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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1909
Page
4
The notice names officers and roles at the bank including B Mickolls as cashier and assistants Bowe and others. It outlines that they handle interest on savings and time deposits and conduct general banking business for surplus funds.
The New York market shows speculative deflation pressure as Erie securities plunge amid a failed $5,000,000 financing plan. A substitute scheme is discussed with public service commission consent, while rumors about MRs Marriman’s health influence sentiment. Bond lists, commodity quotes, and exchange rates illustrate a sluggish trading day with mixed advances and declines.
Market, Jan 11, Chicago reports heavy selling in wheat with prices sliding from early gains to lower levels as weather conditions influenced trade. World shipments surpassed expectations at about 6,992,000 bushels versus 6,022,000 the prior week, while corn and cattle quotes show limited gains amid turbulent activity.
In Calais, four French murderers were executed by guillotine after forming a violent gang terrorizing Northern France and Southern Belgium. Crowds cried vengeance as the knife fell four times. The condemned slept before, unaware of their fate, and were fed outside the prison.
Duquoin Illinois January reports progress on the Zeigler disaster as bodies are recovered and the death toll rises. Investigators seek the cause after an explosion at the Lester coal mine with limited damage to the surface and no confirmed cause yet.
Notice explains ad formatting rules for the Standard Want Page. It specifies word limits per insertion, how many lines an ad can take, and how replies are handled via a mail card presented at the Standard office.
In Butte and nearby towns several ads seek workers and students. Barber trade training promises eight weeks with tools free and pay $65 to $95 weekly. Other ads promote trades like electrics and carpentry, and a drivers wagon position at 40 South Wyoming Street.
Northwest job listing seeks a resident agent for Montana and possibly Washington Idaho Utah. Requires full diligence and contacts. mail responses to 8, 2,010 Howard St San Francisco.
Fragmented ad copy lists real estate money to do a rents program and a long line of readers for astrology services. Mentions Fon Real Estate, W. V. Lawlor, 120 W Granite, an astrologist palmist of the world, and various reading services. Also notes locations in Butte Indiana and Montana street readings with days listed.
Fragmented OCR shows a Butte Montana page with assorted ads and notices. Items mention a veterinary college, Dr Keane, furniture exchanges, chemical suppliers, assayers and dentists, a blood poison treatment, a ladies private hospital and a midwife, and a Parisian dance house in Butte.
New York police report that conscientious burglars who stole property and valuable papers from Albert Reiss at the Metropolitan Opera House on a Saturday night allegedly returned the papers in an envelope via the fire escape. No injuries were noted and investigators are piecing together the sequence of events.
Special dispatch from Helena reports three Supreme Court opinions. In Longpre v Big Blackfoot Mining Co. the higher court reversed a lower judgment, ruling employers need not verify tools used by workers. In Cohn v Bourquin a Silver Bow County judge, the appeal is dismissed over improper service by mail on an attorney. In Prentice v McKay the lower court’s finding for the plaintiff is reversed. New York reports Harriman rumors about Erie stock declined others amid speculation.
Ahna M. Allen, assistant supervisor of Justice, collapsed and died from apoplexy in front of her students while walking to school in heavy snow in Seattle. She arrived from Pearis, Iowa, last summer.
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