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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1915
Page
11
Chicago markets showed wheat trading higher despite a mid session dip as rain delayed crops. Prices advanced above last week with July and September wheat at about 1.11 and 1.06 respectively, corn and oats also mixed amid steady provisions and export sales.
Chicago Livestock reports show hog receipts around 20 000 with market steady to a shade above the day’s average. Prices vary for mixed, heavy, and rough hogs, cattle and calves listed with gains and steady trends. Lambs also noted with prices around 75 to 98.85.
Metal market moves in New York with copper and electrolytic pricing easing amid steady if limited activity. Lead is offered at a high level, while speer and other metals remain largely not quoted.
The United States circuit court sitting en banc denied a temporary injunction to restrain Arizona authorities from enforcing the prohibition amendment. The court ruled near beer is alcohol and its importation into Arizona violates the state constitution. The case was brought by two California breweries on behalf of beverage manufacturers. New Haven, July 3. A new time schedule announced at Winchester Repeating Arms in New Haven reduces weekly hours from 36 to 48. Piecework workers receive wage increases and a 50 percent overtime bonus for non assembly staff. In Nevada, Judge Neterer dismissed the receiver for Goldfield Merger Mines company after settling the case out of court. Carl Johanson of Seattle involved.
In a closing statement, the lrt declares the organization debt free and orders the disposal of arrets to the company. The directive emphasizes completion of financial and asset transfer obligations under the authority of the lrt.
Paris July 30 Finance Minister Alexandre Ribot rejected Deputy Accambray’s attack saying the nation will judge the government and that the country is virile and doing its duty to secure victory. The direct taxation bill passed 490 to 1 after Ribot’s patriotic reply and an aborted effort by Accambray and Brousse to disrupt the chamber. Accambray had earlier blamed army sanitary service for soldier deaths and criticized national resource use and foresight.
Pittsburg reports eight men killed and twelve seriously injured at United Coal's Patterson mine in Elizabeth Pa when a cable carrying a mine train broke on the incline. Among the dead is Samuel Dougherty the coal company's superintendent.
Chinese delegates from around the world gathered in San Francisco for the Chinese Nationalist League of America convention at the Panama Pacific Exposition. The day featured a motor parade from Chinatown to Festival Hall and remarks by Wong Beck Yue, vice president of the legate, with Lim Sun serving as master of ceremonies and first speaker of the Chinese national assembly at Nenking.
In Kentucky history a double execution occurred at Eddyville penitentiary as Turner Gram Jr. a 24 year old white man, convicted of killing Harin county Sheriff R J McMurty, faced the electric chair. The second inmate Will Lane a 25 year old African American man was executed for killing his superior.
The Department of Commerce announced that 528 vessels have been admitted to American registry under the act of August 18, 1914, up to July. The statement notes these foreign-built ships, totaling 408 gross tons, join the registry.
An insurance company based in Salt Lake City seeks qualified male agents with clean records for life insurance in Montana. The Montana agency reports over eleven hundred thousand dollars in business this year and highlights two leaders who gained initial exposure to the field in Montana while maintaining a good salary and license status.
Classified notice listing Spokane Teachers Agency seeking teachers for rural Washington Oregon Idaho Montana schools. Also advertisements for housework and housekeepers in Spokane Anaconda and related locations with rates and contact details.
Classified notice seeking an experienced nurse for engagements and confinement cases preferred. Address 30 E Third Anaconda. Also advertises a young man for stationary fireman job with references and a post box for replies. Includes a request for a set of books to keep.
A recruitment notice offering monthly payments for selling a full line of household furnishings including carpets and vacuum cleaners. The ad lists M Goodman as contact in a local territory seeking agents to join the sales force.
WANTED TO RENT furnished housekeeping rooms or a finished house by a private family or individual. Listings mention 900 E. Park Ave Anaconda and care Blanchard Anson. A couple seeks a finished 3 or 4 room setup and a private room for a night worker. Box address given as Anaconda.
Classified rental item describes two room flats in Butte with brick exterior, modern range and heater, shades. Located near Pennsylvania block, adjacent to The Princeton at Us and Main. References requested.
Standard notices advertise a four room rental from the Woolman area with locations near E Broadway Butte and nearby Pekin noodle parlors and a short ender cafe on Main Street. The ad references quartz and placer mining notices, with blanks to be filled at the Standard office.
An old Butte Montana real estate notice advertises WOR sal vane opportunities across Walkerville and Butte areas. It describes rooming houses, furnished and unfurnished suites, and 16 acres of land south of Butte with various boarding options. The listing promises house plans and potential business blocks, with contact details for Gayford Holever & Brown at We Park, Butte.
A garbled classified page shows sale and rental offers including fully equipped cases, first floor and basement spaces for lease, furnished rooms, and furniture wanted. Names and addresses such as John Maller in Butte and Halbert B. Cole attorney appear amid scattered contact details and notices.
Numerous classified notices from Butte and nearby Montana towns advertise farms, ranch land, and cattle, plus various goods and services. Entries list acreage, water access, location miles from towns, prices per acre, and sellers like Sullivan Peterson and A Decker, with other ads for furniture, wagons, doors, and a theater listing. Numerous entries mention California, Anaconda, and Butte addresses and offer inexpensive or bargain terms.
Local notice lists Belgium hares at 8 cents per pound and various poultry prices. Doral and Greenfield, E Front, Butte mentioned with short market rates and vendors.
For sale in Butte Wyoming residents advertise furniture from a lodging house with leases and the four room house. Call 6" 8. Wyoming Butte. The notice invites buyers to inquire at 228 Jackson Butte and offers the sale of the furniture of a four room house.
An old classified item advertises dyeing and cleaning services with contact details. It lists a Korean-sounding firm name and a local office at 211 North Main Street, Suite, with a phone reference and references to employment. The fragment suggests a small business card style notice from a historic newspaper page.
An old Standard newspaper snippet notes money to loan and announces hip class dressmaking and tailor services for ladies, with mobile tailoring by day work in Butte. The item blends loan offerings with fashion services appealing to local readers seeking affordable attire and small loans.
An unusual ad page shows Mrs A Sirthright offering hairdressing manicures chiropody and cosmetics at Adelaide Crean agency with Indian Remedy Beauty Velcom on Broadway Butte alongside financial notices advertising money to loan on securities and real estate by local firms such as Bailey La Co N B Gr and Goodwin Co all listing loans and terms in Butte Montana with multiple firms and rates.
Auto for sale in Butte listed as a Studebaker G passenger model in excellent condition with reason given as upcoming summer departure. Inquire between 5 and 7 p.m. at We Sliver St.
Local saw it and standard assay listings show firms like Lewis and Walker Assayers and Chemists at 108 N Wyo Butte Box 3. Goodale Bros Assayers and Chemists at 38S Main St Helena. Tout and McCarthy Assayers and Chemists, Tove Repair Co, Lind and Beil Burrs, Murray 136 Park Salt. Stove Repair Works advertised competent workmen at 0 B Park Ph 6303.
An old classified ad promotes Surisish Baths and the Butte Turkish Bath Parlors on i Broadway with separate apartments for ladies and gentlemen, electric cabinets, vapor and plain baths, shower paths, and contact phone 207 Wise & 10sp proprietors.
A fragmented OCR item from Butte records a rooms papered notice titled Say You S00. It references an event or card in an art scene with a contact line noting Phone 4M6. The readable bits show ambiguous wording and a local paper context.
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