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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1919
Page
12
Fashion and fortune travel the circuit of trends and unfold with changing luck. Ribbons return as feminine touches dominate gowns for debutantes while chiffon substitutions yield chic necklines and sleeves. Designers’ resourcefulness creates varied, enduring outfits that suit each woman’s beauty.
An advertisement extols araene phos phate and uro phosphate as cures for extreme thinness and weak nerves. It claims modern foods lack phosphate, promises rapid weight gain, improved health, and brighter eyes, and warns against indiscriminate use despite health claims.
Notice of sale of real estate in Deer Lodge County Montana under an order of the district court. James O Keefe estate administrator will sell January at 2 pm at the court house door to the highest bidder for lot 6 in block 77 in the city of Anaconda. The sale is on cash terms with 20 percent due at sale and balance on confirmation. Dated January 7 1918 AD Croswhite administrator.
New Orleans January 23 Hard Wood Lumber Exporters association adopts resolution accusing Great Britain of using allied purchasing rules to buy timber in the United States for export to Britain and for commercial purposes. Other actions oppose railroad control and endorse unrestrained hardwood trade removal at once. Great Falls Montana January 23 Montana Union officers named for three years at the congress with Cleator bill opposition and terminal plans criticized.
Dispatch from Copenhagen reports Leon Trotsky ordering Zinoviev to surrender Petrograd without fighting if Bolshevik troops are repelled by Northern Russian forces. It notes Bolshevik defeats in parts of Bolshevik Russia, widespread peasant revolts, and Zinoviev’s proximity to Lenin. The New York Post item also mentions U.S. school building upgrades in Vint County.
The Montana Bakers Association called for uniform loaf weights at its annual meeting adjournment. Proposed weights include pound and multiples with net weight. a ban on stale bread returns and retailer price cutting is planned. Alexander Henson of Missoula was elected president, with W Heath of Butte as vice president and H W Osenbrug as secretary treasurer.
Washington reports a senate commerce committee briefing on lower Hog Island ship costs from 324 to about 212 per ton and higher initial cost averages. Charles Plez cites first ship cost 2,427 dollars with 1,894,000 dollars projected per 17 ships. The 1917 18 output totals show 244 launched and 782 on the ways, with substantial completion percentages and 5,869,989 tons across two years.
Reported strewing of broken bottles and glass along a roadway near the city has angered motorists. Authorities plan deputized patrols to catch offenders while complaints blame load haulers and local children visiting dumps. State and city laws prohibit littering with fines for guilty parties and possible rewards.
Mrs Mary A Wilson aged 60 of 444 North Twelfth street wed 70 year old William B McGuire a US sec agent in a ceremony by Justice Palmer at Sawtelle. This was her fifth marriage after previous husbands M K Reed John A Epley Marcus L Wilson. Cupid Sparks issued the licenses. The couple met fishing at Venice pier when lines became entangled.
Helena January session reports Richard Lohe pleaded guilty in district court to sedition, marking him as the county’s fifth in a string of seditious utterances under state law. Judgment is set for 10 am February 8 before Judge W. J. Poorman.
A narrator recalls childhood verses including Bingen on the Rhine as WWII march imagery rises. The text shifts to a wartime scene with the Third Army advancing from Lorraine toward Bingen, uncertain of the frontline and awaiting allied landings. The piece blends nostalgia with combat detail and tension over the map.
The Associated Press reviews efforts to resolve the Russian question and advance a British and American plan for a league of nations. It notes near equivalence with French and other proposals, while suggesting Bolshevik resistance may undermine security aims and economic conditions.
Washington reports the transport Martha Washington has sailed from France with 2,400 troops, leaving 250 sick and wounded. The ship Connecticut is due at Newport News on February 1 with about 1,000 men, and the Mallory is expected to reach New York by January with 1,800 soldiers aboard.
At a recent regular meeting the Atlanta board of education reversed its action ordering Bible reading and Lord's Prayer in public schools. The debate touched by former leaders, including the first president, recalled the 1873 policy. A Georgia Senator argued against enforcing Bible use in schools amid broader loan interest figures.
A fragmented account traces early electric street illumination starting in 1880 on New York’s Broadway, noting shallow displays and skepticism about electricity surpassing gas, then contrasts the Paris exposition of 1878 with later global advances. It also mentions a Chinese heroine Chin Mun Lau who led armies in disguise after her father’s inability to fight.
An advertisement quotes a noted authority saying acid in the stomach causes indigestion. It recommends four ounces of glad salts dissolved in water to take before breakfast for a week, claiming it clears gas forming mass, stimulates the liver and kidneys, and promotes digestive juice flow.
The funeral and burial will begin Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. The procession will leave the family home at Corner Six Hickory Streets for Pauls Church where a solemn requiem high mass will be celebrated.
The remains were moved to the home of Mt Nicholas Kelley at 31 Went Bina Avenue for a funeral Friday morning at Barerlock. A requiem high mass will be held at St Paul church at 9 and Interment will be in Mount Carmel cemetery.
Obituary notice for M. P. Mahoney Funeral Director located at 113 Main Street Anaconds. Public record notes his business as a funeral director serving the community with funeral services and arrangements.
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