This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 13 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1927
Page
10
Fragmentary ad copy touts a beauty wax promising skin restoration. It claims the product absorbs old skin and removes freckles blemishes, revealing soft tinted skin and youthful loveliness within a few days.
Deer Lodge saw a calm Fourth of July as planned events were canceled due to other attractions. Many residents traveled to Missoula for events while others fished trout streams, with excellent catches reported and no local accidents recorded.
Deer Lodge July 4 reports from Powell county flock masters state that shearing is finished with about 90 percent of the million pound clip sold or shipped East. The total clip is near 1,000,000 pounds of excellent quality at 32 to 35 cents per pound, averaging slightly lower than last season.
The body of Edwin Hirst, 30, killed in Los Angeles while attempting to board a street car, arrived in Deer Lodge with his brother J W Hirst. Funeral will be Tuesday at St James Episcopal, interment in Hillcrest cemetery. Hirst, born in Deer Lodge, was a former Missoula state university forestry student and Sigma Nu member.
Basin July 3 news notes visitors and trips. Kermit Thurston of Houston and Pat Hogan of Butte stop at T. J. Connor home en route to Neihart for summer. Van Werham returns from Washington on Basin business. Henry and Mrs. Loisele return from Butte after days visiting. Todd and Mrs. Grosier and children head to Missoula for the Fourth with friends. Death of A McLeod in Los Angeles noted. burial in Butte. Mrs. McLeod is mother of Mrs. August Grunert of Basin. Vernett Simmons leaves for Washington after a visit at the Detour. A. B. Loiselle and Adeline Loiseile visit Boulder. Harry Sayre and wife travel to Helena for business.
James Stewing and a mass were married by Rev. Father Landry in Deer Lodge. Attendants Verne Harpoole and Miss Joanna Downey, both from Deer Lodge, were present at the ceremony.
Preparations are nearly complete for the Anaconda-Butte Camp Fire Girls Summer camp at Georgetown Lake. Registration opens tomorrow at the Washer Goat company office in Anaconda and the Chamber of Commerce building in Butte. The camp runs July 10 for four weeks under Miss Marie Coney and will host about 128 girls and 20 counselors. Authorities report updated facilities include a new dining room, three wells, three rowboats, a tennis court, eight large sleeping tents, a nursing camp, and council headquarters. Instruction will cover archery, tennis, handcraft, rowing, and swimming with Oscar Dahlberg leading swimming, A. Philips in charge of swimming instruction, and Bert Foster Will as camp superintendent. Miss Laurene Black assists Miss Codge. About 25 Anaconda girls are expected to register, with roughly 100 from Butte, Philipsburg, and Sheridan.
Anaconda plans a city university alumni club with a clubhouse sought from a residence. Membership will be resident alumni, modeled after college fraternal groups, offering social events and dances to keep costs low. Invitations go out for opening dance at Washoe Park Pavilion with Claude Kiff’s Winter Garden orchestra.
Independence Day passed with little celebration in Anaconda as rain and city rules kept displays down. Locals sought refuge in resorts and parks while a Buick coupe crash near Flint Creek Hill injured a Butte pair, traveling toward Philipsburg for medical care after witnesses cited speed and slick roads as causes. An airplane line between Cairo and Capetown is being planned.
Samuel D. Gary Garretson, age 71, an Anaconda resident for over 30 years, died at St. Ann's Hospital after a lingering illness. He once ran a saloon and later worked at the A. C. M. smelter. Survived by two sisters in Pennsylvania and a wife in Joliet, Illinois. Funeral arrangements pending relatives. The Helena diocese bishop elect, Rev. George Finnigan, will be consecrated August 1 at Notre Dame and installed August 18 in Helena Cathedral, with banquet at Mount St. Charles and a reception that evening at Mount St. Charles gym. Monsignor Day will visit for the late Rev. Coopman’s will. Also notes four municipal electric light companies in London and Germany scuttled a plan to tax gasoline for automobiles.
Fred Braus of Anaconda won second place in the sixth grade division of the Helena Diocese third annual contest in Christian doctrine held in May. He was the sole Anaconda student to place in the sixth seventh and eighth grade categories. The event was announced by Mon Signor Victor Day of Helena. A first edition of Gulliver Travels recently sold for 2600 dollars.
Funeral details for Noonan Rove set for 8:30 AM Tuesday from the Rome home of Mr and Mrs Timothy Cordial 700 East Park Avenue to St Peter church with a requiem high mass and interment at St Patrick's cemetery Butte. Also notes Jona Charles Bevine beloved son of Mr and Mrs Charles Bevine and a Prince funeral awaiting relatives' word with time and place to follow.
Fifty years ago few occupations were open to women and most worked as teachers nuns aid workers or in homes. Today women hold roles in factories and in professions such as law dentistry and politics. Elizabeth Chamberlain of Trenton New Jersey notes she gained health benefits from Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound after factory work and invites questions from other women seeking better health.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.