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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1915
Page
9
At Columbia Gardens on Thursday afternoon Professor Odell will perform a balloon ascent and parachute drop for children. Odell, the aeronaut, previously failed to complete ascensions at the gardens last Monday. A decade ago at Wallace Idaho a parachute failed to open causing Odell 112 bone breaks, per surgeons.
The July 7 1915 horoscope warns of alternating good and bad influences from Uranus Mercury and Saturn with caution urged for all. It predicts possible disasters, political deaths in Britain, widespread throat illnesses, and public scandals, but also favorable times for new acquaintances, weddings, philanthropy, and artistic recognition as summer ends.
Movie magnate William Hi Swanson plans a Western tour to assess Butte and other sites as a Swanson circuit expands from Canadian to Mexican borders. He targets purchase of local houses and aims to book major productions directly, reducing exchange profits.
Officer Andrew N Wittman faces multiple charges alleging violations of police rules. He allegedly assigned his salary to a bank for months, was bankrupt, and sought pay for witness travel not on city business. Other accusations include firing a revolver at a moving car, insulting pedestrians, and habitual misdirection on the beat. The hearing is set before the police commission early next week.
A big day is expected at the Columbia gardens playgrounds tomorrow afternoon as children show enthusiasm for a new system of efficiency tests replacing last year's athletic schedule. Saturday’s outing drew many youngsters to practice, under Director Munsey who has new athletic work for the sport. British financier and coal producer arrived from London to oversee wartime munition purchases. J P Morgan & Co will continue government supply purchases. Carm N. consulate of New York, a banker and financial expert, died in Havana from stomach hemorrhages while aiding Cuban financial reform.
A serious blaze in Silver Ton Park damaged multiple frame buildings on Locust Street and nearby homes yesterday morning. Fire response came from outside the city due to no local water main, prompting hopes for a Silver How Park volunteer department and a petition to install a water main. Several residents, including Mrs Moran and Mrs Moore, narrowly escaped as flames reached nearby houses.
Deputy and sheriff officials reported a growing hole in the east wall of the old county jail, feared to widen enough by August to let the largest prisoner escape. Commissioners were told to patch the disintegrating bricks as a crack from top to foundation widened, with brick and mortar falling during the day.
Washington July 6 A interdepartmental committee named by Secretary of the Interior and Secretary of Labor is drafting a rural credits program to help unemployed workers take up farm land. The plan envisions a farm credit system under Labor with easy payment loans on public lands aided by the reclamation and agriculture departments. The administration expects action next winter after Congress reconvenes.
Chicago July 6 Christian P Care ney Bertsche longtime clairvoyant swindler was sent to Joliet penitentiary after conviction for defrauding Hope Le McEldewney of La Crosse Wis of 15500 and James Ryan received a similar indeterminate sentence Bertsche claimed a vast clairvoyant ring swindle totaling around 1000000 and implicated many others including police officers
Informations charging Rod Rodriguez and Gastlo Pruneda, Mexicans and former Madero army members, with carrying concealed weapons will be filed in the district court by County Attorney Matt Canhing. They were held on suspicion of burglarizing and shooting Attorney John A. Smith.
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