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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1902
Page
7
The Principal Branch Office of the Standard is at East Broadway Butte. Telephone 4830. Advertising rates furnished on application.
Vanity is blamed for much of the discomfort and headache endured by men and women. The remark reflects concerns about appearance and social pressures shaping daily life.
A crowded notes list peddles piano tuners and shop ads, visitors at the Thornton and Finlen, and local business and social reports. Names include Orton Bros, Montana Music Co, Wm. Beaden, Judge Frank Kennedy, Mayer and Dodd, with mentions of hotels, rail men, and Meaderville sleigh rides. Details show registrations, visits, and small commerce in Butte.
Julius De Mordaunt died at 10 a m yesterday at his residence 528 West Quartz street after a month of ill health culminating in liver hemorrhage. Born July 8 1841 in St Petersburg he lived a storied life from Russia to France England and the American West. He served in the Union army and fought in civil war hardships and escapes shaped a globe trotter who valued home and family and kept a vast library and many newspapers in his Butte residence. He leaves wife a son Theodore and daughter Lillian Shelby Irvine and funeral plans are pending with burial likely tomorrow afternoon.
Michael Renisch, worker at the Butte and Boston smelter, is in Murray and Freund hospital with a broken left leg below the knee after jumping from an ore car at work yesterday. He was rushed to hospital where surgeons set the fracture and described the injury as not seriously.
The Callamarini Repetlo grand opera company opens a brief run at Suttons Broadway theater on Friday February 24 ending Sunday evening the 16th. The ensemble includes top stars and will feature all the great operas with Callamarini as a headliner. A souvenir matinee Saturday offers attendees a likeness of Collamarini and a featured tour novelty.
The company will permit patrons to request any number from any stand opera, with the Sunday evening program formed from the pieces receiving the most requests. Selection will be based on audience input to tailor the show.
The message urges securing tickets by 8 o clock Saturday at the box office and notes that if a majority prefers an entire opera it shall be performed. It lists many famous titles including Carmen Lucia Samson and Delilah Rigoletto Trovatore Faust Mignon Don Pasquale Pagliacci Barber of Seville Martha La Boheme Ruy Blas Aida Othello Romeo and Juliet Ernani Cavalleria Rusticana and other Italian grand operas.
Mrs Emmett Ryan died last evening at her sister Mrs Timothy Cassidy’s home 811 Colorado street after a brief illness. She was 25 years old and well known in Butte with many friends. Her husband was long associated with the Caprice Commercial company.
Madame Renno offers guidance on love marriage divorce and reunions while detailing work travels and mine locating. She promises insight into every kind of business and personal change, operating from 67 East Park Street in Butte.
Dwellers and visitors test the town with arrivals and registrations at the Finlen and Thornton hotels. A birth is noted on South Grant, while George Hays returns from Helena to register. Meagher guards prepare drills in the K P Castle armory. Pollard Juveniles and Geisha arts entertain downtown audiences with Duke of Duffshire highlighted by Jack Pollard.
Francis M. Street serves as general agent for Union Casualty and Surety Company of St. Louis Missouri. The firm operates from 4 2 Hennssy building.
Notes and Queries describes the German birthday cake tradition in Saxony Hanover and Brandenburg regions. A cake or torte bears as many lights as the celebrant has years, with a single light for elders, and the light is blown out only by the birthday person. Moltke’s 70th year in 1870 71 was marked with a 70 light cake presented by the Crown Prince.
Commander Du Bon Philips of the Liverpool Geographical Society warns that many ships vanish due to obsolete charts. He blames insurers for prioritizing premiums over seaworthy, corrected maps, noting captains are left to supply their own charts and face dangerous navigation.
A New York Evening Post piece recounts an animal story writer whose wife, the business head of the household, negotiates payment for a coyote yelp. A magazine representative proposes a musical bar, the author is asked to value the yelp, and the wife anchors the fee at about $20 per yelp, leading to the article being dropped.
A Philadelphia Press snippet captures a salesman praising an umbrella with an attractive handle, while the buyer quips that the handle is exactly what he wants to avoid, highlighting the humorous exchange over a simple purchase.
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