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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1902
Page
12
In May the free employment office logged 210 applications for help, 157 positions filled. Males and females filled 75 and 135 applicants. domestic and hotel work led female positions while males mostly did labor and hotel roles. City totals show 110 positions filled with 17 men and 93 women.
President meets about a dozen Republican senators including Aldrich Hale Lodge Platt and Secretary Root to discuss reducing duties on Cuban exports. He vows to secure Cuban reciprocity by treaty or bill and may act without Congress to frame a treaty if needed. A July adjournment is anticipated with no immediate legislative action expected.
Great Northern offers cheap round trips from Butte to St Paul Minneapolis Duluth West Superior Sioux City Chicago St Louis and many eastern points. Good going dates June July and May 31 with returns through September. For details visit the Great Northern Ticket office on North Main Street.
County attorney filed four count burglary complaints against Jack Sullivan, Mike McGrath, and Daniel Dunn. Deputies arrested them on a Justice Arnold warrant for breaking into Thomas and Anhears Saloon at 40 North Main Street, stealing a half barrel of beer, rolling it a quarter mile to Corktown and consuming it. They allegedly raided hen roosts, roasted and ate several chickens, and now face imprisonment. Sullivan has prior jail time.
Rail update lists round trip fares via the Burlington route to Omaha St Joseph and Kansas City on May 31 and July 4 5 and 6 priced at 84 50 with additional dates June 7 8 10 4 and 6 and corresponding Chicago St Louis departures at various dates. Three routes East via Billings St Paul or Denver offered with agent H F Ruger at 5 East Broadway Putte Mont.
The Manhattan company starred in Peaceful Valley at the Grand delivering a fine rural drama. Notable performances included Miss Kingsbury as Virgie Rand Frank Cooley as Hosea Howe Miss Camille Lewis as Mrs Howe and Frank Montgomery as Jack Farquhar. The run continues tonight Saturday night and a Saturday matinee.
Special excursion train leaves Montana Union depot at 8 30 a m Sunday and runs through to Alder returning at 6 p m The fares are Butte to Pipestone and return one dollar Butte to Whitehall and return one dollar fifty cents for Twin Bridges and return one dollar fifty cents Butte to Sheridan and return two dollars Butte to Alder and return two dollars Stage connects with this train at Alder to and from Virginia City.
A Madras correspondent notes a Hindu girl hunter who has twice felled a leopard, recounting how a tiger fear affects most but not this youth. The report promises more details but only shares a brief outline of the second successful capture.
A rajah leads a shikar party after a tiger appears near Jatpole killing a cow. The daughter insists on joining, faces the danger, shoots the tiger through the plank bone near the armpit, and the beast dies. the rajah then finishes it with a second barrel. Local praise follows for her courage.
Curtin of St Paul and A Clark of Billings are registered at the Butte. Wallace McCrackin, banker of Hamilton, is registered at Thorn ton. The infant son of Mr and Mrs Gilmer of 1006 Delaware Avenue died yesterday.
Basin and Boulder and Alhambra trips priced as Basin and return 1.50 Boulder and return 1.50 Alhambra 2.30. Travel good Saturday or Sunday returning Monday Basin or Boulder 1.00. Sundays only return. Ticket office 41 North Main Street and depot.
Mrs. Chadwick wife of the Nagship New York commander during the Spanish war has devised a lightweight litter for wounded men. The 3½ pound device uses a canvas seat, straps and hooks to form a hammock carried by two bearers. It is praised as simpler lighter and adaptable to bush or thicket fighting and perhaps usable to move patients by stairs or mounted on horses for rapid evacuation.
The French writer decries women who avoid marriage and child rearing as a third sex. He blames both money-driven marriage markets and education that delays or thwarts early marriage. He cites unmarried women aged 20 to 30 who seek liberty and question men's roles, and notes his proposed remedy remains unstated.
The speaker argues that economic hardship will lead men to marry without money and women to accept less luxury, claiming this shift will strengthen character. He believes the remedy is being developed and applied in France.
A Michigan avenue young woman endures a long wallpaper selection for a sister in a small town. After the sister rejects greens and yellows, requests a red room, and mocks the samples, the shopper finally relents and agrees to send a red paper.
Rev E L Stoddard of Jersey City questions court relief for a wife beaten and starved of funds by her husband and family He asks for an athletic man to thrash the husband before breakfast for a week or two The letter names a girl abused by her husband and his kin and notes court inaction The rector declines to reveal the wife’s name A spring salad recipe follows.
The women of St Pierre displayed striking beauty and elegance after Pelee’s eruption. Many wore bare feet or simple robes, with the better class in embroidered chemises and bright Madras turbans held by golden brooches. Women carried 100 to 150 pound loads on their heads and served as mule-car conductors through the town.
James Thomas Bailey, a 50 year old fisherman, has inhabited a six by twenty by five foot piano box on Spring Gardens shore for four years. He stays from April to December, cooking outside and keeping belongings in the narrow space. He uses a tin lid, padlock without a lock, and claims no rent or taxes, living simply and contentedly.
Storewide sale at Lewis offers hats priced below half. Limited time clearance underway as customers browse two notable items.
A fashion note praises Sorosis footwear for their toe arch and heel design, claiming a charm that elevates the graceful lines. It calls for various leathers including dull finishes, kid, and patent leather to achieve beauty and elegance.
An advertisement presents white India lawn waists with pointed yoke of tucks and tucked back, soft tucked stock collar, priced at 1.25 dollars. It emphasizes the bargain of a waist advertised as a real value for 1.25.
Advertises covert jackets from Butte priced at $7.75, originally $12.50. Describes jackets as tanning covert with full satin lining, suited for cool evenings and carrying a large stock.
An advertisement touts $2.00 Satine Petticoats at 95 cents, praising the fabric as fast black mercerized satine. It notes the 12 inch set on flounce and pinked ruffle trim, claiming the cloth alone would cost more.
Butte shoppers learn of Lewis retail. Net top laces priced at 20c to 50c, advertised as cheaper than competitors. The ad touts quantity discounts and mentions a trade twist offering 2% lower price instead of 35c to Ste. for washable dress trims.
In the neckwear section cleaners offer half price on stock collars and washable turnover collars. Hurry to shop early as quantities are limited and the deal ends soon.
John Daniel Williams, a Wilkes-Barre area miner, operates a personal coal vein in his yard at Nanticoke near the city. He mines and shares coal with neighbors, resisting sale to protect the union while remaining the sole producer among 147,000 miners in the region.
The bartender notes no strong demand for new summer drinks this year. He dismisses the Florodora fizz as a counterfeit gin fizz colored to resemble circus lemonade, popular only with youths seeking a fashionable image.
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