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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1918
Page
13
The piece notes recruiting chiefs find the pattern of enlistment puzzling as draft effects shift applicant quality. It cites a shift toward skilled American applicants for special branches, with Col. Chatfield saying Mondays bring jobless men seeking work who become good material. It lists needs from chemists to photographers for various detachments.
Advertisement asks if adding another worker is a small matter and urges posting at least one cent per day, signaling a defensive pitch for employment in a brief classified notice from a historical paper. The terse wording implies a wider call for help and a push to place ads promptly.
An advertisement notes a sewing machine repair service offered for one dollar by Brownfield-Can ty Co. at 54 W. Park St. Butte and 308 EF. York Ave., Anaconda, with phone 143 red. The piece also mentions quartz and placer mining notices and a call to engineers to join a military committee to lend technical skills to the war effort.
Special Dispatch to the Standard reports receipts at Seattle with cattle at 193. Market remains strong for cattle hogs and sheep at former quotations. A quoted exchange mentions Bliggins studying French and a remark about him talking, underscoring lighthearted banter in the item.
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