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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1917
Page
10
An old advertisement touts Wizard Oil as a quick penetrating antiseptic for rheumatism stiff joints and sore muscles and for cuts burns bites and stings. It promises rapid relief and a money back guarantee. Also promotes pink Liver Whips pills at 30 cents.
Helena Dec 11 The Montana Supreme Court denies the state motion for a rehearing in Northern Pacific Railway Co v Musselshell County. The decision upholds that coal land reservations are taxable and may be taxed by county officials. The court refutes the assumption it overruled the 1890 Eide decision and clarifies reservations are property with taxable value.
Flolena December 11 The city council approved an emergency health ordinance barring persons under 21 from entering moving picture theaters during a quarantine of contagious diseases The enforcement has been difficult with some women claiming proper age and managers unable to prove otherwise Future checks will require registration cards for young men and investigations may extend to their homes to resolve doubts. Death of Herbert Willsey reported at Deer Lodge born 1876 Pioneer engineer died after long illness Survived by wife and three sons Funeral set for Thursday at 2 pm at Christian church with Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Masonic rites at cemetery
An old advertisement touts Gets-It as the greatest corn discovery of any age. It promises quick relief for sore limp feet and calls readers a Joy-walker, claiming 25 cents buys 25 corns pealed, with exaggerated language about freedom from discomfort.
Advertisement fragment markets a corn treatment claiming to peel away corns quickly with two to three drops. It mentions the product name Gets To and lists retailers in Chicago Anaconda Helena with prices and distributors. The copy imitates a late 19th or early 20th century drug store ad tone.
Helena reports thirteen inches of snow and a temperature of thirteen degrees below zero at midnight, with a forty four degree drop in nine hours. The storm spans the western state and severe cold is forecast for tomorrow. Great Falls endures a two hour blizzard with strong winds and a six degree below zero reading tonight.
The Deer Lodge area reports social and official activity. Fay Evans travels to Rochester Minnesota. Arthur Michael O Keefe funeral plans bring O Keefe family members from Finn. James McGillvery Av on and E C Hodges Drummond visit for business. Bignell and Curtis Helmville visit. Judge Winston holds court at Deer Lodge.
Dillon notes describe Frank Hazelbaker as thrift campaign director appointing committees across the county to push investments. The report lists local names, court delays, marriages of Anton Anderson and Tires McMurchie, John Sweden and Mary Baetala, and Lt. John Cluely’s aviation training. Also covered are Beaverhead soldiers' entries, a successful Eastern Star dance for the Red Cross, sewer work progress, and local marriages including Wesley Brigham to Wilhelmina Northey with Spokane deployment ahead.
The Red Cross board met in Deer Lodge as countywide canvassing begins for new members. All members get service flags to hang in windows with candles on Christmas Eve. R Lee Kelley named publicity agent. drives include war thrift stamps and savings certificates at post offices and banks.
The body of Arthur O Keefe arrived in Deer Lodge and will be buried at the Catholic church with a military escort from the Washington coast artillery unit stationed at Butte. In Helena the war savings stamp sale has raised 10 000 to date and 60 000 more stamps were ordered. Helena reports 1 000 today and 3 000 overall. Four bar exam applicants passed the latest exam: CA Jeffery, Dean King, Dte Clark, and H F McConnell.
Dillon December 11 Mrs Finley M Cunnard died this morning at 73 born in Ohio and long a pioneer in Dillon She was aunt of Alderman Anderson and city clerk Anderson Funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at the family home with services led by Reverends Groeneveld of Butte and Humphrey of Dillon
A 1870 edition of a humorous garden essay collection by Charles Dudley Warner with an introduction by Henry Ward Beecher, noted as a classic in garden writing and literary humor.
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