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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1914
Page
11
A scrambled tale about cousins Charles and Frank visiting grandparents in a forest setting. The text blends imagined wild beasts, robbers, and a boy who climbs mountains and cooks over a fire, interspersed with disjointed fragments about petitions, safekeeping, and a governor’s seal, yielding a dated public notice tone.
An 1910s district court notice warns of land claim expenditures in Georgetown mining district Deer Lodge Montana and probate of William A. Ralston estate set for July 29 1914. In a separate vignette two boys Frank and Charles hike to a cave fish by a lake cook over a fire then sleep en route home as their grandfather arrives with supper and a hunter tale closes the scene.
In Chicago on July 16, A Dabone was found suffocated with a handkerchief bearing skull and cross bones. His feet were tied with rope, pockets turned inside out, and the gag left as the handkerchief. Detectives could not determine whether robbery or revenge motivated the crime.
From the New York Press a report details Prussia's system of compulsory labor for idlers, sparking a conflict with Bavaria over extradition. Bavarian officials resist, while Prussia detains about 40,000 untried idlers in guarded labor homes across seven states. Experts estimate up to 100,000 tramps nationwide.
Washington July 16 President Wagon suffered a slight indigestion and canceled engagements. He planned two conferences with New York businessmen and had intended meetings with congressmen on patronage questions. St Louis July 16 The first run since May 29 brought fifty victims amid heat distress.
Standard announces a one cent per word rate for classified ads, with branches in Butte and Anaconda handling notices as if sent to the main office. Listings show multiple drug stores across districts including Butte east side Granite and Alabama, O Leary's Talbot Avenue, South Butte pharmacies, Wilson's Morrison Avenue, Walkerville Daly Street, Centerville North Main, and a Centerville address at 938.
Employment offices in Silver Bow advertise help for all descriptions in short notice. Listings include female employment in office and lodging, automobile repair training, civil engineering surveying, and felt positions secured with guaranteed satisfaction. National School of Engineering offers a free catalogue. Single reliable man sought for hotel steam heating plant duties.
A trio of early 20th century want ads seeks a female helper for hotel bath attendant duties with massage and nursing knowledge at Alhambra Hot Springs hotel in Cambra Mont. Another notice calls for an experienced girl for cooking and general housework at 15 Excelsior Ave. A third advert asks for a girl for general housework mornings at 827 W Park Butte.
DYEING AND CLEAN PARISIAN DYEHOUSE-FRENCH yeing and cleaning: satisfaction guar anteed. Tel. 616. WW. Galena, Butt ED-TO RENT E-ROOM UNFUR ished strictly model house or flat s with good lawn and Yard: steam heat pre ferred. Call A. J. White, Ind. phone 20, 'But WANTED -TO BUY GROOM MODERN house, and location Address Box 25, snaconda,
Several classifieds present sale listings including a 499 acre Montana stock ranch near White Sulphur Springs with fenced land buildings and water, offered at 12 500 per acre. A two story brick six room house on Colorado Street with easy terms. A cheap moveable room house inquiry in Utah. A rent sale for a lot MC 410 W Sixth Anaconda. 0 acres near Anaconda with 67 acres bench land and balance meadow offered by Bullivan Peterson Anaconda.
Classified notes offer a $69 new Plano at half price from W Galena Butte for city departure arrangements. Also advertised is a Western Junior elevating trader used 10 days via G M 3 care Stand rd Anaconda. Ranch eggs ordered for delivery twice weekly from Sunnyside Poultry Parm 61 W Park Butte with two phone numbers.
A clipped column shows multiple classified items including vehicles, furniture, and room rentals. Entries mention a Cadillac and Buick combination vehicle, W Oscar Dior electric sight starter, Michelin tires, and a range of furniture for sale or wanted. Also includes room reservation notice at Montana Wesleyan University Mills Hall and a lost watch reward notice.
A garbled collage of sale notices and business opportunities from Butte to Lewistown Montana offers a range of items. Purchases include a rooming house, barber shop, garage and machine shop share, billiard room, and a barden shop. Potential investors and buyers are urged to contact post office box addresses and local phone listings for details.
Butte area advertisement selling laying hens and hatch pullets. 1 year old comb white hens, 9 March hatch, 300 head available. Contact Dorsh & Greenfeld at 1216 N Alabama or Woolman in Butte for details.
For Salem Livestock items include several horses and harness, inquiries at 215 Anaconda road Ingle Delivery Horse listed for sale at 1.3 pounds. Also cow and calf for sale quick cash or trade paid for quartz and placer mines. Addresses: Wanks at Standard office 37S Main Butte. Las Mad Poodle Parlors, Short order cafe.
Fragmented classified style item list notes loans on real estate security and real estate rentals. Mentions include Sliver Bow Furniture Bank Phoenix Butte goodale bros assayers and chemists Moore Morley Thomas Co and partners in Butte Helena Montana rentals between 1 and 3 PM and a four room flat for rent with furnishings.
Classified rental brief notes show several room and small house listings in Butte and Anaconda. Entries mention furnished and unfurnished options, multiple addresses including Summit Street Butte Elm Anaconda and references to cheap single rooms and a large chicken house with contact phone details.
Classified notice lists rental options including a forward suite with private bath and furnished rooms. Mentions Alice W. Granite in Butte. Includes multiple terse lines about suites of rooms and furnished accommodations.
Numerous entries list furnished housekeeping rooms and suites for rent in Butte, including locations on Copper, West Copper, Second Street, Park, Dakota, Second, and Columbia. Ads emphasize modern, neat, and reasonably priced arrangements.
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