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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1928
Page
4
Senate veteran Senator Curtis, 68, a Kansas native with Indian heritage, served as president pro tem and Republican floor leader. A champion of agricultural interests, he is seen as likely to win back disgruntled GOP elements over the party’s farm relief stance.
Hoover, heir to Coolidge, gains farm bloc support with Curtis joining as Kansas senator backs Hoover and farm relief plank. Curtis, long in Congress, signals strong backing for Hoover’s leadership while promising continuation of Coolidge policies amid party unity. The piece notes Hoover’s engineering fame and Curtis’s seasoned Senate career.
The first coast to coast air service proposal would cost about twice a regular railroad fare, including Pullman, with trains carrying passengers during bad weather. Officials expect higher loads to lower costs, use multi engine daytime flights, and reroute travelers by train when skies are not clear. Political commentary follows, noting Senator Heflin may stay on the ticket and a partisan joke about vice presidential campaigns.
W L Hayward announced the $8 000 Boy Scout summer camp drive in Butte reached the target yesterday but solicitors asked for one more day to finish calls. The extension aims to finalize lists and ensure a camp in the Lowlands for the summer.
At Kings Bay Spitzbergen General Nobile and three companions on the Italia are driftin g eastward on an ice floe. Major Maddalena is due to fly a rescue search, while ice breaker Maligin and steamer Braganza head toward the area to aid a possible rescue. Dr Finn Malmgren is with the expedition party.
Program blocks list noon to evening entertainment across stations. highlights include demonstrations, dance music, Goldman band performances, and Broadway musical features airing on WEAF KSD WOC WHO WTMS and others with time slots and participating outlets.
A dense schedule of programs across multiple stations lists times and lineups including orchestras bands dances and lectures from Kansas City Omaha Denver Los Angeles Oakland Seattle Spokane Portland and San Francisco with features such as dinner music Sunday school lesson and Midnight Express among others.
The Butte Electric Railway reports 380 feet of Main Street streetcar track in Meaderville to be torn up as paving starts on the Meaderville highway. State Public Utilities Commission order governs the work. The Meaderville streetcar terminus will sit in front of the Leonard mine as contractor Joseph Silver begins paving from East Park Street to the new Butte Woodville road.
The address by Montana churchmen defended today’s youths against older generations. He warned the world’s war torn conditions shape today’s youth differently yet with more chances. Mrs. Ward presented diplomas as Principal Ragsdale named graduates, with many seniors noted for high honors and athletic state champions.
Investigation links a tattooed stranger to the Butte attacker through a slip bearing the name Dan W. Foley a Las Vegas banjo player and his wife and child left town June 7. Police report the wounded store owner at Murray hospital as the case unfolds with fingerprints sent to multiple cities for identification.
Despite crowded campaign dates, representatives from numerous veterans groups press to secure top speakers for the encampment opening. The schedule covers Monday through Wednesday with welcomes, luncheons, reunions, parades, concerts, a boxing show, dances, and a barbecue, plus additional luncheons by organizations without Butte branches.
Newspapers will reap profit this month with cooperation of large enterprises benefiting the West and East. Commerce gains from stimulat ing conditions across Pacific and Atlantic coasts. A scandalous book or pamphlet may arouse public feeling due to political antagonisms. Religious prejudice appears strong in the U S and Mexico. Persons born this year see a fairly happy year ahead.
A dead man described as selling "The Ideal Polishing Sloth" cloths in Butte is linked to a Los Angeles polishing cloth maker. Police seek witnesses who talked with the stranger and ask those who met him to contact Chief Murphy for details on his sales actions.
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