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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1902
Page
6
An advertisement extols the New Gem Safety Razor as easy for any user to operate with slanted stroking technique. It highlights ready-to-use setup, simple cleaning, high quality English steel blades, and a guarantee for free blade resharpening, with prices from $2 to $20 and a stropping machine option.
Montana Jockey club invites bids for 40 days or more of racing at Butte starting June 21 1902. Privileges include bar fruit and confectionery ice cream parlor lunch counter boarding house popcorn and peanuts and check room. Bids may cover all or any single privilege. Bids due May 26 1902 at 2 p m with 25 percent certified check.
Mrs. Havilah Squiers argued vegetarianism as healthier, economical and moral, citing theosophical views and historical advocates. She warned against meat’s harm from slaughterhouses and disease, urging a shift to plant based diets to lift ethics and evolution.
W FE Gailey of Anaconda toured Kansas and Missouri for three weeks and passed through the city yesterday on his way home. He describes record heat, stripping to undergarments to cope, and notes locals accept the heat as normal for the season while he found it intensely hot by contrast.
Travel ads announce round trip fares via Salt Lake City to Missoula Missouri St Louis Chicago San Francisco and Los Angeles on dates in May June and July. Fares range from 34.50 to 60 with reserved berths available through Oregon Short Line at 105 North Main Street Butte Montana. H C Wilson is the general agent.
Beginning Sunday May 25 the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company will charge 50 cents for a five minute conversation between Butte and Salt Lake. The reduced rate applies during nights and Sundays for one month.
Michael Maguire attacked Christopher Fisher with a hatchet after Fisher found him at 247 East Silver Street aiding Mrs. Fisher. Fisher, now seriously wounded but alive, was treated by Dr. Sullivan. Maguire suffered minor injuries. Both men are in custody as Fisher acts as a witness and Maguire faces assault with intent to kill charges.
CC E Lentz of the Big Show Mining company expresses strong confidence Pony will become a major mineral producer. He notes the North Star has yielded 5 000 in silver from a small area and that the North Star extension and Lulu mine adjacent, with the Big Show mine itself, promise large returns as a concentrator is built on the Big Hole river. Lentz plans East consultations before starting concentrator construction, expecting handsome dividends for stockholders once ore is processed.
A sale of foulards, black taffeta silks, and maire silks offered at reduced prices. Foulards praised as ideal silk for summer, with many colors and finishes. Black taffeta silks valued at 75c now 50c per yard. Maire silks priced from 1.00 to 2.00 per yard.
A shop offers extensive dress fabrics with wide selections including all wool sacking jet black serge and cheviots, etamines, crepe Egypta, mohair suitings, and grenadines. Prices range from 42c to 2.00 per yard with many items marked below standard values and several features such as Prunella cloths at discounted quotes.
Seasonal collection features white dresses and flouncings for confirmation communion and graduation. New Persian lawn flouncings in 27 to 30 inch widths with embroidery and scalloped edges priced to entice. Fine Swiss flouncings with multiple insertion rows and lace offered as novelty pieces at reduced prices. Matches and ensembles highlighted as best in the state.
18‑inch allover Swiss embroidery dainty design valued at 1.25. 20‑inch allover Swiss embroidery open work valued at 1.75. 1.00 inch allover embroidery for waists and yokes valued at 2.00. 20‑inch Swiss embroidery rich for summer waists valued at 2.50.
Wide selection of Valenciennes laces in multiple widths and patterns with bolts priced from 50 cents to 1.00. Fine French Valenciennes laces and insertions offered, plus cotton torchen laces suitable for trimming dresses. Limited quantities advertised with bold discounts.
Business Men's association asks members to close shops Monday from 10 to 12 during Mrs. P. J. Brophy's funeral. J. E. Rickards, President.
Rev. M Hudtloff of the Ger man Lutheran church preached in English on Be Not Ashamed of Christ drawn from Romans 1 16 He contrasted Pauls fearless defense of the gospel with those who fear confessing Christ and urged believers to follow the apostle as their example The gospel reveals Gods love and the savior Jesus Christ and compels belief without shame.
Excursion rates announced for Burlington route with round trips to Omaha St Joseph and Kansas City on May 31 and July 4 5 6 at 34 50 dollars June 7 10 14 and 6 5 0 5 percent at 42 dollars Chicago trips June 7 8 10 14 16 at 53 50 St Louis trips June 7 8 10 14 16 at 49 50 Three routes East listed via Billings St Paul and Denver Apply at 35 East Broadway H F Ruger Agent.
Northern PacificRailway offers round trip tickets for the Shriners meeting from May 28 to June 9 with routes to San Francisco and Los Angeles and return. Fares shown: 50 dollars San Francisco and return 50. 60 dollars Los Angeles and return. Stopovers allowed both ways. final limit 60 days from sale. For details contact W. H. Merriman general agent Butte Montana.
July 4 5 and 6 Northern Pacific Railway offers a round trip to Minneapolis at 34 50 with final limit September 1 stopovers allowed on return trip Fares appear through G A Office W H Merrimas corner Park and Main streets.
Catholic churches across the city observed Trinity Sunday with solemn high masses and ritual services. Sermons stressed the festival's significance, and choir music complemented the worship as authorities note Trinity doctrine affirmed by key biblical passages and creeds.
Special correspondence from Riceville reports a small cyclone between Riceville and Goodmans ranch last Friday. It damaged about half a mile of fence and scattered wire and posts, twisted trees two feet thick, and blocked roads with fallen timber. Miss Nellie Goodman is improving after two weeks illness. Ernest Beaudeth family plans to move to Anaconda on June 6. Margaret and Ellen Herson arrived from North Chelmford, Massachusetts to live with their brother.
The Great Northern Railway offers Pasin and return for 1.50, Boulder and return 1.50, Alhambra and return 2.30 with travel on Saturday or Sunday returning Monday. Basin and return 1.00 and Boulder and return 1.00 for Sundays only. Tickets at 41 North Main Street and at the depot.
Northern Pacific Railway offers round trip excursion tickets to St Paul and Minneapolis for 34.50. Tickets valid for return until July 31 with one stopover allowed. Office located at Park and Main streets.
Butte Anaconda and Pacific railway tickets are on sale to Anaconda and all intermediate stations at the Great Northern ticket office located 41 North Main street. Time card and freight rate information is cheerfully provided.
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