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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1915
Page
10
Railway mail clerks in Montana expect orders to add extra trips and increased work for the Christmas rush. The plan includes 60 foot mail cars and a bic agente car to store more mail on through runs, easing sorting by reducing crowding. New Zealand’s wealth is stated as 1239 dollars per person.
A Butte city councilman said he will likely introduce an ordinance to bar funeral processions from Main Broadway and Park streets. Business owners on Park Street argue the lines block traffic, and the change would push processions to Montana or Wyoming streets, a measure likely to spark much discussion.
Lillian Robitaille sues in district court claiming dower rights in a ranch once owned by her common law husband Frank Robitaille who died on June 1, 1912 in Rochester Minnesota. She alleges a marriage contract and public recognition as wife and seeks her share of the Divide creek ranch and $100 for alleged denial of property rights.
Relics from the Marne and Soissons battlefields arrive in Butte via Rev Lawrence A Wilson who will lecture on them at the People's Church. A German helmet with leather trim, an empty French shell, and a shrapnel fragment are displayed at the Standard Office on East Broadway. Meetings at Mount Bethel church plan Epworth League reorganization and officer elections.
John Hovinger of Bozeman lists liabilities of 1248 and assets of 801 with 291 exempt. Daniel Opp of Broadview shows liabilities of 746 and assets of 13 with exemptions of 10. The filings occur in federal court as involuntary petitions.
Henderson's automobile departs from Gres Son Springs for Butte at midnight each night and for Anaconda at 9 o'clock.
The Great Northern Steamship launches a Hawaiian cruise from San Francisco the day after Thanksgiving with Northwest leaders aboard for business social and pleasure. Art Smith salutes from the deck as the ship passes the Golden Gate. Los Angeles hosts a civic welcome as the voyage begins a four and a half day mainland to Hawaii service boosting coast trade and tourist campaigns through Oregon Washington and California.
A reader from Butte asks the city to enforce a spitting ordinance. The writer complains residents on Utah avenue from Park street to the Northern Pacific station are annoyed by spitting into private yards and asks that spitting be prohibited, ideally in the street.
The funeral of Richard B. Powers a former representative from Silver Bow county was held yesterday at the family residence 431 Ann Toa d with solemn requiem high mass at St Mary's church. The pallbearers were J B Murphy William Malloy Dan Lynch Tish Maloughney Peter Kavanaugh and W H Maloney.
In a test concluded by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railway, three electric locomotives were turned over to the Rock Mountain division for use as helper engines on the main range between Butte and Three Forks. Another motor expected by Jan 1, with full conversion to railroad service as calms permit.
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