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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1914
Page
20
A rebel air unit conducts bombing raids on Mazatlan, aiming to strike strategic targets as tensions escalate in the regional conflict. Military authorities report intensified air activity and damage to port facilities.
Advertisements placed at branch agencies receive the same treatment as the main office in Butte and Anaheim. A rate of 1 cent per word applies. Ads are telephoned to the Standard office for prompt publication. Listings include Butte west and fast sides, walkerville, Centerville, and nearby drug stores with addresses.
Classified notices offer jobs and housing in Butte Montana with mentions of rail labor salesmen clerks and servants. Employers seek reliable energetic workers and middle aged women to manage homes. Several listings show ad lines for sales managers clerks and drivers with pay details and references.
Property listings advertise irrigated ranch land eight miles from Ananda for forty dollars per acre. Also offered are a trust typewriter with books, shorthand course, Campbell plane, music books, and various household items. A moving and furniture exchange promotes cheap bar fixtures and secondhand goods. Anaconda and Butte firms solicit inquiries.
A garbled compilation of classified ads from Butte Montana offering businesses for sale including a general store with merchandise and fixtures, a 2 room modern house, a grocery store, B and general merchandise. Additional notices request trades for safes, furniture, and mining gear plus junk shop relocation and various services.
Numerous short 판매 items list for sale furniture including rooms, house fittings, desks and chairs, barber shop equipment, and mahogany pieces. Livestock like horses and poultry are offered with low prices in Butte area. Contact details reference local businesses and addresses in the city.
A terse local notice requests turkey eggs for a set pot from Te Gramling of 2986 Fi Hutte and lists Box 7 in Butte. The fragmentary item implies a trade or exchange request appearing in a historical newspaper page.
A flood of rental notices from Butte listing furnished and unfurnished rooms in various blocks including Broadway Main and Park. Several suites with private baths, modern housekeeping rooms, and small house options priced around 9 dollars to 12 dollars monthly. Widespread ads seek tenants for front rooms, suites, and single rooms and include exchanges and nearby Anaconda listings.
Classified notices offer loans on real estate and chattels, plus a dense mix of rental listings, repairs, and services across Butte and surrounding Montana towns. Advertisers include banks, assayers, dye houses, and tailoring services, with numerous room, apartment, and house rentals scattered through the page.
Washington report cites US Geological Survey figures showing secondary metals value at 72.845 million in 1913, down from 77.396 million in 1912. It notes scrap sources and refining regions, with copper, lead, zinc, and tin recovery details and mentions an Anaconda, Montana business formation by Jacobson sisters.
A 1914 notice to contractors calls for sealed bids by the Lewis County Montana Board of Trustees for a brick and concrete school building on Central school grounds in Helena. Bids must include a 1000 dollar bid bond and may cover heating, plumbing, and wiring separately. Proposals addressed to Thomas E Goodwin, Clerk, Batty Block Helena.
Denver May 18 assurances by the secretary of war there is no immediate plan to remove federal troops from the strike districts in Colorado coal fields. Governor Ammons seeks US cavalry presence until state forces can handle the situation. Funds for a $1,000,000 bond issue and $400,000 already spent are noted. A legislative committee will meet May 2 to advise on restoring order and peace, and to consider mediation and possible plans for settlement of the strike.
In Lima on May 1 a group of 121 tanglers and deputies convened and proclaimed themselves a national congress. They named Roberto Hontieua vice president and presented a manifesto from Dr. Leguia, who fled to the Chilean legation seeking safety. The action escalates Peru’s political crisis, with mentions of Paytum and a manifesto issued to the nation.
An OCR fragment outlines classified ad pricing asking for per word rates for daily or supplementary insertions, noting a monthly figure and different terms. The readable portion suggests a request for rate details and unit costs. No clear organizations or dates are present in the fragment.
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