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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1916
Page
7
Advertises wrist and bracelet watches priced from 15.00 to 22.00 dollars featuring 15 jewel movements. Describes affordable timepieces with varying styles and sizes likely aimed at broad consumer audience. Prices and movement detail highlight value offerings in the horology market.
Day by day postings show numerous visitors and residents in Butte, including M. Griffin of Billings and J. W. Clifton of Missoula visiting for a few days, Miss Lillian M. Lockey registered at the Thornton, and a Livingston automobile party arriving for several days. Also listed are a property sale contact, deliveries from grocers, travel to Yellowstone and Glacier parks, and the Moran baby death with a family funeral in Helena area.
Good luck was the fortune of Al pert Burby, a conductor on the Englewood car line, Saturday when a trolley wire on Harrison avenue broke. The wire struck Burby on the arm and burned his cheek slightly, then fell to the ground. Had he touched the handles he would have received full voltage. The break was caused by a falling pole and earth caving in during last week’s rains. Service was tied up for 40 minutes until the pole was replaced.
The Democratic Ladies club will meet tonight in Judge Donlan's courtroom in regular session and candidates are invited to attend. The meeting will be presided by Mrs Agnes Attridge, president. Sophia G the 11 month old daughter of Mr and Mrs George Radonich 111 Eastman street died early yesterday. Funeral today at 1 at family home Mountain View cemetery. Mrs Anna Swetland Young died yesterday afternoon. Body at White's undertaking parlors. Funeral tomorrow at a place to be announced. Twenty teams wanted 631 Utah avenue. Phone 872.
Corner stone ceremony for the Adath Israel synagogue on Silver Street in Butte featured former Mayor John MacGinniss, U S District Attorney B K Wheeler, and speaker notes on Jewish patriotism and freedom in America. Coins sealed beneath the stone symbolized devotion to God and country as the congregation, dating to 1900, prepared for a lasting house of worship.
Two suffrage activists Miss Burke and Miss Richardson travel 6400 miles across the west in a yellow car named the Golden Plier with Saxon the cat. They faced desert hunger and water hardships and reached San Diego amid nationwide headlines. They campaign for national women’s suffrage and the Susan B. Anthony amendment, emphasizing personal appeals and public speeches.
The opening of the Harrison Avenue theater drew enthusiastic crowds with flowers for ladies and an applauded orchestra under Alfonso Chappuis. The Alien played as the opening film and patrons praised the elegant venue despite its distance from the city center.
Charles Lane a veteran blacksmith on South Arizona street was furious after burglars struck his shop for the sixth time in recent months. They took a set of tools last night and, despite Lane supplying detectives with a key, the thieves arrived when the sleuths were away. Lane will guard the shop himself and plans to confront the burglars next visit. Other South Arizona street shops have also been broken into.
A resident of 229 East Mercury Street in Butte was stabbed last night by a man with whom he argued. The assailant invited him into an alley to fight, leaving the victim with cuts to the face and chest. Wounds were treated at the Butte Emergency Hospital. An Albanian delicacy of eggs and onions was prepared in advance for three hours daily on ten consecutive days.
Detectives proved the silver dollars washed from the Nettie mine flood near Butte were counterfeit. A band buried and intermittently removed bad money by automobile, with locals recovering many coins. Chief Murphy and Detective White linked the coins to circulating fakes previously tied to arrests at Jerry Mullins saloon.
Putte authorities seek TC White an employee of a packing house in Eugene Oregon. A western sheriff arrest request cites White s preference for 27 99 as the forged check amount found on most offenses. He allegedly used the name E N Conger and is believed to have traveled to Butte after authorities closed in on him.
Detectives White and Van Orden arrested Mi Tonandh for selling liquor during closed hours at the Milensneh saloon on South Arizona Street. Police were told of men drinking there while churchgoers should have been. A gun was found on a man at the Yellowstone saloon last night and he faces carrying concealed weapons charges. Others named included Sam Braham Sam and Joe Shaar.
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