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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1909
Page
4
A comprehensive collection of women's tailored suits featuring olive gun Ottoman cloth, gray novelty surped, herringbone worsted, rose serge, and olive stripe fabrics. Noted for semi fitting backs, panel fronts, circular gore skirts, and satin trim with Ottoman silk buttons. All suits priced at 24 dollars.
A textile display showcases new cotton dress fabrics with diverse patterns and colors at low prices. Highlights include printed lawns, batistes, figured organdies, silks, and sheer linens offered by the yard with substantial discounts from standard rates.
A local store advertises deep discounts on household linens including damask tablecloths, napkins, towels, and sheets. Items feature reduced regular prices across sizes and qualities, with specific examples such as damask patterns, extra heavy table linens, and standard sheet sets.
A meeting of the railroad and transportation committee and the merchants promotion committee discussed extending rail service to boost tourism in Butte. Directors and promoters from Missoula, Helena, and Butte explored increasing incentives, park access, and side trips to attract visitors, with plans to coordinate National Park access and rail rates for Montana.
A bold sales feature promotes Hennessy quality furniture with flexible payments and no red tape. It touts cash-basis prices, large stock, and bargain dining room sets including oak dressers, tables, chairs, beds, and brass pieces with heavily discounted prices for immediate purchase.
A dramatic sale offers 42 piece to 100 piece dinner sets at bargain prices. Items include 42 piece at 3.95, cottage sets 4.45, 100 piece at 9.95 or 14.95, six cups and saucers 59c, six decorated plates 59c, hotel side dishes dozen 60c, and individual butters 19c. Limited stock, emphasis on domestic porcelain quality and special prices.
A Socialist Party ticket filed lists Mayor Witkin St. Pierce and treasurer J A Vanhorne with aldermen for wards one through eight. No police magistrate candidate named. Also notes Marion Louise Charette, 6, daughter of W F Charette, died yesterday. funeral arrangements announced. Robert Jansen funeral planned for Wednesday.
The article accuses Mayor Corby of overspending city funds, noting past two hours of appropriations the largest in Butte history and annual overruns. It cites figures for the year starting May 1904 and year ending 1909, claims income won’t exceed 370,000, and criticizes a proposed license law affecting livery stables, rooming houses, eateries, and other businesses.
Salt Lake. March 2. United States district court Judge Marshall fined Union Pacific Railroad Company Oregon Short Line Union Pacific Coal Company and J M Moore manager Union Pact Coal Company 2000 each Everett Buckingham division traffic manager Oregon Short Line 1000 These fines follow a suit by D J Sharp Coal Company alleging a conspiracy to refuse hauling coal already purchased by Sharp The jury found the defendants guilty of conspiracy in coal transport all actions listed.
Women’s waists in white lawn and chimbrys offer tailored, decorative designs. Gibson style vents, lace, tucks, and embroidery. prices range from 88c to 3 dollars, with varied sleeves and collars. Store showcases include outfits with yokes, panels, and ornamentation in refined styles.
Silks and dress goods go on dramatic sale with low prices. Bonnet black French taffeta, 27 inches wide, 7 cents a yard. vine black alteta, 27 to 28 inches wide, 68 cents a yard. colored messalins and duffeta silks, 1 inch widths, in multiple colors, 45 cents a yard. Pongees and tassahs offered at reduced rates, plus wool dress goods bargains with heavy serges and mohairs at low prices.
Domestic fabric sale offers bargain pricing on muslin seersuckers ginghams and flannels. Regulars listed with yard prices and lengths, including heavy muslin, padding and outing flannel. Limited stock noted in factory short lengths from 10 to 20 yards.
Defaminat ilroats appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States is noted as the case moves forward in anti trust matters. The brief references restraint of trade and violation of the anti trust Law, signaling continued legal action at highest court level.
J Walsh sent nine communications to the mayor and council asking damages for personal injuries from a January 30 fall on an icy East Park Street sidewalk near Ghia. He claims city neglect to enforce sidewalk cleanliness caused the fracture to his right arm and lost time at Elk Work. He is willing to settle for the amount he claims out of pocket, 159 dollars. Funeral notices follow for William T Williams and Harry Whitekty with times, places, and officiants.
J O Scott reports from Almostend that a new Salmon River road project has started. Contractors and sub-tracks are on site with camps and preliminaries in place. The survey differs from years past, routing via Junction pass rather than Trail creek, lengthening the route but improving grade. Salmon City and surrounding areas celebrate the railroad’s imminent completion and the hoped for economic boom across Northwest mining and commerce.
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