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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1917
Page
3
A vintage advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin as fast and safe relief for stomach misery and dyspepsia. It claims five minute relief, strengthens digestion, and lets people eat favorite foods again, with a call to buy large 50 cent cases from any drug store.
An old time wig or hair darkening remedy promotes Sage and Sulphur compound for turning gray hair dark and glossy. The ad touts simple home preparation but offers Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Compound as an easier 50 cent option, claiming natural, even results.
An old advertisement touts St. Jacobs Oil as a fast remedy for sprains strains and swelling. It claims penetrating relief without burning the skin and urges readers to obtain a trial bottle from any drug store. The copy emphasizes long use and awards and promises misery relief so users can return to regular duties.
Butte delegates including Mrs Margaret Rozsa Mrs Carman and Mrs J M Kennedy head to Helena to urge an industrial home for girls a survey of the feeble minded home and stronger enforcement of existing laws. They push a rock pile for deserting husbands wages to wives and raise mothers pensions. The group notes the current state home costs 75000 for 60 beds with 200 on a waiting list and calls for a practical humane approach and better support for mothers. They expect to meet legislators and attend sessions with return due tomorrow night.
Butte sees steady holiday travel with hundreds leaving daily for the West, East, or South and many returning. City passenger agents report peak activity matching the week before Christmas as prominent railroad officials visit, including Allan Nye, George H. Feyder, E. A. Gray, and Leroy Blue. In Washington, the Senate confirms Winthrop M. Daniels of New Jersey for another term on the Interstate Commerce Commission by a 42 to 15 vote on January 10.
Margaret Diogenes seeks legal separation and child custody from Stravos Diogenes, alleging failure to provide after their Edmonton 1914 marriage. Pauline Willis seeks divorce from George Willis with alimony and court costs, citing cruelty. Hilja Erickson seeks divorce from John Erickson of Hancock with alimony and child support requests. Gertrude McAllister pursues divorce from Claude McAllister, asking for alimony and shared child support, claiming lack of means.
Postmaster Goodwin says holiday mail increases are a normal growth not an exception. Clerks and carriers are strained, four more carriers and extended routes planned, but relief will be gradual pending civil service reports. Officials work on annual postal savings and money order department data.
A new telephone directory for Butte Montana is being prepared with over 12 000 names. The book will be consulted daily by thousands. Copy closes January 18 1917. Call the manager at Mountain States Tel Phone and Telegraph Co Adv1.
London reports that Turkish trenches on a 1000 yard front northeast of Kut El Amara along the Tigris were captured. In Cleveland Reitman of New York and anarchist Emma Goldman were jailed for contempt of court after being taken into custody.
A man failed to appear yesterday for trial on a charge of disseminating birth control literature. He was arrested here on December 12. His $1,000 bond was forfeited yesterday, and warrants on the arrest were issued. Reitman arrived today from New York.
Vallejo Cal Jan 10 The Atlantic fleet will move to the Pacific within a year to engage in war games and train officers in this region Secretary Daniels announced after a cruise report The Pacific fleet would accompany the Atlantic fleet home at voyage end Naval officers expect Mare Island and Bremerton yards to be ready to accommodate repairs and refitting
Salt Lake City Jan 10 Howard Deweese in jail facing trial for the murder of his wife in a local rooming house Sept 21 last has informed Police Chief J Parley White that funds for his defense will be furnished by a burglars brother hood of which he says he is a member He still maintains he was engaged in a diamond burglary when his wife was slain
Salt Lake City Jan 10 A two mile board automobile speedway costing a half million dollars will be built on the shores of Great Salt Lake this summer. The articles of incorporation were filed here today.
New York Jan 10 W B Biddle former first vice president of the St Louis and San Francisco Railroad was elected president by the board after the death of W C Nixon. B D Levy had served as second.
Philadelphia January 10 The directors announced stockholders will be asked at the annual meeting to approve a increase in the authorized capital to seventy five million dollars enabling issuance of mortgage bonds or capital stocks as needed to meet near term capital needs.
London reports the resignation of Premier Trepoff after seven weeks in office. The new premier is Prince Golitzine, though his exact identity remains unclear due to Golitzine’s large family. A separate note: the Leyland line steamer Alexandrian was torpedoed and sunk near the English coast with about 7,000 bales of cotton aboard.
Salt Lake City January 10 The first bill introduced in the Utah legislature is House Bill No 1 a statewide prohibition measure of drastic scope It would prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor after August 1 1917 and make liquor possession a misdemeanor Also notes an India sensitive depiction of a native living in the stone age using stone bone and wood tools
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