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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1914
Page
19
Mrs Janet McKonele Hill presents a nut cake recipe marking it among the best all around cakes. The method uses butter sugar flour milk and nut meats with a simple icing made from sugar chocolate water egg whites and vanilla.
The funeral of the late Bate Shepardson will be held tomorrow Sunday afternoon at O o'clock at the residence of her sister Mrs Peter Toy 45 Missoula avenue with Rev Walter M Jordan officiating Burial will be in the family plot Mountain View Cemetery
The Butte Mining Exchange hosted a crowded meeting of the Democratic county committee and party workers. Committeemen discussed petition circulation for a state supreme court nominee, precinct boundary maps, and appointing committees to ensure maps and forms are ready for the Friday meeting. Names touted for county commissioner include Harrington, Sheehan, Gultont, Johnson, Duff Ment, Lally, and Simonson, with others likely. signatures must meet legal requirements and voters may sign multiple petitions for different Democratic candidates.
The Commercial Bulletin notes fair wool trade in the week for foreign and domestic lots. Western new wool sold to manufacturers at firm prices. demand in foreign wool remains firm. Prices for washed and unwashed delaines across Ohio, Michigan, New York, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kentucky, Texas, California, Oregon show varied but generally steady to firm, with specific staple and blood classifications listed.
Dr Thwing president of Western Reserve University argues the present materialistic age aids churches. He says man is religious at heart and the reaction from materialistic things has turned him toward the church.
At a Butte Bankers' Association executive meeting the dates August 2 21 and 22 were set for the state convention to be held in Butte with about 250 guests expected. Committees were named to arrange hotel accommodations speakers and entertainments as well as reception plans and travel notices will be sent to all Montana members. Prominent financiers from New York Boston Chicago St Paul and other eastern cities are expected to attend and speak at venues likely including the courthouse or the Auditorium on Broadway.
Detroit May 18 Ten men most of them chemists died in an explosion of acids and chemicals in the mixing room of the Mexican Crude Thubber company today. Four other injured were removed from the debris and likely to a hospital. The building a one story concrete and cement structure was wrecked and nearby structures suffered damage. The loss was about 458000.
A complaint received in Butte yesterday accuses Thomas F. Cole and others of mismanagement and stock robbing at Giroux Consolidated Mining, Consolidated Copper Mines, and Butte & Ely Copper. Captain Wall seeks receivership and dissolution, citing 32 pages of sworn detail and past dealings, with figures on ore tonnages, copper content, and stock valuations.
The complaint details alleged mismanagement of the company and its property, citing the Cole report of 1911 on ore treatment contracts. It notes a 1911-12 rise in activity, stock sales, a fatal shaft fire, and Cole's indebtedness of about 600000 for heating plus 190000 in bonds. Thompson’s cash offer and control of Giroux and Butte & Ely are mentioned, with stock ownership in Utah Copper noted. The document seeks removal of Cole interests and critiques management policy.
Mrs Bonnemoret a famed cattle and sheep figure in Utah died at her Salt Lake City home. Born in Scotland in 1865 she came to Utah in 1885 at age 20 and soon built a successful sheep and cattle enterprise. She later entered real estate in Salt Lake City and accumulated a fortune estimated at two million dollars.
Thom as R.Ryan, a millionaire land owner who vanished five years ago from Marion Arizona, has been located in a Manitoba hospital. Detectives and agencies had pursued leads along the Pacific coast, through the Rockies, and across the continent before the discovery.
Five centuries old Westminster Hall in London has its wooden roof repaired for the first time in 90 years, marking a long awaited conservation effort by heritage specialists.
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