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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1917
Page
7
A rushed sales line offers hundreds of other solid gold bargains and invites customers to seize the opportunity, mentioning a price tag of 2.80 and a subsequent note of 60 and 412.00 in unclear context. The fragment implies a promotional pitch and catalog-style listings.
Multiple brief items note visitors in Butte from Helena Missoula Great Falls and surrounding towns. Names include R L Lail Deer Lodge L L Street Missoula W C Reetor Dillon Alexander C Johnson Jr Helena Moran Stone E E King Great Falls John C Robay Helena Harry Wood Caldwell J D Eliott Norris C W Stallings Bannack H A Hover Helena T B Anderson Livingston Ron Elwell Geraldine Allen Whiteside Charles Hollawig Missoula S B Young Harrison Roy T Fay Lodge Grass Herman Braue Bozeman F H Cooney Missoula and others visiting or in Butte for business or leisure. Activities range from shopping and meals to medical and travel plans. The Ladies Home Journal ad and LDS church services are also mentioned with times and locations.
William Heaney, assistant jailer at 1 police headquarters, learned of his father Chris Heaney's death in Meeker county Minnesota. Chris, aged about 0 years, settled in Minnesota before the Civil War. Heaney’s children include James and Owen Heaney and Mrs. John Lovett, Mrs. Feeney, and Mrs. James Silk of Butte. Just before dying he read a telegram from Ontario about his brother's death. The note also mentions a new plunge at Boulger Hot Springs open for dancing and bathing, with a Great Northern railway holiday fare offer.
Local reports indicate Mayor Lane will run again in the spring Democratic primary amid a crowded field of alderman candidates. Several incumbents expect to seek re election while Walter Shay Alderman M D O Connell and Joseph Nolan enter the race. The city committee plans a meeting next week to appoint election judges and set a date for the call.
Athanasiades, 19, won $4 000 in superior court against Peter Farmasonis, a Seattle candy merchant, after he refused to honor a proxy marriage arranged by correspondence while she was in Greece. The plaintiff had come to Seattle months earlier, and Farmasonis repudiated the contract.
Leonard Flegg, 32, bartender at the Majestic saloon in Butte, was shot and killed by Fred C. Wilson, a machinist, after an altercation inside and as Flegg walked out. Wilson, held by merchants’ patrolmen, claimed threats by Flegg led to the killing. Flegg married, no children, lived at 2410 Yale avenue. Wilson, 88, has worked in Butte five years. An inquest is scheduled for later this week.
San Francisco, Jan 19. Copy of four motions denying jurisdiction of the United States court over Franz Bopp German consul and E H von Schack vice consul convicted of violating American neutrality was filed with U S District Attorney John W Preston today. Theodore Roche chief counsel for Bopp said he would make the motion before Judge William H Hunt next week if Judge Hunt denied a motion for a new trial. Roche moved for a new trial today.
A bill by Representative Arthur Peek of Marshfield introduces a state eugenics board to apply to women and men. It reflects Governor Withycombe’s views and requires quarterly reports of inmates in insane asylums and penitentiaries to be examined for sterilization. The bill permits appeals to the circuit court.
The column warns of propitious and perilous planetary influences for the day and year. It foresees extraordinary aerial and electrical breakthroughs, rising editorial power, possible social disruption, and threats to foreign trade and storms in Chicago next month. It cautions guardians of birthdays and notes potential dangers in war and amusements.
The Anaconda company mines in Butte halted day shift due to coal shortage at the smelter and power issues from gorge bottlenecks. Night shifts resumed, ore remains adequate, and St Lawrence mine is planned for closure and shaft timbering over the next 20 days to permit repairs and cleanup.
JF Brazelton, a Montana mining financier with extensive industry ties, killed himself in Denver while active in ventures and finance. He supported friends and mining projects, helped in times of need, and was a key figure with strong ties to John D. Ryan. He left no children, had a sister in New York and a brother in Tennessee, and Masons will conduct the funeral arrangements.
A series of land and parcel transfers recorded with numerous buyers and sellers including Aas Lavell to Lind Ralf interest in several lots in Fairview addition, Clinton to Jerry St John, Martin and Savin to Thomas McHugh, Bruce Kremer to Butte and Great Falls Mining company, Anaconda Copper Mining Co to Bridget McDonald and Bridget McDonald to William Condell, plus others. Amounts mainly $1 or nominal sums. Narrator notes the document as a matte r of Leonrey.
An advertisement for Doctor Neal's Drink or Drug Specialists claims private in home, hotel, or club treatments. It invites contact at the Neal Institute, 305 West Broadway, Butte, Montana, noting 60 Neal Institutes in principal cities.
A report from Pernamico details the landing of the raider Hudson Maru crew including nine Americans, with questions about the legality of converting merchant ships into commerce destroyers. Officials note no confirmed American rights violations yet, while Germany and continental nations defend conversion legality impacting South American trade.
In New York on January 19 officials and island residents fear a German raider may attack British and French West Indies ports. Rev J Henry Cart Wright, a London representative, says island defenses are being strengthened after reports of raider activity along southern trade routes. The British transport Magdalena, carrying recruits, was disembarked at Trinidad and later escorted by a cruiser before reportedly seeking refuge in Martinique.
The McKinley circle of the Parent Teachers Association held a meeting at the McKinley school. After a musical program the group discussed child moral training with talks by Mrs Winchester Mrs Craven Miss Blair Misa Burg and Mrs Brockway.
At Gamer’s Tearoom today at 12:30, the Good Government luncheon will tackle destitution and helplessness among women in the recently closed district. Mary O’Neill will report on the Helena state conference and participants will shape plans to address this women’s issue.
A ten man posse near Okmulgee Oklahoma recovered the dead bodies of Oscar Poe Hart and Hart after a skirmish about 18 miles southwest of the city. The shootout occurred during the posse’s search for alleged bank robbers, and the men were killed in the exchange.
The annual birth anniversary of Paul Clark, son of Senator W A Clark, was observed at the Paul Clark home on Excelsior Avenue. Sixty children at the home enjoyed a noon dinner, afternoon theater visit, and an evening program with high school orchestra selections, Empress theater talent, songs, and recitations.
The temperance movement in Britain and locally gains from higher wine prices. Experts note increased container costs and shipping hazards raise export prices, except Champagne where German invasion disrupts output. France Italy Sicily Spain Portugal all enjoy favorable weather and higher quality, while California and Missouri are not addressed.
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