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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1903
Page
9
Per the fragment an old advertisement extols Our Cream coffee with pound pricing and Finest coffee offer. It mentions a rate of forty cups per pound and a price of four cents per cup. The text also references fresh fish in a fragmented form.
The Butte bar will attend the funeral in a body and hold a memorial meeting Saturday after the death of attorney John W. Cotter. Courts adjourned and a joint session of judges and bar members organized to draft resolutions and arrange a campus of flowers and office closings. The funeral is set for 10 o'clock at St Patrick's Church with a large turnout expected from Elks and Catholic Knights members.
Secretary of the Humane Society posts notices stressing Montana laws against cruelty to animals and neglect of animals or children. A series of sections details punishments for overdriving animals, abandoning maimed ones, failing to provide care, and poisoning, with fines and imprisonment outlined. Also mentions travel fare news for Montana to Seattle and announces NP tickets from Butte and Anaconda.
A major drilling contest will be held at Sheridan next Sunday featuring crack teams from Butte and the Rochester mining district. Large prizes offered and good sport is assured. The Northern Pacific runs a special train from Butte at 9 a.m. to Sheridan and back, leaving Sheridan at 6 p.m. Round trip fare two dollars. W. H. Merriman, General Agent.
Masons and Elks plan grand balls at Columbia Gardens next month to honor local cannon dedication and charitable causes. The Grand Army of Butte will host a reunion and speeches on the cannon base site, with several social events including a charity ball by the Clerks’ assembly and a statewide Elks dance. An injury at the depot highlights bustling crowds, while a summer boxball tournament offers prizes, and children ride free on Garden day.
Random travel notices list fares to Seattle Tacoma Portland Vancouver and Victoria with return options. The notice mentions sale dates August 14 15 and 1 and a 20 day return window. For tickets call or visit 41 North Main Street city ticket office WOR MEECH.
From Aug 2 to 25 the Northern Pacific By Co sells special excursion tickets to San Francisco and return for 50 dollars and to Los Angeles and return for 60 dollars. Tickets good returning by Oct 15 with stopovers allowed within a 10 day limit going and within final limit returning. For details contact W H Merriman General Agent.
Northern Pacific offers a Yellowstone National Park excursion on July 21 departing Butte at 11:49 p m The round trip fare is 42 60 and includes sleeping car berth rail transportation a park tour in Park Transportation Company Concord coaches all meals en route and hotel accommodations in the park. Sleeping car reservations should be made early and for full details contact W H Merriman general agent
Beginning Saturday May 23 and every Saturday thereafter the B A P railway offers round trip fares to Gregson Springs. From Anaconda to Gregson and return 50 cents. From Butte to Gregson and return 90 cents. Tickets valid on all trains from noon Saturdays to noon Mondays.
Weekend special by Great Northern Railway offers round trip travel to Basin or Boulder with return allowed Monday. Prices listed 1.00 for Alhambra and return and 4.00 for other routes. Ticket office at 41 North Main Street, Butte.
Special Dispatch details Dillon based Rattlesnake Reservoir and Water Company filing articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. Capitalization set at 39000 subscribed in full. Directors named George W. French Howard Smith and A Banning. Also notes Free Silver lodge members invited to Sister Whipple funeral Friday at 1 PM.
Havre Montana July 30 members of the first Methodist Episcopal church rejoice as the debt is cleared. The 1893 building had loans totaling 1235 with interest borrowed from the Church extension society. Pastors and additions noted include Allan Rodger 1895 Sprague Davis 1896 Frank Baldwin 1899 S J Hocking now in charge.
Flanagan Bros. shed on Cow Creek burned Sunday night in what appears to be an incendiary fire. The loss totaled about 300 with 60 on the shed. contents were uninsured. Ida Kiddle reported two men near dusk, then tracks show two riders fleeing toward the mountains.
Idaho news reports John Maguire plans to publish and edit a Wardner Idaho paper and to manage literary work in New York. He travels through Wallace Wardner and other towns to gather reminiscences of Langrishe and to study stage history while writing a book and directing a theater company.
Peking reports show crackdown on reform advocates with arrests of editors in Shanghai on sedition charges. Repression of liberal writers signals conservative ascent as officials urge severe punishment for 40 Beijing residents accused of liberal tendencies. Foreign observers fear Chinese jurisdiction disputes and possible torture of prisoners.
Special dispatch notes Helena plans a 10 foot wide boulevard from the city to the main entrance of the state fair grounds. The project, widening from six feet, will include trees, grading, and eventual full street paving. Ground rights secured from W J Pfouts and Charles A Blackburn with deeds prepared.
On Saturday August 8 the Oregon Short Line runs the season's third likely last excursion to Lake Rakt. Round trip fare is 15 dollars with return valid for 10 days. Reserve sleeping car berths at the Short Line city ticket office 10% North Main street Butte Mont. HH. O. Wilson general agent.
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