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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1919
Page
9
Chief Murphy completed the police reorganization to match a 20 percent cut, with eight officers per shift plus two plainclothes including the detective chief. The force will number 43, aided by four motorcycles, amid concerns over potential future trouble and the retirement of fingerprint chief Joseph Williams.
Pantages theater fans find a high variety bill at the Broad Way theater. Joe Darcy’s burnt cork impersonations draw hearty laughs for a solid hour. The Kelly Field players tour camps and deliver seasoned vaudeville acts with music, tumbling, and witty dialogue.
V. J. Walsh, a longtime Butte resident and boilermaker at Anaconda and St. Lawrence mines for 25 years, died Friday afternoon after a serious operation. Survived by wife and five children. Funeral at 2:30 from the Walsh home, 2327 Florence, then St John’s Church Mass.
The Anaconda Standard introduces a new photogravure section in Butte and it is quickly popular. News dealers report higher orders and demand outstrips supply as the Sunday Standard features the illustrated supplement. Critics praise the addition and note the standard is setting the pace with weekly parts planned.
Henry Edmond Haley died from a gunshot in Spokane. Bessie Langer, his landlady, is said to have shot in self defense and a preliminary Spokane hearing will occur. In Butte friends recall Haley as strong yet good natured while noting a rubber hose robbery item among his effects.
Emmet Riordan, long time reporter in Great Falls and Montana paper circles, will shift to publicity work with the Commercial Club. He recently served in the United States during World War I, mainly in aviation, before returning to Butte as armistice ended his plans for Atlantic flight. Riordan studied journalism at Bozeman and Missoula.
A mass meeting of returned soldiers sailors and marines is called for Wednesday night at Butte High School auditorium to discuss plans for the Fourth of July celebration and to hold a get together session. It will begin promptly at 8 o clock with several speakers and efforts to engage every service man in the coming event.
The Crimson Gardenia opens at the Ansonia theater to large audiences. Rex Beach story set in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. masterful underworld drama with a strong cast led by Owen Moore and Heda Nova.
A Mass retailer noted for long operation pays his clerks nightly and maintains steady employment through changing markets.
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