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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1920
Page
2
Helena Jan 29 The state highway commission asks all Montana road contractors to a capitol meeting in late February to explain highway specifications and their significance. The session aims to ensure contractors understand this year s specifications adopted by the commission.
Martin Golden, Miles City police chief, is named defendant in a $10,000 damage suit filed by Henry T. Baldwin, a local newswriter. Baldwin says he sought a police report on January 20, was told to obtain a court order, and was assaulted by Golden later that afternoon at police headquarters after a newspaper story appeared.
Don’t stay stuffed up quit blow and snuffling with Papes Cold Compound. Take a dose every two hours until three doses. It opens blocked nostrils stops runny nose relieves headache dullness feverishness sneezing and stiffness. Inexpensive quick relief with no quinine and tastes nice. Insist on Papes.
Louis W. Hill, chairman of the Great Northern board and son of James J. Hill, said he will retire from active management shortly after the railroad is restored to private ownership. Ralph Budd will direct management. Hill will trim staff and shift focus to Hill banking and ore interests as reorganizing plans unfold. Parkhouse, the secretary and former assistant chairman, will retire.
The article argues Venus could support life due to cloud cover reflecting heat and water vapor allowing vegetation. It compares Venus to Earth and Mars, noting Venus’s size proximity to the sun, and posits Venus more likely to carry life and possibly signals from space.
The report notes railway workers oppose wage reductions with 10 men citing a $750 monthly foreign worker as possible but requiring 14 hours daily. Wages rose about 45 percent while living costs grew 90 percent. Gompers defends unions, arguing strikes prevent crises and that suppressing worker aspirations undermines democracy.
In Spokane Washington a downtown fire station was converted into an emergency hospital as eight firemen sick with influenza were treated and apparatus moved to another station. A skating rink building was repurposed for care with 84 new cases today, 307 total. Three deaths from ordinary pneumonia. no deaths from influenza pneumonia.
Washington January 29 figures from the bureau of labor statistics show a rise of 50 to 200 percent in retail prices for principal food staples and from 70 to over 200 percent in wholesale prices over the past six years.
Stockholm dispatch states General Yudeniteh sought to flee with a large sum from the northwest army. He was arrested by order of the army provost. His aide de camp tried to defend him with a revolver but was disarmed.
Mrs. Small cites meager pay from $80 a month for country teachers and $120 for city teachers, with summers and trainings required. She notes country schools lack proper lighting, water, heating, and accessibility, while boards in Basin Creek and nearby districts fail to meet standards, urging higher salaries to attract qualified teachers.
Born to Mr and Mrs Almond Jose a daughter at 911 Faucett street Jan 27 and a son born to Mr and Mrs John Madden 627 South Wyoming street City Engineer J Strasburger and Mrs Strasburger confined with influenza Continental Oil seeks permits to open a gasoline station at Silver and Montana A J Bruett Milwaukee representative dies in Butte hotel room pneumonia He and wife and young son arrived in Butte last Saturday Bruett 30 home Milwaukee Republican city central committee to meet tonight at 8 to fill vacancies and select poll workers
A Moscow wireless report says the north west Russian army is ordered disbanded and the first Astrakhan Cossack regiment has surrendered to Bolshevists. There is no evacuation of Moscow, and rumors of plague outbreak or a Reds revolt are denied.
Beverly Bayne and Francis X. Bushman drew crowds to a Broadway show sponsored by Oliver Morosco. Bushman’s portrayal of the Avenger impressed. Bayne also performed well in her legitimate stage debut alongside Nora Fuller-Ryan Grace Peters and cast members Camp McKee Warder. The production is repeated tonight with strong advance sales.
In Budapest on Wednesday January 28, three communists were executed, raising the total to 27. Pergovic and Therbo, red guards, followed Bela Kun orders and killed two Ukrainian officers and stole gold before discarding the bodies in the Danube. Ladislas Szamuely, a wealthy communist-affiliated judge, kept a three-car express train ready to transport anti Bolshevists to death, with 42 illegal executions charged against him.
Halifax Nova Scotia January 29 Inhabitants of Southwestern Newfoundland face famine due to severe winter along the Reid Newfoundland railway routes Captain Pettipas and Captain Shaw reported upon returning home Their schooners Itasca and Cecil L Beck were frozen at North Bay Villages from North Bay to Votaux Basques report dwindling flour supplies as railway ice and snow block traffic for weeks They called conditions appalling and warned replenishment is unlikely.
At Topeka Kansas the Kansas republicans held their annual love feast banquet and named Salina as the convention city for March 21. Representative Frank Reavis of Nebraska blamed war department waste and the export of food to France for the high cost of living, claiming millions of dollars of foodstuffs were allowed to spoil while supplies bought at peak prices were sold abroad at discounts.
The Florida Republican committee in Palatka endorses Senator Lodge in the treaty fight and nominates Judge John D. Cheney of Orlando for the Senate seat held by Democrat Duncan A. Fletcher, whose term ends in March 1921. George E. Gay of Palatka is nominated for governor. Joseph Lee of Jacksonville elected state committee secretary.
The allied military mission in Stockholm on January 29 protested to the Esthenian government about the arrest of General Yudenlich. The protest emphasized concern over the treatment and legality of his detention and called for clarification of charges and immediate release if unwarranted.
Belgium rapidly rebuilds trade with the United States according to Commerce Department figures for the first nine months of 1919. Imports include iron and steel products, machinery, lumber, and food, while meat and dairy exports to Belgium total nearly 96 million dollars. Strong rail and transport equipment purchases signal regrowth after war destruction. Belgians seek to restore factories and industry, with substantial orders for lathes and machine tools.
A fire after an explosion at the Naugatuck Chemical company plant in Naugatuck Connecticut tonight caused an estimated 50,000 dollars in damage. No one was believed to be inside the building at the time of the blast.
Patent medicine ad advises taking Laxative Brom Quinine tablets to stop cough and headache from a cold. Mentions E W Grove signature on each box and a price of 30 cents.
The document lists figures for operating revenue and expenses across multiple lines, including total operating revenue of 63 932 40 and total operating expense per car mile. It references miles of road operating and number of revenue cars, with per car and mile metrics.
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