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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1902
Page
12
The city endures a mild winter lull as clouds bring brief rain and sleet that freezes to snow dust. Street crews haul mud and chaff from crossings while a weather chief plays down a severe cold snap, stating only a slight fall in mercury. A stage incident with a swollen nose caused by baking powder creates light backstage chaos.
Miss Mary Pennis leads revival at Grace Methodist Episcopal Church with as many as 15 at the altar in a single evening. She assures open eyes, consent, and no coercion in choosing a Christian life. Meetings start 7 45 nightly and a Friday 4 30 young people gathering invites attendance.
Comedian Vierbert Cawthorn performs as Peter Stuyvesant in The Burgomaster at Sutton's Broadway theater. A late arrival in Jacksonville, Illinois leads to a tale of a nose that spreads due to rising dough, with Cawthorn wearing a false nose for the Dutch burgomaster role.
Special Correspondence reports Joseph Murphy, manager of the Waterloo Gold Mining Co and longtime Camp McKinney figure, died at Sacred Heart hospital Greenwood after a pneumonia illness. He was born in County Cork Ireland about 45 years ago and previously worked in Spokane. He leaves two brothers and relatives in Cripple Creek and Aspen.
Benjamin Blizzard of West Park street narrowly escaped serious injury after a seance with a folding bed that sprang into a book case and tightened around him. Dr. Alexander attended, finding injuries not serious. The episode occurred Tuesday night amid reports from the Park Flats building. Tickets and freight info for Butte to Anaconda are advertised, along with Kemp manure spreader details from Deer Lodge, Montana.
Washington readers learn that a new Indian affairs order to civilize aborigines by cutting locks and curtailing customs triggers protests. Critics allege a land grab designed to clear reservations for deals. speculation targets Utah and Montana while other territories may be exempt.
A European and Orient based physician named Yellek claims to cure blind, deaf, and chronic illnesses including nervous disorders, dyspepsia, rheumatism, cancer, and women’s diseases with secret preparations. He advertises quick, permanent relief and selective patient intake backed by testimonials.
Dr. Yellek offers sight restoration for birth and total blindness and glass eyes with natural movement. He implants artificial pupils for reading fine print and performs cataract, pterygium, and cross eye surgeries. His non experimental method claims to correct refractive errors using modern science and Oriental healing, not quacks.
The notice asserts permanent location and invites full investigation of our standing and methods. It claims thorough responsibility and ability to fulfill contracts, with hundreds of patient endorsements as proof of success. It invites skeptics to investigate, noting that those already convinced are friends and supporters.
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