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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1916
Page
7
Leys publicized a final day sale offering discounts on fine china including Stouffer and Roman gold encrusted pieces. Items featured ranged from nut bowls and salt and pepper sets to candlesticks and decorative vases with prices shown as regular prices and sale figures.
Butte notes list numerous visitors and residents from Helena Dillon Missoula Great Falls and Billings including Ewald Iwen Huste Del Dell Brinck Leeper and Irvine among others. Socials births and travel updates appear with arrivals at Northern Bennett and Murray Hospital showcasing a bustling index of local activity.
After three days in a snowbank the first passenger train from Salt Lake to Butte arrived in Butte early this morning. Six trains from Butte to Salt Lake compete for the through trip today, with freight to move once passenger service clears. Weather improvements spark hopeful return to normal schedules. coal shipments from Eastern Montana and Northern Pacific service also noted.
The attorney general’s office challenges a compensation act covering both employees and corporations. Pompei seeks to force Pompei city to compensate an injured man after district court sided with the state board. The appeal goes to the supreme court, with a similar Butte case awaiting its turn and likely a parallel outcome.
Rome dispatch reports Austrian troops gradual advance in Northern Albania and Albanian chiefs awaiting Prince William of Wied. The former ruler abdicated in 1914 and is said to prepare a triumphant reentry from Prizrend with Albanian leaders.
Saloons cigars billiard halls and others liable for emergency war taxes must pay today to avoid penalties. Deputy Internal Revenue C H Moore at Butte says special agents J G Allard and W A Tremblay are in Helena for the weekend and will return tomorrow to visit those liable on Tuesday. Penalties include 60 cents per tax due for nonpayment and may double for continued failure.
The Montana Supreme Court reversed a Lewis and Clark District Court ruling, directing the state accident board to pay a street department worker’s compensation claim from Butte. The decision follows a summer injury of a city employee and a county action appealed from the state board. City Attorney Dwyer commented on the opinion.
The weather bureau in Helena forecasts continued cold conditions for Butte with a 37 degree rise in seven hours yesterday, a barometer indicating another storm, and an official minimum of 25 below. Streetcar service normalized with salting of rails after a prior freeze, a fire caused by the cold damaged a damper with about $50 loss, coal deliveries improved, Salvation Army relief notes no extreme fuel shortage, and theaters and cafes saw increased business after a string of frigid nights.
Joseph Vacetti asserts constitutional rights were violated after a police court sentencing him to 99 days in the county jail. Attorney Percy Napton seeks habeas corpus and review, arguing lack of jury trial, denial of counsel, and failure to waive statutory sentencing delay. Judge Donlan orders Sheriff Henderson to bring Vacetti to court to show cause next Tuesday.
New York January 29 Roger Donoho aged eight year old painter died at home after a few hours illness. He painted landscapes including La Marcellerie which hung in a Paris salon and is now at the Brooklyn Museum of Arts and Sciences. Donoho earned prizes at Paris, Columbian and Panama-Pacific exhibitions.
In an interview relayed by the Morning Post from Budapest, Prof Elselbers reports King Constantine’s wound from an old rib removal operation lingers due to political anxiety. The Vienna surgeon notes Constantine, popular with the army, remains powerless against Venizelos influence while German pressure shifts alignments toward the Entente.
Astrological reading warns of both benevolent and adverse planetary influences. Mentions rising mental activity and potential public action on crimes toward women and children. Notes anxiety for New York mayor and political money troubles. Also reports Thomas Carey of Anaconda filed for bankruptcy with assets of 253 and liabilities of 3877.
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