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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1917
Page
12
City and county exemption boards mail questionnaires to five percent of registered men. The list shows mailing dates, order numbers, and return deadlines. For each entry the county and city boards specify the range of numbers and dates in December and January, with limits and deadlines noted.
Butte and Silver Bow county exemption boards report many questionnaires lack the registrant oath on page 13. Officials will read or witness the oath for those who cannot read or write. The affidavit affirms the registrant’s identity, answers, and truthfulness. Various times and names of officers are listed for oath administration as a woman in Butte calls home from New York.
The report for November 1917 shows revenue from transport and sources, with operating expenses and net balance figures. It includes statistics on miles, passengers carried, and average revenues per passenger, with a notarized affirmation by J. Re Wharton, general manager, sworn December 26, 1917 in Silver Bow County Montana.
Washington December 26 labor disputes are blamed for delays in the government shipbuilding program. Raymond J. Stevens vice chairman of the Shipping Board told the Senate Commerce Committee that ships yards lost 536,992 working days due to strikes and disputes since wartime. He noted improvements from measures to settle differences and urged cautious civilian work and wage controls. Stevens described efforts to place workers via pacific coast employment agencies and estimated a need to double the current labor force to 260,000 to 300,000 more workers to meet production goals.
Market notes indicate new sales dynamics at AR Market with Cubas sugar steady, shipments totaling 60,000 bags. Centrifugal and molasses prices cited, along with several sugar product grades and per unit costs. figures appear as commodity quotes and parities.
Minneapolis reports mills starting war flour production under government guidelines to save 16 million bushels of wheat this crop year. The 74 percent berry use cuts bran and by products, reducing prices, while some mills pause for lacking equipment. Food administration says oversupply delays consumer arrival of war flour.
Mr and Mrs J M Evans Jr depart by the Oregon Short Line for Southern California to spend the winter. En route they will visit friends in Salt Lake City. They plan to be away about six months. Evans was formerly foreman of the Parrot smelter and has since retired from active business. He has spent previous winters in the East, mainly Baltimore.
Homer Townsend, chief clerk of the public works department in Butte, was surprised with a small Christmas present at his home near the gardens. His wife and daughter are reported well, and Townsend is enjoying warm congratulations from friends.
From childhood I suffered eczema on my cheek spreading to the face and neck within a day. The itching was intense and I found no rest. I used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, healing after two cakes and two boxes. Signed Mice Smith, R. J. Kennewick. Cuticura, H Boston. Sold everywhere.
In a snowbound Christmas in France the American Expeditionary Force indoors celebrates with tree displays and gifts for children of nearby villages. Corporal Santa, dusted with snow, arrives by airplane, then flies over the field to deliver presents as football games are trimmed for weather and turkey shortages impact dinner.
Washington announces the new draft system first used to mobilize 1000 white bricklayers for Pershing in France. Crowder directs governors to assemble by draft number, then send workers to the aviation and signal corps at Kelley Field. Similar skilled trades calls are expected. Also noted, a government price for silver with western producers to be announced, around $1 per ounce.
New York reports a wartime complaint called knitting nerves affecting thousands of women. Dr Louis Weltmiller of the West Side YMCA warns of an epidemic as women overwork knitting. Christenson of the Psychological Research Society supports the view, urging upright posture and stopping once enough is learned. The issue mirrors broader economic and market notes included in the same column.
In the district court of the hind judicial district of the state of Montana Deer Lodge county the last will and testament of J D Browning deceased is to be proven on Monday January 7 1918 at 9 30 am in the court room of the courthouse in Anaconda Montana. John N Browning applies for letters testamentary on the estate. Witness the clerk ERs was White seal of court dated December 24 1917.
Orders read by Postmaster Phil Goodwin defer induction of U S postal employees called to report between now and January 1 to January 1, 1918. The move aims to keep postal service functioning through the heavy mail season.
W W Blackwell long served as supreme chancellor of the Knights of Pothics and an authorized affairs head. He died today after a stroke of paralysis at his home in Henderson Kentucky at age 90. Seattle dispatch notes cattle market activity with mixed livestock prices and receipts.
At a pardons board meeting in Helena Montana the governor announced a commutation for Price McKinney a state prison convict serving a term of not less than six years for assault committed in Anaconda Der Lodge County. The order sets January 1 1918 for the commutation to be heard with those interested invited to attend at the capitol. The order will be published in the Anaconda Standard for two weeks. Also notice of the Daly Bank and Trust Company annual stockholders meeting in Anaconda on January 8 1933 at 10 a.m. for director elections and other business.
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