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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1906
Page
23
Western Montana office of the Standard located at 130 Higgins avenue Missoula. Telephone number 118. Advertising rates available on application.
Missoula announces several civil service examinations over the coming weeks for positions in the Geological Survey and the Philippine service. Salary ranges include 1 to 60 per year and 300 per annum for specific posts, with eligibility extended to wives and relatives of current or former civil servants. The Ravalli hotel in Hamilton, Montana, will remain open year round as a note of continued operations.
Missoula March 22 The last of the series of union evangelistic services held by the Baptist and Presbyterian churches in the city will be held tomorrow evening at the Presbyterian church The efforts of Rev Ernest W Wright of the Presbyterian church and Rev Henry Van Engelen of the Baptist church have been successful A musical program has been arranged with the Young People's chorus reading and singing and a large attendance is anticipated.
Missoula officers receive a message from the American Humane Society in Albany urging local action against the amendment. The notice calls for influence to oppose the proposed legal change and asserts concerns about animal welfare and enforcement. The communication arrives amid ongoing civic debate in Missoula on March 22.
A period era notice extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for nervous prostration in women. It quotes testimonials from Mrs. M. E. Shotwell and others in Brooklyn, claiming relief from sleeplessness, irritability, backaches, and exhaustion after doctors failed. The ad emphasizes close nerves to reproductive organs and urges women to try the remedy.
Discussion centers on the proposed transportation limit for live stock with humane society positions urging a 24 hour maximum travel time without food or water. Senators and representatives nationwide are asked to write in support of tightening speed limits on livestock trains. The Missoula notes report local residents and officials visiting, transfers recorded, and land contest actions as varied county activity continues.
Missoula reports show Alling of Helena bound home via Missoula after a coast trip with Montana news writers. He plans to file later stories, then continue to Helena. also C C Willis cites a storm uprooting between 5 and 19 million feet of timber on Evaro hill and urges government action to save timber for lumber before decay. The Missoula Water Co. denies plans to meter private homes, but will meter hotels laundries and other heavy users.
Gaspard Des Champs closed a deal to purchase the JW Wilson implement stock on East Cedar Street in Missoula. The sale values the business at about $10,000 with Menard set to manage the operation under the new ownership.
William Freund and family arrived in Missoula from Northern Michigan on March 22 to settle permanently near Missoula. The party are rivals and relatives of C. A. Arnold of this city and have brought all their effects for the ranching transition.
A Hamilton dispatch lists local visits and business through the week. Allan of Allan, Stick & Co. visits Cort Valuis. Tyler Thompson of Missoula Mercantile visits Tuesday. surveying chief Harveys Lord travels on duty. Bean returns from Helena. Justice Morris case verdicts noted. Residents John McGinley family lease their ranch for Butte. W Blannnail of San Francisco, Ti. Van Alta of St. Paul, and We. Ronbin of Butte register at the Ravale. Tacob Thravnall of Woodside visits. George McDonald of Eau Claire arrives for business and registers. George Saiderman, longtime Anaconda Copper miner, resigns and plans to move to Butte. A. O'Hara visits Stigouta. F. S. Edwards on Rats Hole ranch. Harlan of Ham Iron Flour Mill travels to Spokane to inspect the mill.
Lynn D. Ambrose takes charge of YMCA rooms in Missoula until arrival of new head from the East. He will lead the Junior class on Saturdays and midweek sessions, as a reorganized physical work program begins next week. Plumbing repairs restore full operation. daily hours run 10 am to 10 pm except Sundays. Sunday meetings at 4 pm feature speakers and singers.
Missoula March 22 The fate of the Higgins block to Conrad Kohrs will be overhauled for modernization at an estimated cost of about 415,000. A new elevator will be among the improvements and the structure will be updated in every way.
A promotional piece extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a universal remedy for stomach and digestive woes. It claims the tablets can transform lives, compares Napoleon’s fate to potential cures, and urges readers to act now to restore digestive health and vitality. The tone mirrors early 20th century advertising rhetoric.
The party, including Seamen Vumy, Perry, and Macklernan, sailed for Cape Dilley as long awaited news broke. The Terra Nova with W. Chamfon on board had headed to Cape Flora to pick up the party before returning to Cape Dillon. Open roads, surface water, and provisions stored, the sledges prepared for the first journey. life remains quiet as the crew departs.
From Cleveland Moffett in Surcrme Magazine argues that while churches seem devoted to the common good many Americans would be startled by his critique. He compares church investments to vast industrial assets and contends that unused capacity and idle time reveal a misallocation of wealth and reverence.
The Registrar General of Ireland reports the estimated population fell to 4,071,000 in mid 1908 with a slight uptick in 1961 births 103,811 and deaths 51,8. The birth rate shows a rise 21.5 per 1000 while the death rate stands at 7.6 per 1000. Net natural increase 24.29 percent, migrations minus 23,002, immigration offset not recorded. Also notes two Pennsylvanian railroad passes freed for Miss Anne Thomson and Mrs. George R. Roberts traveling freely on the system.
In York Pennsylvania on March 22 Allen F Brillhart of Dallas Town installed barn lights that mysteriously burned each night. Neighbors suspected haunting until patrolmen and workers caught a mare named Phoebe manipulating a switch to keep the lights on while feeding herself.
A garbled scene from a comic opera on the roof shows characters including Humpty Dumpty and Dick Blankenship amid rage and mischief. The ward tender refuses help, matter of private performance discussed, and a blush elevator man allegedly turns away.
The body of a Frankfort carter was found on the main road to Wiesbaden with his horses and wagon nearby. Police say he was run down by a motorist, who they believe dumped the body in a field and drove off to escape. No clue to the perpetrators.
London March 22 Owen Seaman has been named the new editor of Punch. A Cambridge man from Clare College he comes with a strong literary reputation. Fellow editors Hall Strachey and Spender are noted as university trained. Seaman has authored several volumes including The Battle of the Bays which critics acclaim for its technique rivaling Calverly.
A report details how a cardinal became a victim of a skilled con artist. The swindler used plausible schemes to gain trust and access, leaving investigators short of solid clues as the case unfolds.
A visitor described as an English speaker traveled through Valencia and Toledo presenting letters of introduction and claiming to be an aide-de-camp to a royal official. He met Cardinal officials and dined publicly, but authorities later arrested him when a large number of manes were found on his person, indicating possible deception and intent.
Norristown March 22 The judge frowned at a grave marked Our Pet in St Peters burying ground North Wales erected by Charles E Bean about a year ago The court ordered removal within two days The case involved ownership of the cemetery stone and the duty of trustees to enforce the ruling and the dog’s owner argued the stone was his property but the church trustees refused to permit it to remain
Plainfield New Jersey March 22 wed married at midnight to obtain the dying blessing of the bride’s mother Mrs Jane Jennings died within an hour after the ceremony The couple Mr and Mrs Philip Drake planned the burial of Mrs Jennings who had urged the marriage at once and called upon Rev Dr Chambliss of the First Artist church to perform the ceremony
Ta Crosse reports a bride of a week, Sherwood, age 20, was pronounced dead by physicians and about to be embalmed when she suddenly revived in a near-burial scene. Family watched as she sat upright in the coffin and demanded to know why she was in the tribe cult?
In Allegheny the five year old son of a laborer burglarized Homner & Co store. He climbed to the three story roof at 10 PM and lowered himself by a rope to steal goods on the west floor before being discovered. He is jailed on burglary charges.
The article traces Cinderella to ancient roots, noting Charles Perrault published Cendrillon in the late seventeenth century and claimed earlier versions from Rhodopus. It then shifts to contrast ancient Egypt and London’s noisy streets with crowded markets, drays, and street hawkers.
Burgess Pennypacker of West Chief Pa admires newspapers and tells Wilmington Y M C A that newspaper men stand at the outpost of the twentieth century. He credits Philadelphia papers with cleaning Pennsylvania and notes they know what the people want. A curious quote about a woman’s view of a man who might have married follows.
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