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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1914
Page
14
Notes from Butte record a flurry of visitors from Billings Lewiston and Three Forks with arrivals at hotels and homes. Mentions of Orton Bros. piano rentals taxicabs and touring cars and local business trips. The piece also covers magazine sales at the post office and a petty larceny charge against Earl Henry in Justice Shea's court.
By a 9 to 6 vote the Butte city council passed a substitute measure ordering a three member panel led by the city physician to examine all police officers for age or disease related incapacity. The mayor would file charges if needed, with the panel also assessing strength and agility. Officers refusing to cooperate face insubordination charges. pay for examiners is 8 percent.
The city council debated a measure to discharge incapacitated policemen under a state law loophole. Aldermen disagreed on timing and who should judge fitness, with Mayor Duncan defending caution and denying any partisan motive. The resolution passed 9 to 6 amid further talks on city staffing and building funds.
The Empress theater ends its current bill with this evening's performances and a matinee this afternoon. The show has drawn capacity crowds and patrons praise a showhouse kept cool by electric fans during warm weather. The program features many stars from the vaudeville world.
Washington University in Seattle awarded 271 degrees at the thirty ninth annual commencement on June 1. Harvard professor Frederick J. Turner delivered the commencement address, recognizing the graduating class.
Under the Home Mission society of the South Side Methodist church a social is held in the church parlors from noon to 10 pm to raise funds for a retaining wall. A long list of hotel guests and visitors from various cities including Helena Great Falls Seattle Spokane Denver New York Chicago and Boston is noted in the proceedings.
Police yesterday raided a residence at Silver and Wyoming streets seizing five cases of beef less beer and five gallons of wine while saloons were closed. A woman named Mrs Pistone was taken in. Members of the Robert Emmett Literary association are asked to attend the 150th anniversary of Wolfe Tone at Hibernia hall Thursday evening June 18 by order of the president.
A dispute in a police court centered on a weight of cheese sold to John Beall by James Cotter, a South Main Street saloon bartender. Beall argued the two bit purchase yielded only ten ounces, while Cotter claimed standard portions. The court released Cotter after testimony and a brief explanation.
Word reached Butte yesterday of the death of E P Peterson in Santa Barbara California He was a miner in Butte for years later ran the Peterson house He left for California for health reasons He was six years old and left three children Sheehan former Pilot Butte superintendent testified in Anaconda Mining versus Pilot Butte case detailing shaft sinking and development The trial resumes Tuesday
Assistant attorney general J H Alvord and his bride arrived last evening en route from Los Angeles to Helena where they will reside. They were married in Los Angeles about three weeks ago. Alvord told friends he is starting his vacation and plans to return from Helena with news.
Jack Morris of Dillon visits Butte for business. T. E. Foren departs by Northern Pacific for Montreal today. Ellen Williams and Mrs. Lizzie Hiland with others depart Center Street for Fork, planning a four to six month visit to England and relatives after 28 years apart.
A French inventor has created a bicycle dynamo linked to a storage battery to light several lamps after a brief ride. Two battery sizes are offered 12 volts 12 ampere hours for ordinary users and 12 volts 2 ampere hours for stronger riders.
A fragment notes a marked deficiency in hearing power linked to disease. It states liability rises from birth to age ten and then declines with old age. Among surgical treatments in France for the year, about 57 percent were cited and 20 percent permanently improved.
The report notes coal workings in Britain reaching 3,000 feet and an Lancashire mine at 700 feet, with natural temperatures around 99 degrees. It states modern ventilation methods have been impeded and predicts future improvements by careful study, though much of the text is garbled.
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