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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1912
Page
21
This store emphasizes progress over hesitation with January price offers on a wide range of regular merchandise. Symons showcases bargain attractions during the holiday season, aiming to satisfy customer wants promptly rather than delaying discounts.
Helena dispatch reports Dr T D Tuttle resigns as secretary of the state board of health after 10 years, effective Dec 1, to take the presidency of the state tuberculosis sanitarium. His reforms and enforcement of food and milk laws reduced deaths from preventable and infantile diseases in Montana.
The Chicago Tribune reports that Irish agricultural laborers show a shrinking workforce with a tougher supply of efficient labor. Wages for permanent and casual laborers have risen slightly over the past year, though increases vary by district as farmers face wage pressures.
The article notes wages rising in 1911 due to scarcity of supply from emigration and migration to towns. It credits a drier season with easier, faster work, reducing the apparent impact. Highest wages occur around Belfast and Dublin, with plowmen earning up to 4.87 dollars weekly, while better districts average 3.16 to 3.89 dollars.
Ladies coats velour hats silk shirts gloves handkerchiefs silk hose dressing gowns and leather goods traveling sets sewing baskets and jewelry boxes offered by The Clothery at 31 North Main Street in an advertisement.
Munich officials report Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria is gravely ill with bronchial catarrh and a gouty right hand affliction. He has no fever, but heart action is irregular at times, according to court physicians.
London dispatch reports the Greek steamer Antonios, en route from Algiers to Liverpool via Fiume, believed lost with all on board near the Scilly islands. Wreckage marked Greta Holme has washed ashore, suggesting a disaster at sea.
Pittsburg December 11. Giacinto de Carrio and his wife were arrested at their Braddock home by secret service operatives. Authorities seized numerous counterfeit half dollars as part of the operation.
Chicago officials report Charles B. Rose was arrested after his two year old daughter was found smothered in bed. A note in the room, signed by Rose, claimed the crime and intent to kill himself. Rose admitted writing the note and gave details of the quarrel with his wife preceding the act.
In San Francisco on December 11 the Netherlands and Minnesota exposition commissions selected their sites at the Panama Pacific International Exposition grounds. Two artillery salutes marked the moment as John Kher Louden accepted the deed for Holland and Cal E. Stone accepted Minnesota’s exhibit gift.
Elsie Howey, a militant suffragette, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for turning in false fire alarms. Government counsel described her as part of a band terrorizing London while Howey argued votes would end government pressure. Similar incidents occurred in Manchester and Birmingham as all London fire stations were inundated.
Fragments describe a day with postcards bearing the suffragette colors and inscribed slogans such as Votes for women and Extinguish us if you can, reflecting activist imagery and protest culture. The readable lines hint at a public display or demonstration context surrounding women's suffrage.
Washington and New Haven report President Taft has been formally offered the Kent professorship at Yale Law School. The chair has been vacant for years. Taft discussed the offer with his cabinet but has not decided. Yale President Hadley confirmed informal talks but said no action has been taken.
Mrs Robert Maxwell a well known Whitehall woman died in Bozeman after a serious operation. The funeral was held at the Methodist Episcopal church in Whitehall with burial in the city cemetery. She was formerly Iona Daniels and raised here leaving a husband two young children a mother three sisters and a brother.
Helena dispatch reports a boy named Hurter was accidentally killed at their mountainside home three miles from Lump Gulch when a firearm discharged while the brothers played with it. No further details have been received.
Members of the California Society of Illinois decided to charter a steamer for the first ship through the Panama canal after the war vessels. The California Society of New York was invited to cooperate with the Illinois group in carrying out the inaugural pageant plans.
President Taft will depart Washington at midnight December 19 for Key West and sail December 21 for Panama aboard the battleship Arkansas. Mrs Taft secretary Hiles and likely others will accompany him. He is expected to return to Washington December 31.
Des Moines Iowa December 11 Jerry B Sullivan backed by Iowa democrats for secretary of commerce and labor received a letter from President elect Wilson requesting a meeting in New York on his return from Bermuda.
Washington officials report a recess of Congress from December 19 to January 2, agreed by Senate and House leaders. The House later adopted resolutions to formalize the holiday break.
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