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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1923
Page
3
The week showed a steady market tone with moderate foreign exchange moves and a notable cotton advance. Rail earnings suggest funds for rehabilitation while industrial dividends lift sentiment. sugar peaks, with steel and automotive demand shaping ahead of Congress.
Dean Francis F. Bradshaw reports that over half of UNC’s 750 freshmen support themselves while studying. The study shows 95 percent choose different occupations from their fathers, signaling a shift from rural to industrial life. Medicine leads the vocational list, followed by law and teaching.
Anchorage report notes a missionary organized a brass band among Eskimos at Point Barrow in the Arctic Circle. The musicians embrace jazz as it harmonizes with their dancing style, possibly creating the world’s northernmost brass ensemble.
One of the season's top events unfolds at Broadway theater next Sunday afternoon with the Butte Concert Orchestra of 35 instrumentalists and 30 St Patrick's choir voices under Arthur Drynan. Fisher Thompson of Ansonia leads the concert, and a balanced program begins at 2 30.
Johnny Harron stars in The Gold Diggers adapted from the Belasco Broadway hit now playing at the Ansonia theater. The film features behind the scenes set pieces and Spanish dance by Jerry Lamar with Violet Dane and Wally Saunders amid bright party scenes and romantic schemes ending in a happy finale.
Montana ministers marked Health Sunday to promote tuberculosis awareness and prevention. Sermons spotlighted health, especially tuberculosis cure and prevention, as part of supporting the 1923 Christmas seal sale endorsed by the Montana Tuberculosis Association. Public confidence is expected to rise through church influence.
Katecho Dimoff, a millionaire gasoline dealer, headed the local communists in a failed bid to overthrow the Tsankoff government and establish a Soviet republic. When asked about his prominence in a movement aimed at denying property rights he said there are other rights to be considered besides his own.
Viola St George of 124 South Arizona street takes the top spot in the Overland Red Bird automobile contest with 1 364 710 votes, more than a hundred thousand ahead of last week’s leader Tom J McManus. The standings list 1 000 or more votes for numerous contestants including Walter Gray and Bessie Pascoe among others with varied addresses.
Harold Lloyd stars in Why Worry at the Rialto, following the success of Safety Last. The comedy features Lloyd as Harold Van Pelham with nurse companion, Colossa played by John Aasen, and Jobyna Ralston as the leading lady. The plot follows a tropical escape and a comic tooth pulling episode.
A fire brigade entirely staffed by women aged 20 to 30 has been organized in Aosuna village Akita Prefecture. The group is training in all fire fighting duties and is claimed to be Japan’s first women’s fire protection organization.
The American prints Six Days a spellbinding drama that audiences praised last night and will run two more days. Corinne Griffith stars as Saline Kingston with Mayo as Dion Leslie, Clade King as Sir Charles and Myrtle Stedman as the mother. John Mesecall’s photography and Charles Brabin’s direction receive high marks from critics.
The Associated Charities requests bed clothing blankets and children's garments from households with surplus. Mrs. McDonald, matron, will collect items left at the charity office. The note adds a remark about horse meat sausage as a fortifying condensed nutrient.
Musterole is an easy to apply white ointment made from mustard oil and home remedies. It claims to prevent colds from turning into flu or pneumonia and lists uses from sore throat to bronchitis with a milder children’s version available in 6 or 60 cent jars and hospital size at $3.00.
A Rhodes scholarship examination for Montana candidates to Oxford will be held in Butte on December 4. One Montana winner will be chosen from 11 candidates from Montana State University Missoula, Montana State College Bozeman, Intermountain Union Helena, St Charles College Helena, and eastern schools. Committee members include Alfred Atkinson, H. G. Merriam, J. R. Thomas, and R. F. Scholz, all Oxford graduates.
In Havana the habit of fighting duels persists though illegal. Newspapers detail quarrels between principals and note wounds from edged tools after examinations. Duels rarely prove fatal as educated Cubans are adept swordsmen and most affairs end after blood is drawn.
Health officials say nearly 2000 unlicensed individuals are posing as doctors in New York City. Plumbers, barbers, and taxi drivers are enrolling for a $760 medical diploma plus a high school credential, under the claim of awarding authentic titles. Dr. 8. Dana Hubord, head of public health education, calls the probe too mild and slow.
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