The Pleasing Clerks Brighten Stores With Service
The verse praises clerks for brightening stores and giving attentive service. It promises cheerful help, avoiding nervous experiences for customers while shopping.
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1917
Page
9
The verse praises clerks for brightening stores and giving attentive service. It promises cheerful help, avoiding nervous experiences for customers while shopping.
An advertisement argues spring illness stems from impurities in the blood and promotes Swift's 8.8.8 as a general tonic and blood purifier. It targets both children and adults, claiming improved appetite and strength, with literature from Swift Laboratory, Atlanta.
Eight widows with twenty children were placed on the county payroll under the dependent child act by orders of Tudge Dwyer. The families include a woman with five children under 14, another with four, two with three each, and five with one child. The piece notes how classifieds simplify finding buyers, tenants, and work.
A wartime message from Capt J M Kelso directs Butte’s recruiting office to stay open until conscription day June 6 and to accelerate enlistment to fill 100000 new recruits. It notes baker and aviation limits, expects deployments to France, and outlines handling of volunteer vs conscripted records.
Real estate activity remains robust in Butte with high demand for ready built houses and vacant lots despite bad weather. Builders report rising material costs and a forecast of higher prices, while vacant lot prices hold steady. Notices include multiple building permits for small rentals and bungalows and a 1917 leases sale for hunters and fishermen licenses.
Justice John Doran ruled the large Rialto theater electric sign will remain, rejecting claims of flag desecration against the Silver Bow Amusement Company and manager E J Jensen. Jensen testified he is an American citizen and chose the patriotic sign to show staff and public his loyalty. The case focused on the sign protruding over the sidewalk and its use as advertising.
John F. Davies has submitted his resignation as Butte free public library librarian effective June 30. Mayor Maloney will nominate Miss Gertrude Nichols, assistant librarian, to succeed him with Davies likely to stay on to help during Nichols' convention travel. Davies has lived in Butte 26 years and previously led the library since its inception.
In Judge McClernan's court the jury returned a verdict for defendant George Dunn in the breach of promise suit by Daisy Kennedy seeking 30000 dollars. The jury favored Dunn 11 to 1, Kennedy claimed an engagement formed in January last with ceremony planned for September. Dunn said he could not quit the ranch until hay was in and cattle disposed. Kennedy consented to delaying until October.
A tornado struck Lindsey, six miles from Gainesville Texas on June 1 destroying the holic church a general store and several residences in the 150 resident community. No fatalities reported and several residents were injured.
The latest official war bulletin lists 10 071 500 potential conscripts with five and a half single men and four and a half million married men. About 120 000 are widowed or divorced. Occupation breakdown includes Agriculture 2 884 000 Mining 000 Manufacturing 2 086 009 Transportation 967 000 Trades 1 054 000 Public services 144 000 Professionals 225 000 Domestics 441 000 Clerical 374 000. About 500 000 are not in any gainful occupation. Army officials estimate six of ten would pass medical examinations.
Reports indicate coal in Iceland has been mapped and ligations completed. An estimated 180,000,000 of coal are available for extraction and use.
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