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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1913
Page
7
A legislative decision confirms the Soo Line will cross Montana between Dawson and Teton, with no adjournment. The Saturday event is regretted but deemed unavoidable as authorities move to finalize the industrial record.
Helena dispatch reports the thirteenth legislative assembly plans to reconvene Saturday after adjournments. Debates over steering committee powers dominate the session with Democrats opposing two-thirds voting rules. boxing billA proposed 20 round contest under governor supervised clubs draws attention. Nazim Pasha dies after crowd clash near the grand vizierate in Constantinople amid Turkish political tension.
Old and new in Turkish cabinet produce resignation of Said Pasha era. Officials warn peace likely with no renewed war, though Turkey eyes favorable war advantage if needed. Allies near exhaustion, but Andrianople fate unsettled. Enver Bey emerges as the Jung Turk hero amid political upheaval. Continued on Page Eleven.
Special Dispatch reports the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste Marie railroad plans a 700 mile extension in Montana starting this spring. The project, costing about 25 million dollars, aims to connect Twin Cities with the region, cross the state, reach the Missouri river at Plaza, North Dakota, and create a direct line toward Duluth and beyond.
The assembly discussed and largely settled the issue of curtailing the steering Committee’s high powers. Remaining motions on the agenda were deferred to 11.
San Francisco authorities rely on a handwriting expert who says Mrs. Dorothy Slingsby authored a 1910 newspaper ad seeking a male infant for a donation. The ad ties to the case claiming Slingsby substituted Lillian Anderson's dying newborn for her own child, with potential implications for a Yorkshire estate.
Terre Haute Indiana January 24 Eugene V Debs socialist candidate for president was arrested on an indictment in the federal court for the Third district of Kansas charged with obstructing justice He allegedly encouraged witnesses to stay within the jurisdiction and aided a printed Appeal to Reason article deemed obscene The case will be fought with Debs denying the charges and stating he will tell his story to the jury without counsel The matter involves the Fort Leavenworth prison investigations and an Appeal to Reason publication
Etampes France Jan 24 Charles Nieuport and his mechanic perished when their monoplanes failed and plunged from height. Nieuport a wealthy inventor and builder of fast monoplanes earned a pilot's certificate last year. Port of Spain Trinidad Jan 24 Frank Boland, an American aviator, died when his biplane dived and struck the ground.
Jack Rose reveals underworld crimes and personal crises linked to gambling while Rev. Jerry Rounder delivers a searching sermon on the Quest for Gain. M Quad offers skits, Mrs. Bumps Boarding House in color comics, and Goldberg cartoons spark laughter. Helena lawmakers, Washington column, social pages with photos and notes on all news.
The figure now tops 15,000 and climbs each Sunday as more people pick up the publication. Readers are engaging with the growing weekly issue.
Washington January 24 Chairman Underwood of the Ways and Means committee declared there is no intention to cut duty rates along competitive lines that would ruin business interests. He rebutted Republican insinuations that the Democratic majority aims to raise rates to disturb business prosperity.
Cheyenne Wy Jan 2 Up to a late hour tonight Governor Carey had not decided whether he would honor the requisition for custody of Representative Manson charged with embezzlement in 1903. The case centers on a man known as Floyd E Roberts alias Manson and a $900 embezzlement while a Justice of the Peace. Governor Carey wired Virginia Governor Glasscock for information while Chinese whispers say the governor aims to keep Manson in Wyoming to hold the lower house and affect Warren's re election fight amid a deadlock over the United States senatorship.
Police spent the night trying to locate the source of a frightened child’s phrase My mamma has killed herself heard over repeated telephone calls. Officers sought an address as the little girl’s voice repeatedly hung up the line.
In New York on January 24 thousands of striking waiters and sympathizers clashed across the hotel and restaurant district. Rioters attacked workers, disturbed diners, and shattered windows as police and militiamen prepared to restore order. Protests expanded near major hotels including the Knickerbocker and Ritz Carlton, with 3000 workers said to be involved. calls for higher wages better conditions and shorter hours were cited as the strike’s motive.
Seattle the Great Northern line blocked by a massive snow slide in the Cascades near Wingy point. The westbound Burlington express stalled in a mountains snowshed with six feet of snow on the rails and telegraph wires down. Crews expect to clear the track within a week and release the train to return to Leavenworth.
New York on January 24 Roosevelt announced efforts to end the garment workers strike by tomorrow sending about 150000 workers back to work He released a letter from the Progressive Party indicating it will push state legislature to create minimum wage boards for garment trades The move follows a protocol between workers and employers that saw many strikers return to work and many independent operatives ready to resume tomorrow Roosevelt urged legislative inquiry into labor conditions in the garment trades and possible related measures
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