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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1917
Page
6
Washington officials unveil the method for registering citizens under the selective service bill. Governors lead county and city registration with sheriffs, clerks, and mayors coordinating boards and absentee registrants may mail cards. The plan emphasizes civilian officials and voluntary volunteer registrars nationwide.
In Bannack Montana editor W B Chapman recounts a tale told by a prospector about a Mormon plow fused with a gold bearing amalgam. The golden plowshare sparks a camp tale of digging seasons around Grasshopper and Bald Mountain with vigilantes and Last Chance diggings nearby.
Butte residents were invited to Portland to attend the Rose Festival set for June 13 to 15. The event features patriotic elements including a replica Statue of Liberty and a White House button lighting, a formal dedication of the interstate bridge over the Columbia River, and a monster pageant with twenty thousand children called human rosebuds.
Aghael Curtis, scheduled to lecture tonight in the Butte Chamber of Commerce rooms on road conditions in Montana and the West, could not arrive in time. The lecture, to be illustrated with stereopticon slides, will be given tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. the public is invited.
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