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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1917
Page
7
Modern mothers praise California Fig Syrup for cleansing the stomach liver and bowels in constipated children and even adults. A coated tongue signals constipation and a teaspoonful restores normal digestion within hours. Buy the 50 cent bottle from the California Fig Syrup Company with full directions and beware of counterfeits.
In Portage Wisconsin a dying mother pleads for her son Earl Wilson to return home. Delirious moments show her imagining conversations with him while relatives seek help from Chief Murphy and police to locate the missing youth. Described as 6 feet 9 inches tall, 160 pounds, light complexion and dark hair.
Astrological reading flags a troublesome day with Mercury and Neptune adverse and a dangerous sea omen. It warns of deceit by a nation against the United States, advises caution in business, notes a promising year for authors but delays for new works, and forecasts prosperity for individuals born under Capricorn with some family anxiety. An electric iron claims to retain heat after power is off to save electricity.
The Rev and Mrs Wolfe report a letter from Noel Kearney, nephew of the Wolfe family, serving in the British ordnance corps at Kasr el Nil Cairo. He portrays bustling bazaars, mosques, the Sphinx, pyramids, and desert heat, notes Ramadan hours, and contrasts diverse travelers. He longs to rejoin the Royal Dublin Fusiliers amid vivid scenes and cross-cultural observations.
Miss Margaret Ford stars in the Pantages vaudeville act at Broadway theater showing a remarkable singing range. She moves from baritone to a higher scale with rare expression and charm, standing as a noted high class performer in today’s vaudeville. Switzerland spends more on poor relief per capita than other nations.
The ad claims many suffer kidney wear from hard work and heat or cold. It urges keeping kidneys active and promotes Don’s Kidney Pills as reliable, with thousands recommending them.
A J W Crowell Jr manager at 402 South Montana Street Butte Montana says Doan’s Kidney Pills cured his suffering. He suffered from lameness and pain across the small of his back with kidney trouble and could not stoop. After taking three boxes his condition improved.
New Year's events in Butte concluded with minimal arrests as crowds flooded Bronze Way Park and Main streets in festive mood. Chief Murphy praised the record, noting about 10 arrests amid thousands celebrating and hundreds intoxicated, with most revelers remaining peaceful and no major violations reported.
Washington notes Congress reconvenes Tuesday to tackle a dense agenda including railroad legislation tied to the Adamson act, fiscal year 1919 funding, annual appropriation bills, and other long awaiting measures. President Wilson has urged strike prevention, with hearings set on arbitration and strike prevention proposals by the Interstate Commerce Committee.
New York reports that rising living costs are largely blamed on the European war. A joint investigative commission, Governor Whitman’s Market Commission, and the mayor’s food supply committee call for a state market department of proper size and scope and similar city departments as an immediate necessity to stabilize prices and food supplies.
Paris dispatch reports the Spanish note following Germanys torpedoing of neutral vessels has caused a grave impression in German official circles. In Madrid details state semaphores to regulate traffic will be erected in city streets and operable from buildings by electric buttons.
Principal Militkin reports 178 to 200 grade pupils slated for graduation this month. Informal receptions will mark ceremonies as students finish three weeks of work. Many grads may not continue to high school, with canvass responses showing mid term graduation concerns and fall enrollments as key factors.
A broad interdenominational letter signed by Lyman Abbott Princeton Hibben Bonaparte Churchill and other leaders declares opposition to premature peace in Europe and urges Americans to weigh occupation of Belgium Poland and Syria Armenian massacres and other wartime issues before backing any peace. The signers warn against efforts to stifle dissent and stress peace as righteousness rather than merely ending hostilities. Inhaled chlorine gas kills 25 year old lecturer Allee A Ball during a Honolulu chemistry demonstration. she dies after exposure while on leave from the college. Elizabeth Waters Burbank’s young bride status noted as she marries Luther Burbank, the famed plant evolutionist, at age 28.
Placerville California January 1 The body of Carl C Holstrum of San Luis Obispo missing fourteen months was found today by a hunter in the fork of a tree near Placerville He had been roaming in the hills and death is believed due to exposure A letter addressed to K W Holstrum in Morgan Oregon dated October 24 1915 was found in his pockets
One hundred twelve men from ships torpedoed by German submarines in European waters arrived in New York aboard the Alicante from Barcelona. Seventy nine sailed on the Columbian, sunk last November en route from France to Italy. Thirty three escaped when the Chemung went down off Cape Gata in the same month. Some arrivals are Americans.
Representative W. C. Adamson of Georgia, chair of the house committee on Interstate commerce, and Mrs. Ellen Camp of Newnan were married here today. Adamson is a widow.
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