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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1920
Page
7
The ad claims rheumatism is uric acid in the blood and warns against topical salves. It promotes Swift Specific as a fifty year blood cleanser guaranteed to be vegetable and easy on the stomach. Readers are urged to consult a physician and request free advice.
Rhode Island will send 15 delegates to the Chicago Republican National Convention on June 6 who go unpledged and uninstructed after a party leaders conference. Livingston Beckman to head the delegation with eight members chosen, including three from the Leonard Wood club. Delegates to be elected at the April 6 convention. Countess Tolstel seeks relief in Constantinople after fleeing Odessa, joins Red Cross staff as interpreter at headquarters near Pro in the Prinkopes. Gladstone believed Homer to be a real historical man.
A verdict for 20400 in the case of Helen Lowney versus the Butte Electric Railway company was returned by a jury after a three day trial in Judge Lamb's court. Wilbur A. Hoar, conductor and co defendant, also received a favorable verdict. the jury later clarified his status. The suit, brought by guardian William Lowney for Helen Lowney, aged 4, claimed personal injury from a fall while lifting from the car to her mother. Medical testimony described a head impact and alleged permanent injury to vision and other faculties.
Police raided a gambling operation at 25 South Main Street leading to John Mabie and three others posting $100 bonds each. Mabie, Jackson, and Francis were found guilty after cards and chips were produced. Additional fines were handed to Kane and Harrington for a Chinaman laundry disturbance, and other intoxication related penalties followed at North Main and 340 North Wyoming.
Silver Bow County prepares to issue a 10000 road bond to fund construction. Marco Medin, sue foider for the project, traveled to Helena to oversee work and meetings with equipment suppliers. Deer Lodge bonds have already been sold and Medin's firm bid on Deer Lodge work.
J Bruce Kremer has purchased the Kelley residence in the 800 block of West Park Street with transfer arrangements completed recently The house was built about 15 years ago by Mr Kelley who lived there until moving to New York Kremer does not intend to occupy the property.
The page lists a collage of theater names and show titles, including AMERICAN Charles Ray in 10 Alarm Clock Andy and TALTO The Luck of the Irish, ANSONIA Will Togers in All a Husband, EMpress stock company in A Daughter of Mother Macree, BROADWAY Pantages, Vers, ORPHEUM Peery Hyland in Epaith, LIBERTY The Gray Towers Mystery.
Manager Merle Davis reports the current Pantages vaudeville bill at the Broadway is among the best on the circuit. The program features On the High, a large ocean tale with a German traitor and a wireless operator, plus 11 acts and a Universal weekly. The Anson’s presents The Broken Melody, a romantic drama by Ouida Bergere, starring Lucy Cotton and Corrine Bark, with Willam P. S. Earle directing.
A telegram to Miss Emily Lyman a Mute school teacher and club member reports the sudden death of her brother at the Jol d home in Kenosha Wisconsin. She left by Northern Pacific for Kenosha last night. Also brief notices describe Yaqui surrender in Sonora and a mill accident in Wallace Idaho where Robert McGrath was killed by a belt.
Readable fragments indicate Butte city expenses for 1918 cover water, sewer, street cleaning, lighting, and general city services. Clerk Irvine notes savings versus prior year with total spending around 463,000 for the year under contract with a disposal company and related departments.
The city council adopted resolutions mourning the death of former council member and president Charles Swanson. The notice praises his long service to Butte and Silver Bow County, noting his integrity, business sense, and dedication to public welfare, and expresses sympathy to his wife, children, and relatives.
The Nevin-Frank company filed articles of incorporation with the county clerk recorder. Capital stock totals 875,000 shares valued at $1 each. Directors include John BE Thomson J B Silverman Charles PB Nevin Frank and Sol Genzberger. Aimed to engage in general mercantile business including soft drink manufacture. Also notes a National Grange statement disapproving a presidential candidate questionnaire. A separate notice reports the Dashing Wave, a former fast sailing vessel, now a cannery barge, leaking in Alaska and likely total loss. efforts to float her have failed.
Maj. W. Calvin Wells, federal prohibition commissioner for Mississippi, urged lawmakers and law abiding citizens to reveal who supplied intoxicating liquors to legislators stating he believed sales were being made openly to members of the legislature in Jackson Mississippi.
County assessor Kelly says he will welcome an inquiry into property assessments in Butte and Silver Bow county. He notes facts can be checked by anyone following his records and expects the probe to uncover unequal valuations, especially by estate firms, where some properties appeared valued at $2.50 yet were raised many times.
Dr. H C Gardiner of Anaconda spoke to Butte Business College students on Montana phosphate resources. He noted worldwide crop needs for phosphoric acid, described Montana and Idaho deposits, and contrasted Europe imports from Algeria and Tunis with U S lack of local deposits. He highlighted Montana as a potential supplier with a growing midwest and western islands supply gap. A separate note mentions a motor driven unicycle patent by an Iowa inventor using gyroscopic wheels.
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