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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1916
Page
10
A historical health ad urges starting each day with hot water and limestone phosphate to cleanse the stomach liver and bowels. It claims flushing waste improves digestion appetite and overall well being. The piece promotes a quarter pound of limestone phosphate from drugstores as a cheap daily aid for constipation bilious spells and complexion issues.
Pantages vaudeville maintained its high reputation with a strong Broadway program. The Petticoat Minstrels led the way with song and settings, while Aries Seamon staged quirky musical conceits and Mae Curtis charmed with wit and songs. The Iron Claw continues its suspenseful saga, and the show runs for four more days with two performances nightly. The carnival zone opens tomorrow with Major Fink’s band playing noon and 6 pm. Anaconda day will offer low round trips from the Anaconda & Pacific Railway.
Ogden Examiner praises the H W Campbell United Shows as the largest and finest carnival in the world. The review highlights clean, bright equipment, thoroughbred horses, and a show that blends circus and carnival elements. Campbell’s company has grown since last year and now presents an expanded gathering of amusement devices.
The Country Gentleman notes a hobo and a farmer clash over work times. The hobo claimed a farmer hired him in a busy season, worked at 9:30, ate supper, then woke at 4 to continue. He said the job was the best place he ever night Uncle Sam's cigars and tobacco cost him $850,000,000 a year.
Allied and German actions across Verdun and Champagne are mapped with French gains near Le Mort Homme, German trench losses and retreats, British pressure on Loom and Wieltp, North Lancasters reclaiming a Vimy crater, and Austrian reports of Italian evacuations near Rovereto and Monte Maggio. Italian prisoners exceed 14,000 with 107 guns seized.
Saratoga Springs May 20 An effort to adopt a report favoring discontinuance of several Methodist Episcopal church magazines failed. Majority plans to seek publication authorization for four more years. A minority proposed consolidating periodicals after four years of net losses totaling 381,416. Physical union of Northern and Southern churches could occur in 1918 if conference accepts a plan to meet at bishops’ call rather than four-year cycles. Conference postponed balloting for missionary bishops. Dr Virgil A Davis reports 672 Americans aged 90 plus, oldest 138, noting many are honey users. salt and pepper usage low. British view of war losses cited at 20 million dollars.
A description highlights combination material for summery costumes. It notes a salt white taster ilk with a deep embroidered hem border in French blue on a tunic, and a short blue taffeta coat with white collar cuffs and buttons.
The new St Bartholomew Episcopal church will occupy an entire Park Avenue block from Fifty to Fifty first streets and likely cost over 4 million. Rector Dr Leighton Parks says subscriptions of 100 000 are needed beyond small gifts. Congress expects these sums will be forthcoming. Engineers report a feasible two mile tunnel from Venice to Lido island, with sections 27 feet below the sea.
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