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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1913
Page
11
A vintage advertisement touts Cascarets as a solution to stifled digestion and bilious symptoms. It promises relief from liver and bowel clogs, with a 10 cent nightly dose and claims of nightly cleansing and improved health by morning, urging both adults and children to use regularly.
A large engineering party led by J A Pritchard departed for Dearborn to study plans for a new Mina ee railway extension into Milwaukee. The route would run up the Sun and Dearborn rivers and cross Ondette Pass to the Big Blackfoot country, trimming about 100 miles off the current Milwaukee terminal distance.
Severe winds damaged fences and roofs in Whitehall, derailed a Northern Pacific freight, delaying Burlington trains. Speck sold his ranch to Mr. Hamilton and bought W W Green’s auto business. Fire department officers were elected, a bail planned, and hotel and post office updates noted. Kallspell seeks a permanent injunction to protect ball grounds from city removal, following council action.
Fire Chief Collins urges a state law to empower the state fire marshal to order demolition of fire trap structures. He cites 40 to 50 empty buildings in Anaconda, mainly on Commercial Front and nearby alleys, as threats. A recent blaze at 16 East Park caused $100 damage in a three room vacant house, likely started by children.
A special Northern Pacific train departs from Bozeman today carrying many Gallatin county residents and other Montanans bound for Los Angeles. Among the travelers are John Dawes and family, Misses Florence Dunbar and May Nelson, Mrs Mary Malmbors, and several local leaders. In Rome, a riot led to five deaths as troops fired on patients receiving treatment in the town of Roccagorsa yesterday.
The E. P. Mathewson trophy event opened with W. A. Bower’s team beating Mathewson’s 12 to 7. The pins, jewel like with a Montana sapphire, go to the winning team for the season, while the defeated team keeps their pins if they lose at season end.
Gov John M Haines in his first message to the legislature urged approval of a constitutional amendment for direct election of U S senators He also urged laws for physical examination before marriage certificates and sterilization of degenerates as he warned high taxes deter capital investment and settlers in Idaho.
The advertisement warns that many suffer kidney related sickness without realizing it and urges trying Dr Kilmer Swamp Root. It lists symptoms such as frequent urination backache and fatigue, claims extraordinary results, and offers free sample bottles and a book by mail from Kilmer Co.
A historic Doan's Kidney Pills advertisement claims the product helps kidneys remove uric acid and relieve backache. It features a resident testimonial from Mrs. Joseph Shackleton of 513 Washington Street Anaconda Montana praising its kidney-regulating effects and family use.
The House money rust committee in executive session plotted to compel two reluctant witnesses William Rockefeller and George Henry of Solo on Co bankers New York. A throat specialist was to examine Rockefeller while Henry faced a district attorney review for grand jury consideration.
Henry W. Beott, Davenport mail order house owner, testifies in government antitrust hearing accusing Retail Lumber Dealers' Association of widespread persecution. He says the group pressured towns and employers to hinder mail order competition, with detectives in his plant and bribes traced over seven years. The government asserts middle western dealers conspired to stifle rivals.
The petition of John B. Lewis of the Glacier Hotel at Essex Lake McDonald for a saloon liquor license was rejected by the county board after protests from all town residents including railroad workers’ wives. The railroad company also opposed the license, which Lewis had sought for two months.
The body of Mrs. Sarah Jane Fredericks, a pioneer of the western Valley, was brought for interment beside her husband, W. E. Fredericks, who died in Isis and was buried in Bozeman cemetery.
An old ad promotes Danderine claiming dandruff disappears after application and hair stops falling. It promises new growth in weeks, with hair becoming fluffy, wavy, and luxurious in health, urging a 25 cent or 5 cent bottle purchase from drug stores to prove the benefit tonight.
In Three Forks area, Jan C and family held funeral services at her home. Mrs Fredericks, who moved to Montana with her husband from Belle Ontario in 186, had resided in Gallatin and Jefferson counties since arrival, reflecting long residence in the region.
Augusta M. Schuster sought annulment of her marriage to Carl H. Schuster in a hearing before Judge Pierson. She testified she married while mentally unfit and under duress, with prior divorces and a common law marriage to Adolph Depping. The case details alleged threats to shoot herself, a magistrate’s arrival during illness, and a ceremony performed while she was unaware of the marriage.
A gang of overhead wire men operating for the Calgary municipal street railway was broken up last night. James W. Sullivan Leslie Ayres and Edward Murphy are in jail awaiting trial on a charge of carrying explosives. Other members fled to unknown parts. The escaped group is believed tied to numerous crimes in eight months.
On Los Feliz road two Japanese poultry traders were held up last night by youths armed with shotguns rifles and revolvers. After robbing them robbers released many pigeons as they fled firing at the birds. Police believe the culprits are juveniles.
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