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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1917
Page
7
Editorial mention lists the principal office at 119 North Main Street with telephones for business and editorial departments, plus a number for the office. The fragment gives contact lines but lacks a full article context.
An article urges proper eye care and glasses to improve outdoor activity and enjoyment of sports and film, noting foggy vision causes strain. It emphasizes prescription, properly fitted spectacles opening a wider world of pleasure for those with vision issues.
A long list of visitors and brief trips in Butte and nearby towns is recorded. Names include Tonkin F. L. Benepe Bozeman Helen Helena visitors from Anaconda Dillon Livingston Boulder Miss Olive Adams Deer Lodge and many others attending meetings, visits, or vacations. Several correspondents note travel to Los Angeles Salt Lake City Seattle and Spokane with remarks on gatherings and local events.
Meeting of Campbell miners and IWW activist Frank Little sparks discussion of walkouts at mines. Report notes push for six hour day, $6 minimum, end of sliding scale and contract bonuses, with organizers pressing for intensified action and solidarity.
The Anaconda Standard promises advertisers a fully readable paper from front to back and complete circulation in the retail trade area. It urges advertisers not to “standardize” and emphasizes reaching readers at home rather than a single corner.
Reports from Montana describe Wobblien activity across Havre and Helena with police action against Wobbly boards. Delegates in Great Falls address the One Big Union while Ed Tassett defends Little, tracing heritage from Cherokee and Plymouth ancestors as Grover Perry of the I W W miners group comments.
London date July 28 government to seek a Vote of credit in the house of commons tomorrow amounting to 650 million pounds the largest single vote since the war began lifting the total war financing to 5.202 billion pounds. The South Side Mothers club will meet Friday evening at Mrs. C E Cleveland 1937 George Street.
The War Department ruled that posting the master list at local boards counts as appearance notice for drafted men. Registrants will learn their numbers at boards, with mail notification to follow. appearance period starts from posting. Voluntary enlistment has provided about 50,000 of the 687,000 called, with transfers and home-board jurisdiction complicating the process.
A chaotic telegram to Premier Kerensky reports a push toward dictatorial power as the Provisional Government struggles to organize the army and curb desertions. The message warns of extreme measures to save the revolution and cites runaways and disobedience among troops on the western front.
A fragment from Petrograd reports upheaval after the fortress occupation by Bolsheviks. Former ministerial figures and the imperial family faced danger as the regime collapsed. Mine Soukhomlinova is said to have aided a suicide attempt to avoid lynching, and Premier Sturmer reportedly collapsed under strain. Guards pledged protection for the tsar and his family.
In San Francisco the jury in the Rena Mooney murder trial was sent to its hotel for the night after eight hours of deliberation. Judge Seawell resumed proceedings and jurors said no verdict had been reached despite multiple ballots. A heated exchange in the corridor included the phrase You’re an anarchist, followed by vigorous denial.
Beattle July 29 The striking carmen submitted to Puget Sound Traction Light and Power a proposal to resume work at once and restore the pre strike conditions including reinstatement of the men The dispute to go to a three man arbitration board with one appointee from the company one from the men and the third from five nominees by the strikers Judge Neterer refused an injunction and will decide tomorrow whether a receiver should operate the traction lines pending resumption of normal service.
A group of men fled Centerville after a Sunday afternoon shooting. Deputies and detectives maintained a vigilant watch, with witnesses unsure of all identities. It is generally conceded that two Rodgers brothers, Ed Bowman and Alex, were among those involved.
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