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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1914
Page
7
Joseph Jefferson starred as Rip Van Winkle for 25 years and our silver line follows a single role of excellence. We concentrate on top manufacturers, study taste, and discard lines not meeting grace, utility, and worth. Our selection aims to appeal to all, offering broad choice to customers.
A jittery patch of notes lists local residents, visitors, and travel. Names include Dr Cash the dentist, Jomnaon of Laurin, McGuire from Red Lodge, Nogere of Sappington, Lisa Pranaje, Dive A Shore from Anaconda, and B E Lambert from Coeur d Alene. Geary and Emmett Maniey host guests in town. Thornton, De Hart state warden, visited from the capital. A mix of business trips and social calls fills the week as locals and neighbors call on friends, shops, and services in Butte.
The Empress theater headlines a strong program featuring Mark Linder Site with Martin Somers in a striking act, The Criminal playlet, the Jackson family cycling troupe, Al Espe and Pau juggling artillery and comedy, Bert Baiton and Lucille LaTour in The Scotch Brigade, AL H. Burton and Dave Lerner as The Melba and Ca Fuso of vaudeville, plus The Empreascope newsreels and Lyle Bishop Orchestra delivering fresh numbers. Main springs, $1, watch cleaning ad, 3130 Maver, West Park.
Miss Jeannette Rankin reports a forged interview in which President Anna Shaw of the National Suffrage Association supposedly said marriage is outlived and should be obliterated. Shaw states no such interview occurred before or after her Europe trip and condemns garbled reports as false. She emphasizes marriage as a sacred, personal institution and opposes any forced obedience in wedlock.
The Clothery offers a broad shirt selection with guaranteed quality. Throughout the month or until gone, shirts priced at 2.00, 2.50, 3.00 and 3.50 are offered at 1.50 each, urging early purchases for best value.
A speaker argues that many marriages fail because they are built on wealth or status rather than affection, which they deem the only true basis for a lasting union. The remark emphasizes affection as essential to worthy marriage.
Miss Katherine Blake daughter of J san Devereaux-Blake of New York City travels to Montana to speak for woman suffrage. She is a principal in a New York public high school and noted scholar and educator. She will enter Montana at Culverison on the Great Northern railway and speak along the route to Great Falls Kalispell Glacier Park and po ta. She plans to meet teachers in Culbertson July 14 and speak at open air meetings as she journeys through the state.
News of the Farms reports pioneer Montana farmer and newspaperman J. B. Farris died after an operation at Sacred Heart hospital in Spokane. An impacted wisdom tooth caused sepsis leading to his death. Farris, long active in Republican politics, published in Libby and lived in Butte earlier. Surviving are his widow, mother, brother John Wallace, five sons J B Tem Hubert Thomas, and three daughters Mildred Marie Dorothy. Funeral planned in Presbyterian Church in Libby.
The Ansonia bills an educated colored troupe led by Thomas J Culligan, offering plantation songs, dances, and humor to elevate Negro character. A special street parade and band concert accompany nightly showings at 7 o'clock. The program also features The Toll and The Billionaire three reel features promising thrills and laughs.
The Thanhouser serial drama Million Dollar Mystery plays at the American Theater, shown Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, with the film highlighting New York history, customs, and prominent sights. Local audiences are reminded to catch the evolving episode each week.
The dancing people of Butte praise Prof W J Ryan as the best teacher they have met. They warn new dances taught by him are faster than any previously taught. The regular dances will be held tonight at 8:90. An advertisement notes a proattatiee party is alive and good speech should be heard at the conference.
In Spokane district court Judge HL Le Kennan granted a divorce to Volney Williamson after denying Mrs Mabel Williamson’s critics and allowing editions to the decree. The case cites cruelty and desertion with references to alleged associations with men in New York and California. Williamson Sr valued at $800,000, wife at $170,000 with debts $250,000. he was said to seek cancer treatment in New York.
The Federal Mining Company earned 220000 dollars in the Coeur d'Alene district for the quarter ended May 31, beating dividend requirements by about 44000. The Morning mine at Mullan Idaho, a major property, halted operations around May 20 to install the Callow flotation process, expected to raise savings materially.
This morning at 10:30 o clock testimony will resume in the coroner s inquiry into the shooting of Ernest J Noy on June 3 during anti Moyer demonstrations in front of the Butte Miners union hall Seventeen witnesses are listed and the session may extend beyond the day s testimony The inquiry was adjourned last Saturday to accommodate City Attorney Mackel and the union attorney Previous hearings yielded conflicting evidence about who fired the fatal shot and no names are expected to be produced today The federation plans a regular meeting at the Auditorium while voting on a proposed constitution and by laws will be postponed until July 19 The federation headquarters in the Lewisown block remained closed as canvassing for supporters continues and leaders predict 150 members by month end
A long hotel arrivals roster lists numerous guests and their origins from New York to Denver. Names include Johnson, Dillon, Hruckel, Fitzhatuck, McPherrin, Hastman, Erving, Winchell, Hammond, Delrey, Smith, Randall, Seeger, Hines, Barstow, McDowall, Thomson, Breede, Wilson, Mitchell, White, Holton, Randall, Hibbard, Clayton, Moore, Lodge, Davis, Klebi, Lambert, Murdock, and many others across Montana, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, and beyond.
A miner named Alexander Thoms, aged 90, was arrested near Covert and Broadway on charges of discharging firearms after a gray rock mine incident. The article also recounts a family dinner scene where a child is asked to subtract, with the answer “The dead one” framed as a cautionary anecdote amid truncated names and scattered local references.
The Butte Workingmen’s union and electricians press similar demands on wage scales for the new Milwaukee station, with the Anaconda locals also represented. A 85 day demand from electrical workers is noted, while miners’ union actions were not discussed.
A fragmented passage describes a man proposing to Edwides with a plea for marriage to protect her from danger. It mentions a railway company using Japanese coal to generate current for Manila and suburbs as a planned water power project.
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