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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1916
Page
7
A 1916 reading predicts varied fate for the coming year with favor for the aged and risks for merchants. It warns of possible national calamities tied to foreign misfortunes, breach of contracts, and crime, while noting advances in aerial inventions and urban travel after peace.
Elaborate Christmas decorating will feature a Bethlehem stable replica at St Marys Catholic Church in Butte as part of seasonal themes. Fast days, school vacation, and various church events are noted across multiple parishes with Requiem Masses for local figures and fundraisers shaping the holiday observances.
Butte inspectors report less than 12 percent solids signals dilution by water. J P Riordan, city milk inspector, warns dealers failing tests will be shut down. housewives urged to avoid watered milk and newspapers publish white list standings showing six dealers below standard and sixteen above.
The Wilson Brothers star in the Great Pantages vaudeville at the Broadway theater, delivering comedy dialogue song and yodeling that brings joyous laughter to thousands this holiday season. Their act is praised as a real laugh tonic lifting the mood of workaday life.
Officials anticipate a Santa Letter Club meeting at the Butte Post Office to organize a permanent charity group aiding needy children who wrote to Santa Claus. About one hundred letters will be reviewed today by Postmaster Goodwin and a committee, with plans to begin distributing addresses to helpers at once. A funeral notice for Phil J. Lewis appears among surrounding notices.
Butte residents with busy schedules filled the Auditorium show yesterday. nearly 6,000 attendees viewed oil paintings caricatures and painted china over 12 hours. The exhibit features works by many Butte artists including Paxson and Charles M. Russell, who visited yesterday to view the collection.
The health officer warns that confinement indoors weakens resistance to infections and defines communicable diseases. He notes how direct contact or shaking hands can transfer germs and urges thorough disinfection before caring for another patient. Wash hands frequently as top defense. The notice also lists a funeral service in two parts and local ads for furniture and skating at the Holland rink.
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