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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1902
Page
9
An unusual small town advert promises to cut the monthly grocery bill by one fifth and claims no losses from bad accounts or high salaries. It touts daily output for fresher goods and lower costs than California cheese, urging swift trial orders.
The 10 year old boy known as Little Joe Shadwell, grandson of Mrs Martha Griffin, was reported kidnapped after a mysterious woman appeared and fled with him near West Galena Street. His mother is Mrs J M Dalton of Seattle, and his grandmother sought adoption papers recently. Police were notified as attorney B S Thresher hurried to Bozeman.
The remains of Katie Foley were brought to Spokane by Northern Pacific under her father and sister after she was killed riding an unruly broncho. She had lived in Ces terville with her mother and was a beloved figure there. Relatives met the train as the party proceeded to earlier services at Minah Street before a Requiem High Mass at St ih. She leaves her father two sisters Mil ton and Agnes and four brothers William Patrick John.
Judge W. Pemberton returned from Spokane where he enjoyed flowers and rest. Mrs. P J Kelly aged 1 wife of P J Kelly of 531 East Broadway died. she had lived in Butte years, from Seattle. Joe Brunner of Brown's Gulch was charged with annoying John Rinaldi by his dogs. he pleaded guilty, paid costs, and was discharged after a hearing before Justice of the Peace O'Connor.
The New York World Society reports widow Mrs Adolph Ladenburg, a Wall Street figure, may wed Jay Phipps son of Andrew Carnegie partner. Phipps, Harvard alumnus and Meadow Brook Hunt member, has courted at the Oasis villa. Their flirtation, horseman ship, and hunting outings fuel expectations of a pink-coated wedding.
The text paints a social portrait of Mrs Ladenburg and Mrs Kernochan among New York high society. It notes Ladenburg’s mysterious disappearance at sea and wealth split with his wife and daughter. It mentions the Phipps family’s steel trust wealth and property, Amy and Helen Phipps, and Amy’s Spanish War nursing service. It references social events at East Thirty-eighth Street Westbury estate and Newport, with suitors including Ralph Ellis and others.
Union man Watt Whitman explains he could not raise the $130 pledge fee to enter the gubernatorial primary. He asks Colonel Jones to allow him to canvass without payment, offering his first year's governor salary as surety if elected.
Specials for today list items such as fruit jam one pound bottles and banquet relishes. It mentions Kirby's Pure Malte Whiskey and Como Whiskey, junior cigars per box and Sweet Marie boxes of thirty. The OCR text is fragmentary but shows a local shop or newspaper listing of prices and products.
In a South Carolina race, Whitman challenges Colonel Jones over entry rules, funding woes, and unique campaign tactics. Whitman’s unorthodox approach includes paying fares with aluminum checks and promising cheaper oil via a state-wide platform. The piece blends political satire with a broader discussion of war technology and a historic note on Von der Goltz and hypothetical future armament.
Reports from Chicago Record-Herald describe Thomas W. Lawton's Lawson, a seven masted steel schooner planned for Boston harbor. Designed by J B Crowninshield, she measures 48 feet by 50 feet, with seven 107 foot masts and 3000 square feet of sail. She will carry coal or wheat, have electric lights and a full signaling system, and be crewed by 16 men.
From London Telegraph a report on an inventor named Hiab Nean offering a device described as suppressing all smoke and noise from firearms from cannon to pistol. The inventor argues the technology could render warfare history and aid the dream of universal peace.
In a New York Journal retelling, Dr John A Mead president of Howe Scale Rutland Vermont faces a strike by his workers over a nine hour day as his daughter Mary Sherman Mead agrees to wed her secretary Carl Hingman. The bride-to-be protests the dispute, asking her father to end the conflict. On June 2 workers return and the wedding proceeds, celebrated as the city’s most brilliant.
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