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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1917
Page
7
The Montana hay market faces an acute shift as the East becomes a primary source for hay due to a severe winter and high stock numbers. The Northern Pacific Railway announced equal freight rates for hay moving eastward, reversing prior patterns that sent hay from eastern to western regions.
The Willing Workers Club presents a playlet The Ninepin Club this evening at Emerson school. Girls taking part include Paulina Maier Helena Maier June Stewart Jean Merritt Margaret Moffatt Neva Turner Alice Rothwell Elizabeth Lance Bertha Milyus Eileen Stewart Rose Coggins. Children play birds: Hugo Gillis Judith Kingsbury Thelma Wolfe Stanton Wolfe Gordon Lafleur James Andrews Bobby Andrews Dorothy Cleveland Ruth Hamill Dorothy Hamill Osborne Lester Crystal Faulkner Phyllis Boas Andrew Sundberg Violet Smith. Program also features The Teddy Bear Parade piano solo Barbara Wright song Helen Small and dance Irma Law. Admission 15 cents. School circle hopes for large attendance.
The work of planting 60 000 pansy plants was completed at Columbia Gardens yesterday under Victor Siegel’s direction. The children of Butte are assured of plenty of pansies this summer and free pansy days will continue. Planting will begin on the varied collection to make the garden display, with geraniums to be planted around June 18. Attempts to grow roses at the greenhouses failed, and labor costs push imports from St Paul.
Ray Cumming and his brother Willie of Drummond have enlisted and are stationed along the Pacific coast in the recruiting service. Mrs. H. S. Cumming will travel to California in June to visit her sons. Mainsprings priced at $1, Mayer's jewelry shop at 21 West Park, Montana.
In Butte the Rialto faces a cinema mishap when the fifth reel of Hell Morgan and His Girl is accidentally replaced with Little Eva. Manager Jensen and staff scramble to locate the misplaced reel across towns from St. Paul to Seattle, leaving audiences puzzled before Idle Wives is held over. Meanwhile Flora Bella a Russian musical comedy to open at Broadway next Friday promises light entertainment.
Hello Japan a two act vaudeville production at the Broadway Week program with Jack Claire and Vincent Erne as principal funmakers. The show features a shipboard scene and a Japanese garden, with attractive dancers and strong comedy.
A recruiting office of the Second Montana will be opened today in the courthouse to enlist volunteers. Captain Perry, commanding F company, will run the office. Only 64 men are needed to reach full strength, with 602 more needed to fill the company. Volunteers may be promoted and proceed to Helena for regular army recruitment on July 25. Non volunteers conscripted later will be placed in a non promotional division. Major Sargent and Captain Perry commend the willing response. Dandelion greens noted as good salad and boilable greens with spinach as Young plants suggested. This plans to supply cod and weed control.
Montana enforces strict bounty rules to curb fraud in coyote and predatory animal payments. Chief stock inspector Frank Lavigne in Butte details required skin presentation, four paws and jaw, and local residency for claimants to prove legitimacy. Idaho and Wyoming payouts lure theft via partial skins, so inspectors tighten verifications and sheriff scrutiny.
The article describes an ancient Westminster Abbey eastern Cloisters door that requires seven keys for opening and is protected by iron bars. Five keyholes are hidden behind a heavy iron bar and the door is said to be covered with human skins as part of the tale.
The doorway opens to a vaulted chamber called the chapel of the Pyx whose walls endure since before the Norman invasion in Sussex. It was England’s treasury housing the state’s cherished items including Holyrood’s cross and years of gold, once the scene of a bold robbery. The chamber holds a stone altar, old chests, and a chest reputed to have stored Norman kings jewels.
The early asparagus shoots are described as a much esteemed but only slightly nutritious food. The text notes the young snouts form upon sprouting from the earth and are valued for culinary use despite limited nutrition.
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