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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1913
Page
9
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna from the California Fig Syrup Company as a safe, tasty stomach and bowel cleanser for children and adults. It claims gentle action, no drugging, and urges mothers to keep it handy, with directions printed on the package and a call to ask druggists for the full name.
A 6 cent packet of Pape’s Diapepsin cures sour stomach and indigestion by aiding digestion, leaving the stomach and intestines clean and fresh. It tastes like candy and helps restore appetite, reducing the need for laxatives or liver pills. Get relief now for indigestion and gastritis with this preparation.
A long list of house bills introduces reforms across taxation labor and infrastructure. Proposals include state dairy commissioner funding highway classification and maintenance arbitration boards and limits on female employment hours. Several measures address investment funds and public finances for counties cities and schools.
Staff correspondence from the Standard Helena dated January 12 reports both chambers naming committees. In the House Silver Bow secured nine chairmanships including mine and mining, labor, judiciary, banks and banking, and appropriations. In the Senate Gallwey chairs mines and mining and sits on judiciary, labor, capital appointment representation, railroads and transportation, and rules.
In the senate Lieutenant Governor McDowell presided as notices of intention to introduce bills were given. Bills touch grain elevators and warehouses in Montana, districting, impeachment amendments, county creation, county money control, land counties with prison labor, national road paving, chattel mortgages, record storage for the Grand Army, experimental farms, parole commission, and consolidation of state educational institutions. Senate bills listed include terms of court and case transfers, industrial compensation, fisheries administration, acknowledgments, mechanics access, railroad regulation, and unfair competition prohibitions.
A historical record lists Senate bill No. 2 by Duncan prohibiting hunting within certain Montana districts and details numerous legislative committee assignments across departments. It notes a convict escape in Joliet and a later capture of Stephen Ayres in Beeriher Illinois by the town marshal.
Special Dispatch reports Helena Montana January 12 that the Helena land office resolved the Hyde entries in favor of the locator. The case centers on a fraud scheme involving public lands exchanged with California and state lands. Hyde is serving a penitentiary term for his role.
An advertisement urges readers to buy shirts at reduced prices starting this morning at The Clothing, 3 N Math-Adv, Browhead, Ireland. Also notes the Snowden Range steamer, long amid spectacle, arrived in tow of the Welshmar after being picked up miles out in Atlantis.
A Midland railway collision at Bromford Bridge in Birmingham, England, left two passengers dead and four injured as an express train struck an accommodation train. Local officials reported the incident and underway emergency response.
At a Boston banquet Professor William Lyon Phelps of Yale and a companion told an English humor tale to an Englishman seated nearby. The man remained unmoved as the American insisted he would laugh at the next yarn, then claimed he laughed only last summer.
The British government pays the National Telephone Company of the United Kingdom 03,656.32 for its property after a decision by the railway commission. The state takeover took effect January 1, 192, with the company’s initial offer in dispute during the trial. A Pennsylvania coal town physician tells a tale of a doctor who reminds a patient to regulate temperature, joking that when it rises he hangs the thermometer outside to cool it.
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