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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1928
Page
6
Reading like a health column says to solve large ugly pores by dissolving blackheads. Use two ounces of Calonite powder from a drug store. Sprinkle on a hot wet cloth and rub over the blemishes. Every one, big or little, will disappear at once.
The annual Butte schoolboys kite contest crowned Vero Powers of St. Lawrence with a Dolly Flyer reaching 439 yards. Tom Chang from Hawthorne and Mark Robinson of McKinley finished second and third amid a large crowd and windy conditions.
The Butte Woman's Christian Temperance Union invites the public to a campaign tea on Thursday afternoon May 10 from 2 to 5 at 1118 West Galena Street. Admission is free. a silver offering will be taken. Resolutions from a Friday meeting at 833 South Main pledge to safeguard child life, press enforcement of liquor laws, and uphold the prohibition amendment and oath of loyal citizens.
Sir Nana Ofori Atta, the first African chief to be knighted by the English king, will visit England at the invitation of the government.
Special Dispatch from Helena reports Montana motorists averaged 5.57 gallons and 7.44 miles per day in 1927, while U S totals reached 11.56 billion gallons and 1.56 trillion miles. The Montana Auto association notes wide per capita variation with Georgia highest at 739 gallons and Minnesota lowest at 359 gallons.
The Parkway theater offers a free Saturday matinee of Douglas Fairbanks as Robin Hood for all children, sponsored by Hubert Shoe Co of Butte and Central Shoe Co of St Louis. Shows at 1 and 3 pm, tickets obtainable at Hubert Shoe Store West Park, with a 25 cent evening admission. A child actor prologue and additional features accompany the film.
Lydia B. Johnson of Pierre South Dakota a lawyer and state lecturer for the Montana Woman's Christian Temperance Union arrived in Butte and is staying at the Finlen hotel. She has spoken to several city groups and has traveled abroad. Johnson formerly served as world lecturer for the World Woman Christian Temperance Union and was a national campaign speaker for the Republican party.
Judge Lynch granted Wilfred Lawson a new trial against Mr and Mrs W H Shimmin on the counterclaim while denying other aspects of the motion. The court approved several estate accounts and appointments including administratrices and administrators in multiple cases, with hearings set and bonds required. The docket lists fee awards, sales of estate property, and continued hearings in numerous probate matters.
City will begin the first of nine sewer projects on Monday. The initial task installs 1 400 feet of 12 inch pipe connecting to the 48 inch system on Aluminum Street near Dakota and Main. Earlier work on South Dakota Street near Front completed 220 feet. that work was not part of the regular summer program opening tomorrow.
Washington reports removal of British export restrictions ends Mexican guayule plant operations. March shipments of the rubber substitute totaled 1.218 million tons to the United States as production collapses.
St Lawrence parish presents the comedy A Poor Married Man at the Butte high school auditorium this afternoon tonight and Monday evening. Matinee starts 2:30 with 8:15 curtain for evening shows. Proceeds fund a heating plant for St. Lawrence School. Eight actors perform in a tale of Professor Wise and Zoie Ford with later marriage and divorce complications.
The Butte office of a national mercantile agency reports 10 commercial failures in April with liabilities totaling 246 932 dollars. Of this, 230 000 dollars stem from three eastern Montana establishments. Comparisons show 15 failures and 139 244 dollars in March and 12 failures and 101 087 dollars in April 1927. Wholesale house sales outpaced April of last year, with collections described as fair to slow.
City crews have worked a week in East Side alleys and will complete the cleanup by Tuesday night. After East Side work ends, refuse trucks will target the South Side sites to finish the large cleanup. The city flusher was operating in the business district late last night.
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