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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1917
Page
5
This Christmas the best gift for men or youths is a quality watch. Legs offers top known makes exclusively, promising satisfied customers and a large watch business. Choose a dependable, well made timepiece as a memorable present.
Butte notes show numerous visitors registering at local hotels including Victoria Hall of Livingston George Wilcoxen Billings Walter Aitkin Bozeman George F. Dart Dillon and others. Also Vincent Doody dies at 87 in Butte with parents M Doody and Mrs M Doody and sister Mrs Paul Ott surviving. funeral plans pending.
Italian Red Cross hosts a luncheon at the Butte Grill at 6 PM to arrange a district campaign for the allotment increase. C A Trucano Italian consular agent says prominent citizens and patriotic workers will attend. Fire destroys chimney of a fat building at 912 South Utah avenue. fire department prevents spread. damage under $100.
For the soldiers, a few months of The Standard gives home news and comfort. Readers are urged to subscribe so the boys will enjoy reading the home paper while far from home this Christmas season.
A Montana sailor writes from Mare Island about a party for Montana boys hosted in San Francisco by Miss Virginia Dale of Miles City. He recalls a grand dance, cigars and punch, and notes the Montana ladies' hospitality as 24 sailors attend with a formal introduction avoided by a shared token.
Judge Frank A. Rudkin of Spokane will not hear arguments in Hopkins v Walker et al in the Butte U S district court this morning. Rudkin was to preside for Judge Bourquin who recused owing to attorney interest. The sitting was vacated and parties may seek a compromise outside court. The case concerns a quartz placer controversy.
Joe Mudro entertained members of the All-Star football team that defeated the soldiers team. The banquet, held at Mudro's grill, featured the well known sport commentator noted for his upbeat coverage and rapport with players.
A speaker at the Theosophical Society in Butte argues that all life forms are ladders in an endless evolutionary hierarchy. He claims matter hosts a divine life, trees show advanced consciousness, and memory grows from repeated life experiences. He emphasizes universal kinship and the необходимость of each soul climbing toward divine unity.
Dr. Ruth Parmalee, a missionary speaker from Butte, told at the Unitarian church that the Turkish government has no right to exist and that Armenians and other subject peoples must have their rule end. She described Harpoot atrocities tied to Armenian massacres and cited medical mission work there.
Don Fraser of the Third company Washington coast artillery, now stationed at Helena, visited Butte yesterday to reconnect with friends and associates from his regiment. A Butte product born and raised there, Fraser is the son of Alexander G. M. Fraser who long served with the Connell company. He previously moved with his parents to Seattle where he joined coastal artillery. Fraser's return was welcomed by many boyhood friends in Butte.
William J Lampshire aged 52 and native of England, longtime Butte resident for 28 years, died last night. He is survived by three stepchildren Miss Gladys Baylis of Roundup, Miss Mary Baylis, and William Tucker of Butte. Body at Daniels & Bilboa undertaking rooms. Funeral to be held Tuesday afternoon at 206 East Second Street residence.
Patterson was arrested last night in Butte by Motorcycle Patrolman Prija who claimed Patterson drove his automobile recklessly on South Mi.
New York tonight saw more than 1 million dollars pledged for Jewish war relief and welfare work as Jacob H. Schiff opened a campaign to raise five million. Schiff led with a 200000 dollar gift, topping a night of donations from other supporters.
In Butte yesterday about seven hundred Serbians Montenegrins and Croatians gathered for the dedicatory exercises of the Serbian Orthodox church at Idaho and Porphyry streets. The day opened with a parade led by the Anaconda Copper Mines band, followed by a banquet and dance at Pallmont hall with speeches in Slavish tongues and a patriotic close featuring the Star Spangled Banner.
An advertising item promotes Hamlin s Wizard Oil as a warm relief for rheumatic pains sciatica and backache. It claims quick penetration reduces soreness and stiff joints. Also suggests uses for sprains bruises burns cuts and ear or toothache with a money back guarantee and a separate liver pill product at 30 cents.
Butte Postmaster Goodwin announces new war revenue act requirements for parcel post. Merchants can act as agents for sale of war savings stamps and thrift certificates. initial stock of 25 000 dollars partly sold. Some shippers still unaware that revenue stamps are required on parcel post packages costing 25 cents or more, with 1 cent added for each extra 25 cent increment.
A Spokane report lists thirteen Montana men enlisting in British service and U S Navy. Names include David Cunliff Opheim 28 field artillery Perry McMudro Opheim 20 Charles Noel Utica 18 field artillery Melvin Riggs Joplin 24 gas engineer aviation Signal corps Clint Ross Miles City 27 aviation Walton Myers Park City 29 ration Charles Brehm Billings 33 coast artillery Mam Heckman Great Falls 23 automobile mechanic aviation John Cross Chester 22 telephone merchant aviation Tony Heckman Great Falls aviation Benjamin Bond Gilman 29 field artillery Walter von Buen Polfon 29 fireman third class Charles Roede Ronan 22 fireman third class
John H McIntosh departs this afternoon for San Francisco to join a gathering of Western state business representatives on December 6 and 7 to discuss practical strategies for countering I W W influence and activities.
Joan Buckthought aged 50 died yesterday at 315 Kemper Avenue after a lingering illness. A native of England he had lived in Butte for 22 years, worked as a miner and later a watchman. He is survived by his wife four children Chester J Violet Ollie Buckthought and Mrs John Banfield of Butte and a sister Mrs Sarah Body of Seattle. No funeral arrangements have been made.
A Bolshevik publication prints a secret 1915 Franco British Russian Italian pact in London. Italy gains annexation rights and territorial rewards including Trentino Tyrol Trieste Istria and Dalmatia, with naval support and future holdings options in Africa and Asia Minor.
After 14 days at sea in a 22 foot lifeboat the 15 crew members of the foundered Norwegian steamer Thor are safe at the Norwegian consulate in Honolulu. Anderson commanded the boat which was picked up off Oahu by a Japanese fishing vessel and brought to port. Albert Nelson of San Diego, a naval reservist, is among the rescued.
Reports from the Western Front describe heavy casualties over a 12 hour period near Masnieres with higher deaths than in any similar stretch since the war began. British lines hold as German efforts around Gonnelieu La Vacquerie and Bourlon fail, while Byng strengthens defenses and Masnieres is evacuated.
Rebels in Hunan threaten to march on Hankow as two independent movements arise in Yangtse-Kiang. General Wang Shi-Chen is acting premier with a temporary cabinet likely. The ministerial crisis disrupts the war ministry and unsettles governance during ongoing military strain.
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