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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1923
Page
9
More than 600 clerks in Butte departments and various establishments took a half holiday yesterday afternoon under a new agreement with employers and the clerks union. Stores closed at 1 pm for the first time in the citys history, with groceries and butchers remaining open. Clerks will take time off at other periods during the week.
Nauen Germany saw wireless telegraphy flash 51139 words in a single day setting new records. About 35000 words went to the United States with the rest mainly to Spain Italy Russia and Egypt. The bulk of the traffic was handled at Nauen and the Eilwesen station.
New York reports Shelby Mont aims to float a 150000 to 200000 dollar bond issue to cover extraordinary expenses from the Fourth of July celebration including the Dempsey Gibbons fight. Officials and local businessmen deny any such underwritten bonds plan, noting a separate 175000 dollar contract for sidewalks water and sewer work not tied to bonds.
H J Wiegenstein commissioner of public works in Butte announces the sale of old horse drawn water wagons as the city shifts to gasoline propelled units. The sale duty is assigned to Wiegenstein with some wagons likely to be sold to smaller Montana cities.
Funeral services will be held Monday morning at 9 from 312 West Copper Street for Judge Conan Shea former justice of the peace in Butte and a leader in Miners' union affairs. Requiem high mass follows at St Patrick's at 9 30 with burial in Holy Cross cemetery. The funeral is expected to attract many old-time mining industry figures due to his prominence in union and political affairs.
Workmen ready for plastering the Finlen hotel on Broadway and Wyoming, with over 80 men on site, while the largest new structures rise. The Masonic temple steel work should finish in about three weeks, contractor J T Hahn says. France to extend trade aims to send La Belle France on a voyage to South American ports with a French products exhibit from Dunkirk.
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