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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1902
Page
7
The Principal Branch Office of the Standard is at 21 East Broadway Butte Telephone 422 Advertising rates furnished on application.
Butte notes detail piano rentals from Orion Bros and Montana Music Co, local tuner activity, and registrations of visitors like F A Sayward of Denver and J D Moore of St Paul. Several citizens, business men, and politicians are recorded in town, with minor events including births, scientific trips, license issuances, and a fire call at 10 am.
In Butte a former Imperial music hall at 122 South Main now hosts the Union Gospel Mission. An evening fund raising event by the W C T U featured music, readings, and an address by Captain Dutton to support the mission aiding erring men and women with shelter food and spiritual guidance. The advisory ministerial committee backs the work.
The major and the Rev Me Brierly refuse to align with opponents, choosing to ally with one of the Gaiety girls. A Gaiety Girl will be repeated at the matinee this afternoon and again tonight.
Health Officer Leggat sent notices to Butte physicians demanding prompt signing of death certificates within 24 hours to comply with state and city law. Walkerville lodge I O G T elected officers for the ensuing quarter at a Jan 20 meeting with C T Wva Polkenhorn and others listed. Drivers were installed last Thursday with refreshments and a proper programme.
Bid notices issued to incinerator makers seek a 70 ton per day plant with two 35 ton compartments and steel framed construction. Bids must show daily and monthly fuel use, labor needs, and fob price. Proposals welcome from Decatrie Incinerator of Minneapolis and others in Des Moines Bridgeport Detroit and Toledo.
Tickets for a round trip to Bouler Hot Springs with one week full board including baths are on sale at the Great North railway office, 41 North Main Street. J. E Dawson, G. A.
38 room lodging house in the Reynolds and McDowell block at 46 East Broadway. All rooms have hot and cold water and closets. Also steam heated baths for rent on first floor. Rentals available in units of three, four, and five rooms.
Madam Renno, a clairvoyant, offers guidance on love, marriage, divorce, work, travels, and mining ventures. She relates separations, relieves sorrow, and provides insight into all kinds of business. Located at 67 East Park in Butte.
Francis M Street is listed as a general agent for Union Casualty and Surety Company of St. Louis Missouri with offices in the 422 Hennssy Building.
Clever Pollard players present A Gaiety Girl at Suttons Broadway theater for a first Butte showing. The company, praised for a finished performance, costuming, and acting depth, features Madge Woodson and a cast of strong supporting players amid a light plot involving society versus stage life, a diamond comb, and a happy ending.
A purple velvet cloak once worn by Queen Victoria on the yacht Victona and Albert surfaced in a Portsmouth dockyard sale. A sailor recognized it, an officer bought it back after a bargaining duel, and the cloak was restored to its rightful place, though it had briefly rested in a second-hand shop near Common Hard.
A shrewd unseen mover from the mountains of East Tennessee is praised as a master listener who never speaks in public. Known at the Maxwell House in Nashville during sessions, he quietly gathered secrets and became the Silent Lobbyist, more influential than vocal courtiers.
The Duc de Morny, Louis Napoleon’s half brother, served as ambassador to Russia for coronation festivities and noted Russians lighting 10 000 candles in five minutes. In Paris before the coup he spoke with a lady about potential upheaval and quipped I shall try to be on the side of the broomhandle.
A New York woman lawyer, Fanny Carpenter, has earned twenty five thousand dollars for winning a single case, a sum far surpassing the US president’s yearly salary. The profile notes her hard work, market savvy, and rising status among leading corporate lawyers as she advances in the legal profession.
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