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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1916
Page
11
Jack Earls urges citizens to keep the city clean and limit sickness, emphasizing tight, correctly sorted garbage cans. Butte’s incinerator is now in operation, burning tons of garbage weekly to replace a city refuse dump. Ashes and non burnables go in one can, combustible waste in another.
Lincoln school students topped rivals in Red Cross seal sales with about 26 dollars raised, Washington Junior High close behind. Total school proceeds reached around two hundred dollars, with Lincoln selling twenty thousand seals and Washington about a dollar less. Sales were planned to continue into New Year’s Day.
The Gola Hin Norwegian Lutheran Sunday school children present a Christmas festival at 61 West Copper Street tonight. Parents attend as the pastor invites all interested. The program features recitations songs dialogues and duets beneath a large decorated Christmas tree.
Miss Mary Miller of Brunswick Georgia, a member of the Brunswick Girl Scouts, is awarded a silver medal by Miss Agnes Baden-Powell of London for her heroic rescue of her cousin Jeff Bayne from drowning after an accident that claimed the life of his mother Mrs J Bayne of Montgomery. The presentation was by Mrs Julia F Low of London and Savannah, founder and international president of the Girl Scouts. Miller previously saved someone from drowning and is now in line for a Carnegie medal.
The sermon emphasizes Christmas as a call to childhood and peace. The Rev. urges that nations under Christ's protection will forget hatred and unite in truth, love, and redemption. The message centers on Peace on Earth and the universal kingship of Jesus.
Members of Fidelity lodge No. and visiting brothers are requested to attend the funeral of late brother George Tippett at Fidelity Hall West Broadway at 2 o'clock Tuesday December 26 by order ZINA V. ROBINS Noble Grand Samuel Williams Secretary
Mistletoe is abundant along the trail to General Pershing's field headquarters in Mexico and brought into camp by truck drivers. The soldiers decorate tents, quartermaster huts, and mess halls with greenery. Drivers and guards sport sprigs of mistletoe and some even hang it from vehicle hoods and caps in festive display.
Columbus Dec 24 A special tram departed from the base for the Mexican punitive expedition to supply a Christmas dinner for General Pershing's command. The War Department ordered at least 16 000 pounds of prime turkey with no concern for cost. Quartermaster officers say the best ingredients were chosen for the boys in Mexico.
Berlin dispatch notes a generally calm day on both the west and east fronts. Dobrudja sees Isakishe, opposite Braila, captured. Near Tultcha fighting continues. In Macedonia, nothing important to report.
Employment office notices advertise easy work with thousands of vacancies, a man with business ability to join an established firm, and two tall high school students skilled with figures. Apply Tuesday morning at F W Woolworth & Co Anaconda, or address Box 16 care Standard Butte. Phone 1088 listed for Parsons Female Employment office and Lewisohn block references.
IANTED-SITUATIONS, Say You Saw It In the Standard. A furnished three room flat and an unfurnished four room flat are listed at 2228 Jackson in Butte. Details unclear but markets show demand for rental units in this area.
FOR RENT Say You Saw It in the Standard Five room house for rent 1086 Nevada Call at 625 Front Also FOR RENT FURNISHED HOUSES Say You Saw It in the Standard One room house furnished for two months after Jan 1 call Dr Ironsides residence Phone 2853 Butte Monday FOR RENT FURNISHED HOUSE Teasonable Mia Newcomb Washoe park Anaconda FOR RENT FURNISHED HOUSE Inquire 401 E Third Anaconda
Second hand furniture and sale items advertised at 241 B Park Prime address. Includes up to date prices and local listing details for sate furniture. Contact information appears limited in the fragment.
A Leipzig Zeitung report notes a German organization provides intellectual literature to prisoners of war while English captives are excluded for lack of comparable intellect. The English refuse reading beyond trashy sensational stories. Also noted are U S exports to Venezuela forecast to reach 82 percent of that nation’s imports.
Multiple period ads list furnished rooms and apartments for rent in Butte and Anaconda. Offers include steam heat, hot and cold water, bath, phone, light housekeeping, and board options. Prices range around ten dollars monthly with locations at Oak, Dakota, Fifth, West Galena and more.
Multiple listings advertise furnished housekeeping rooms and small suites in Anaconda and Butte. Properties include two-room, three-room, and furnished cabins with steam heat and water. offices and storerooms also offered. Contact numbers and street addresses provided for each rental inquiry.
Stove repairing ad from Butte listing Parker Rand Repairs at 112 West Broadway with phone 6321W. The notice promotes repair services for all stoves and ranges and provides contact information.
For Sale items list 5 room bungalows and 4 room houses on multiple streets with prices from 1 000 to 7 506 dollars and terms offered. Also 100 acres of benchland near Anaconda and two 3 room flats for sale with furnishings and rent options. Includes horses wagons and farm listings plus business and rental notices in the Butte area.
An adjourned Farmers section notice states the National Farm Loan association will reconvene at the courthouse board of commerce room in Butte on Saturday December 20 at 1 oclock. Also contains classified items: sewing machine repair service and rental masquerade suits in Anaconda and Butte locations.
Classified notices and ads from Butte describe lost dog a white collie named Snapper. Also listed are repairs, dressmaking, autos for sale including 1916 Ford taxi and 1915 Master Six Chalmers, pianos, and various services, with addresses in Butte Montana and contact numbers.
Vintage classified ad style promotes dyeing and cleaning services by Parisian Dyehouse and Galena NIQUE Cleaners of Ladies and Gentlemen, listing contact numbers and locations. It mentions money to loan and guaranteed satisfaction with clothing cleaning in Granite Butte area.
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