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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1907
Page
16
Hennessys Grocery advertises best quality and prices in Butte for Monday. Flour prices may rise after stock runs out, 49 pound bags at 1.25 today. Pickles celery soap potatoes raisins baby brooms honey butter and soups priced for daily needs with promotional phrases and limited stock notes.
A graphic display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York features a mounted allonaurus skeleton posed as if tearing apart a brontosaurus. The scene, dating eight million years, evokes a brutal Jurassic battlefield with the predator watching for possible threats while feeding.
Atlantic City police ordered a citywide probe into cocaine trafficking after locating two youths in a lodging house with guns and burglar tools. Detectives will target druggists and individual vendors, watch drugstores, and push quick prosecutions. Suspects Lewis Zeigler Nicholas Loraine Walter Lawrence Lester Freeman and Mike Smith were held for a grand jury hearing after admitting Cocaine usage and theft to fund their habit. Witnesses Nan Churchill May Guthria and Stella Shriner testified rooms were looted and plans to ambush a man named John Morris were uncovered. Police Captain Woodrutt launched the crusade with cooperation from leading city druggists.
A government plan aims to root out illicit drug dealers by enforcing good standing standards and punishing those who supply illegal substances. The initiative focuses on insulation measures and ferreting out illicit activity to curb supply.
In Peoria a Delavan child named John Daniels died after a thorn scratched his eyeball. He was in apparently good health two days earlier and attended school. Physicians pursue diagnosis as they cannot determine the cause of death or find a parallel case.
May 19 Chicago Board of Trade records a historic week as dollar wheat sparks unprecedented activity. Brokers and clerks work through endless orders from Maine to California while prices rise on strong buying and profit taking. May wheat gains 4 1/2 cents, daily values shift amid a crop-shortage outlook.
An elderly woman in Paris told a magistrate that upon entering her flat she is compelled by a magnetic influence to walk on her hands. Others in the same residence claim the same, including her son and brother, with a commercial clerk and Paul Reiss also reporting the phenomenon. Police investigated at Rue de Montreal.
A speaker recalls a chaotic scene as an applicant describes tenants on a troubled floor. The magistrate concludes the house is afflicted with a curious malady and orders the entire floor disinfected by municipal authorities. Applicants depart satisfied with the outcome.
In Martin's Ferry Ohio a dog owned by Frank Snodgrass arrived home with a severed woman's arm. Police suspect murder and believe the arm belongs to a young married woman who vanished two weeks ago. The dog is chained as police search for the husband who reportedly eloped with another woman.
Deputy sheriffs Wheeler and Tracy brought Annie Berryman and Tim Keating to Butte early this morning. Berryman faces adultery charges and Keating counts statutory assault. Berryman is also sought as a witness in a separate $25,000 damage suit filed by Mike Daly against Sheriff Henderson.
Harvey Stack was arrested at 2:30 yesterday on suspicions tied to the Andrew Young robbery and a Northern Pacific holdup case. Former officials Warren and Ulainoland attended Paddy Jennings counterfeiting trial in Seattle while Stack’s limp aided his arrest. Dillon reports twenty carloads of yearling sheep shipped from Birchdale stock farm with buyers Bicknell & Oxman. over 25,000 in value and 25,000 dead in the shipment.
A Shriners funeral train arrived in Buffalo with 25 bodies and five injured after crossing the continent. The report notes earlier efforts by Sir John Sinclair to import nightingales to Scotland, including eggs bought for shilling and hatched by foster mothers, but the birds did not return from their migration.
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