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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1902
Page
14
Western Montana office located at 110 West Main Street Missoula. Telephone number provided for advertising rate inquiries and rates furnished on application.
S inch Satin Duchesse and 44 inch Satin Duchesse offered in plain weave regular price. 2i inch Satin Touchesse advertised as high quality at 5.25 per yard.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference a person or event named Stark and a phrase Ghandal Gieper, suggesting archival material from an old local page. Context is unclear. readable bits imply a historical name or nickname without verifiable details.
Mrs Louise Bliss Robie, granddaughter of Gen John Stark, observes her 93rd birthday at a Missoula home. The Manchester Union recounts her memories of the Stark homestead, Molly Stark, and the Bennington era, noting her DAR membership and vivid recollections of the era and family life.
Number of books issued totals 1 470 with breakdowns in Fiction 1 166 Biography 21 Philosophy 12 Religion 4 Sociology 7 Natural science 31 Useful arts 6 Fine arts 12 General literature 52 History 8. The peak daily issues reached 124 on October 4. Cards issued 9 and total cards to date 2 819.
Missoula plans a winter formation of a company to construct houses for sale on an installment plan. Buyers choose house plans, payment terms set so rental credits apply toward price. G. F. Brooks has run similar ventures recently with satisfactory results. wider use could boost city growth.
Missoula notes list a steady flow of visitors and locals including J A Wolfe from Corvallis. James H Gilpatrick from Florence. H S Page from Hamilton. H H Gray from St Paul. J R Sears from Selish. John P Clancy from Victor. A D Roges from Huson. N J Williams from Plains. John Rinquette at Rankin from Potomac. A D Clinch from Hamilton. Roe Fulkerson from Viewor. Thomas Coopman admitted to Sisters hospital. Frank Worden returned to Frenchtown. Mr and Mrs Charles Emsley back from Plains. Cafe Royal sale to Mary Firdeau. William Crawford from Clinton. PD C Smith post appendicitis. H F Schwier from Hamilton. Andrew Sporup from Miles City and Nick Bower from Pony enter Garden City Commercial college. T Lachambra hosts F Rainselle and Fred Potvin of Canada. G I Talbot now with Amalgamated Copper in Hamilton. Dr Lombard reports Thomas Hathaway Jr health improvement at Hunter's Hot Springs.
Hale Johnson a well known prohibition leader and 1896 vice presidential candidate was shot at close range by Harry Harris in Bogota Jasper county Illinois. Johnson died instantly and Harris fled but was captured. Harris later died in jail by taking poison.
Police arrest Alan G. Mason of Boston, head of Mason & Hamlin, amid 15 brutal assaults in Cambridge Brookline and Somerville with one fatal. Mason a Harvard graduate and mental illness patient linked by witness accounts to the spree. authorities search his Newbury Street home found no direct ties to the attacks.
Count de Dion and M Gerault Richard fought a duel at Neuilly witnessed by 150 people including journalists. After ten bouts de Dion wounded Richard in the inner right forearm and the seconds halted the contest without reconciliation, at 11 o clock lasting about an hour.
Missoula reports 14 boarders at the county poor farm this fall, fewer than usual due to the warm autumn. Warden Frank Mix notes one sick inmate, Joseph Verden, a French speaker with typhoid fever now convalescent, and says two other French speaking patients assist with daily operations.
Missoula reports no abatement in railroad traffic as autumn remains busy. The Rocky Mountain division and western Montana district are on pace for a record year with higher-than-ever volumes. Merchants note October was strong across most trades and land office records in the county are also breaking previous highs.
Public Library report from Missoula shows October totals: visitors 1,529, readers 1,500, reference books used 75, with total checked out figures not provided. The report summarizes user activity for the month.
Missoula football players earned praise after defeating Helena and seek further tests. A potential match with Broadway Athletic club or Belance of Butte is discussed, with a return date in Helena a week from Sunday. A practice game against the university team is slated for Saturday, with additional games possible.
Missoula November 4 Estimator meetings of the Northern Pacific land department report that Mr Hunt has suffered a paralytic stroke in Mexico. He will be taken to St Paul for treatment and then brought to Missoula where his wife remains.
Coroner's inquiry at Plains found No. 3 railroad was not at fault in the death of Nick Griffin a track watchman killed Sunday night. Griffin who had been in Plains was intoxicated and struck by a train while returning to his cabin near the sink.
In Missoula on November 4 the Donahue company notified tenants on the building's second floor of Daly block that space will be required for the firm’s store. The change is planned for winter or early spring with no immediate disruption.
Mrs. A. B. Barnham returns to her home in Butte after a several week stay with Mrs. Straub in Missoula. The former Missoula resident has many friends in the city who enjoyed her visit.
The Northern Pacific Hospital report for October shows 224 patients treated. Of these 148 were surgical and 47 were medical cases. There were 160 discharges and 69 patients remaining at month end. Two deaths and one transfer occurred.
President Roosevelt will attend the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania celebration marking George Washington’s initiation into Freemasonry. He arrives at 11 o clock and is escorted to the Masonic temple. a gold medal from the U.S. mint will be presented. He will depart by 3:50 p.m. train to Washington.
A notice inviting visitors to Missoula Nursery greenhouses or to contact the city store on Higgins Avenue for more information.
Water will be shut off citywide from a. m. to 4 30 p. m. on Sunday November 9 for system maintenance and service restoration.
General Superintendent Horn of the Northern Pacific spent last night in Missoula. W. I. Terry, chief clerk of the maintenance department, has resigned and will leave the company November 16 while remaining in Missoula.
Junge Gong a prominent Chinaman died Sunday night in Chinatown of heart disease His funeral was held today with all the ceremonies of his race Interment was made in the Chinese cemetery
Springfield November 4 Dr L C Taylor physician to Governor Yates says the governor's condition has improved and the delirium from fever on Monday has nearly passed. Tonight his temperature was 101.9 degrees and his overall state is listed as satisfactory.
November 4 report states rebel forces remain in the interior with no shift in control or positions.
A Pennsylvania railroad worker Briner found a crate with a snake and reptiles on the station box while whistling to ragtime. The crate from Chicago held a python turtles and lizards. It belonged to Dr. Fredrick Hans Gadow of Cambridge University who lectured here recently.
Uncle Mose-Heresy proclaims possum unfit for consumption. Bruddah Eph-Wot questions the preacher’s judgment in a lively exchange about dietary customs and local beliefs.
Rear Admiral Casey has informed the Panama Railroad Co that government troops may travel on special cars across the isthmus. Colombian troops encamp along the line while health improves. A survey of the sunken steamer Lautaro is underway by American engineers and four divers, the same team that raised vessels after Manila Bay.
General A W Greely, chief signal officer, reports Alaska has 1121 miles of land and submarine cables completed in 40 months. The Philippines system expanded to 6454 miles of lines and cables, with 2600 miles added that year under Colonel Allen. Greely urges a Pacific cable and international telegraph regulations with war department representation at London conference.
Washington reports that Consular Agent Ignacio Baiz in Barcelona Venezuela complained of a forced loan. United States Minister Bowen in Caracas ordered the gunboat Marietta to Guanto, the nearest point to Barce.
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