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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1916
Page
15
Brush Col Dec 18 Two men held up Stockmen's National Bank as doors opened escaping in a closed car with 7500 dollars. They pretended to be customers and forced employees to surrender cash from the paying teller cage. The vault remained intact with 15000 dollars.
Minneapolis trading opened with less strength but closed fractionally higher. Corn and oats in demand, wheat receipts 265 cars versus last year. Wheat May opened 1.68% to 1.69 high 1.71% low 1.68. July opened 1.64, about 1.45 close 1.48. Flour steady, barrels 365. Rye 1.29 to 1.20. No. 2 durum 1.64 to 1.69% No. 2 hard Montana 1.69% to 1.66%. In New York markets money rates steady to easy, call money firm, 3 to 4 percent.
Portland Oregon December 18 hogs lower with receipts 6025 heads. Prime heavy 225 to 250 pounds 96.00 to 96.70 per hundredweight. Prime light 200 to 225 pounds 96.00 to 96.70. Mixed 85.50 to 89.10. Cattle receipts 485 with steers prime light 72.5 to 78.0, prime heavy 72.5 to 75.0, good 67.50 to 72.80. Cows 57.50 to 64.25, heifers 50.60 to 62.50, bulls 25.50 to 50. Calves 47.00 to 51. Sheep steady with lambs fair to good and yearlings cited. valley lambs 85.75 to 89.75, common 41.50 to 41.50, yearlings 79.75 to 87.15, ewes 56.75 to 65.50.
Chicago stockyard figures show hogs receipts around 9 000 with a firm market and mixed classes trading from 9.55 to 10.25. Native beef cattle sold from 6.75 to 11.65 while western steers and calves moved within broader ranges. Sheep receipts 28 000 with wethers 8.85 to 9.70 and lambs 11 to 13.25.
Classified ads seek workers in Butte and Anaconda for telegraphy barber coatmaker bookkeeper and coal mining jobs. Also announcements about WANTED help with washing and a barbershop. Stockholders of Standard Oil of Kentucky plan to vote to raise capital to 8 million dollars and issue a 100 percent dividend from a 4 million surplus.
Cable advices to the Federal Sugar Refining Co report Cuba's 1916 17 sugar crop will reach 8 466 000 tons, up from 3 006 000 last year and 2 582 245 the prior season, aided by favorable weather. A separate item notes Col Luis Comaduran crossing to the American side after leaving the de facto army. A butter record is claimed in Belle Fourche with 47.77 pounds in seven days from a single cow. London wool auction offered 100 bales with brisk demand and firm prices. Chicago butter and eggs prices listed with rising egg values.
The Standard notes a thousand attendees for the Holland rink carnival with Santa Claus daily. Also entries announce a three waitress and one chambermaid need in Gregson Hot Springs, plus various Montanan housing and room rental notices across Anaconda Butte and surrounding towns.
Multiple apartment and room rental offers in Butte and Anaconda, including six room modern furnished houses, two and three room flats, and furnished cabins. Also seeks an unfurnished apartment house and a bakery storefront, with several lost and found notices for belongings and a series of local service ads and piano sales.
Classified fragment lists a partner search with $500 needed to fund a promotion in Butte promising $10,000 profit in five months. Also notes sale and timber property near Butte and Anaconda addresses, plus a moving picture theater rental in Helena and a team of horses for sale. Names include George W. Peterson and Dan Leahy with locations in Anaconda and Butte.
A collage of loan offers and service notices from Butte and nearby, including real estate and farm property loans at varied rates, furniture and mining stock collateral options, and services by tailor shops and cleaners. Names include J. Th. Hellbronner Co, ES Shields, The Bailey Land Co, Wilson & Smith Co, McRae Solveson, Dun dee Tailors, Parisian Dyehouse, Unique Cleaners, Arenna Urwis & Walker, Goodale Bros, Tout & McCarthy, with locations in Butte Helena Anaconda and addresses on Granite and Broadway.
Satisfaction guaranteed dressmaking advertised by Mrs. Jardine located at 431 We Mercury in Butte with phone contact 48213 for alterations and custom garments.
Real estate ads list five room modern houses with furnace heat hardwood floors built in features priced around 2209 to 1700 in Granite St Butte and Anaconda areas. Also offered are two large lots one with a 16x32 house and a 400 acre Gallatin valley ranch with lease option and a 48 room apartment house in Butte. Contact M Schott 23 W Granite St Butte or George Peterson Anaconda for details.
Advertisement offers a 120 acre well irrigated fenced dairy ranch with dwelling, outbuildings, irrigation ditch, near railroad, 16 miles from Boise, 4 miles from Nampa, seeking trade for good real estate or farm stock. Mentions I Mt Schott Co of Butte and Box 105 RF as contact.
Parker Rand repairs any stove or range at 112 West Broadway with 321W contact. Butte Stove Repair Co Lind and Murray at 123 B Park St Also Bell Chimneys cleaned in Butte.
Classified note requests a marriage-minded woman aged around 40. Respondents are asked to write A. S. P. 0. Box 34 Anaconda Montana to express interest.
A damaged ad offers used furniture for 23, dirt at 2 percent, and Ford cars, plus sewing machine repairs for a dollar by local experts. Also lists Brownfield County Co address 54 W Park St Butte and 420 East 3rd Street Anaconda rentals and a dancing school open daily by Perera Wallace on Dakota Street.
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