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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1912
Page
9
An advertisement touts Pape’s Diapepsin as fast safe relief for indigestion dyspepsia and stomach discomfort. It promises five minute action no gas belching and a return to eating favorite foods with a healthy stomach. It urges readers to buy a 60 cent large case from any drug store.
Skeptics doubt cures for consumption yet Eckman's Alterative is urged as effective. A Philadelphia reader shares a recovery after severe lung hemorrhages and pneumonia, crediting the remedy for renewed health. The ad notes it helps bronchial and throat ailments, contains no poisons, and asks readers to request the booklet and write for more evidence.
The judge instructed the jury on legal standards for the McNamara case, detailing the need to prove a community of purpose behind explosions tied to open shop disputes. He described the defendants and witnesses, cautioned about alleged statements, and urged weighing all evidence to determine guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
In Valdez Alaska on December 26 a trial began for 18 misdemeanor counts against Frank W Hawkins receiver of the Washington Alaska bank at Fairbanks. After eleven jurors were chosen the panel was exhausted and 11 men were allowed to decide, consolidating 13 cases. The defense moved for an instructed verdict of acquittal mirroring a rule in a Barnette case. prosecutors objected and asked dismissal of the thirteenth indictment for falsifying bank books due to lack of witness. Judge Lyons reserved ruling until tomorrow morning.
Quincy Massachusetts honors a young hunter Helen B. Elcock who leads a fox hunting effort with a rifle and hounds. At under twenty she already bagged twenty four red foxes and one black fox last season and seeks to beat that total this year. She pursued the sport with her father and his pack, dressed in hunting attire.
Washington dispatches say Admiral Buckman, a retired American skipper, is directing the Turkish naval campaign per London reports. Navy officials note his last U S service was with Cramp shipbuilding, handling trial trips. Captain Ledbetter, Annapolis graduate from 1883, has run Turkish naval affairs for a decade.
The bulletin from the bureau of mines calls life-savers the most hazardous occupation, noting 2 of 24 rescuers died in the first year while seven more perished from mine vapors but were saved. It cites an 80 in 1000 mortality rate for rescuers, yet miners join rescue work bravely to reduce mine deaths and have saved many entombed miners. Since bureau involvement, volunteer losses are greatly reduced with only one rescuer killed across eight to ten disasters.
Mobile Alabama December 26 Numerous searching parties comb the area for William Wheeler John Barnes and Miss Elsie Barnes who departed Coden last Friday in a fishing launch toward the western end of Dauphin Island. A Saturday gale near Dauphin Island raised fears they were lost.
The Standard and Hearst syndicate begin a six Sundays publication of The Story of the Underworld by Jack Rose. Rose says the series aims to reveal facts from twenty years in close contact with criminals to aid reform and public service.
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