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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1915
Page
7
An old advertisement touts Dr Morse's Extract of Sarsaparilla as a cure for pimples and skin eruptions, claiming impure blood disturbs the body and urging purchase of one bottle for $1 or five bottles for $5 from Newbro Drug Company Butte, shipped on payment.
A July fifth celebration in the Boulevard area issued a corrective statement denying beer was served at the luncheon. The event was led by local residents, not the Boulevard fire department, with refreshments of sandwiches coffee ice cream and watermelons. Commodore Boyle of the Grand Army spoke and Fred Tusher served as marshal.
A message mentions possible heirs to a large Ireland estate. An attorney in Paris requests information on relatives of George Love, who died recently in Ireland. The letter notes relatives of the deceased may reside in major Montana cities, but provides no specifics.
Catholic field day activities unfold at the gardens with a Gaette football game at 2 o clock. Parishes and women from Catholic schools prepare booths serving ice cream fruit punch and refreshments. Committees from St Patrick Saint Mary Sacred Heart Immaculate Conception St Joseph St Lawrence Holy Savior and other groups organize athletic events and support staff and officers listed.
Forty Hoosier school teachers and bankers with Judge Dan Wall spent a day in Butte on the last leg of a 30 day journey from Tipton Indiana led by C F Patterson superintendent of Tipton schools. They arrived at 10 o'clock on a Milwaukee line chartered car for a tour of Walkerville Lake Avoca gardens and the Leonard surface works before leaving for home in the evening.
A 1915 horoscope warns of financial strains and stock depreciation amid planetary conjunctions in the tenth house. It foresees railway accidents, sea losses, hospital fires, uprisings in Lisbon, and government scandals in Great Britain and the United States. The piece predicts political and military shifts, promotions, marriages, and a volatile year ahead with notable public upheaval.
Deputy sheriffs Brinton and Dell conducted a raid on Union Hall following complaints about proprietors selling drink on Sundays. Officers entered the premises and arrested the proprietor and bartender as patrons reportedly drank and paid. The operation disrupted drinking routines and drew attention to ongoing enforcement efforts in the town.
Under Sheriff N.7. Scully from Dillon reports his pair of four year old geldings abducted from their barn. A jet black horse and a dark bay with a white star were last seen with clipped foremanes, about 1200 pounds each. A $50 reward is offered for information leading to arrest and conviction. local deputies assist Silver Bow countywide.
Readers learn the courthouse thermometer, long biased by sun and vandalism, has vanished. Mercury leaked out in chunks after months of fooling those checking the reading, leaving only erratic remnants that sometimes showed extreme temps. The instrument was removed last week and may be replaced by a working unit later.
A clergyman in a large eastern city comments on a morally wholesome motion and endorses screening The Cup of Life as part of Sunday morning viewing. The Cup of Life will be presented at the Ansonia theater today, tomorrow, and Wednesday in five parts.
A lively stage comedy spoofing Civil War loyalties and the North South divide. Fred J. Beaman’s satire features Downey and company in brisk character acting at the Sullivan and Considine Empress theater this week.
The scene shows a former husband learning a son was born and that he was thought dead. Like Enoch Arden, he returns to find his wife remarried and his son had died at ten. Pat mourns wife and son yet remains a stranger, exiting as his wife remains ignorant. The playlet blends humor with a bittersweet ending.
A quirky historical note claims England’s mint once operated under Italian management. In Canada, the Canadian Pacific railroad has ordered a fence 7,000 miles long, the world’s longest. An ambitious plan proposes a jump path crossing the railway from Malitax to Vancouver.
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