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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1919
Page
6
The Y M C A clubrooms overflowed with festive activity as decorations went up on walls and ceilings. Ladies prepared pop corn and cranberries for tree adornments while Stevens' Glee Club entertained. Roomers gathered for gift presentations and a lively Christmas Eve program concluded with song.
London reports Prof John McCabe of Australia predicts the sun will cool in 12 million years. A London paper quips about doom and firing the circulation manager while noting long term prophecies and a joke about believed numbers versus a wet paint notice.
Oscar Tuomi testified he was attacked by Nestor Yarvie with a knife during a fight after drinking. Yarvie was fined 60 dollars or 30 days in jail, claiming amnesia about the incident. Tuomi showed bandaged hands and a missing tooth, and police found a knife in Yarvie’s hand. Both men said their friendship would endure.
The Special Christmas Train Service will operate on Christmas day with departures from Anaconda at 8 p m and 11 30 p m and from Butte at 8 p m and 12 45 a m on December 26.
Passenger travel was light yesterday with few tickets sold at the Butte consolidated office. Mail volume for Yuletide dropped, though through trains were largely on time, with delays mainly from heavy westbound mail and eastbound Christmas parcels.
The Broadway musical Oh, Boy presented at the theater last night in Butte after a New York run. A bustling, tuneful score, bright lines and an excellent cast with lavish stage settings held audience attention, earning many encores. The show will repeat today’s matinee and tonight.
El Paso dispatch reports William Co. Jenkins United States consular agent at Puebla Mexico charged with sedition after allegedly delivering arms and ammunition to bandits who had captured him, per Excelsior Mexico City.
In Ogden Utah this morning a man's body was found crushed skull and pockets cut in a shed by the railroad yards. A gold watch and a letter to George Lowes of Green River Wyoming were found on the clothing. Police call it murder with robbery as the motive.
Word from the Republican district headquarters that Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, endorsed for president by the state convention at Pierre December 2, will file a formal candidacy announcement with the secretary of state before January 1.
Kansas City plans to pursue hosting the 1920 Democratic National Convention. The chamber of commerce set a $50,000 guarantee fund limit and aims to raise $20,000 at a Friday meeting, having already secured $30,000.
Tacoma newspaper halts all regular editions for tomorrow due to higher holiday production costs and to conserve white paper. Management says suspensions will continue on major holidays to prevent a newsprint shortage.
Three Tacoma I. W. W. figures were indicted on four counts each by a federal grand jury for sedition. Bail was set at 5000 dollars for W. Randall, R. E. Eddy, and A. Gross. Authorities introduced a large cache of radical literature as evidence in federal court.
A Gary Indiana woman reports three years of chronic rheumatism catarrh and stomach trouble improved after taking Number 40 for the Blood. She says two bottles eased nervousness and pain and she plans a third. The ad touts 40 as effective for rheumatic conditions and other ailments and lists Fuller Drug Co Anaconda Fair Drug Co in Butte as sellers.
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