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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1917
Page
2
A cleareyed medical advertisement asserts that men cannot be cured while they continue drinking and accumulating poison in their systems. It promotes the Neal Institute in Butte Montana offering home or clinic treatment to drive out poison and restore fat, sleep, and walking naturally.
Boston owner Harry Frazee announced that John J. Jack Barry has accepted the managerial post of the Red Sox. The contract, to be drawn up next day, will cover a flexible term, with Frazee stating Barry may sign for any number of years deemed reasonable.
Jack Barry will be sole manager with power to pick his own assistant and will continue to play second base. Frazee granted the request and plans for spring training at Mot Springs Arkansas with Hugh Ward and Barry to arrange details. Exhibition games are planned before the league season begins.
Yussif Hussane known as The Terrible Turk arrives in Butte weeks before his clash with Pat Connolly at the Empire theater next Friday. He will train afternoons at Connolly gymnasium for public workouts and has prior onetime draws with Connolly in Omaha. Hussane plans more matches with Stecher, Olin and Zbysako in the upcoming three months.
Funeral services will be held for William McAimon a prominent minor college football coach in the Northwest and former Minnesota star who died yesterday in Minneapolis. McAimon born in Rapid City South Dakota played at Madison High School and the University of Minnesota where he starred and served as captain in 1918. The article notes his development as a top back and his role as acting captain in 1918.
A 1917 baseball outlook notes Red Sox and Giants as contenders with Ruth, Shore, and Leonard leading Boston and strong New York battle lines. Powerful lines discuss Jennings, Cobb, and Speaker, plus a South trip and coming season hope. Montana wins 37 27 over Whitman as opening basketball action shows Sanderson and Dement strong.
Former heavyweight champion Bob Fitzsimmons praises young Willard as the coming star of the prize ring. He says Willard is far cleverer than Jim Corbett with extended reach and could defeat him quickly. Fitzsimmons predicts Willard would last at most two rounds with him and Moran in the ring.
Butte High School defeated Anaconda High 37 to 14 in a tense contest at the local gym. A young referee from Butte, a pupil, ejected two professors after they argued, leaving both teams with four players. The faculty game followed, won by Butte 85 to 19, as Mayes and Thoreson led the Anaconda defense and Crowley starred for Butte.
Denver Col Jan. A recommendation from coaches representing Montana state college at Bozeman and other institutions urged Bozeman to join the Rocky Mountain intercollegiate football conference. They also proposed a 26 game 1917 schedule to be reviewed at a conference meeting tomorrow.
In Bemidji Minnesota on January 9 a meeting of about 300 Industrial Workers of the World led by Mrs. James James presided over by the wife of Liberty township official James Hayes heard claims of insanitary lumber camp housing. They denied mobilizing firearms to intimidate workers and said a strike of about 1500 persists until demands are met.
Washington reports a 44 to 78 House vote approving an annual grant for free seed distribution totaling 243000 dollars. Early this morning a major Midwest sale started at Hennessy’s offering men’s suits and overcoats at deep discount, with special prices announced beginning at 9 o'clock.
The Department of Agriculture reports Wisconsin and other states show farmers spend about 29 dollars per person per year on food, less than 11 cents daily and under 4 cents per meal. Despite some city purchases, farm living supports a family of five for under 200 dollars yearly. The piece notes farmers closely self sustain with meat and dairy. A final line mentions the smallest bird, a Central American hummingbird about the size of a bluebottle fly.
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