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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1913
Page
4
The principal branch office of the standard at Best Broadway Butte advertises independent telephone service and pricing. Advertising cafes furnished on application.
A garbled local page lists ads and notices from Butte with names such as Emma Cantlin, Miss Mayme Lacy, Mrs. Jerry Mahoney, and Yegen Bros. It mentions travel to Salt Lake, wine sales at Lisa's, clothing and hats at The Clothery, weathered raincoat prices, and upcoming memorial addresses by Dan M. Kelly. Several residents are noted with addresses in Butte and surrounding areas.
The Morgan collection of art, picture banks, and antiques in Albany New York will be exempt from state inheritance tax if the appraisal is transferred to a state committee for additional purposes by heirs within years. Also noted is the death of Alfred J. Siesel in Salt Lake City after a student from the university reportedly killed himself in his apartment.
From Indianapolis News notes a 1 000 barrel cement plant requires about 66 490 tons of limestone and 22 009 tons of clay per year. It would use roughly 1 007 910 cubic feet of limestone and p4 cubic feet of shale annually, implying a 20 year supply should be available on site.
At the King No. 5 shaft near Letst feuures Street, two miners were caught as a single deck cage moved into the sheave wheel. Frankovich, about 40, died instantly. Northey survived with minor injuries after a brutal fall.
Freankovich, born in Austria and living in the United States for 12 years, largely in Buli, has died. The body lies at Duggan's undertaking rooms. Deputy State Mins Inspector W J McGrath and Air Coroner Brew are handling inspection arrangements, with the inquest time not yet set.
A scan shows a dense list of personal names, captions, and scattered affiliations across cities such as Portland Chicago New York and Brooklyn. The fragmentary text references many individuals and pairs with minimal context, including places like Dillon Spokane Aberdeen and Vancouver.
A Belgian firm led by Glidermeester, based in The Hague, travels to St Paul and Chicago to promote a large scale colonization project in Orange and adjacent counties Florida. The Gelzo-Pierkien syndicate aims to settle up to 000 families on a vast 500,000 acre area, open to buyers of any nationality, with Japanese prospects cited and Florida laws described as liberal toward aliens.
Do you own a flag. The Standard offers subscribers who pay ten dollars for a year in advance a wool bunting two foot flag or a cotton flag. Flags have full stars and are serviceable. Call or write the Standard Bulte or Anneonday.
In Ithaca on Cayuga Lake Cornell varsity eight defeated Harvard by six boat lengths in a three mile race. Harvard's freshman crew won their race by one and a quarter lengths in 10 minutes 48 seconds, while Cornell freshmen finished in 10 minutes 53 seconds.
President Wilson remitted fines and costs for Prough, a federal prisoner from Deadwood, who faced support issues for an elderly family. The action paves the way for his release on parole after serving years for unlawfully opening and destroying a letter.
John R. Marialied and Vera Abbott wed yesterday afternoon at the Mountain View Methodist church parsonage with Rev. Wolfe officiating. The couple, formerly residents of Tutle, will reside in the area. A small gathering of friends attended the ceremony and the couple request cards for the upcoming election-related event.
A local Kenton school plans a production titled The Dictator by Richard Harding Davis. The drama follows wealth and power in Central America with a lean cast of 3 students chosen for talent. A red headed hero leads the piece as the best available youth for the role.
Broadway theater hosts a Memorial Day ceremony by the Fraternal Order of Eagles with Dan M. Jelly delivering the oration. Performers include Isaí Niet, Afra Martha Collings on sutaites, and a quintet led by Hugh Jones. The band plays selections as officers conduct ceremonies and honor a list of deceased members.
The text describes early overland mail and freight routes from St. Joseph to Sacramento as the West expanded. It notes the 1860s push to improve speed and reliability, with staged coaches, express services, and government contracts to deliver mail quickly across vast plains and mountains. It highlights engineers and managers choosing optimal routes and equipment, and stresses the goal of establishing a dependable federal mail line for rapid communication.
A conductor describes a long distance run with orders to switch tracks, load tenders with wood, and maintain steady speed. fuel agents at towns prepared for delays, and crews held to a tight schedule. The trip covered about 80 miles in roughly four hours at 19 miles per hour, crossing the state with disciplined timing.
A longtime manager of a major real estate firm in the city’s tower district, acclaimed for his calm leadership, faces a personal crisis after years of intense work and failed remedies. The article notes his age under forty, contrasts with a demanding career, and hints at a possible motive behind his actions. Local observers describe the period as tense amid mounting scrutiny.
A surreal tidbit recounts a public figure touring Philadelphia who, after a long day, was shaved in a Pennsylvanias station barber shop. A sharp-eyed barber asks if the man wears a wig, prompting the dignified response and a humorous quip about shampooing.
A German chemical plant produced hydrogen gas as a by product and laid a three mile pipe to supply it to dirigible balloons, indicating wartime airship supply efforts.
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