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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1920
Page
8
Washington disbursements for pensions totaled 213,299,314, per Saltzberger’s annual pension bureau report. Deaths of 20sTI Civil War pensioners reduced the roll to 243,520 soldiers and 290,100 widows, with 71 wives of War of 1812 soldiers and 2,423 Mexican War widows still listed. World War I survivors do not appear on the roll, only dependents.
A novel expedition sails from London aboard the steamer Alconda carrying four non rigid airships to observe and relay data on seal herds drifting from the north. Captain Williams leads pilots with a wireless expert, to operate from Betwood Newfoundland with hydrogen hangar and meteorology, aiming early next year to direct sealing steamers via wireless.
A distorted account claims a local town seeks a male silencer device amid a court dispute involving Boyd versus the city of Sierra. The piece references a famed Missouri nightingale and vague legal actions, with dramatic quotes about silence and night sounds.
A new use for the phonograph teaches parrots to talk. The machine is charged with a sentence, placed near the bird, and set to work, offering a method to train birds in mimic speech.
The fragment notes Antwerp as a small republic during the eleventh century, highlighting its status and governance in medieval times.
Edward Chabbott, a farmer near Plattsburgh, and his hired man Walter Smith faced a temperamental bull while rounding cattle. Chabbott escaped by climbing a sapling tree, and, in a desperate move, used peppermint oil from a dentist provided to ease toothache, distracting the bull enough to hold off the attack.
A man named Chab bott uncorked a bottle of a stinging liquid and poured it into a bull s eyes. The bull withdrew and lay down blinking as Smith the hired man arrived with a fence rail to complete the rescue.
In Mitchell on December 8, wrestlers Bob Evans of Sioux Falls and John Karhounsari crashed through a city hall auditorium window and fell about 10 feet onto a standing automobile. Evans was badly lacerated and taken unconscious to a hospital. Karhounsari escaped with minor scratches. The accident occurred as they attempted to reach the edge of the stage.
A dispatch from Butte reports Joe Simonich was to face Delaney at Meattle Tuesday but Delaney broke his hand in a stairs fall and cannot compete. Another meeting likely to be arranged. Also notes day race at Madison Square Garden where Brocco and Coburn lead with 178 miles six laps, aiming for a 1419 mile record from 1914. Opera review praises the music but notes it was too loud for conversation.
The article notes Charles Books Walter former mayor of Indianapolis addressing Seventh District Typothetae Generation delegates in Springfield Ohio urging boys to learn trades. It discusses trade value, toy manufacture as employment for older men, and contrasts mortality statistics among natives and foreign-born.
Mrs G F Stevens of Los Angeles credits Tanlac with ending a decade of stomach trouble and indigestion. She describes improved appetite, sleep, energy, and ability to resume housework after trying various remedies with no relief. Tanlac is sold by Puller Drug Co in Anaconda and Newbro Drug Co in Butte.
Columbus lecture by Claude J. Watton of the Theosophical Society says many children are born able to converse with departed spirits. He argues sorrow delays the dead and hell is a self-made torment. heaven depends on consciousness. A laryngophone is described as a mouthless telephone device placed against the throat.
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