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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1914
Page
9
The forecast warns of a difficult day with Neptune and Saturn influencing luck. It cautions against new ventures, notes unsettled finances and wary conditions for dealings, and predicts worry for health and bereavement while praising music and the arts.
The American Commission for Relief in Belgium forbids any inscription on relief packages including Merry Christmas messages and initials. Even private marks or symbols are disallowed as neutrality rules prohibit any coded or sympathetic wording. Packages from Rotterdam to Belgium must be devoid of any message or mark that could be construed as military.
Chairman Pier Serald of the house appropriations committee says within days he will push for any legislation on the coming pension that may stir controversy. The president stated yesterday he hopes the Philippine situation and a major purchase would be pegged during the ongoing session.
The article reports in Butte, one of the last nickel towns, that pennies are unpopular, rarely circulated, and banks hold few of them. Telegraph and telephone firms struggle with the one cent tax, customers complain at booths, and banks plan to redeem pennies with stamps while the post office ships pennies elsewhere.
Mayor Clarence A. Smith announced the layoff and retirement of extra police officers from the force. Names include Robert Downes and J.B. Sage among others as part of a cost-cutting move to reduce payroll by $18 monthly, with council action required for further reductions. Lieut. Dwyer plans to contest loss of his post, claiming legality issues.
Tyrone Power stars in his first screen portrayal as an aristocratic downfall seeker in Aristocracy. The Paramount release at the American Theater presents Power as Mr Stockton, an earnest American millionaire opposing the aristocracy to protect his wife and daughter. Supporting cast includes Marguerite Ski, Ed Mayo, Arthur Hoops, Ida Waterman, and William Roselt.
Grand concert at South Side Methodist Church tonight at Hennett's hall Harrison Avenue promises pleasing selections. Rev. RE Early chairs the program with Stevens selections. Glee club base solo H Halverson violin solo Garnet Fisher tenor Alfred Old, soprano Miss Lilia Pence, baritone Miss Vivian Fisher. Traveling bags and trunks advertised for sale. Pease Overseas Rank and Carpet Co corner Market Park offers tickets 224.
The midnight shift finds Lieut. Mike Dwyer still on duty as mayoral efforts to oust him continue. Dwyer warns city costs if removed, cites Supreme Court ruling on removal, and vows to remain lieutenant of police until charges are proven. The conflict involves socialist alderman Ambrose and George Annn O’Brien, with ongoing plans to reshuffle department leadership.
A Berlin cable from James W. Gerard relayed by Washington states Germany will not seize food on neutral ships bound for neutral ports and will allow unneutral ships to carry Belgian relief via Dutch ports. It urges certificates from American authorities ensuring the cargo aids Belgium and will not divert for other uses.
Fragmentary report claims a pass from the German embassy in Washington and certificates from the American government circulated amid rumors. It suggests German military authorities could seize supplies intended for feeding refugees for the American commissary department troops.
An English journal discusses a cheap self administered anesthetic mix of ethyl chloride chloroform and sulphuric ether. The formula boils at body temperature and could be inhaled to numb pain during combat until a surgeon arrives. Professor Schleich argues it is simple harmless and suitable for war use with a small carried quantity per soldier.
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