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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1917
Page
7
A fragment mentions the principal branch of the standard in at 119 North Mi Butte with editorial department contact details and a business telephone line. The incomplete text implies a newsroom or telecommunication note.
Pearl necklaces offered with genuine pearls and platinum clasps priced from five dollars up to thirty. Richelieu and La Tausca lines available from seven dollars with full jewelry expertise at 20 North Main Street.
The item lists many visitors to Butte from Helena Great Falls and elsewhere, including Tonkin a Dr Mills and J M Reynolds, plus hotel registrations and business visits. It mentions upcoming meetings of the Butte Women’s Democratic club and Emanuel Lutheran church activities and notes carpenters and A C H organizations scheduling meetings and dues changes.
Telegrams report an impending clash at Vitebsk between detachments from Petrograd garrison led by Bn Sign Krylenko and Cossacks. Krylenko adjutant notes Cossacks gathering on flanks and rear, with word of General Korniloff’s possible escape after his revolt against the Kerensky government.
State Director Harry W. Turner reports thousands of promotional items for the thrift stamp and war savings stamp campaign have shipped from Washington and are delayed awaiting arrival. He notes strong public uptake, with about $10,000 in stamps sold last night and stores driving sales. Butte will distribute state materials as a freight car sized supply arrives, with Sheridan county preparing a local director.
Front has begun negotiations for an armistice as London reports Russia and Germany signed an armistice at Prin Leopold of Bavaria's headquarters. The 48 hour armistice is noted. Stockholm denies any Swedish mediation between Bolshevik government and Germany.
Berlin reports that Mathias Erzberger said the Reichstag adjourned subject to call while the president and government act in complete unity. He cited peace sentiments from party leaders in confidential talks with Count von Hertling and Dr. von Kuehlmann, and noted evidence of close collaboration shaping peace policy.
Concord NC December 4 Gaston B Means will take the stand in his own defense at his murder trial of Mrs Maude A King announced by defense counsel. State cross examined witnesses on financial dealings noting Mrs King provided money and questioning Means daughter-in-law W R Pate testified there was no evidence of restraint by Means. rather a warm relationship existed. Court adjourned before cross examination finished.
A fragment describes a crowd applying tar and feathers to an individual after a public display. The subject wore tar on his clothes and was placed on a bound train under armed guard named Kaiser, with further actions unclear. The report ends with an abrupt, garbled line about the guard and transfer.
With the American Army in France December 4 Christmas mail for troops began arriving in the American zone. One town received about a thousand sacks with many marked Open at Christmas. Posts are planning to keep the mail moving to positions where addressees are quartered. Some offices are small raising fears of congestion from heavy Christmas mail. Hugo Col December 4 Henry W. Dutsch, said to be a Denver man, was seized by a mob after alleged pro German utterances, stripped to the...
Washington December 4. Engineer operations for the expeditionary force in France will cost about 892 million dollars in 1913. Maj. William Black, chief of engineers, says Congress provided 94.5 million with deficiency items totaling 188 million for construction. The report notes equipment for 70 divisions, about 1,000,000 men, was purchased within 360 hours after the war declaration, including four miles of pontoon bridges. Every unit to France carried full engineer equipment.
Figures compiled tonight show subscriptions to the Canadian Victory Loan at 408,475,400 dollars. Bondholders number 707,113 as the campaign closes with strong public participation and broad investor support.
An alliance of 11 Protestant congregations in Butte adopted a constitution and elected officers including J S Shields as chairman and Dr JA Billingsley as executive secretary. The federation will include churches that elect to join and aims to promote welfare, cooperation, and community betterment.
Camille Huysmans, secretary of the Socialist Internationale, says in an interview printed in Aftonbladet that events in Russia darken the peace outlook. He argues Germany would need to withdraw all troops from the eastern front to break Allied resistance, prolonging the war for months. Huysmans, en route to Holland, carries a British report on German atrocities to the Dutch Scandinavian committee.
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