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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1911
Page
20
Careful mothers can outfit girls for the coming term as prices offer two dresses for the usual cost of one. Girls from infancy to 14 years may select a perfect fitting dress in various necks sleeves and fabrics, all at half their former price.
Pretty school dresses in mohair, serge, galateas and wool blends priced from $2.25 to $7.59. Include belt waists and sailor styles in navy, brown, red, stripes and plaids. Mothers seek stylish, affordable frocks for fall, with coats in fall and winter weights offered at half and quarter off former prices.
A Butte shop advertises Sampeck clothing for boys aged 2½ to 18 years with Russian suits and Norfolk styles priced from $4 suits at $2.45 and a wide range of sizes. It also markets Young Men's Sampeck suits with two to three button coats and peg top pants priced from $15 to $30, noting Hennessys as the exclusive seller.
A delayed shipment of two lots of women's tailored suits arrives in navy and black with satin revers and lining. Broadcloth suits at 22.59 attractively priced with coats 30 inches. skirts feature panel backs and straight-line effects. Also listed are jewelry, pins, brooches, necklaces, belt buckles, hatpins, and lace collars with various discounts on women's wardrobe enhancements. Children’s handkerchiefs offered at low prices. selection includes white, colored borders, embroidered corners, and school use options.
Women receive cotton stockings with linen heels and toes at 35 cents down from 50 cents. Honest Dollar brand stockings for women now 26 cents, today only. Children's school stockings, fine or coarse ribbed, down from 35 cents to 25 cents.
Serpentine crepes in colors suitable for women's gowns and sacques, sold by the yard in lengths from four to ten yards. Regular price 20 cents per yard. Special at 12 4e.
Readable listing shows 10-4 size tan or gray sheet blankets at 69 cents a pair, white 10-4 at $1, gray 50x72 at $1.10, white 60x76 at $1.39, full size gray blankets at $1.49, extra large gray 64x78 at $2.15. Colored borders and embroidered edges highlighted for sale use.
In this sale a range of wool filled comforts with floral and conventional silkoline coverings is offered at 98 cents each.
Quincy Aug 29 Champ Clark speaker of the house angrily rebutted President Taft's Hamilton Mass speech accusing him of distorting history. Clark warned the tariff board could be used to delay tariff revision and cut off Democratic supplies, defending reciprocity and blaming Taft for political maneuvering within the party.
Senator La Follette of Wisconsin said his Harrisburg speech Thursday night would not touch political topics nor serve as a reply to President Taft's Hamilton address on Saturday. The remarks come as debate over national policy intensifies.
Massachusetts audience will hear a address outlining the history of the grange movement and the early assertion of states and federal rights in railroad regulation and control. The talk frames rail policy within the broader fight for state sovereignty and government power.
At the request of R. L. Setzer a complaint was filed in the county attorney's office by Deputy County Attorney George Toole charging Mrs Jennie Don Gilruth Pat Byron and John Byron with petty larceny. It is alleged Setzer who lives at 1691 C street on the flat has lost about 70 fowls from his coop over the past month. Last Sunday an unusually large number were taken and Setzer began a still hunt for the thieves.
At the school board meeting a county attorney letter challenged a bond resolution for 59000 that was revised. A new bond plan 5 percent interest over 20 years with 19 years redeemable was adopted by roll call. Janitor appointments included Thomas Toy to Blaine and Frank Hoogers to McKinley.
John Fitzpatrick faces a county attorney complaint for failure to provide for his two minor children Pearl aged 10 months and Earl aged 3 years. He recently testified against his wife who was declared insane and sent to Warm Springs asylum. He had pledged to support his wife and care for the children but neighbors report noncompliance and now must answer to authorities.
A fragmented remark notes that if one can perform a task as well as others and advertise equally, then the earning potential is suggested to rise. The line implies a comparison of skill and self-promotion impacting income, within a historical ad context.
Chicago Aug 2 W L Park vice president of the Illinois Central railroad said officials would not deal with the Federated Shop Employes as representatives from the South arrived. He said the company would meet accredited representatives it contracts with to discuss related matters and would not recognize the federation yet. President McCreary of the federation cautioned that Park's statement echoed previous refusals to engage with the federation. He anticipated more officials arriving and hoped negotiations would progress to public details soon.
Three forest fires burn in Park county near Livingston as rangers and local farmers battle flames. The Deep Creek fire has consumed over 20 acres, while others threaten Deer Creek near Mount Baldy and Mill Creek east of Livingston. Absaroka forest reserve staff assist, but news is scarce and the fire’s progression remains unclear.
From Kerch in Crimea a band of pirates landed and assaulted the fortress. Soldiers returned fire with heavy rifles, wounding many. Fifteen pirates were captured while most others escaped by boat.
John Weiser, formerly near Wise River, arrives in Anaconda with eight dollars. He hosts a party in a shed in the restricted district and is beaten, stabbed, and robbed of six dollars and twenty one dollars found on him. Another hay shoveler, Joe Fairchild, is beaten and robbed on lower Main Street, losing a quart of blood and forty five dollars. Police detain suspects J. K. Pendergast, B. W. Ribben, and Ogden after midnight arrest in the restricted district.
A hurricane-driven Clyde liner Anacide with 125 passengers aboard rode a fierce 100 mile per hour gale toward Hunting Island breakers. Moments before disaster, wind shifted suddenly, saving the ship as anchors failed and the vessel drifted ashore at Charleston harbor with only minor damage.
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