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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1901
Page
4
M B Hendricks returns from Carlisle county Kentucky after a 14 year absence. He notes a transformed South with reduced sectional tensions, improved finances, and expanded industry including mule and horse breeding, and northern capital aiding resource development.
The passage lauds timber industry profits and wages, noting timber landowners enjoy good prices and that poverty is absent in the region. It describes wagon spokes, barrel staves, and hardwood ware as finished products and claims feuds and moonshiners are relics of the past as the new South advances with the younger generation embracing progress and prosperity.
Train schedules list two round trips from Anaconda to Butte with passenger fares of 1.50 and 1.00. The 11:15 a.m. departure from Anaconda includes track admission for the race track, while the 6:40 p.m. return from Butte includes admission to the Butte Athletic association cycle track. Tickets on sale daily only on the specified trains.
Trains run each evening at 7 30, 8 and after 8 30 to Mountain View Park. A high class vaudeville show offers admission of 10 cents with boat riding and dancing.
City Engineer E H McDonald faced ridicule after showing his $89 saddled horse at City Hall. The creature bucked and balked, then sprang forward with odd leaps before McDonald finally dismounted. A jesting crowd offered tips as the animal performed an awkward display.
Choice of 41 pieces of suitings at 17.50 a suit. Custom tailoring to your order with finished garments. Thueson located at 504 B Park offers made up as you wish.
Sunday school and parish picnic planned by St. Peter's at Mountain View park. Train departs 9 30 a m and returns 5 30 p m. All members and friends invited.
D. H. Johnson, an A. C. M. telephone inspector, fell from a treetop while cutting a pole near Cable. The axe severed his safety strap, sending him to the ground five feet below. He was treated at St. Ann's Hospital for a dislocated arm and bruises. He resides with his wife at 417 Oak Street, Anaconda.
Jack Lafontise arrives from Butte and faces Dummy Rowan at Turner hall for the Montana heavyweight title. Both fighters are in prime condition and backers expect a decision for Lafontise. Two preliminaries precede the main event with a large crowd planned from Butte aboard a special train.
Application filed with the district court clerk for admin of Kate Murray estate. The deceased died in Mainville from morphine overdose. Petitioner is sister Mary Marchant. Heir of law is Delia Farley of San Francisco. Estate includes 17 dollars cash and a 114 dollar certificate of deposit.
Weather in Anaconda brings a warm eastern style surge with frequent storms and lightning. Citizens praise the weather man while noting minimal damage to poles and occasional lightning injuries, and ranchers report better valley vegetation after heavy rains. The telegraph, fishing interests, and local optimism rise as the city anticipates continued improvement.
An old advertisement promotes Dr. Sanford's Liver Invigorator as the best liver medicine and vegetable cure for liver ills biliousness indigestion constipation malaria, attributed to Billourness Indiana.
Charley Demurrer, a full blooded Indian, was found guilty of stealing 200 pounds of copper from the Anaconda company. He received 15 days in county jail, deemed light to avoid branding him as a tool of white men. The trial featured testimony from a junk dealer and remarks by County Attorney Duffy on possible white accomplices. Demurrer, 60, spoke clearly and pledged an honest life, asserting no prior arrests.
Deposqual the Italian who stabbed Rossi in the city on July 4 is arraigned before Justice of the Peace Quane and will enter a plea at 10 o clock. He claims Rossi was the aggressor and fled to the hills after the incident. Rossi says he was stabbed for asking money owed him.
The readable parts list scattered times from morning to midnight with repeated references to am and pm. Names and places are unreadable, and the fragment ends with repetitive tokens like Works and works.
Small additional cost includes sleeping car berths on steamers and all meals en route. Call on agents for details or write W. R. Callaway G. P. A. Minneapolis Minn.
Fragmented OCR shows multiple times listed for Eric Down and TE Fyaa with inconsistent “New” markers. Reads like a timetable or travel schedule with morning and afternoon slots, but without clear context or dates.
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