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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1913
Page
5
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The note advertises a wide stock of fancy fiboons for 4 mand season use plus dolly cases napkin holders opera bags and similar. It highlights ready ribbon novelties available for shipping or home use.
Colgate’s and Hil at Me Se offer perfumery and travel items including children’s suitcases and telephone boxes. Prices shown at $1 and $1.50 and up, with Se items featured in the display.
The article notes post office rate reductions by zone for parcel post and introduces collect on delivery. It details new first and added pound costs for zones three through six, with March 16 1914 as the effective date and books weighing eight ounces or less at one cent per two ounces thereafter. It also reports the death of Dr Carl H von Klein and a separate sensational misdeed involving Ethel Nevveoma and a Payne man.
Mrs Hattie Kennedy of Albany, widow of James Kennedy, sues J H Gleason United States attorney for the Northern District of New York and Eugene McLean for 35000 alleging fraud in settlement of Kennedy estate. She says she was deceived into believing she lacked rights to Kennedy's fortune and paid for inadequate legal services.
Washington dispatch reports State Veterinarian W J Bitler says the Bureau of Animal Industry will recommend a $100000 appropriation to combat a contagious horse disease spreading through Montana and other Western states. Representative Stout plans an amendment to the agricultural bill and expects passage after committee talks. The Morals Court for Portland section begins.
Police Judge John P Stevenson announced Portland will establish a Chicago style police venture. He said Stevenson, a former member of the city vice commission, will organize the venture and keep it separate from ordinary criminal operations.
Greenwich Conn Dec 12 The state bank commissioners closed Greenwich Savings Bank and assumed control. The institution founded in 1810 had deposits of 868000 and a surplus of 78900 as of July 1 last. Local pages note the disruption amid the holiday issue of the Christmas standard.
William Clark, vice president of the Order of Railway Conductors, urged the house immigration committee to include a literacy test in the immigration bill. He cited cases during strikes where illiterate and incompetent men held important railroad roles. An amendment to exclude militant suffragists or property destructionists was also noted.
Philadelphia reports plans for a national good roads congress to convene a united convention with simultaneous meetings of all road construction associations. Samuel Hill of Seattle was authorized to form a central Good Roads union with full authority to collaborate with other organizations. Bend Oregon faces the highest tax rate in the Pacific Northwest, totaling 63.0 mills, including 15.0 for schools and 24.0 for the city.
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