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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1914
Page
13
A novelist faces a twelve year sentence after the Society for the Prevention of a Good Time accuses him of keeping his hero and heroine alive at the book’s end. The fruit man has long been blamed for taking all the good strawberries atop the market, and he claims ignorance of the sail's address.
A feature declares a permanent panhandler a fixture of Butte streets. It describes a craftsman con artist using pity and tailored stories to target women, with men and women as marks. It quotes two panhandlers detailing earnings, methods, and travel, noting months of presence and the social psychology of begging.
Secretary Ta-John H. Rife of La Salle Street Trust and Savings Bank testified as chief witness in a grand jury probe into the bank’s affairs. Jurors reviewed bank minute entries showing directors planned a brief recess to seek a 1.25 million loan for capitalization and surplus, aiding Rife’s role as former chief bank examiner. James J. Brady alleges Calumet State Bank was controlled to advance the schemes of William Lorimer and C. B. Munday.
Indictments were filed today in the United States District court at Rochester against the Pennsylvania railroad the Northern Central railway the Delaware Lackawanna and Western railroad and the Delaware Lackawanna and Western coal company The four companies are liable to.
The PennsylvanIa Railroad faces charges for violating the commodities clause of the late commerce act. Railroads are barred from transporting goods they own for their own use. This marks a second criminal offense under the clause. Washington July 12 President Wilson discussed business conditions with Raphael Terman and Joseph Branch, noting support for anti trust legislation and improving business conditions.
The body of Capt. Clarence B. Owen of the United States Marine Corps, the first officer to die here from disease since the American occupation, was started on a voyage today. Transshipment details and various commodity quotes follow, with fluctuating figures for grain and other markets.
Portiana re ports steady market with mixed receipts for cattle hogs and sheep. Prime light and heavy cattle valued up to 9 006.65 per hundredweight with veal calves around 7 0 to 9 8 per cwt. Hogs up 2c from Saturday with primes near 8 30 and mids near 8 10 to 8 90. Sheep and yearlings show steady prices with wethers around 4 25 and yearlings near 5 00 per cwt. Receipts total 368 head for hogs and 1321 overall across categories.
Classified notes request a young lady seeking a companion position with room and board. A ranch cook job is sought by a woman for 1 or 2 men. rewards offered for lost items include checks, a horse marked H J, tan shoes on Main, and a bunch of keys.
Branch agency ads in the Standard fetch the same one cent per word rate as main office postings. Ads are telephoned to the Standard in Butte or Anaconda for prompt publication. Local drugstores listed: Henry's Pharmacy Butte, Runzler Drug Co 601 West Park, O'Leary's Talbot Ave, Walkerville Drug Co 1 West Daly, Centerville Drug Co 938 North Main.
A fragmentary description mentions daily or monthly listings and display changes in classified columns. The text references per inch pricing and line counts, with unclear terms like Sune wares and NY cuts, indicating a newspaper classified layout discussion.
Silver Bow Employment Company offers prompt supplies and services in Butte and nearby areas. The listing includes a Wyoming connection with Bell 177 Ind and 155 percent, plus PAMGONS Female Employment with phone 106 and address 211 North Mal.
For sale furniture including ferniture and curtains and miscellaneous items of a modern T-room mat in an excellent location at $98. Box 18 Standard Butte. Also a one room house for sale or rent with paying proposition. Phone 582 Butte. For sale furnished rooms on E Fourth in Anaconda.
Classified note seeks a man able to buy sell and repair goods in Butte. Also seeks an experienced girl for general housework and food service duties in Washington.
Multiple listings advertise houses in Walkerville and Butte with details on paint, fencing, rental prospects, and estate settlements. Also numerous sales of ranch land, Flathead and Anaconda properties, and a wide array of vehicles including motorbikes, cars, trucks, and horse equipment with prices and contact notes.
For rent in Bozeman Montana at Featherston block room 16. Manager busy with other business. Also listed: FOR SALE EXCELLENT house with full room garage and modern facilities. Knox let sale partial address box 1. ROOMING and modern location near Park Butte.
A fragmented Butte section lists multiple rental ads for modern two and three room flats on various streets including Broadway Morley Thomas Co and Parlin Mats. Also advertised are furnished rooms in flats near W Park and Owens, with contact times. The poultry sale items include White Leghorns Rhode Island Reds and Barred Rock hens with prices and farm names Sunnyside Poultry Farm care Brownfeld-Can y Co and Dorsh Greenfeld plus addresses 139 settings 13 eggs and 1268 N.
Ass Vers. Tout McCarthy and Rombeuer Assay Co. successors to Rombeuer Assay Co. at St Granite Butte. Lewis Walker assay and chemist NW Wyoming Butte Box 14 Thomas Buggy assayer and 1 Tenemist Goodall Bros assay chemists Helena 2 3 Main St.
Complete stock of dry goods ladies and children wear shoes notions and jewelry plus fancy and oriental goods all new and up to date. Local road business customers. Will sell due to selling fruit and can contact via room 10 19 E Park Butte between 1 and 9 pm. Partner wanted with $900 minimum return promised within 10 days. Grocery preferred. Box 1% Blancard Butte
Several rental notices list neatly furnished rooms and suites in Butte locations including 62 W Park, 318 W Broadway and nearby Granite area. Entries mention modern and newly furnished accommodations with bath facilities and shared spaces.
Numerous listings show furnished housekeeping rooms for rent in Butte and surrounding areas including 1B W Sixth, 127 W Silver, 216 W Quarts, and 108 Chicago. Ads list single rooms, suites, and housekeepers in houses and flats, with some indicating proximity to Anaconda and Butte streets.
Wanted highest price paid for furniture by Kopard Rand Company at 8 West Broadway Butte Montana. Also purchasing miscellaneous items and fresh milk from Standard Butte area. Contact Park Ind Tel 162 W. Broadway.
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