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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1917
Page
11
An old ad copy promotes Q Pan as a safe hair color product promising gradual natural results and a money back guarantee. It warns against imitations and cites drugstores and makers, urging readers to try the depilatory and related beauty items with testimonials of dramatic youthful appearance.
Miss Charlotte E. White national lecturer for the Child Conservation League of America spoke to parents at Butte High School on purity and the sex question, urging vigilant supervision of amusements and moral training as essential for children. She noted heredity and training in virtue shape character and warned against letting liberty become license, citing civic life and national strength.
Comic capers inside the Butte police force unfold as Desk Sergeant Jack Wesson carts a donkey and a snake box through a funeral procession and detectives like James Casey face a monkey's mischief. The Chief admonishes, but humor bonds the squad amid antics and fines.
Mrs. Thomas Smith, widow of a Granite Mountain mine victim, complained at Butte’s Branch office that a dollar was deducted from her husband’s last ten days pay for hospital services. She questions the practice for a man killed in the accident, noting the hospital could not serve the deceased. She may pursue action with the state accident board in Helena to seek a ruling on such deductions, noting the body has not been identified and may still be in the mine.
Minnie Johnson testified she just felt like drinking after recently leaving Warm Springs and drawing money. She pleaded guilty to being drunk but denied vagrancy, yet the court classified her as vagrant and ordered 10 days boarding with Barney Lavelle. Johnson was a familiar police court character drawing a state pension after her husband’s mine death in Nevada.
A contentious divorce case recalls a 1914 marriage in Ta-Coma with claims that the wife engaged in unduly intimate conduct with an unnamed man beginning January last and continuing intermittently. The document references a jewelry firm Mayer at 21 West Park as a low-cost supplier.
Neighbors reported thefts of chickens and kitchen utensils in a South Ohio area. Police traced the trail to J Har kins home where boiling chickens and a washboiler were found. Police chief took the couple to headquarters and Justice Ormsby sentenced them to 30 days in jail. Dorcas Society of Emanuel Lutheran church hosts first meeting in the new church basement with a full program and refreshments tonight.
Fines levied on Moose block residents in police court yesterday. Cora Dalton paid 25 for illegal liquor sales and 10 for vagrancy. Tan Cody fined 10 for running a disorderly house. Lou Fox owner of the lease was fined 10 for interfering with police operations after making calls at headquarters. Ida Cody unable to explain Mrs Leda Reni’s injury in a Sunday night cutting incident. Also notes patriotic resolutions by Hawaii’s Japanese American association in Hilo pledging loyalty to the United States. London toll from the June 18 air raid lists 111 dead and 470 injured across men women and children.
Justice Louis Buckley officiated a marriage yesterday afternoon in Butte as Cordelia Ktellim and Fred Short, both residents of Butte, announced plans to make their home there. The report includes a brief, era-accurate aside about advertising and tenancy.
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