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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1920
Page
8
A vintage instruction note touts Diamond Dye as a dye and color enhancer for wool silk linen cotton and blends. It promises a fadeless rich color with a simple direction guide included with each package.
John Valli former Wholesale liquor dealer sues Victor Lunerdelli for 299 claiming ownership of three barrels of claret stored in Lunerdelli cellar before prohibition. Lunerdelli says sale price was 142. Justice court ruled Valli owned the wine and it moved to his warehouse. dry squad seized it and bootlegging charges followed. Supreme Court appeal pending.
The Women’s Club home economics department met in the blue room of the clubhouse for an electrical demonstration by Dee J. McGonigle and 100 Clarke of Montana Power company. They discussed energy and cost savings from electrical appliances as homes modernize toward electrical living. The Montana Power exhibited devices such as washing and dishwashing machines, vacuum cleaners, electric irons, grills, coffee urns, and other popular tools.
In Glendale California on March 3 a funeral for William M McPherson, a famed motion picture cowboy, drew 260 riders in western regalia. McPherson, an experienced rider long active on Western ranges before entering film work, was killed by a train several days earlier.
A March 3 incident in Dublin saw a mail van stopped by armed men who seized letters addressed to Viscount French the lord lieutenant of Ireland and other government officials. The robbers vanished with the correspondence as police began inquiries into the daytime robbery.
Montana officials urged avoidance of ripe olives in glass containers following a warning from the state board of health. Glass packed olives are suspected to carry germs not killed by insufficient heat, while canned olives are deemed safe. samples were gathered in Butte for test in Helena, with a federal court hearing set for March 19 in Great Falls on a baking powder injunction.
Sam H. Clark founder of Jim Jam Jems reports a working mill and plans to extract paying gold and silver ore. He will visit Anaconda to arrange treatment at the big smelter, with renewed Western silver camp activity and North Dakota investors backing the company preparing to mill a large ore output.
Mayor Stodden asks Chief Murphy to station a patrolman on Harrison avenue by Emerson school to curb fast automobile driving after school releases. Several complaints say speeding endangers pupils, and the mayor seeks police aid to abate the nuisance.
Dr John A Donovan will present Is Your Community Fit at Summit Valley lodge No 12 percent A P and A M in the Masonic temple this evening. He will discuss community needs and how medicine informs health and fitness of communities based on his professional experience.
Special meetings are held this week and next at Silver Bow Methodist Church every evening except Saturday and Kremin at 1230. They conclude on March 14. Revs J A Si Chas Rhodes W J Pascoe and G D Wolfe assist pastor F C Fulford. tomorrow Rev Charles L Bovard district superintendent will preach. Tonight Misses Swanson and Childerhose of Deaconess Hospital sing Whispering Hope. Public services.
The peace conference ended its London sessions tonight after drafting the Turkish treaty and its economic conclusions to be finished by assistants. The treaty will be delivered to Turkey at Paris on March 12, as announced.
In a unanimous ruling the North Dakota Supreme Court held that women are entitled to a place on the ballot for the state preferential primary on March 16. The decision, issued in Bismarck, underscores equal political participation.
An outline of the Montana Cement association's aims and achievements, plus a plea for member backing, dominated a Silver Bow club luncheon discussion. Speakers Robert C. Line of Columbus and CW Fowler praised Montana retailing, urged consumer education, and urged farm bureaus to share information and feedback. Line planned further talks in Anaconda and Butte to address city conditions and merchandising strategies.
Mayor Stodden and city officials struggle to keep sidewalks clear after a heavy snowstorm in Butte. Citizens file damage claims with City Clerk Irvine after falls and injuries. The city will enforce the sidewalk clearing ordinance, but officials admit the hardship and uncertainty of preventing future injuries as street crews monitor weather and layoffs.
Clarence E. Jones died from suffocation in an ore bin at Black Rock mill on March 28, as ruled by a coroner's jury. John Kane testified Jones likely fell while attempting to cross between bins. A life belt with rope existed but was unused. Witnesses said workers often entered without belts when danger seemed low. Jones was buried under about six inches of rock after recovery.
An undertaker in Great Falls asks police to record in Butte the name John Tracy said to be employed in the mines there. His brother Martin Tracy died in a Great Falls hospital. A Moscow wireless dispatch reports Soviet foreign affairs hand the Bolshevist quarters at Irkutsk and to set a time for talks with Japan.
The physicians advise plain bitro-phosphate to thin or delicate nervous individuals, claiming it replenishes essential phosphates and boosts nerve energy. Advertisements tout it transforming weak bodies and increasing weight, with cautions to use fat-producing foods if flesh gain slows.
Reno dispatch says Mary Pickford, motion picture star, was granted a divorce from Owen Moore at Minden near Carson City on desertion grounds. She testified crying, accompanied by her mother, while Moore did not attend the court session. Pickford remains at Genoa Campbell ranch since Feb. 15.
A fragment notes that Bayer insists on the Bayer name on Genuine Aspirin with Bayer Tablets of Aspirin on the package. It lists directions for colds pain headache neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism and claims physicians have prescribed it for nineteen years. It mentions handy tin boxes of 12 tablets at a few cents and that Bayer is a trademark of Bayer Manufacturing of salicylic acid ester derivative.
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