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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1920
Page
3
A reader recalls a Chicago layover during a Westward trip where a trio of crooks used the lock game to theftly coerce a bet and his cash. He loses his money, pawns baggage, and vows distrust of filmflammers after the deception.
News reached Butte of the marriage of Charles Treacy, former city clerk, to Lena Bowman in San Francisco. The couple, previously connected to Butte and the Symons store circle, were reported by Mrs Nell Humphrey. Treacy left Butte three years ago for San Francisco and is now bound for Boise, Idaho.
A Butte cablegram says Mrs. Rose Kroner, 85, mother of Mrs. M. L. Heiman of 307 West Park, died last week in Berlin Germany. She was born in West Prussia now Poland and lived in Berlin. widower husband, two other daughters in Butte, a son in Tracey California, and another son and daughter in Berlin.
Edsel B. Ford, president of Ford Motor Company, announced that more than 7,000,000 in dividends for employees are being written and will be distributed starting January 1. He also noted a forthcoming extra three percent for the six months ending December 31 on Ford investment certificates held by employees, in addition to the guaranteed six percent. An eight percent payment was made July 3, totaling fourteen percent for 1920.
On November 24 in Paris the Union of Copper, Bronze and Smelter Workers announced agreement to a wage reduction of six to ten percent. The concession targets coping with industry downturns and aims to stabilize employment amid difficult market conditions.
The full bench of the Massachusetts supreme court ruled that Jamaica ginger sold as a beverage may be considered not intoxicating liquor. In Lookey and Reagan v. Pittsfield storekeepers, Judge de Courcy held Jamaica ginger used as a disguised liquor substitute is not inherently intoxicating without proof of its distinctive character and use.
The New York police say a deaf and dumb department store packer confessed to thefts totaling $25,000. He described an innovative system involving buying a bulky cheap object to package with valuable goods for shipment, then leaving the store with the stolen items.
Prince Albert Sask November 24 John Fagneau 24 Eugenie Fagneau 20 and Esther Edard drowned last night when a car drove onto Lake Lenore and sank in 24 feet of water. A fourth girl escaped as searchers worked to recover bodies. The incident occurred about 120 tiles southeast of Prince Albert.
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