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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1916
Page
14
A miner writes to the editor detailing his family’s monthly expenses to show the strain of rising living costs. He lists spendings on gas, rent for a small home, coal, meat, and paper, highlighting financial pressure on four children and a wife.
A 1916 Butte appeal urges residents to curb high living costs and boycott overpriced goods. The speaker lists affordable prices for butter, meat, and eggs and urges collective action to pressure markets down. Mentions elections and a miner by occupation, with federal commissioners appointments noted in court records.
After a settlement with treasury department agents, the case against Frank Dorich of Little Chicago was dismissed by Judge Bourquin in federal court. Dorich faced a charge of failing to destroy an internal revenue stamp on a beer keg as required by law.
Rev. CA Oxford will address the Butte Women’s Christian Temperance Union at 2 p.m. today in the Presbyterian Sunday school cottage on West Broadway. The talk, titled What Substitute Can We Offer for the Saloon, is followed by routing business and refreshments served by Mrs. Geiger Bartlett Cook and Mig ners.
Judge Whitty presided as Wade faced a drunkenness charge brought by his wife in police court yesterday. Mrs Wade initially acted for the prosecution but then defended her husband after he promised to quit associating with J Barleycorn and to keep the family home peaceful. Wade was dismissed on those assurances.
In federal court yesterday Judge Bourquin granted one defendant's discharge and set a hearing for another alleged bankrupt, with Gordon of Butte freed from all bankruptcy claims and creditors' actions.
J B W Clark of Helena, previously the defendant in a lengthy bankruptcy matter, filed for discharge after months of proceedings. The filing signals a move to finalize the bankruptcy status as the case progresses toward closure.
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