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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1917
Page
12
An old advertisement touts Bits Cream Balm to relieve nasal congestion from a cold or catarrh. It claims the snail bottle can be melted into nostrils to soothe swollen membranes, opening passages and easing headaches, with a confident testimonial style.
W J Keeley leaves today to become general freight agent in Chicago. H L Mitchell succeeds him in Butte. The new Milwaukee passenger station, costing about a quarter of a million dollars, will open February 1 with covered trainsheds and lit concrete platforms. Some finishing materials caused a 15 day delay. The uptown railroad offices move to the station. Keeley’s family will stay until June. Mitchell visits Great Falls to meet Was hoake as his Montana duties begin.
Havre January 6 Gen. Maximilian Wielemans chief of the Belgian staff dies of pneumonia contracted in the trenches. News of his death comes from the front lines as Belgian forces endure harsh conditions in the field.
County Attorney Jackson filed information against Tom Stages J H Reya and Jerome Baker charging robbery for allegedly taking $16 from James Thomas on December 30. Stags had prior robberies and forgery convictions. Reys and Baker had no previous convictions. Judge Dwyer postponed arraignment to next Saturday as they seek attorneys.
In New York on Jan 6 the federal court upheld the government's right to collect an income tax of 183 882 from Southern Pacific on 18 361 597 in dividends received from Central Pacific Railway in the first half of 1916. The ruling concerns the second of two test suits. the first suit involving 131 668 tax was held in abeyance.
San Francisco detectives search California cities for a woman posing as Family Husted, a maid out of work, who yesterday robbed Mrs. J. Graves of Woodside of jewels valued at 18000. The impersonator used the name Emily Husted from an employment agency and is suspected of belonging to a daring organized thieves’ ring.
Minneapolis Wednesday January 5 Ruth Ehnstrom an 18 year old from Carlton Minnesota is declared the champion potato grower of Minnesota by the University of Minnesota extension division. She produced bushels of potatoes on one acre in last summer’s contest.
The weather bureau predicts a fair week with occasional foul rains in the Rocky Mountain region and near seasonal normals in the Northern Rockies. In Europe, Bavarian and Austro Hungarian forces stormed Russian defenses along a front south of the Trotus valley near the Moldavian border, according to Berlin’s War Office.
Steele & Anderson handled a sale of the Rookwood hotel furniture and lease at 24 North Main to Mrs. Mary McCarthy for 10600. Maud Allan bought the lease and furniture of the Snow block at 3 South Main for 6000. The 15 room Utah avenue block at 737 was leased by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Weiss for 3200.
Prospective homeowners visit the inspectors office for remodeling and repair records as builders prepare for unprecedented spring activity. Realty dealers report demand for lots surpassing all past records while contractors say work is secured for the summer, signaling a historic real estate year for Butte.
The Helena real estate transfers include Lee Mantle to John Rudman for lot 7 block in addition for 500, James to Gottfried Rosset for lot 9 and east half of lot 10 block 17 Silver Bow Park addition for 1, and multiple other deeds. Notable entries include Roman Catholic Bishop of Helena to Peter Lunney for lot 78 block 11 Holy Cross cemetery for 50, United States patent to Frederick W. Dickey for 200 acres, and William A. Davis and Francis D. Ralston to Dickey for 40.61 acres in section 14.
Ottawa reports Sir Frederick William Borden former minister of militia and defense in the Laurier government from 1898 to 1911 has died at the age of 64. Born in 1847, his death was attributed to a dispatch from Canning Nova Scotia received today.
London reports Berlin dispatches say Romanian oil districts are repairing damage with some works likely to resume in weeks. About 2000 carloads of petroleum reportedly captured at Campina and immense stores at Constanza. Roosevelt ally Captain Frederick Courteney Selous killed in action in East Africa.
Independence Kansas January 6 crude oil prices rose ten cents per barrel per Prairie Oil and Gas company. The gain pushed prices six cents above what operators cited as the previous high in the field. Today’s advance lifted prices to the one dollar and zero cents mark.
Springfield Jan 6 The sentence of Dr Haldane Clemenson of Chicago convicted of murdering his wife in November 1909 was commuted today by Governor Dunne to 26 years imprisonment.
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