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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1901
Page
8
Half yearly clearance ends this week with big discounts on Turkish couches, oak furniture, mantels, and chairs. Buyers can deposit to reserve items for later delivery, while stock and prices hold for fall and winter needs.
Solid oak upright folding bed with carved design and bevel glass 18 by 40 inches. Self adjusting locking swing legs prevent tipping and the bed locks when lowered making it safe. Sale price not listed.
Mose Lafontise meets Tom Tracy the Australian welterweight champion in a planned Sept. 2 bout at the auction track. Jack Wade vs Jerry McCarthy 20 rounds with a $1000 side bet and state title on the line at Park street amphitheater. Tracy’s manager Frank Hazel aims to back the Lafontise bout with $1000, while Tracy trains at altitude in Butte.
A stream of visitors arrives in Butte from Helena Great Falls Anaconda Kalispell Chicago and Anaconda. A marriage license issued to Richard H. Dunstan and Mary Williams. Birth announced at 732 North Montana street a daughter to G L Williams. Yancy family returns from seven weeks at Yellowstone Park. Miss Bessie Snow leaves the Finlen as a stenographer moves on.
Kansas City, Aug. 24. Applications seek a court appointee as administrator for the estate of William Waldo who has been missing eight years and is legally dead. Waldo, a prominent Western Missouri mining figure, vanished after leaving Magdalena New Mexico in May 1593 en route to Silverton Colorado, with his pack train. Relatives funded searches against the mountains but found nothing.
A Sapulpa bound special to the Star reports a citizens' committee in Sapulpa Louisiana ordering all Black people not of Creek blood to leave by 3 a.m. Monday. Notices were posted in town and Black residents discuss the edict amid anticipated resistance. A local banker supports the move, citing new arrivals and two felonious incidents by Black people in the past two weeks.
Cablegram from New York reports the death of Mrs. Elia Smith a prominent Brooklyn society woman in an Alpine ice fall in Switzerland. The message was sent to her husband William Wickham Smith of a New York law firm.
A cablegram from General Humphrey in Manila lists ships sailing for the United States including Kilpatrick on Sept. 16 to New York via Bu ford for Sept. 5 and Thomas on Sept. 1 and Granton on Aug. 25. The Sumner is set for inter island work in the Philippines.
Burlington trains will run through from St. Louis and Kansas City to Helena via Billings, easing park traveler flows and improving on time performance for Northern Pacific. Butte changes shift north coast limited departures and Logan connections, with revised arrival times and additional transfer options to Helena and overland routes. Local social events and notices follow, including gatherings at Maxey hall and a lawn party on Mendenhall street, plus obituaries and visits from city residents.
In Bozeman on Black avenue Miss Adie Peck hosted a Thursday afternoon reception with Mrs A K Stanton Mrs Ste vene Mrs Harry Everson and Miss Peck in attendance. Mrs Melvin gave multiple recitations and Miss Blackiston of Butte Miss Grace Stanton and Miss Walter performed instrumental pieces for the guests.
Cardinal Gibbons arrived by the steamship Etruria and was warmly greeted at the shore. He said he had three audiences with the pope, the last on June 20, praising the pope as wonderful, feeble yet vigorous in spirit, well informed about world affairs, and noted his travels in England and Ireland.
William M. Hoey, Nogales customs collector, denies charges tied to a Washington smuggling conspiracy involving Chinese into the United States. Hoey, accompanied by AUSA T. D. Bennett, expects no arrest and cites deportations from his district as proof of effectiveness despite wider reports of clandestine activity and public shock in Phoenix.
In Dillon on an August evening the Dillon amateurs presented a comedy titled A Family Affair to a full house for the Dillon baseball club. The Dillon orchestra contributed and Mrs. C W Scott and J F Wiksdal sang encore worthy selections between acts. The cast included Jerkins Jobson Landers Deacon Smith Poindexter Morton Hirschman Kingsbury and Poindexter. Local social activity noted with St James guild gathering and campers on the Upper Blacktail.
A series of Dillon social notices detail Nett and family at Zeigler Springs plus Phil Anderegg and son at Elkhorn Springs hoping for health benefits. It lists visits by Prof. Hiram Tyree and a Virginia niece, county clerk Will Staudaker at random lakes, Dr. and Mrs. Bond in St. Anthony Falls, and Miss Bessie Farrell from Virginia City bound for Missoula. Also noted are arrivals from Sac City Iowa to work at the Fair store, a Kansas City party at Zeigler Springs, and other locals attending regional events and tours including Branham lakes and the National park trip. Dick Butler arrives as Tribune editor.
United States transport McClellan arrived in Colombo Ceylon coming from New York July 10 and heading to Manila. The ship reached Colombo on August 24 with a naval crew and cargo aboard before continuing the voyage.
Northern Pacific liner Olympia departed Tacoma for Nepal and Japan with cargo valued at 281509 dollars. The shipment includes 3 977075 yards of cloth for Chinese ports and cotton flour and canned goods for Yokohama Chefoo and Hong Kong. Also listed are soap lard beer boots refrigerators varnish belt hooks and soda fountains. A large passenger list was aboard.
Vancouver reports the Fraser river sockeye salmon pack reaching 900000 cases with the total pack expected to clear 1000000 cases. Value placed at about 5500000 dollars.
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