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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1903
Page
17
A local ad offers a Christmas candy and tea sale with a sample basket and a promise of free tea. It invites customers to name their usual price to match it, and mentions a ticket program for orders of five dollars or more with souvenir prizes. Also lists fresh meats and corned beef specials with various steak and roast cuts and mutton stew.
Mrs. Ignatius Donnelly died at eight ters hospital yesterday afternoon after an appendicitis operation on Wednesday. She never rallied beyond slight hope despite signs of returning strength earlier, was conscious at moments, and spoke last words to her husband and children before dying. Born May Kimball in Wilson New York she grew up in Ithaca nourished music and vocal talent. She and Ignatius Donnelly moved to Butte in 1898 where she led St Patrick's choir and engaged in women’s club work. Funeral plans not settled but likely Wednesday.
Miss Helen Gould, board member of the Louisiana Purchase exposition, arrives in St Louis today with a group of young women. The party includes Miss V Tucker, Miss Addis Montgomery, Miss J C Doris, Miss Elizabeth Altman of New York, Miss Anne Palen of Germantown, Pa, and Miss M Norton of Irvington, N Y. They stay at the Southern hotel as other board members gather for a meeting set to convene Tuesday.
In Middleboro Massachusetts on December 13 Harry Has King aged 22 and Frank Allen aged 28 were stranded on a drifting ice sheet on Lake Aswampsett. S A Lewis rowed out to rescue them but all three were forced into the water when the boat swamped by a squall. Lewis clung to the craft and was saved. Brooklyn Leaves To-Day. Port sumwee see the United States cruiser Brooklyn depart Beirut for Alexandria tomorrow.
Rev A Le Chapman recounts Thomas Campbell's quest for Christian unity on a New Testament basis. The sermon traces Campbell from Ireland to America, opposing creeds as walls and advocating fellowship where Scripture speaks, with key figures and lines from the early church reform movement.
Kennedy Furniture Co announces three daily sale slots from 10 to 12 in the morning 2:30 to 4:20 in the afternoon and 7:30 to 9:30 in the evening Everything goes to the highest bidder with no reserve Minneapolis auctioneer Mr Hubort Brown will conduct the sale Seize the chance to buy furniture and carpets at your own price Also listings Christie lays pipes and a large assortment at low prices at Pennsylvania building Butte
Enthusiasm rises among Allemonrs and Welsh congregation as a donation from a prominent local donor nears funding the new church on East Park street beyond Sacred Heart. The group plans a Christmas Eve grand soiree and a fair at Thanksgiving time to boost support while copper ore findings at the Butte mine underline regional industry.
U.S. dispatches from Santo Domingo to Washington report growing dissent within the newly formed provisional government. A dignified faction led by General Jiminez opposed by Wes Gil, with Jiminez and followers traveling from the capital as operations are anticipated against him. General Jiminez was said to be expected to become president when the government was formalized.
The Mexican Herald and The Other Reyes Writes publish General Bernardo Reyes governor of Nuevo Leon denying any bid for the vice presidency. He reiterates loyalty to President Diaz and opposes policies promoting useless stirs, with strong praise for his stance eliciting much public comment.
De Wolf Hopper the comedian recalls early hardship before stardom at Broadway in Mr Pickwick. He details founding the Criterion Comedy Company, a failed venture, a costly misadventure with One Hundred Wives, and a chaotic Christmas matinee fiasco ending in a drunken melee and a $300 firecracker fiasco that sealed his decision to quit management.
John Fegrath was mocked on the foot level of the Anaconda mine last evening when he bit a piece of sheet iron and sustained a badly lacerated knee. He was taken to the Fifteen stitches were required to sew up the wound. The young man is 22 years old and lives in Centerville. He will be laid up for a few weeks.
Chicago recorded its coldest spell of the season dropping to 12 below zero, with a prior record of 11 below on December 9. A blaze destroyed Bodzinsky Co. on West Twenty second Street amid heavy snow, causing $8,000 in losses and one death, William Duffy, found frozen in the yards. A Jesuit mission ended in Helena after two weeks of meetings for men only led by Fathers Mulconry and Livingstone, with a sermon on Sin.
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