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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1903
Page
19
Anaconda shoppers crowd stores as post office and express offices rush outgoing packages ahead of Christmas. Clerks describe in-store dynamics with men slow to decide and women planning purchases. late hours extend shopping, with a Christmas Day delivery pause and a general holiday rush.
Copies of the Christmas Standard are wrapped and ready for mailing at the Standard offices in Butte Anaconda and Missoula, Montana, indicating a local distribution effort during the holiday season.
Last night the body of Mrs Dan Tewey was shipped to Butte on the 6 55 train. Undertaker Walsh moved the body from the ranch near Race Track to the depot and accompanied it to Butte where the funeral will take place. Mrs Tewey was widely known in Anaconda and many residents will attend the service.
J. W. Brooks, described as a colored sport, was arrested in Mainville and held on a vagrancy charge. He is associated with a French woman named Augustine, and incriminating letters were found on his person. A hearing is set this afternoon before Police Magistrate McHugh.
J. A. Dragstadt of 415 Elm street sought hospital treatment for a burned hand sustained while working at the roosters. The report continues with another local resident, William Brocken of 12 Birch street, noted in the follow up.
Peter Kolsto of 710 East Park Avenue injured his leg when a nail ran into him while pulling down a building at the oil works. The eye injury described as non serious. None of the patients were held.
It costs 4 cents to mail the Christmas Standard to any U S location including Canada Mexico Alaska or the Philippines. Eight cents is required for copies sent to Great Britain or other European countries.
A local ad invites shoppers to Keppler's Jewelry at 112 Main St to view a fine stock of jewelry as a sought after Christmas gift. The notice emphasizes urgency with the claim that time is running out to buy the presents.
Extract of lemon full strength is made with oil of lemon and alcohol, just enough to cut it. The usual method adds water. A spoonful makes a teacupful.
In Powell county Judge Napton granted a divorce in a case involving Martha Spring and Henry J. Smith. Separate answers were filed in Gregor Schwend and Chauncey Beal versus about 50 Deer Lodge valley farmers over Race Track creek water rights. Defendants deny exclusive rights from dams or reservoirs and claim natural water flow and prior appropriations. Attorneys Edward Scharnikow and H W Rodgers represented the defendants. Byron Howells previously sued Herman Johnson to enforce a verbal land purchase contract in the Deer Lodge valley.
The plaintiff claims an oral agreement to pay 1600 for land in the valley, while the answer filed yesterday says negotiations were preliminary and no binding contract. The land has or had a mortgage preventing clear title. Defense attorneys Napton Napton and H W Rodgers represent the defendant.
Mary A. Rogers was found guilty of first degree murder for the August 12 death of her husband Marcus D. Rogers. The verdict carries the death penalty. She lured him with a reconciliation ruse, aided by Leon Perham and Stella Bates, then chloroformed him and disposed of the body in the river. Alleged motive included love for another man and a desire to obtain life insurance.
Charles D. Fensstemacher aged 58, after a conviction for using the mails to defraud, hanged himself with a towel. He worked as a bookkeeper for a commission house. Postal Inspector Holden cites a 40 year criminal record and notes he planned to mail letters to farmers to obtain produce then evade payment.
Prescott Arizona December 22 John G Campbell a longtime Arizona resident and former congressman delegate died today at age 76 after forty years in the territory He was a prominent figure in territorial politics and a veteran public servant in the region
C E Matthews known as Old Reliable marks his birthday by having a tooth pulled. He told the Waterville Maine Mail scribe he wanted to commemorate the day and expects to remember it. Congratulatory letters arrive from Bangor Rockland Lewiston and Brockton Mass.
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