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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1915
Page
14
An old fashioned advertisement promotes Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound for darkening gray hair. It promises natural looking color, luster, and a solution for dandruff itch, suggesting easy at home use with a sponge or brush and repeated applications to achieve darker, thicker, glossy hair.
A vintage medical note on headache remedies references Antiatin or Anti-kamma Tablets and Reltec as aids. It advises regular bowels, using Astoid and two Antiakin tablets at onset, claiming rapid relief of neuralgia and women’s headache symptoms.
Great Falls reports Julia Welbers, an Oregon suspect, arrested on arrival. Private detective traced her from Baker Ore where she allegedly aided Sam Saunders, a Whitney saloon keeper, in cashing lumber worker pay checks. She is charged with grand larceny in four counts. Husband is not in custody.
Joan F. Asbury, president of the Big Timber Commercial Bank and Trust Company, died in Kirksville Missouri after a cold in Minneapolis worsened into pneumonia. He had visited the city a week earlier for an operation. Burial will be in Monticello Missouri, his hometown.
White Sulphur Springs items note Perle Wilkin and daughter Gertrude visiting Toneman after six years at home. Dr W B Rogers returns from Helena Shriners meeting. Adam Gels 89, early Smith River valley settler, buried. Florence Meacham cared for him in town. Out-of-town relatives attended. A C Tucker, prominent merchant since 1882 in the fruit and confectionery trade, dies leaving a wife. He had no children.
The Rev. W. It pastor of Chicago's Ewing Street Congregational Church has accepted a call to Holbrook Church and will arrive Dec. 18. Northern Pacific land examiners arrived for two weeks of coal land classification before returning to Livingston for two weeks of local work. Park County High School Athletics board to oversee sports. police judge Barton reports November fines totaling 138 dollars with several arrests for drunkenness theft assault and disturbing the peace. Additional notes include mining work, wiring repairs, and visits by local residents and travelers through Garrison Missoula Silver Bow and nearby towns.
Lewistown announces plans for a new medical, surgical and laboratory facility on Main Street near the courthouse. Two former physicians, Tir A.W. Deal and A. C. Biddie, are involved. The chamber of commerce schedules monthly “noomday” lunches through next summer starting December 27. Rufus Wilson will headline the first event. The city council received an invitation from the typographical union to attend its charity ball on December 7 as a reception committee.
Mayor WD Mummen will chair the County Ministers Association meeting here on December 13. Following the meeting a public gathering is planned in the evening where Reverend Joseph Pope of the Anti Haloon League will give the address.
The Northwestern league chief asked Electicity to send a representative to the Beatle annual meeting on December 15. Helena and Missoula considered joining, with Great Falls likely to be invited. Mileage details and competitive interest frame the talks as Spokane is the nearby competitor. The town’s medical car was stolen from East Broadway and three young men seen driving it.
In Kolispell December, the public utility commission heard the Lower Valley telephone line subscribers case against Northern Tah Montana Power. Witnesses alleged inadequate service, notably in Nu wust month, while the defense blamed electrical storms and line trouble. Damaging testimony linked to a arson scheme at a Deer Lodge area factory, with Williams and Roddy charged and Williams testifying Noddy hired him to set the fire using gasoline soaked materials.
New York December 8 British government required passports for entry to England. Passengers mostly wives of Canadian soldiers hoping to sail to England for Christmas with husbands could not sail today on the Adriatic. The liner carried many passengers and nearly 18,000 tons of war munitions cargo.
A collage of light dialogue and comic asides from Norton and Naomi Glass. A humorous cadence shows waning moonlight, garden mishaps, marital jabs, and stray witticisms about pies, law mower mishaps, lectures on watch tapes, and socialists over drinks. Interwoven lines reference a Mrs. coming train, a birthday visit, and a Walkerville trip from British Columbia.
Butte businessman Rank Reynolds returned from Greybull enthused about its potential as a world oil hub. He noted Greybull’s high activity and energy, recalling its past when the town had only a few houses and predicting Greybull would become a major petroleum development center.
The Butte Newsboys club installed officers with ceremony. Elected officials include Mayor Ted Foley and city clerk Werner Bate. Other posts include John Lee as city attorney, John Shryne as treasurer, Mickey Foley as police judge, Dick Curran as health officer, and aldermen Clem Hanley Salem Page Bill Lee Jimmie Powers Lou Shryne Midnight Foley Joe Harren Patsy Mullaney. The event featured speeches and pledges. the police judge warned about nickels in the auxiliary, and the annual banquet is planned between Christmas and New Year’s with good standing required for attendance. No club sessions until after December 1.
Butte brief items report Salmon Milling Co manager en route to Bloomfield. Mrs Gribble visiting relatives after delaying England trip. A miner named Thomas Williams was assaulted by two men on Galena Street and robbed. Cameron, an Indiana immigrant aged 80 who lived near Alder Gulch, died at St James Hospital after a two week illness. Dr Townsend accompanied the deceased.
An obituary notes the funeral of George W Selfridge a pioneer who arrived in the area in 1867. D W Ike a local figure and vigilante movements are mentioned among early valley events. pallbearers include Dave Edwards Burt Smith Frank Coburn Jacob Golgate and John Fisher. A bracelet of Brazilian jewels and a corsage of tropical feathers arrived for Mrs Norman Galt from Dr A J De Oliveira Hotelho of Brazil, the first delegate to reach the Pan American scientific congress meeting here.
New York City Police Commissioner Weede issues a general order to enforce all ordinances aimed at quieting the city. Prohibited noises include shouting by street peddlers and newsboys, taxicab and carriage barriers, unnecessary ash can cleaning, and loud flat on care.
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