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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1908
Page
4
Prices drifted in narrow ranges as large operators quietly trimmed holdings. Activity waned with cautious sentiment, reflecting expectations of price protection via support orders and reduced speculative trading amid mixed copper and bond news.
Local newspaper fragment shows classified ad copy about job requests and housework help, with garbled text and partial listings. Mentions coatmaker wanted, housework help of any race with references, and a few scattered city names and phone references. Also includes market notes on spelter and treasury statements, plus currency and metal price mentions.
Classifieds announce positions for barber training eight weeks with free tools, and trades like electricity plumbing bricklaying plastering with free catalogs. Employment notes include axemen, carpenters, wood workers, and general shop work in Kalispell, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Montana towns, plus rental offers and rooming in Butte and Anaconda.
The report details May delivery strength amid heavy winter wheat pressure, noting high May prices and weaker December values. It mentions cattle and hog receipts, market tone, and a staple Santa Claus piece before concluding with a humorous golf mishap anecdote and a short Christmas reflection.
A dense block of classified notices offers unsecured loans at low rates, estate mortgage funding, furniture and time check loans, and real estate financing from multiple firms and individuals in Butte. Also listed are requests for horses, ranch eggs, business partners, detectives for hire, stove repairs, cleaning and dyeing services, upholstery, assay work, and various rental and service ads.
A garbled Butte page lists sale notices and classified ads for secondhand furniture and carpets, mining equipment and mills, horses and driving stock, and a quartz and placer mining notice. It references Butte firms like Butte Machinery Co and Dillon area auctions with dates and contact details, plus spiritualist and physician ads and a notice of a stock assessment sale by Daniels Mining.
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