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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1902
Page
3
A condensed notice from the Daily Record detailing daily commercial and financial transactions across markets. It catalogues prices, rates, and notable exchanges, highlighting trends in trade and investment activity within the period.
Market notes show selling pressure and mixed gains amid volatile sessions. Rock Island rose briefly before retreating. gold movement and export talk supported some sectors while others sagged. Major rails and coal stocks moved with limited direction as traders weighed foreign demand and domestic yields.
The report details mixed trading across futures and cash markets as September wheat faced bearish pressure and pork supplies influenced by unsettled conditions. Professional traders tightened positions while buyers absorbed offerings. rains and weather expectations added to price swings, with cattle receipts and regional activity listed alongside several named firms and commodities.
James Cockrell, town marshal from Jackson, died after being shot from a courthouse window. His death inflames feud tensions in Breathitt county as friends fear extended warfare. A Jackson wholesale store was reportedly burned by incendiaries. Curt Jett is linked to Cockrell through a past shooting. Some demand state intervention. Harrisburg, Pasuywaliam Filer, a steel worker, killed his wife and a mechanic today in Steelton, allegedly over jealousy.
New reports indicate detectives have scoured the streets all night for former Captain Bradlee Strong, a warrant sworn by Mrs. Yohe against him remains active as authorities pursue leads and verify his whereabouts.
The notice page lists multiple want ads from Butte and nearby towns seeking workers and services. Positions include six good tie makers, two first class machinists, a grocery man, a maid or house worker, and general sales or agent roles. Real estate and for sale listings appear alongside.
In Port Gipson Wisconsin on July 22 Abe Deal was hanged for killing De Barge Miller Roth, two Black men. The father of the murdered boy witnessed the execution and the condemned man asked for forgiveness. The father replied, We forgive you.
A late 19th century page reports a harrowing family incident in Madisonville with a mother, Ellen Turley, killing her 4-year-old child and attempting to kill two other children, followed by land classification details for the Northern Pacific Railroad lands in Montana and Idaho. The text lists survey descriptions, protest procedures, and official notices under the 1895 land act, with references to commissioners, Exhibit A and B, and the secretary of the interior.
Advertisements offer newly papered, handsomely furnished rooms at reasonable prices in Butte. Listings include Oxford Corner Silver and Blain with modern conveniences, Broadway area options with steam heat and electric, Paragon on West Broadway, and Harvard block units. Rates and details vary by location and size.
Classified ad notices list furnished houses and rooms for rent across Anaconda and Butte with options for housekeeping, including 7-room cottages 2-room flats and cottages in various streets. Listings mention piano access, water in kitchen, modern facilities, and boarding house possibilities. Widespread contact via local agents Jackman & Armitage Co. Daly, and ad references to 219 W. Park Anaconda and 28 W. Galena Butte.
Fragmentary OCR text references Mose v Park in Butte Idaho and rooms listed with unclear context. The readable items show names and a potential case or venue but lack coherent facts to form a full report.
Classified fragment shows various listings including a call for a cheap private room or board in east end and references to services in Butte Montana. Names like J. i Wilmott and W. J. Christie appear with contact hints. The text also advertises carpet cleaning and a scavenger office with addresses in Butte.
Classified items list for sale including hats harness and horse gear pianos sewing machines and furniture. Includes items from Sherman Pi ano House Butte Minnas Batley A Mink and other addresses. Also mentions a phaeton driving horse and a single driving horse with various prices. Districts include Butte Anaconda and California with several contact points.
FOR SALE BAKERY ICH CREAST and confectionery parlor in Missoula Western Montana. best located in West ern Montana, doing big business, sold on account of lines of proprietor. Address 3M Higgins Ave Missoula. PARTNER WANTED IN EAT ARLISS Butte. LOANS ON CHATTELS and real estate. Montana Chattel Mortgage Co. 32 Clark Bldg Butte.
Assay offices and chemists are named with locations in Butte Montana, including MICLURE BROS and FITZPATRICK & LEWIS, offering mail samples and prompt returns. Also notes a missing sorrel hound aged five years weighing about 1.410 pounds, branded, with a reward pending through Continental OW Co. in Butte.
Advertises 1 guarantor to cure ailments described as diseases chronic cases complaints and weaknesses of female patients. Mentions Dr H Pook located on Main Butce.
A Park Novelty Co. store advertises full Catholic home altar sets at Park Novelty Co. 67 E Park. A city council petition for an Improvement district faces review with blocks 67, 90, and 99 noted. district court actions and filings referenced alongside miscellaneous municipal notices.
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