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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1913
Page
18
The ad promotes Leys lorgnettes suspended from a chain for instant use. It highlights spring adjustment and time saved while shopping, offering models in sterling silver or gold filled with lenses matched to the wearer, and even solid gold on short notice.
Investors faced heavy market pressure with a firm undertone noted in the afternoon as shorts were covered. Balkan tensions loom with notes from Washington on looming legislation and Turkey relations, while copper stocks attract interest and foreign buyers emerge amid mixed New York sentiment.
Fire on Park Street started in a second hand store work room and spread to Palace Clothing Co. damage totals reach 25,000 with 20,000 insured. Lodgers aided by Mrs Fannie Nason and Vincent Doyle as fire crews arrive to save 18 rooms. Shiner's loss 6,000 with 3,500 insurance. Building owned by Powter Investment Seattle. Other minor losses reported on Weoming Street and Boardman Street.
D. J. Charles was reelected president with W. M. Tuohy as vice president J Rowe treasurer and Philip H. M. Blake secretary at the Butte Chamber of Commerce annual session in the Lewisohn building. Directors C J Kelly Herman Blank J Rowe J B Oppenheimer Dr Donald Campbell Dr J A Donovan and C E Teebe were also chosen for two years amid praise for the organization’s progress.
Washington reports a congressional conference on immigration reform, with an agreement on mandatory self reliance and waivers for certain categories. The plan includes deportation for specific offenses, certificates of loyalty, and penalties for immigration abuses. Separate measures cover road bonds, voter registration, and a female penitentiary.
A long Q and A list covers dates of state penitentiary construction at Deer Lodge with first prisoner, Johnstown food date, U S senator salary, Jeffersonian party lineage, strongest man disputes, distances from Butte to Seattle and Great Falls, voting rights for soldiers, U S senator term, North Star size, liquor sales to Indians, Butte mining history from 1866 onward, first copper ore in Butte, who discovered Butte, Washington as military leader, Harriman’s death place, Louisiana Purchase states and price.
Ruthven of Keokuk Iowa described as inventor of a safety appliance for preventing railway accidents was found guilty in a United States district court for using the mails to defraud. He was sentenced to three years in the Atlanta penitentiary and fined.
A deadly car crash in St Louis kills three men including X. Davie of Cleveland identified as assistant secretary to Mrs Helen Britton owner of the St Louis National base baseball lab and William H Waiters of St Louis president of a novelty company Also involved was an assistant secretary role tied to Britton and a St Louis executive named Waiters The collision occurred today with local authorities investigating the incident for official cause and details.
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