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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1912
Page
2
Ancient clinic style ad touts Syrup of Figs as safe for children and adults. It claims a delicious fig flavor, no griping, and gentle elimination within hours, urging mothers to seek the full name and ingredients including senna and aromatics.
An old warning promotes daily use of Cascarets to cleanse the bowels and absorb impurities. It stresses pores in the skin and bowels, claims dirt absorption, and urges carrying a box for immediate use to stay at best health.
A pastor testifies his son nearly died of tuberculosis but recovered after using Eckman's Alterative. The ad claims the product cured lingering symptoms and improved overall health, listing bronchitis asthma hay fever throat and lung troubles as conditions it helps. It promotes ordering from Newbro Drug Co and Eckman Laboratory with testimonials and a mail offer.
A city committee urged major changes to license laws to boost revenue citing unequal fees and widespread noncompliance. They proposed advance payments, enforcement fines, and targeted actions against auto rental, express, tent shows, and other evasions, with a detailed firm-by-firm audit planned.
Loretta Malloy presided as the school held closing exercises on June 14 at Race Track School in Powell County. The year ended with a morning programme and a large afternoon picnic marking the district’s capstone event for students and staff.
A fragmented OCR lists participants in an exercise event including Avelyn Sabina Juanite Lowery Ales Marlin John Martin onnid Price Lewis Quintah Ethel Quinlan William Backiund Imloya Malloy Titel Backlund Leddy Backwad Gerald Lowery Vincent Avery Lawrence Behulim Phaebeth Sohutty Veronica Bohutty Hertha Quinlan Mildred Mew Kenns Kathryn Sohutty Katio Tow ary Lawrence Dackfind Isabel Par kins Idla Perkins Hilder Wansaleran Rungner Basselgran Paul Heeldund Qilts Ban Miss Malloy assisted by Mes W BP Dott Mixees vena Malloy Lourett Luke in entertaining the ehidran.
Sheriff O Keefe in the county jail holds two men named Philip Bersacht and Dominic on charges of stealing four horses from Philip Brady last year. A horse was recovered. A second suspect was tracked near Georgetown district but identified as not the wanted man at Warra Springs.
Yesterday residents and visitors appear in Anaconda and Missoula with arrivals from Helena Butte and Hamilton. Invitations go out for the wedding of Dr R C Bancroft and Miss Allen Kennedy set for Wednesday.
A London Globe report describes a hydro electric project in central Tasmania. A 85,000 horsepower plant will divert water from Shannon City and its lagoon to drive steel pipes and a 1000 foot fall, powering Hobart Launceston and west coast mines including Mount Lyell copper, Blischatt tin, and Zeehon silver.
From the Philadelphia Record a note on golf ball demand shows national spending reaching about 36.09 million dollars yearly. An estimated half a million golfers exist in the U S, with many communities hosting at least one nine hole course. Ball usage varies, but commonly two dozen balls per season per golfer implies tens of thousands of dozen balls purchased annually.
In a tense session, a minority decried actions by Patterson and Roosevelt backers. Dancemakers moved to separate combatants as Boone apologized to the chair, while Henry L. Johnson urged an apology for labels used. A delegation vote approved continuing the slate with Styles Peterson and Mincey backing the Roosevelt-linked letter, amid confusion over signatories and political alignments.
In Chicago a conference of legislators and experts concluded that the temporary call prepared by the National committee is inviolable until a new rule is set by the convention. Senators Stoot and Penrose and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler attended. Senator Panrone noted that Mr. Raut may win at least 600 votes for temporary chairman.
Washington revolt delegates, after being denied recognition by the national committee, held a caucus in Chierga and voted to press their protest. Miles Polngaster was named chairman of the delegation as they threaten action at the Republican national convention and public reply to the committee chair. They assert the state’s voters will not submit to the committee’s methods and warn no candidate allied with those methods can carry Washington.
In New York testimony dated June, Thomas F. Cutter, Utah-Idaho Sugar general manager and former Mormon bishop of Lehi, testified Havemeyer paid a 9 percent premium over par for control of the Utah sugar company. He said 74000 shares were sold at $18 each in the spring of 1940, with par value $10.
A Brookfield Courier item reports Edward Richardson fattening a turkey and discovering a cave after ox tracks. He set dynamite in the cave which exploded, revealing six foxes killed by the blast. Their pelts were valued at 380, far above the cost of a ticket. A note mentions a scheme to steal electric heat for cooking purposes.
Political prophets issued a forecast predicting heavy air waves and a violent storm centered tonight at the Auditorium and extending tomorrow to the Consense with low barometric pressure. Look out for tornadoes as the week remains heated and unsettled.
A French military inquiry investigates a potential breakthrough in aviation safety. Eyewitness testimony and wreck analysis suggest that downward wing dip increases upper surface air pressure, challenging prior ideas that focused on under surface strength. Experiments corroborate the theory, prompting reallocation of protective measures on upper wing surfaces.
In a coastal delta scene natives use shocked eels to hunt by inflaming waters with charges. Horseback riders corral pools while harpoons and hooks drive and drown fish hungry to flee, with chaos and mass effort as teams chase prey across inundated margins.
The text details aggressive fish charging at foes to defend themselves, the chaotic scene with horses and natives, and a description of electric organs between the head and gills. It notes two organs with hundreds to over a thousand cells, varying by fish size, and mentions arrows, natives, and combat at a pool edge.
A famed behemoth tree near Freagh Pond on William Barber’s estate in Fxnter town towers 18 feet around at the base with five wide branches forming a dome over a platform used by the farm owner for summer gatherings. The sprawling limbs create a dramatic retreat that served generations of visitors as a favorite autumn rendezvous.
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