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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1912
Page
2
Local notices list numerous city visitors and shoppers from Butte and Helena. Jewelry, diamonds, watches, and souvenirs draw shoppers to Hammerstough's and Roach & Smith, while Billys warn of limited specials. Several residents depart for Seattle, Portland, and Missoula for holidays as stores advertise sales, Christmas dinners, and calendars at the Standard drug store.
An old classified note advertises groceries wines and liquors with odd prices and phrases. It mentions a Canada transport line offering a round trip rail fare between Anaconda and Butte for Christmas holidays with tickets on sale December 21 and 25.
Sacramento December 2 A merry Christmas comes early for 14 men who will soon walk free from Folsom prison under parole or regular channels. The Prison Board granted 13 of 86 applicants parole with various release dates. Three parole recommendations by Warden Johnston are not included in the lists but will follow same rules.
A fragmentary piece discusses clouds as vapor masses with colors from sunlight, noting shadowed undersides and the variety of matter carried by clouds. It mentions reports of frogs and tadpoles falling from dense clouds in several regions and cites scientists explaining such phenomena.
Vague reports speak of strange phenomena as objects and worms reportedly fall from the sky during a stormy event. Witnesses describe items carried far by winds and gravity bringing them to earth, stirring curiosity about the strange occurrence.
The article notes reports of red snow from worms and insects in northern regions, red moss on snow, and large red-bodied insects near Pelaska la Ohio. It covers dust from volcanoes, clouded skies, and drought winds that carry sand and stones across continents, with accounts from Guernsey county Ohio and Mexico. It also explains meteors and meteorites, and suggests snow may move soil nutrients to Earth during March and April.
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