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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1912
Page
11
The prime purpose is to offer a safe convenient way to save and deposit small sums. State Savings Bank in Butte Montana accepts deposits from $1 and compounds interest at 4 percent. The bank invests in bonds while keeping funds on hand to meet daily business needs. Inspect the safe deposit vaults.
Frank Metzel and partners from the Ruby country purchased over 1 000 head of stock cattle in eastern Montana. Cattle move to Alder and then Metzel ranches for summer feed. George Mudd shipped 4 head or more from Billings to Beaverhead valley with arrangements to feed. A bridge crossing accident drowned 23 cattle and caused about 1200 dollars loss.
Washington reports the Pray Bill allowing sale of burned or damaged timber on public lands and unperfected homestead entries. The law authorizes the interior secretary to auction or seal bids, with proceeds deposited to a burnt timber fund and provisions for payments to qualified settlers and entrymen under specified conditions.
In Kalispell the editor lauds Billy Mulaney as a top license seller while highlighting Thomas Murphy who is 93 and recently received a fishing license. Murphy signed with a mark as his handwriting faded with age. The piece also notes game wardens moving toward elk shipments to stock forests and reports a new carload of elk arriving at Stevensville amid Daly deer park conditions.
Townsend will gain new business blocks macadamized streets cement walls a public park and a new electric light and power system. Radershburg with its Vitalizing railroad forecasts a building and mining boom as Toston Winston and other valley towns plan measured steps. Broadwater county shows a year of material progress inspiring even pessimists.
The Kalispell Inter Lake notes Delaware boasts a long highway spanning the state yet its small size compared to Jocko township in the county makes the claim seem less impressive.
Advertisements at branch agencies will be treated as if placed at the main office in Butte or Anaconda. The rate is one cent per word and ads will be telephoned directly to the Standard office for prompt publication. Branch location: BUTTE EAST SIDE O Lirey s drug store 1017 Talbot avenue.
Ad rates listed per word with daily or rate per inch. Rates shown include one time and monthly options. No display or heavy type used in classifieds.
A Montana employment office advertises varied services with commissions or fees. It lists percentages such as 7 Utah and 18 percent Bell and 2 percent in indirection, indicating multiple job or agency terms.
Several Montana listings advertise a range of properties and businesses for sale or rent. items include two to four room frame houses with varying lots and prices, land near a streetcar line, a prosperous dry goods business, barber shop, and multiple horese and farming assets. Listings name owners and locations such as Helena Butte and White Sulphur Springs with prices and terms.
The Lewistown Democrat quotes a frenzied global scene with China, socialists, assassinations, Turkish conflicts, coal miners strike, Mexico, Persia, and Europe’s powers. Prose mocks wartime tension, Taft, Roosevelt, and Wilson under fire as world events tumble.
Doc Wiley laments in the Red Lodge Picket that a piano culture is supplanting the cook stove. He suggests that if some girls cannot cook as well as they play, perhaps that trend is for the best.
Ed Alderson jokes about train delays and letters as a lovelorn man laments late mail. He recalls 1866 when Bozeman received mail by cart from Virginia City and each recipient paid $1, noting how fortunes in mail service have improved.
The Billings Journal notes with alarm the surge of assassins and train holdups in the East and warns that only federal government force may quell the unrest. It contrasts eastern fears with western stability as it discusses potential federal intervention.
The Harlowton Commercial club banquet signals strong support for creating Wheatland county. Delegations from proposed regions heard speakers on possibilities and benefits with Harlowton likely the county seat. Notable names include A C Graves fund providing courthouse site and Judge F K Cheadle addressing possibilities.
Per month earnings presented for sales of nursery stock. No experience required. Good territory now available. State preferred area and apply for details to the Nursery at 1206 Yeon Building, Portland Ore.
Classified notices and ads feature a nurse seeking a housekeeper role for an invalid lady or gentleman in Butte Montana. Also listed are varied poultry sales including Buff and White Orpington hens at two-dollar price points, incubators, and laying hens for sale with contact details in Helena Butte and Walkerville.
The Kalispell Times reports the Billings Gazette editor urges farmers to crop dill pickles and similar preserves in the Yellowstone valley. Potential markets for chowchow piccalilli and tomato catsup are noted as profitable possibilities.
Butte March 4 listing shows green salted hides at 11 to 4 cents per pound, green salted hip and calf at 12 to 4 cents, dry hides and skins at 20 to 2 cents, dry sheep pelts full wool 2 cents, wool 17 to 2 cents per pound in car lots from J. E. Hample 5 East Broadway.
Dr. Leese at 20 Pennsylvania Avenue Butte Indiana advertises curing corns bunions and ingrown nails with painless treatment. Eight cases reported as cured with no soreness and minimal charges described as moderate.
The Hamilton Republican notes that prior to the latest elk shipment to the city the rapid increase of elk in Yellowstone Park was not widely recognized and there is now insufficient forage to sustain the herd.
Suke 18 offers fashionable dressmaking and children's sewing services at 10 W. Granite in Butte. Professional alterations and custom outfits for youngsters available. Contact for fittings and personalized designs.
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