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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1920
Page
7
An advertisement lists multiple properties with built in features and reasonable payments. One six room home asks 6200 with 2000 cash, a four room bungalow at 2100, a three room cottage in Wilson Park at 1100 with 75 cash, and a three room near Emerson school at 1350 with easy terms.
Early today the counting of 400 votes for chamber of commerce directors continued as a 30 member committee tallied ballots from less than a quarter of the membership. Votes for more than 500 nominees showed a tight race with many candidates receiving only scattered support and no clear winner emerged.
Mexico City reports a textile workers strike affecting about 20 000 employed in cotton mills and thread factories in the Federal district. The strike has caused widespread unemployment totaling over 100 000 indirectly linked to the industry. Advices from Pachuca indicate a labor shortage with potential 20 000 more jobs, while miners in that region reportedly earn 1 peso 80 cents for an eight hour day. The Industry Secretary notes Yucatan has destroyed over 1 000 000 pounds of henequen due to the strike’s firebrands.
A federal court session is scheduled with Judge Bourquin to hear a petition for the return of personal property in the case of John A. Burkland. Italian manufacturers have developed an abrasive cork-cutting method that wastes only three percent of the cork compared with twenty percent by traditional methods.
London dispatch says the Middle Classes union urges a defense alliance between capital and labor during U S rail strikes. Capt Stanley Abbott notes rising UK membership and 150 centers with 1000 new members weekly, while branches form in France Australia and South Africa. Josemond Boultgan organizes in New York, as unions expand to defend daily work and food supply during disputes.
The Middle Classes union announces plans to publish their own paper and form topic committees. Col Pretyman Newman chairs the union and will move in Parliament for a royal commission to review laws affecting individuals, potentially revising the 1906 Trade Disputes Act. The aim is to protect the ridle classes and address taxation issues raised in the house.
The 49 hours devotion begins this evening at 7 o'clock and ends Sunday evening. Tonight Capt Edward McAdams chaplain of the Troops stationed In Butte will preach. Saturday Rev Patrick Casey of Mount St Charles college will speak. Sunday Rev James G Tougas chaplain of St James hospital will deliver the closing address. A full attendance from the south side parishioners is expected.
General Francisco Villa spoke in an exclusive AP interview at his camp near Boquilla Chihuahua on May 19. He outlined plans for the revolution and said a conference with rival leaders will determine whether the movement continues or ends. Villa, with around 20 men, guards approaches and keeps his band under strict vigilance while awaiting talks with Calles who travels from Juarez to Best City.
After a three and a half month absence in California for health reasons Dr I D Freund has returned to Butte. He appeared in excellent health and expressed pleasure at being home again, saying the long rest benefited him greatly and he was greeted by friends yesterday.
International News Service reports a French designer railing at English women as frumps and praising about fashion to the Daily Mirror. The designer says the key to style lies in detail, while the press weighs in on which nation's women dress best.
Washington May 20 Efforts to settle the army reorganization bill resumed tomorrow with house and senate conferees after the house rejected the bill over national guard provisions. Chairman Wadsworth called the conference following senate amendments. Labor leader Gompers protested provisions he said could trigger conscription of industrial workers in a national emergency. Senator Thomas and adjutant generals opposed federalization by states, while Senator McKellar defended the national guard.
An old advertisement text promotes genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin with the Bayer Cross emblem and packaging claims. It touts relief from headaches toothaches neuralgia and rheumatism and advises buying unbroken packages and 12 tab tins, noting availability from druggists in larger packages.
A meeting of the league last night appointed a committee to cooperate with the Woman's council in examining officials' records. The group will focus on enforcing abatement and prohibition laws and aims to interest Montana's representatives in addressing the sugar shortage and high prices.
A Framingham, Massachusetts youth applies to Mayor Stodden and C. Oren Smith for a Montana cattle ranch post as bookkeeper and top writer. He offers to resign a Framingham treasurership to work on a large ranch with air access, pilot an airplane, and manage horses, listing world travel and military service as qualifications. The man also relinquishes his claim to run a cattle empire in Montana east of Fergus county between the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers. The mayor must decide based on information about a large ranch owner in the state.
John Parker of Belfast, born in England, has gone nine years with no head covering in all seasons. He recalls driving hundreds of miles bareheaded despite temperatures around 10 degrees below zero, claiming never to have frozen ears or suffered headcol ds.
A vintage ad promotes Zemo as a clean antiseptic liquid for itching and irritated skin. It highlights easy application and no grease, offering a 29 cent trial size or a 1 dollar bottle. Zemo SOAP at the end notes The E W Rowe Co Cleveland.
A brief notice reports that Temedy and Taki resume schooling after a health recovery. The item notes harmless preparation moves the catarrh and intestinal tract, with Se er mener Ae all druggists referenced.
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