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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1915
Page
15
Chicago market news reports heavy profit taking on wheat with gains trimmed as traders expect bearish crop data tomorrow. Prices move in grains and livestock while metals and currencies show varied strength. door knockers gain renewed interest in architecture as a home feature.
The name plate once seen on doors of the well to do and even modest houses has disappeared. It is no longer fashionable to display a front door inscription with the owner’s name. People now omit identifying plates on entrances.
A prominent citizen Jackrabbit Smith was found two Prunties northeast of Potlatch Oklahoma in a rumpled condition three days after the cyclone. He declined to explain how he reached the location while noting he outran others and suggesting no large explanation beyond surviving the storm. The fragmentary text also includes scattered classified ad lines seeking help and domestic workers in Butte and Anaconda.
Fragmented help wanted notes list a young man seeking evening stenography work in Butte with address Box 7 Standard. Also mentions a girl wanting light housework and a clerk position with prior store experience in Seattle and Anaconda locations.
Classified notice style from a 1916 newspaper seeking sold salesmen and employment, plus several room rentals and small ads. Contains names, locations and dates, including references to Standard newspaper and Anaconda Butte. Features a short anecdote and a lecture notice for an orphans home fundraiser.
Wide assortment of rental and sale notices appear in this Standard page. Listings include for rent brick house rooms on Grand avenue and other dwellings, boat and room trades, furniture for sale, pure bred poultry, one room and six room cottages, and a handsome six room bungalow with December possession. Also notes on mining stock exchange and real estate loans.
Classified notice seeks 1 acre irrigated Bolan valley land valued at 140 dollars with mortgage 30 percent. Also offers an improved farm near Anaconda with tools wagons harness cattle and miscellaneous stock plus 1 colt and 12 sacks of vegetables. Trade for merchant or saloon property or stock. mail responses to Box 8 Butte Montana.
A brief notice states STANDARD OFFICES advertise produce results with pricing at 1 cent per word and 600 words per inch in display columns. The text outlines display rates and formatting expectations for newspaper listings. The item reads like a classified ad instruction, noting per word pricing and column width.
A dense, fragmented miscellany of sale notices listing doors, windows, home goods, billiard gear, horses, furniture, washing machines, sewing machines, underwood typewriters, wagons, and various services from multiple merchants in Butte Seattle and Anaconda. The clipped OCR shows ad-like items with prices, contact cues, and vendor names, reflecting a busy classifieds page.
The ad notes Schumacher Meat Co offering retail delivery nationwide with reasonable minimums. It promotes hair work made from natural hair for dolls and mentions a Secona phone reference. Also includes brief lines about quartz and placer mining and a Pekin Noodle Parlor in Butte with an order cafe.
Classified item advertises a business opportunity with a house and 73 steady board, offering cash by owner. Mentions Box Standard Ar Conda and lists an address 28 Mainot Liv Angaton Mont, inviting inquiries for sale location in Beat Town Wyoming.
Money to loan on real estate and stocks. Listings include mis-socks salaries and other securities, with firms such as McRae & Sulveson and The Halley Line Co. Also notes on loans in Phoenix and Butte. Lost items include a small white poodle named Cutie and a bunch of keys with rewards offered.
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