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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1909
Page
17
Butte publication provides office address at 23 East Broadway The Principal Branch Omen of the Standard with telephone 422 and independent line 1 422 advertising rates furnished on application.
Butte community listings show rent pianos from Orton Bros and local dentists Drs. Cole and Tait. Trains to Pipestone Springs at set times and notices on contest coupons. Real estate ads for Daly estate orchards in Hamilton and Welsh Harrington offer ten acres with delayed payment.
Mrs Lucy Parsons widow of Albert Parsons speaks in Butte about the Haymarket case. She claims innocence for the eight accused and aims to spread anarchism and defend her husband with trial records. Parsons travels from the Pacific coast to Denver after stops in Spokane.
Advert suggests Basin now uses an automatic phone to reach Butte. It promotes French lisle and silk lisle half hose at 25 cents a pair, with original prices 50c 75c and $1. The notice also mentions two large windows and a Moyer name plate for vehicles, endorsed by F. M. Grady, agent in Butte.
Right Rev. John P. Carroll, bishop of Helena, led confirmation services in Butte area churches with sermons condemning modern stage productions as a disgrace. He urged abstinence from drink until age 25 and spoke on rising divorce rates, drawing large congregations including 44 at Immaculate Conception and about 100 at Sacred Heart with 50 choristers.
A promotional note stresses caution with prescriptions urging patients to avoid risky, inaccurate drug filling. It touts expert registered pharmacists and guarantees freshness, strength, and purity. The service promises no mistakes and warns against dangerous outcomes from incorrect medications.
The 40 hours devotion at St. Joseph’s Church began with a solemn high mass at 1 PM and runs until Tuesday evening’s devotional service at 7 30 PM. Father Leiham leads with neighboring priests. confessions are heard daily 4 to 6 PM in all languages spoken in Butte. daily masses 5 30 and 8 20 AM and 7 30 PM services.
Warren K. Gilbert presents a dramatic pictorial lecture at Broad Way Theater on Monday and Tuesday, using 150 colored views to depict the Messina earthquake and Italian life from Rome to Pompeii with wit and sober treatment, promising entertaining and instructive entertainment.
May 24 marks Empire Day commemorating Queen Victoria's birth. In Centerville St George's hall hosts a dance and entertainment by the Daughters of the Sons of St George with Capt J W C Taylor as the speaker.
In Helena a hotel lobby crowd discusses a new automatic telephone. Townsfolk resist at first, yet promptly praise long distance service to Butte as the automatic line proves popular. Funeral notices follow for Claudie Warren Austin Hanran and Joseph Stein with masses at Sacred Heart Church.
The Billings Journal argues Montana commercial clubs and chambers of commerce should press the board of managers to use native Montana building stone and local contractors for the state house addition. It says outside workers or foreign products pose no danger and promotion could boost state products.
President Flynn urges Butte Miners union members to vote on the May 4 referendum approving or rejecting the settlement between Brewery Workers of America and the Western Federation of Miners. The letter notes the agreement followed by the unions and asks voters to cast ballots between 9 am and 9 pm and accept or reject the deal.
John Delmont, 55, of 62 East Park Street, is hospitalized at Murray's after a dislocated right shoulder during a heavy timber lift at the Speculator late Saturday night. He stumbled into a low mood and strained to save himself and his load. The Southern Hotel is noted as the city’s only moderate priced hotel, run by Joseph McGovern.
The Knights Templars honored Ascension Sunday with a march from the Masonic temple to the Baptist church. Rev. J. E. Noftsinger preached on Kingship and Knighthood, urging modern knights to live by Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords.
Awnings tents and canvas goods offered by Macaulay at 17 North Arizona Street. Contact bells Ind 6118 and Bell 1129Y for orders and inquiries.
The Black Patti musical company presented Blackville Strollers at Broadway last evening in a two act musical comedy of singing and dancing. Miss Sissieretta Jones as Black Patti appears in the second act with a remarkable voice in new favorites and enduring songs. The supporting company is large and active.
Attorney General Wickersham informed the House that he has taken no steps to annul the contract for the United States Steel corporation’s purchase or control of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company. The note emphasizes no action and references related commodities and prices mentioned in the source.
A New York report notes a directoire style dress shown on Fifth Avenue and Broadway. The outfit features olive chiffon broadcloth, a 56 inch train, and Chantille lace, with trousers visible when in motion and no underskirt allowed, causing lingerie costs to shrink.
The death notices list James Chatham Ellen Anglin James Sullivan and George Sasso with funeral services at St Lawrence St Joseph Holy Savior churches. Services are from homes or Sherman Reed funeral chapel with masses and processions noted.
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