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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1909
Page
8
A fragmented listing of fresh produce including Bitter Nout potatoes, cucumbers, green bell peppers, English black currants, Payette sugary fruit and cantaloupes. Shoppers praise a line spale sauce, box priced at 1.75 and six pounds at 0.25 cents, with uncertain quantities and some garbled text.
Curtiss dominates the Prix de la Vitesse events as he wins the 90 kilometer speed course, secures the International Cup for the Aero Club of America, and sets records. An accident eliminates Blériot from the day's races, while Latham and Farman achieve notable finishes. The crowd witnesses Curtiss’s near sweep amid rising aviation fame.
Richword Be lever, attorney for Mrs. Stella Darcey, announced an arrangement to withdraw with the Women and J. N. Gantry and have the defendants in the incubator baby case voluntarily return to Topeka.
C C Cunningham, representing three claimants in Aluake coal land filings, returns to Seattle after a yacht voyage to the wreck of the steamship Ghia. He denounces charges that the claims were unfairly put forward and asserts the land patents will be shown legally set up. He cites Secretary Ballinger enemies as in grave error and says investigations will show entries were made in good faith despite legal technicalities. He notes Guggenheim and Morgan interests back him.
Siren notes indicate a flood disaster with about 1200 lives lost as crowds seek missing relatives along water lines. Arrangements will be made tomorrow to bury the dead while authorities report the river has risen roughly sixty feet above flood level.
Montrey reports the Santa Catarina flood left vast destruction with thousands homeless. Seventeen and a half inches of rain fell over the weekend as the river surged, killing and displacing residents. relief efforts rush in with clothing, food, and money needed.
Aug 29 Tacoma area reports a car wreck near Chop Hill about 23 miles from Tacoma injuring prominent men. Martman a Chicago dry goods merchant sustained serious injuries while George B Burke Tacoma bank manager suffered severe injuries. Car speed around 20 mph, steering gear snapped, vehicle swerved, minor details unclear.
Montana senator Thomas Carter, chair of the irrigation committee, states no foundation for charges of water or forage misuses. He says no Missouri River site or tributary has been appropriated in two years, aside from Sunnyside forage allegations. The committee visited Bremerton Navy Yard with Secretary Ballinger aboard.
Seven thousand men marched in San Francisco to mark a Salden Jubilee on Market Street. The procession included a company of German whites and began the eight day festival route from Market to Oaklaws, with earlier appearances traced to the city’s leadership around the Lincoln era.
Sir Joseph Mo Aug 28 a 41 year old Ars Carlo Sanders of the Florence addition fed morphine to five of her six children. She was detected by a neighbor while attempting to poison the sixth. One child died and the mother took poison and cut her throat but is expected to recover. Children aged 2 to 40.
Several hundred members of the Butte Teamsters and their families spent a pleasant day at Gregson springs yesterday. The annual picnic featured three trains each way, a full turnout, and a packed program of attractions. Committee members in charge were A. D. Allerton, Joseph Von Gundy and Mr Hogan.
New York Aus 28 The rich Futurity, a key race for 2 year olds nominated before foaling, is set for Sheepshead tomorrow. Uncertainty surrounds the outcome as elite young runners chase the season’s richest purse about 27000. James T Keene’s stable fields two entries. Sweep, a brown colt by Ben Brush Pink Dom.
A chestnut colt named Grasmere by Meddler out of Hotham, bred by Clarence Mackay, is listed for sale to Dr. Keane for 3540 dollars. Sweep is noted as a likely favorite in today’s event.
Executive committee of the nations conservation congress tentatively voted to hold the next congress in the Midwest, probably Kansas City. Judge Thomas J. Burke of Seatfe Was chosen treasurer of the permanent organization. The Alpine club protests the Jungfrau funicular extension to the summit, arguing it differs from mountain railways and may threaten the sublime summit.
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