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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1902
Page
5
Mary Bennet, a well known town character, fell through a cellar trap at 206 Commercial avenue while intoxicated. Her leg injury may require amputation. she has prior jail history with delirium tremens and resides at 415 Front street in a two room hovel.
A promotional piece argues Pyramid Pile Cure cures protruding and bleeding piles without surgery. It cites testimonials and a $1,000 for truth, notes prices and mail order, and includes a Canton Ohio resident’s praise. It urges readers to contact Pyramid Drug Co. in Marshall Michigan for a causes and cure book.
Police describe the unnamed woman as not eating a meal twice weekly and intoxicated nearly all the time. The fragment provides no further context or identifying details.
Church notices list services across Anaconda churches including St. Mark's at Main and Sixth with rector Alfred Brown. Morning prayer and sermon at 11, Sunday school at 12 30, evening service at 7 50 with topics Elijah and The Magdalen and Her Redemption. Offerings support Florence Crittenton work.
The First Baptist church at Fifth and Locust announces worship at 11 a.m. with the sermon Jesus in the Life of Prayer. Sunday school follows at 12:20 p.m. Evening services are moved to the Methodist church for a union service. Prayer meeting is Wednesday at 7:45 p.m.
Swedish Baptist church at Fifth and Cedar hosts 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. services with Sunday school at 1 p.m. Arned Olson leads both sermons. Methodist church at Oak and Third offers morning sermon by Rev. Macurdy on Christian Education and a 4 p.m. union evening service with Baptist Disciples Presbyterian and Methodist churches featuring an address by Rev. Mason of the Crittenton mission.
Rev J Johnson pastor residence 615 Chestnut Street services in church at 3 p m heaters at Staggs corner Cedar and Fifth Streets local notice format indicates church event details
W. K. Allen is back from French Gulch after a week directing the clean-up. About 50 men have worked since May, yielding substantial ground and promising a large clean-up. If results hold, more machinery and next season’s operations may occur on a larger scale as prospectors scour the hills for ledges and potential quartz mines amid rich placer beds.
Contractors overseeing the new high school construction anticipate arrival of the roof coverings. Cedar shingles will clad the sides, while the flat deck receives a slate-like composite material sealed with liquid cement at joints.
Wing lodge of T. O. G. T. in Anaconda has learned Capt. W. C. Dutton will arrive November 2 to give a series of temperance lectures under Montana grand lodge auspices. Dutton has prior ties to Anaconda and has organized lodge branches across Montana and is currently in California.
Bids for building an addition to St. Peter's Church in Anaconda Montana are invited and will be received at the rectory until Wednesday noon October 15. Plans may be viewed at the rectory or the architect Frank E Everett office in Butte. A 10 percent certified bid bond is required. Rev. John B. Pirnat pastor. Fischer's Margaret Theater orchestra provides music. G Fischer director.
Bids to furnish timber for the county courthouse and jail for the coming year are accepted at the county clerk's office until October 16 1902. Phil Greenan county clerk.
The Woman's Literary Club of Anaconda met at the Hearst Free Library to discuss The Aborigines and Their Homes with papers on clan structure hospitality and primitive laws. Five minute talks covered Indian mounds cliff dwellings long houses music tools and weapons as well as current events including the anthracite strike and Roosevelt's role.
Notice to the Clerk of the Court and to interested parties that D. W. Evans, administrator of Mary Schmolz deceased, has filed the estate report. A date is set for Saturday October 25 for filing exceptions.
Alfred Bergen was named administrator of the estate of the late A. Anderson. He furnished bonds of 1900. Anderson, whose dead body was found in a prospect hole, left considerable property.
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