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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1923
Page
2
Medical chemists report a breakthrough substance that quickly renews vigor by energizing nerves and glands. Korex compound from Melton Laboratories is offered in double strength for home use with a money back guarantee if no results in one week. Mail order to Kansas City with $2 or send name and pay on delivery.
Six Philadelphia prisoners escaped by smuggling a ladder inside a cedar chest made in the carpentry shop. They climbed the wall, overpowered guards, and escaped in a stolen car and a truck, with one attempt to seize a closed auto thwarted. Several hours later they rode into Ogden Delaware delivering more crime including a $200 robbery.
The essay extols Montana as America’s grand playground and urges nationwide vacation travel by car. It argues travel renews vigor, boosts national spirit, and promotes Western tourism, noting Montana’s growing roadways, the Yellowstone and park-to-park routes, and projected visitor growth. It envisions economic gains from tourist traffic and praises Butte Anaconda highway progress while acknowledging taxpayer burdens.
A Chicago dairy sells chocolate flavored milk in pint and half pint bottles. Gypsum buttons are made from powdered gypsum and reputed durable. Washington DC holds the nation’s largest per capita street tree population. Haitian rural districts use iron kettles for outdoor cooking. Algeria’s long distance telephone service is slow with mail often preferred. Sheffield cutlery manufacture wanes with stainless knives selling poorly. The Lord Mayor of London receives a $40,000 annual allowance and Mansion House use.
Chicago July 14 Roger Hornsby of the St Louis Cardinals leads the National League batting list with .381 average, just ahead of Zack Wheat of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The report notes Hornsby’s hot stretch against Boston, six games yielding 17 hits with three homers, while Jacques Fournier has dropped to third at .378. Babe Ruth nears top place with a .878 mark, and Harry Heilmann remains at .400 leading the league in average. Ruth also leads in home runs with 20 and total bases with 184, while Eddie Collins has 97 steals. Other leaders include Roush .371, Frisch .363, and O’Farrell .361.
A fatal rail crash near Guatemala City on July 14 left many dead as two trains collided on the line to Puerto Barrio. An auxiliary train administered first aid to numerous injured passengers.
Mr and Mrs Robert Kinkaid of McKeesport Pennsylvania are visiting their cousins Mr and Mrs August Betzler at 1130 Nevada Avenue for a few weeks.
Holbrook Blinn ends tour for The Bad Man and will begin a film adaptation. Edwin Carewe chosen to direct the picture in recognition of his work on Mighty Lak a Rose and Girl of the Golden West.
Tulsa Oklahoma July 14 J F Prothero band leader and J F Reichle theatrical manager announced they telegraphed Jack Kearns offering 500000 for a Dempsey Firpo fight to be staged in Tulsa on Labor day One oil millionaire has agreed to provide 200000 of the amount and the name was not disclosed
A fire at the Hecla mining district in Burke and Mace Idaho destroyed the town area with 1.5 million dollars in damage. Hecla Mining Co and property owners began debris removal while work to rebuild the mine plant is expected to take several months. Fire officials report no loss of life though two mules died and miners on the 1000 foot level escaped to safety. Electric lines to Burke were restored but pumping may be delayed by heat. Looting reported as merchants and residents scrambled to salvage what they could.
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