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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1919
Page
1
Health official testimony reveals carloads of perishable products were allowed to go to waste. The report ties a city welcome for the Chief of the Irish Republic to ongoing price investigations and public concerns over food handling and waste.
Testimony before the state efficiency and trade commission exposed methods of commission houses in Butte. Witnesses described market control and wasteful practices with fruit rotting on trains rather than lowering prices. A former health official and other inspectors testified to price manipulation and market shortness. The hearings highlighted alleged collusion among commission men and brokers affecting local retail pricing.
Violent clashes erupt near Gratz and Marburg as Styria garrison revolts over demobilization. Dozens dead or wounded while Croat and Slovenian soldiers call for independence from Serbia and a Croatian republic. Troops leave units and insignia torn as Croatia leans toward separation. Independent Croatian republic proclaimed in several towns.
A notice from July 28 states the American Smelting and Refining Company will increase agents per day to restore the old scale at the East Helena plant. The move follows February instructions and aims to resume standard operations at the facility.
A 1919 public meeting on July 25 welcomed President De Valera and urged U S recognition of Ireland as a self determined republic. The declaration insists Ireland seeks independence from Britain, supports Wilsonian principles, condemns imperial rule, and calls Congress to block U S entanglements that threaten the Monroe Doctrine.
President De Valera will lunch at 10 30 at the Finlen with a limited group of prominent Butte and state citizens. At 2 pm the party tours Anaconda Copper mining yard and city sites, then attends Mass and retires at the Finlen before a 6 pm departure for Anaconda for an open air meeting and banquet. He returns to Butte that night with possible rest Monday and a potential joint resolution inviting him to address the legislature.
Federal court records reveal a case involving 62 gallons of liquor transported from Minneapolis in a large piano box. Charges and legal proceedings are outlined by the U.S. district court.
Butte records no deaths for seven days ending July 18, a historic interval noted by health officials. Undertakers idle except for one burial from elsewhere, while the county pesthouse sits empty and only two contagious cases, both scarlet fever, are reported in the county. Byron Cooney, health commissioner, confirms the historic record.
Four workers were killed and three seriously hurt at the Hecla mine shaft after a cage accident. Coroner reports indicate the engineer became confused over signals. The dead include B. Bernari, Charles Cantan or Harry Patton, Tranquillo Tantamesis. Injured are John Martino with back and collarbone breaks and scalp wounds, John Musetti with fractured shoulder and scalp wounds, Le U H. Craig with a fractured skull and scalp wounds.
Figures submitted to the state secretary indicate Silver Bow County its 3 ration has shrunk from 219,419.
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