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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1906
Page
19
The Principal Branch Office of the Standard is at 2 East Broadway, Butte. Telephone 422. Advertising rates finished on application.
The piece stresses headaches and irritation from not wearing glasses, noting the eye’s general imperfection with age. It urges timely glasses once needed, touts an experienced optician, and claims broad appliances for successful vision correction in a well equipped optical parlor.
Butte notes list a jumble of local business mentions and social updates including Moyer buggying at Grady's, Kent pianos from Orton Bros, and a Bechtel studio in 730 W Broadway. It records arrivals, departures, a marriage license, court action, and brief civic notices amid miscellaneous ads and hotel cafe promos.
An Austrian defendant in Massachusetts was found not guilty of murder after jurors deliberated for hours. The trial focused on a disputed death, with the defense disputing key evidence and presenting alibi testimony, while prosecutors argued for responsibility.
In Butte, Austria Vinse Viass, 23, was tried for the October 1904 killing of Austrian John Slovich by a single punch in a saloon. The jury quickly found him not guilty, ruled the death due to brain hemorrhage from a fall, and Viass was discharged amid cheers from friends.
Governor Toole appoints Emerson Hill of Beaverhead County to the local executive board of the state normal college at Dillon to fill the vacancy from F C Kress’s death. Hill’s term expires March 20, 1908.
Lavasseur testifies at Missoula trial recounting a tumultuous life with Jerday in 1898 and a later union in Portland and Montana. He says an attempt on his life by his wife preceded a fatal shootout, then he shot himself. Witnesses from Missoula and Lavasseur’s earlier home recount his character and her alleged descent into vice.
In Missoula Lavasseur and his wife faced testimony about a troubled marriage. Friends described good reputations, while Mrs Lavasseur allegedly threatened her husband and showed violent temper. Witnesses recounted quarrels, threats, and a house of ill fame link. Lavasseur testified noting years of conflict and his own version of the shooting.
Involving a professional song and dance man once with the Haverly and Primrose West minstrels. After a jealous quarrel in a Montana hotel room in 1998, a drunken partner seized a revolver during a struggle. The weapon discharged thrice, killing one and wounding the other, who then claimed he thought he had shot himself. Court proceedings followed as authorities investigated the tragedy amid a hotel dispute and a later arson fire in Philadelphia.
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