried many Butte residents to Utah and further south. List includes Mrs. Clyde Sanger, Thomas Lyons, E Seaker, John Gallagher, Pat Boyle, Mike O'Donnell, Florence Murphy, Lizzie Hogan, Norine Cushing, Mrs Mary Cushing, Bert Cushing, OC Holt, Misses M S and J Gilmore, Mr and Mrs W H Davey, Ruth Alexander, Fred D Savage, Mrs I Benson, Tom Mitchell, Olga Benson, Mrs Watson, Mrs B L Davis, Mrs F W Rodney, Albert Sinter, Nan Bimig, and Joe Warren Jr.
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