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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1915
Page
1
In Montana news, suffrage proposals are slated for early action in Congress. The 1st StVPes delegation signals preparedness as proceedings unfold amid mixed support and regional attention.
Washington and Helena dispatches report the Montana delegationwill push a package of measures at the opening of the sixty fourth Congress Including the administration water power bill led by Senator Myers and the coal oil gas and tennessee bill backed by Senator Walsh Early items also include summer homestead acts and labeling reforms with the pure fabric bill proposed to curb misbranding The Capitol opening also marks the annual Congress and national party activity with Speaker Clark likely to be renominated and discussions on merchant marine support advancing.
Warships annoyed by delays in purchases as Congress considers bills on Montana matters. Monster petition moves through capital today while Travonia fraction buys, and sports news comments note Brickley's football clash for a major convention. Memorial services and Anaconda reports fill the page alongside financial and travel notes.
London reports that the five allied governments the British French Italian Russian and Japanese reaffirmed not to seek separate peace during the current war. They commit that no peace terms will be discussed without joint agreement among all allies and reference to prior understandings. Separately Halifax notes aid to Montenegro with twelve American doctors and nurses dispatched and over 6000 pounds of relief supplies collected.
Hundreds of woman suffrage workers travel to Washington to deliver a mammoth petition to Congress. Sara Bard Field of Portland and Frances Jolliffe of San Francisco lead the envoys, escorted by a parade as the Congressional Union opens its first national convention. The petition, started in San Francisco with 15,000 feet and 500,000 signatures, has grown with signatures from non-suffrage states during the cross country trip.
Ernest Thomson Seton resigns as chief scout executive of America amid policy changes. He cites shift toward militarism and a drift from conservation, inviting Boy Scouts to join Wonderauts Years while Baden Powell’s early aims are recalled.
London reports a large ammunition factory at Halle in Prussian Saxony exploded, with hundreds feared dead. Discontented workers are suspected, and a similar disaster was narrowly averted at Borden in Silesia. Tests have been made at Bogden.
Paris reports that Greek premier M. Seouloudis met with the quadruple entente ministers in Athens on Saturday. After cabinet discussions he met the king, with informed circles saying the entente has assurances Greece will provide a satisfactory reply to the entente representations.
London December 6 railway workers heard James Henry Thomas MP report that the Earl of Derby as director of recruiting said the plan had not met expectations. He urged renewed effort in the next days by those who value liberty and oppose conscription.
Cambridge dispatched reports announce Astron Taylor at the Cape of Good Hope discovered a new comet sighted near Delta Orion in the Belt of Orion. Copenhagen cablegram received at Harvard notes the object moving slowly north but censor limits further details. Official notice also reports reestablished railway link between Nish and Sofia.
Unverified notes describe mutinous action aboard vessels with crew members firing during an early onboard disturbance. authorities investigate motives and names linked to a maritime incident. No decisive outcomes reported yet.
Balkan fronts see Bulgarians overtake retreating Serbians near the Albanian border with over a dozen cannons seized and Monastir confirmed under German Bulgar occupation. In Mesopotamia Townshend’s retreat is a British setback while Edison opens an experimental navy electricity school in Orange New Jersey. Shanghai reports the Chinese cruiser Chao Ho mutiny with shelling of the arsenal and uncertain casualty details amid conflicting accounts.
Report from the capital reaches headquarters of the first chief of the de facto government about General Carranza entering Mexico City around the start of the new year. Dr Herbert Marshall, hospitalized after a bullet wound, is recovering. Marshal was jailed in Seneca on a murder charge and reportedly shot himself.
The Travonia fraction south of and adjoining the Czarr e man was purchased along with the Czarroman claim by Anaconda Copper Mw ag. The total property cost about 250000 dollars with 50000 paid upfront and 100000 due in six months and one year. The deal, from Montana Realty Co to Anaconda, signals intensified mining activity and planned expansion from Emma shaft to underground connections, aligning Clark and Butte interests in a major Butte district push.
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