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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1916
Page
10
An old advertisement touts Tin as a cure for sore feet corns bunions and swelling. It markets a 76 cent box at drugstores claiming immediate relief smaller shoes and yearlong comfort for 26 cents with no limp or pain.
The Good Government club of Butte, in a noon meeting, unanimously urged the county commissioners to appoint a matron to oversee all women prisoners in Silver Bow county jail and recommended a graduate nurse and a social worker for the role. Speakers stressed humane treatment, prison reform, and starting support at home in Silver Bow county.
Alfred C Dent, manager of the pond department at Merchants Trust and Savings Bank of St Paul, arrived in Butte and will stay until Tuesday. He will then proceed to Great Falls to oversee his bank’s $150,000 water bonds bid. During his visit he met with Mayor Lane at the Silver Bow club and questioned Why Butte would issue 3 per cent bonds when 1y per cent municipal bonds bring a premium. Lane explained the bidder must cover nearly every city warrant and be exchanged for bonds, a process with high eastern bonding-house costs.
The Eagles arts team of the Butte area plans a Wednesday night event at the gardens with Helena drill team performing an exhibition. Chestra Gardens provides music for the fundraiser supporting the Butterell team at the Billings state convention. Tomorrow features a spelling bee with Miss Sylvia Finley and Miss Virg Gramling named head spellers and other committee members listed. prizes and opportunities to showcase quickness are promised while a separate crime note reports six men held on $100 bonds after an East Park Street incident tied to a gambling game and police investigation.
A garbled report outlines parade organizers seeking a set of cars for a local parade plus weather notes and baseball trade chatter. It mentions Mayor Lane, Gonzaga college links, and a shift in game plans due to a field rollout and a weather forecast by YR. Wharton. The piece covers player movements, including Giddings and Sells, and umpiring notes from Blewett and Howell with coastal team activity and trades amid a busy sports week.
An old remedy advocates drinking hot water with a spoonful of limestone phosphate each morning to cleanse the stomach and intestines. It claims the practice improves complexion, energizes the body, and removes toxins, urging readers with pale skin and constipation to try the powder sold at drug stores.
A dated advertisement touts Plant Juice as a cure for stomach trouble and nervous exhaustion. A testimonial from Orlando Dickson of Derry Pa credits dramatic relief for his wife after trying Plant Juice, praising restored appetite, better digestion, sleep, and nerve strength. Sold by Newbro Drug Co in Butte and Smith Drug Co in Anaconda.
Airs. Ea Passmore was elected president of the Lincoln Circle of the Parent Teacher association at the weekly meeting. Miss Mary Healey elected first vice president Miss Reett Stephens second vice president, Miss Roasiter secretary treasurer and Miss Griffith chairman the press committee. The group discussed playing grounds and methods for fundraising to equip them.
Five hundred copies popular and instrumental numbers priced at 10 cents each. Orton Bros. announce the sale, located at 216 218 North Main Street.
In recognition of four years of loyal work bringing athletics to Butte High School a move to enter Dutch Molthen in the national high school track meet in Chicago was launched by George F. Downer, city superintendent of schools. Molthen may run one of the two half mile events after training. He is in good condition and has shown top form in events this season, though he did not set records at Missoula. Spokane sent two entrants last year and won second place. The plan includes securing funds to cover Molthen’s trip and studies.
Fred Hall of Spokane succeeds Maureen Walter as telegraph operator in the Northern Pacific office at Butte. Maureen, not well known among PittsMont business men, moves from the rate department of the Pittsburgh smelter to new duties, with Walter and others noted in company records.
At a large meeting of the Butte Boosters club in the city hall, plans were set for a Monday night opening parade to boost baseball. The city will host a mass meeting with Governor Stewart and state officers invited, a reception for the Tacoma club, and a grand parade with police marshal and band leading from the courthouse to the station.
Dr. and Mrs. George D. Woodward of Camden are guests at their daughter Mrs Stanley Home tes 12 West Broadway. Dr. Woodward is surgeon at the Romeopathic hospital in Camde NAVY DAY PROGRAM Boston May 18. The Charlestown wave sara 40 vessels of War BAW' deen' assembled visited by crowds in navy day program. New York arrivals report 600 Greek and Serbian refugees among 1,409 steerage on Duca d Aosta. Performers named for Shubert and Dillingham revivals with Jeanne Engels, Vernon Castle, Blanche Hing, Marie dressler, and Francis Dordstrom teams.
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