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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1923
Page
2
A local paving campaign in Butte urges residents to contribute toward a road project with a 1 percent car purchase limit. Committee members predict success, noting regional fundraising precedents and calling on area business leaders to attend Monday’s meeting for final reports.
Har S. New the postmaster general will likely visit Montana in June and attend the postal conference in Helena on June 18. If unable to attend personally he will be represented by one or two assistants. The meetings aim to improve postal service with a preceding session for postal employees and business leaders.
A boy named Ernest received a gut wound when a truck incident occurred. He later told his parents the full story, exonerating his companion and the truck driver. The father described his son as a Spartan child showing remarkable restraint.
The Anode journal notes March safety feats across Anaconda Copper Mining mines in Butte. Hal Rahilly led a fire crew with 7 480 shifts without accidents. Leon ard mine logged 16 089 shifts with one minor incident. W S Collier tops shift bosses list. three non fatal accidents at Great Falls smelter and seven at Washoe Smelter with one fatal. The issue also reviews the Mines Baseball league by Al Sundberg.
Jenkins faced a second degree verdict after a trial over the fatal shooting of Bert Wall by a neighbor the night Wall and his wife were at home Jenkins 58 faced five years under the parole law and his past peaceful record noted The case featured testimony from Wall’s family friends and jurors heard details of moonshine trips and the fatal shot with the gun later claimed by Jenkins who testified he took the weapon from Walls hand and tried to explain the sequence of events during the scuffle
The Montana dispute over physician permits surfaces as Dr. Dan J. Donohue faced revocation and reinstatement after issuing 100 quarterly prescriptions plus 139 emergency permits. A federal review found no law violation and urged reinstatement. The case echoes broader fights over medical liquor prescriptions under the Volstead era with Judge Knox questioning enforceability of limits.
The process uses small or unsalable figs which are kiln dried roasted and milled to a coarse meal then compressed into small oblong cakes.
The death of Mrs Kate McNamara 75 at 160 West Copper Butte follows a brief illness. Arriving in 1883 as Miss Kate Mahoney she helped educate growing generations under J. R. Russell in Butte's early school system. She married William J. McNamara owner of Poulin mine.
Washington May 19 approximately 4500 acres of land in Fergus county Montana will be thrown open to entry by ex service men under an order issued today by the interior department.
Davenport Iowa physician Dr W O Coffee announces a treatment that allegedly cured his catarrh deafness and head noises after years of suffering. He offers a 10 day free supply to any reader who writes with name and address.
Mrs Amelia C Schuttler died yesterday at the home of her daughter Mrs RR Cole 1127 West Mercury street Butte she was born in London Jan 14 1842 and lived in Detroit Chicago Belt Mont Anaconda Butte She leaves two grandchildren Lester Cole and Mrs W A Kesler and was active in Red Cross relief during Civil War Spanish American War and World War I era
The obituary praises a woman for lifelong service to soldiers in the field and hospitals. She is described as happiest when engaged in labor for that cause, always active, devoted and helpful to those around her.
Otto Young Heyworth, heir to a 16 million fortune, denies desertion charges in the divorce suit filed by his wife Helen Marie Patterson Heyworth. The "penniless millionaire" has begun work at a Denver bank, and a decree set for next Thursday is not expected to be contested.
New Orleans La May 19 Thousands of dollars damage fell on houses streetcar tracks and telephone and electric systems as a severe rain and wind storm hit the city Some sections reached cyclone proportions No lives were lost but dozens were injured in accidents as cars struggled through flooded streets
James Brennan, a veteran Butte mining foreman, is vacationing in California with his family. The 42-year Montana resident began in mining in Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado, rising from pumpman at Green Mountain to foreman of the Emma mine after leading crews at Mountain Con.
Walter Belt of Corvallis Oregon who earned a pharmacy degree from Oregon Agricultural College will serve as an instructor in science at Canton Christian College in Canton China. He sails for China on August 1.
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