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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1917
Page
13
Peace talks fade and foreign demand slackens as Holland export worry fades. May wheat 8 45 to 184% and July steady. Corn holds firm amid damage to Armenian crop. oats drop. Hog prices rise with strong arrivals, while cattle and sheep receipts rise. market remains unsettled amid freight embargo east on Grand Trunk.
London reporters quote Berlin officials at a dinner where Teutonic powers claim confidence in victory. Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg and Karl Hefferich attend. Hefferich says enemies must learn there is no military caste among Germans and the nation will endure and be victorious by divine right of existence.
In Madison on January 23 William J. Bryan addressed a mass meeting that opened a statewide prohibition campaign. The assembly adopted a resolution to summon University of Wisconsin President Charles R. Van Hise to explain by what authority Max Eastman, socialist, was denied permission to speak in a university building.
Classifieds show numerous employment entries and wage notes. Listings include Olsen’s and Parsons offices in Butte offering male and female help, a variety of domestic and skilled positions in Butte, Anaconda, and nearby towns, plus calls for miners and gear makers, with contact details and locations such as 205 8 Dakota St Butte and 631 Utah Ave Butte, alongside labor action notes and union references. The page also recaps a political moment with Mr Bryan’s university address and a resolution’s senate path.
Classified notices show demand for married branch managers and stenographers, plus numerous rental offers in Butte and Anaconda. Listings include furnished and unfurnished rooms, flats, housekeepers, and sale items like furniture and livestock. Mentions Jewel Tea Co, 1136 South Arizona, Butte, and contact boxes for The Standard.
Classified ads list a混 assortment of sale items including sash and doors from C B Williams company with catalog No 5, plus furniture hardware and finishes. Also available are typewriters, mining blanks, horse saddles, pool tables, and household rentals including furnished and unfurnished houses and apartments in Anaconda and Butte with contact details and payment terms.
Numerous compact ads show houses for sale with terms and locations in Tutte Butte and Anaconda. Includes five room semimodern homes, three room cottages, corner lots, modern brick and central business property for $15,000 with $5,000 down. Lost items include a brown horse with branding and a wrist watch with contact rewards.
Nearly 500000 acres in San Joaquin Valley California valued at 32000000 are in a government suit against Southern Pacific before Judge Bledsoe. Government says SP obtained land knowing oil was present while others say land was for agricultural use. Witnesses discuss land grants and fraud grounds. Also reports the Danish steamer Klampenborg sunk near Lloyds and the Swedish steamship Kamma sunk.
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