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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1914
Page
9
Washington dispatch reports bids opened at the Navy Department for eight new submarines. Each craft must displace between 25 and 1,066 tons and reach 21 knots on the surface and 16 knots submerged. Powered by diesel engines with oil fuel, the vessels carry a $4,488,000 appropriation and may favor smaller types in most cases.
The city and local youths opened a new rink at Cure Park playgrounds inviting city skaters, women and children to enjoy it. In a separate item, Archie Frye seeks a divorce from Mary Frye after 15 years of marriage with two daughters in Mary's custody. community property valued around $2,000 went to the wife.
A series of poverty cases highlight a family of Joseph Battista Penazzi at 60 Main Street Meaderville, after the father died saving a friend in a Colusa mine. The mother and three children are described as destitute, with neighbors and the Rev George D Wolfe urging aid via Mrs Layman of Associated Charities as food, clothing and shoes are needed. Ethel Waters sues Oregon Short Line over a Stockton to Butte ticket, alleging three days of hunger and exposure after the railroad delayed delivery. A Montana trusteeship case seeks to terminate the Porphyry Dike Gold Mining Company bank trust, transferring deeds to a bank, while a separate action seeks accounting in a partnership loss case. A court denies nonsuit in a Northern Pacific Railway case stemming from a passenger being injured May 25, 1913 at Columbia Gardens, with trial expected to conclude.
Arthur Daly rejected the claim that he named Br Wheeler United States district attorney as counsel in a miners union dynamiting case. Daly said he never authorized or knew of this, and asked The Standard to publish his denial for justice. Wheeler, involved in related cases, read Daly's arraignment notes yesterday in Bozeman amid the Butte labor and military troubles.
Strike, of 17 Lexington Terrace, and W D Jones, of 141 East Daly Street Walkerville, were slightly wounded yesterday when a revolver exhibited by Strike in a Tutte saloon discharged. The bullet passed Strike’s left hand and grazed Jones’s abdomen, causing a flesh wound. Both men were treated at Murray hospital. Strike likely to lose use of his left hand.
A 1914 McClure Syndicate horoscope warns Sagittarians: Neptune adverse early, Mercury and Jupiter favorable later. avoid fraud and costly obligations, and note proposed trends for writers, lecturers, lawyers. Tragedy shadows Germany’s ruler. Britain faces June 1915 issues and 1916 taxation strains. Birth dates bring happy omens.
Denver financier Fred Osgood brings news of a bonanza at the Portland mine in Cripple Creek Colorado where the Cresson strike at 1200 feet depth is said to yield rich ore. Miners are deep in a cave-like vein, guarded while work continues, as Denver and Butte react to renewed mining fervor and optimistic forecasts for 1915.
A Chinese group from Butte's Chinatown protests the loan negotiation by the Chinese republic in Red Seater and Yuan Shi Kai. They oppose funding that would bolster Yuan's bid to crown a republic and fear money marked for his purposes. Resolutions will be sent to President Wilson with petitions from other states.
Thomas W. Walsh was fined 350 after being found guilty of disturbing the peace for paying unwelcome attention to a young woman on a street corner at Granite and Alaska. A passerby aided the woman in seeking help from an officer. Separate notes mention branding larceny charges against Robert Jaap for allegedly stealing a diamond ring from Mrs. John Swayn and other local estate matters involving Jackman Metcalf Rogers and W J Young.
The text notes rising expenses and thin margins requiring retailers to maximize effort. It explains shrewd retailers connect store location to manufacturers newspaper advertising to back demand for standard products. Manufacturers advertise to boost visibility and support sales through their own promotions.
Lansing reports Governor Ferris has ordered parole for Lewis Oliver, a Marquette lifer jailed for life for barn theft. Oliver, a three-time burglar with prior Jackson sentences, was warned of life under the habitual criminal act if he returned. The case traces back to Judge Howard Wiest and Ingham County Court actions.
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