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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1917
Page
6
Butte remains calm as workers walk out amid a growing strike. Saloons stay busy, no clashes reported, while Krimpmen and a few others work underground at Anaconda mines. Officials warn of possible market disruption but daily business continues with limited layoffs. W H Rodgers monitors conditions for the labor department.
The funeral for Joseph Gallagher aged 20 will be tomorrow morning at the family home 397 East Broadway then to Sacred Heart Church for mass at 9 30 Interment will be in Holy Cross cemetery Expressions of thanks are extended by Mrs J Mullin Patrick Mullin and Michael Mullin for the kindness and flowers received during the illness and after the death of their husband and brother.
Larry Duggan operates as a reliable undertaker and pallbearer at 22 North Main Street, offering local funeral and burial services with contact by phone 770.
The funeral for Erick Kerkla aged 61 who died August 23 1917 will be held at his home 248 East Broadway this afternoon at 1 20 proceeding to St Mark’s Church for services at 2 conducted by Rev M D Huddl off. Interment will be in Mount Moriah cemetery. Automobiles will be provided.
Funeral services for the late Mrs Richard Short will be held this Sunday at 2 PM at the family residence 418 East Mercury. Rev R G Williams officiating. Interment will follow at Mountain View cemetery.
Expressing deep appreciation to neighbors and friends for kindness and sympathy shown during the death and bereavement of my beloved husband.
The funeral for Raymond Purcell five year old son of Mr and Mrs Michael Purcell will be held at the family residence 103 Oklahoma street proceeding to Sacred Heart church for services Interment will be in Catholic cemetery Automobiles
The M. J. Walsh Co Funeral Directors and Embalmers announces a new location at 207 309 W Park St. This update notes the firm provides funeral services and embalmers with a public contact option via phone 85.
Wendel Cannon Monument Works lists services at 2656 to 2660 South Montana Street with phone 1500 and an Uptown office at 4 West Broadway offering monument and coping work for memorials.
A huge turnout attended the Catholic parishes field day at Lake Avoca in Butte. Students, faculty, parishioners and alumni celebrated the schools with many booths, races, and games. Highlights included Mt St Charles beating Central High 7 to 3, canoe races, Irish dancing, and exhibitions by local dignitaries and volunteers.
The article traces flags used by revolutionary forces before the Stars and Stripes, noting the 1776 Cambridge display by General Washington and an 18 stripe design showing colonial unity. It references the 1777 Brandywine and Germantown periods and mentions a tailor named Kowske at 202 N Main.
In Butte the exemption board ruled all alien residents eligible under the draft act are denied exemption on foreign citizenship grounds. Several hundred names will be entered on the conscription roll unless appeals are filed. The district registers 8,674, the heaviest per capita in the nation, with 2,674 remaining names to publish.
Paul Sharrenburg of the state federation of labor said affiliated unions will be asked to aid in financing the strike by platform men of the United Railroads in San Francisco, as announced on August 25.
Washington August 25 President Wilson will not address Congress on peace in reply to Pope Benedict’s proposal. The White House said he has no such intention, silencing talk that he might speak to the national body.
A poem by L. A. Osborne of Butte tells of a thin alley cat that stays with the speaker, sharing scant sustenance until it becomes rotund. The speaker reflects on a harsh, lonely path ahead, fearing the day when the cat is missed and the shared shelter ends.
Concrete highways are being built in 22 cities and towns in Connecticut. Once finished, about 70 miles of concrete surfaced pavement will exist, with roads 18 feet wide costing 15 000 dollars per mile. The longest single concrete street is two miles in Cheshire on the Plainville to New Haven route.
A simple method to tell real diamonds from imitations uses a tiny water drop on the gem. If the diamond is genuine the drop rolls with a pin point without breaking apart. if fake the water spreads upon contact with the needle.
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