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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1916
Page
7
A description of graduation gift items from Hallmark featuring gold lavalieres, pins with gems, platinum stud pins, cuff links, rings and diamond solitaires. Items range from $2.75 up to $100 with emphasis on genuine stones and newly mounted large diamond solids.
A garbled survey of local notes lists people visiting or traveling, including Miss Ida James going to Omaha, Miss Hatch from Dillon, Joss Parish at the Leg wat, Wade of Helena in the city, Mrs. James Park to Salt Lake, J. E. Hay in town, and Mrs. C. C. Kirkwold departing for Chicago. Also mentions studio services, donations, and various small notices about operations, deliveries, and social events at St. Lawrence parish school and local churches.
John Jepson, 34, was duped by con men posing as Butte sharpers in a long-running monte game. They lured him from Idaho to Montana and Oregon, wired funds, and lost him about $9,998 after a series of phony bets on horses including Tress and Harold House. Spokane police issued a warrant for the alleged Bunco artists.
An 18 year old Mise Nellie Sawyer and sisters from Kit Point Me sent their names ages and address in a bottle and received a France letter saying a coast guard found it. Reports discuss the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads and a possible extension into California if a Nevada California Oregon union is formed. Armored motor cars described in war use with frames of steel and multiple rifles per soldier. source omits which army these measures serve.
Mrs. G. E. Turner, a southern born traveler, stays at a Butte hotel recovering from illness caused by worry as she continues a steady, unresolved search for her husband who disappeared three months ago after living happily with her in Salt.
Mrs. Turner asks for help locating her husband Mr Turner who left Butte on a business trip and later communications stopped. Described as 5 feet 8 inches, 200 pounds, dark hair and gray eyes, smooth shaven, with a Masonic lapel emblem. He traveled for John Deere Plow Co and may seek work in implements or gasoline engines. Any information should be sent to Mrs Turner care of the Standard.
The text outlines a well appointed guest room with a book rack and softly tinted walls in grays or tans as a calming background. It highlights a well stocked desk with varied pens, house paper, telegraph blanks, envelopes, and other implements for efficient correspondence.
Washington May 20 The administration shipping bill aimed at building a merchant fleet, by authorizing government purchase and operation of vessels until two years after the European war, passed the House 211 to 161 with two Democrats voting no. It heads to the Senate as Democrats and Republicans previously blocked a similar measure.
Horatio Vuncan serves as treasurer at Wesley, noted for 61 years of service and over 30 years as secretary. Colleagues praise his accuracy and diligence, calling him a model in good bookkeeping practices.
A gun firing a nail carries a rolled poster that unrolls on impact. The Pacific coast states hold about 40 percent of the nation’s remaining water power potential, signaling vast energy prospects.
Sergeant Frank P. Vayo, company quartermaster at Fort McKinley in Portland, Maine, raises four sons in a soldier’s discipline. Frank, 10, Percy, 9, Harold, 7, and Reginald, 6, are described as well bred and living as if they were in the army, each child adopting a seat like those used in barracks.
The article notes Ingusa Thomson, a noted physicist, explains radium’s phenomenon linking its atomic systems to its rays. It discusses how radium behaves more like matter than heat or light waves and hints at the science behind its nature.
Adoption of eastern standard time by Detroit in May 1915 caused a loss of one hour of lighting for the Detroit Company, materially impacting business outlook for 1916.
A report notes that a watch wears with 432000 impacts per day on its escapement fork and would reach about 1578800000 annual blows or 8153000000 in twenty years. It claims one horsepower could operate seventy million watches in theory.
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