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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1913
Page
14
A vintage advertisement urges parents to use Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna for children and adults as a gentle laxative and bowel cleanser. It touts a tasty fig flavor, claims quick relief from constipation, and advises asking for the full product name at druggists.
Butte city council street and alley committee held a meeting about street railway changes. The line will move from Galena Street to Shields Avenue then east to avoid two sharp curves, aiming to start by July. The committee also approved southwest route extension on Emmet and Arizona Street paving from Park to Troxowase, keeping current track location.
Woodmen of the World delegates left for Kalispell to attend the annual lodge meeting. They urge reinstatement of miners cut off from death benefits and insurance, arguing the 1913 action harmed minor members and caused division within the Montana Grand Lodge.
About $100,000 of the $271,000 stolen from the Bank of Montreal branch in New Westminster British Columbia was exchanged for U S currency by Chicago saloon keepers according to a detective agency chief. Saloon proprietor Michael J Flanagan was arrested along with two men accused of handling the funds. Lawler and O Leary were also detained on suspicion of aiding the robbery and the fourth man suspected of involvement remains at large in Chicago. The three vault robbers await trial while authorities pursue the Chicago suspect who allegedly supplied Flanagan.
Pressburg Hungary May 18 8000 residents homeless as the ghetto built to save women and children was destroyed. Orthodox Jews refused to labor on the Sabbath until the chief rabbi granted dispensation. The ancient ghetto burned while onlookers watched and did not aid in extinguishing the blaze.
The American program today features "Bred in the Bone" a frontier drama of thrills and intensity. An Indian half breed seeks vengeance on a frontier fort planning a massacre during a soldier absence but is thwarted by the colonel's daughter who uses artillery to stop him.
London on May 1 reports King George and Queen Mary began their journey to Berlin to attend Princess Louise's wedding. They travel aboard the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, with British warships escorting to Flushing, Holland, where a German flotilla will meet them and convoy to the Dutch coast.
Topeka May 19 1250 riders expected in Kansas motor cycle patrol under governor and bank commissioner's leadership. Plan aims for statewide coverage as the first such program nationwide. Also notes murder case in Mount Auburn where Mayor Windsor was shot at the railroad station, Slate charged, coroner’s jury contemplates grand jury action.
Amended filings allege Joseph Hensehke seeks 80000 for injuries from an October 16 incident at Butte Superior Company where a steam hammer caused the loss of fingers. Thomas Bennetts aided, warnings ignored as a drill sharpener malfunctioned. Howard Grady seeks 10000 plus 125 for medical bills after an automobile crash involving a defendant’s car near Gregson Springs. Charles Blackburn administrator quotes 1203 claim against AG Blackburn estate settled for 40 with heirs unopposed.
From Wiesbaden to the May finish, Lieutenant Kanter won the aviation contest's top prize. He received the emperor's prize for best aggregate achievement and other awards before a banquet. Prince Henry of Prussia lauded German aviators and compared aerophine progress to the navy.
In Portland Oregon on May 19 a violent confrontation involved nearly 30 union pickets and non union linemen at the Oswego Home Telephone exchange. The riot used stones bricks hand axes and heavy objects breaking all windows. Thirteen strikers and three company workers were arrested.
The city slow to lay 89 feet of cement sidewalk on the north side of Daly street. The street and alley committee have notice that it would inspect all the city's streets this week. Cleanup day was postponed to a date to be set by Mayor Hriney.
Ossining May 1. John Mulrane, condemned for murder, was electrocuted at Sing Sing after an appeal to the governor. He wore a smile to the end and bid cheerful good byes to fellow inmates. The Patrick Me Breen case tied to the Rosenthal murder linked Becker and gunmen among 14 who faced death.
Mrs Anna Doyle, deemed insane by Dr T B, was committed to the Warm Springs asylum after a period of wandering last week. She had missing for three days and two nights before a search party found her in the hills. She previously became violent at the county jail and had to be restrained by several people.
Portland Oregon May 1 J A Ralston an aged man who was a tool of others and carried opium from Seattle pleaded guilty in the United States district court and was sentenced to nine months in the county jail United States Attorney Johnson urged leniency due to age service to the government and his role as a tool in the smuggling ring Berlin May 19 Emperor William granted pardons to ten English spies serving long German sentences amid King George visit and a new supply of Comium vaseball scorers is announced for Standart offices in Butte and Anaconda priced at 1 each including mail orders
Ada Dunscomb, a middle aged spinster, was found dead in her Yonkers residence with no food in the house. Coroner Dunn labeled the death a starvation, noting the mansion’s neglect and years of dust and disrepair while the brother Whitney, aged 60, kept to himself and neighbors questioned the family’s wealth.
Denver prepares for its first commission government election with 134 candidates across six posts. The ballot features fourteenth for auditor and twenty seven for each of four other roles. five women among candidates and many current city county officials. Ballot uses headless and preferential voting. In Kansas City, darkness and a severe storm prompted cellar checks and minor traffic incidents.
The motion for a new trial for Jack Johnson, the boxer convicted under the Mann White slave act, was postponed due to the absence of Assistant United States District Attorney Parkin who prosecuted the case. Horace Greeley Burt, former Union Pacific president and chief ab His death at age 81 announced.
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