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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1917
Page
8
A vintage ad touts Cuticura as keeping hands soft and white and the complexion clear while hair remains glossy. It claims sun wind and dust harm complexions and that Cuticura protects skin for weather exposed business girls. Free samples via postcard request to Cuticura Dept 13F Boston. Sold everywhere.
A vintage advertisement touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a gentle bowel stimulant and breath freshener. It claims to replace calomel with a purely vegetable olive oil formula, offering relief after a week with one or two tablets nightly. The copy notes a 25 cent price and availability through all druggists.
County attorney Jackson aims to shut down road houses serving liquor to women. He filed six informations in Judge Dwyer's court against operators including Beryl Hastings Mia Henry Oberg Nick Peri Tex Doe Lucille and Frank Cash Jr Five Mile. Penalties range from 100 to 1000 dollars for first offenses and possible jail for subsequent offenses. Other suspects faced charges of robbery burglary carrying concealed weapons and grand larceny with trials to be set.
London reports the president of the Prussian upper house opening the session with hope that the year may bring peace despite a disappointing start. He notes Germany’s peace proposal rejection, warns that the fateful hour nears, and asserts iron will and a sharp sword will guide toward a prosperous future.
Mrs Ethel Byrne, serving 80 days in the penitentiary for distributing birth control information, persists in refusing to eat. She has eaten nothing since Monday morning, and faces the penitentiary food authorities. She is the sister of Margaret Sanger, a nationwide figure in birth control advocacy.
Mrs J G Bailey among passengers on the Short Line bound for California to spend the winter. She plans to visit friends in the warm climate, then Honolulu, and return via New York stopping in eastern cities to see relatives. Absent over three months. Mrs Bailey will be joined by Mrs Julia Remark and her young daughter.
The Leather Supply notes tough durable spark skins with surface patterns surviving tanning. Large shark skins yield body and demand, with minor and grayish skins also used. Florida sources provide skins. more expected from South Atlantic and gulf coasts. The Bureau of Fisheries and Lighthouse Service coordinate collection and processing for tanners and manufacturers to develop waste shark skins into usable leather.
At a Florence Crittenton meeting in Helena, workers discussed enlarging the Florence Crittenton home, posting aid cards in stations to help girls reach friends and safety in Butte, and protested the closing of restricted districts without warning. They urged notice and fair treatment for girls facing life on the streets. Six Entente airplanes were shot down on the western front as frosty weather favored observation.
Paris dispatch reports Austria plans a decree granting the state a quarter of all real and personal property in exchange for a mortgage bond to stave off immediate bankruptcy. The measure would affect all subjects and inhabitants of the empire.
Salem Oregon January 24 A woman presided as speaker over the Oregon house for the first time as Mrs Alexander Thompson of The Dalles held the chair until noon. Stanfield retired amid threats and the 59 lawmakers gave no cigar during her orderly session. Read estate transfers list several deeds totaling amounts from 1 to 1 360 dollars and a note on phonographs becoming common in Siamese and Chinese homes if affordable.
Berlin reports from the National Zeitung estimate German losses at about 2 000 000 and claim reserves would still total 7 000 000 of the 9 000 000 war began with. The piece notes many young men reached service age during the war and conservative calculations add 1 600 000 to available forces.
A committee from the federal council of the Churches of Christ in America led by Bishop Bari Cranston called on President Wilson and appeared before the senate foreign relations committee. They urged resolutions to secure national protection for aliens and to create a federal committee of at least five members to study the relations of America with Japan.
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