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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1916
Page
4
A local shop advertises a variety of baked goods and confections including Lebkuchen and Pfeffernuts with prices in pounds and shillings. It also notes a large assortment of fine cigars and tobaccos and states store hours from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Funeral for Inez M Bloom daughter of Mr and Mrs Bloom will be held at home 604 East Sixth Street Saturday at 2 PM Rev N W Nelson officiating. Frank Marron aged 60 died Thursday at Josephs hospital Maine funeral held Tuesday morning with requiem mass at St Pauls church. location to be announced.
Local funeral firm Tuttle Co. at 312 Fast Park Avenue provides funeral directing services and arrangements information for the community.
An obituary brief for M. P. Mahoney Funeral Director based in Anaconda announces services and location at 113 Main Street.
The Margaret theater presents a mixed vaudeville program for Christmas week led by Tip Raymond with comedy and a finale. Verna Mersereau's company performs classic dances amid temple scenes on the Nile and oriental stage settings. Herbert and Dennis deliver a humorous dialect sketch, and The Tied Heads closes with Tu hae Teal’s comedic plot and stylish dancing with ornate costumes.
Anaconda manager ma Lanne prepares his squad for a Sunday 3 PM game at Washoe Park against Butte in the final league match, with Labbe vowing another win to extend Anaconda’s lead as Clarke of Butte vows to even the score and a large attendance expected. Also reported are funeral services for Mrs Ela Mae Point Gexter and news that the Anaconda high school strike is over with students returning to class and Christmas vacation set to run to January 2.
David H. Morgan, a Democrat, announced J. B. C. Knight will serve as deputy county attorney. Knight has worked in the office under retiring County Attorney John W. James and led much criminal work in Anaconda. Morgan stated politics would not affect the choice. Also, Deer Lodge County clerk and recorder designate Frank B. Christensen plans Archie Neal and William Nelson as deputies. Neal was a deputy clerk of the district court, Nelson works with the Butte AnacondaPacific office.
The Brooklyn Eagle reports a Rio de Janeiro lecture by Dr. Sylvio Pellico Portela proposing an inflatable salvage system. A tender carries waterproof shapes down to wrecks where divers attach them, then air inflates to displace water and float the vessel. Two trials occurred in Paris.
A historic tale recalls engineer Lebas risking death to move a granite obelisk from Luxor to Paris. Using a specially built river boat, towed by a warship, he stood beneath the shifting monument as cables strained nearly to failure and declared his exacting confidence in his calculations. A brief aside notes an advertisement for a sewing machine at Brownfield Canty’s in East Park Avenue.
Frank Marron a County Monahan Ireland native who had lived in Montana for 30 years died Thursday night in St Josephs hospital Deer Lodge at age 80. He is survived by nephews Frank Hugh Michael and Peter Marron of Anaconda Butte and cousins Patrick Hugh Connolyaconda Hugh Daly and others in Ireland. Funeral set for Tuesday morning with requiem high mass at St Pauls church at 9 oclock. M P Mahoney handling body from Deer Lodge and has it in his undertaking parlors.
Copenhagen reports King Christian in council ratified the treaty for the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. Danish parliament approved the ratification bill and instruments will be exchanged in New York likely late January on the Helig Clay liner sailing January 11.
A New York Sun letter argues corn and cotton drive American prosperity and war effort, noting vast cotton and alcohol use in explosives last year. It highlights farmers’ gains from high prices, and foresees corn and cotton transforming fuels, materials, and manufacturing amid global conflict.
American traveler returns from Asia with what he calls a correct understanding of Japan’s industrial aims. He notes Japan buys, makes everything except automobiles, and that the empire has no current auto output. He cites Rentaro Kayahara on alliances and predicts tension with the United States over China.
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