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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1902
Page
3
The West End Sluggers beat the Nine Star team 6 to 4 in a spirited juvenile baseball game. Both squads featured top young players and delivered a close, high energy contest that thrilled onlookers.
Rumors say August Swensen the Big Hole miner disappeared in the hills near Georgetown after leaving Anaconda to sample an abandoned mine. The trail is thought to be vanished, fueling calls for search and investigation as officials weigh foul play theories and seek concrete evidence of his fate.
Anaconda Eagles and Butte aerie members led a parade to Mountain View park drawing nearly 2000 attendees. The afternoon featured athletic contests, dances, boating, fireworks, and prizes including a tug of war won by Anaconda Eagles and top prizes in dances and foot races. The event was well organized with trains by the railroad handling crowds efficiently.
Street commissioner Jack McLaughlin of Butte visits Anaconda with Eagles officials but refuses a complimentary carriage ride. He explains he wants to study how a big city keeps its thoroughfares, declining the offered conveyance and leaving others to fill the transport.
The Lake Shore Limited trains from Chicago to New York are advertised as the fastest long distance service. The 12:30 p.m. daily departure arrives Grand Central at 9:30 a.m. next day, about 20 hours, and the Lake Shore Limited from Chicago at 5:30 p.m. reaches New York the following day at 6:30 p.m. Contact points include W. R B. Hutter in St Paul and C. F. Daly in Chicago for passenger inquiries.
The Kansas City Star notes that recent rains have encouraged rank weeds across vacant lots, sidewalks, and streets. It laments the city authorities delaying the annual weed-control fight and urges mowing down the unsightly growth as a essential street department duty this season.
A long list of names appears, including men and women with various surnames such as Bechtel Boyle Bowman Camps Lar ance Coury Daly Gallag her Gillespie Harrigan Henzler Hyver Hunt Jacobson Kehoe Kimball Latvell Murphy Molly Mackin Marsh Edwards Davis Johnson Sellers McGuire McDonald McKengzie Brown Clauson Edwards Williams Nelson Sicker Stone White Wilson Young and many others. The fragment resembles a roster or directory likely from a local issue.
A sale of household furniture begins today at 2 o'clock p.m. at 154g Main Street. The items include all categories of household goods offered for bidding.
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