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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1901
Page
9
Lutey Bros invites shoppers to a busy post holiday scene with low prices on berry sugar products. The ad touts powdered and granulated varieties, promotes closeout pricing during fruit season, and highlights a special offer on berry sugar four pounds for 16 cents per pound and three pounds for 25 cents.
A large stock of fine peas is offered with price cuts. Regular: $3.75 per case or $1.90 per dozen. Discount: $3.00 per case or $1.50 per dozen. Sale runs Tuesday and includes other can goods.
Local ad lists blueberries for sale with Tuesday availability. Extra fine berries come in gallon cans and dozens for 6 50 each. Sie
Fancy solid pack tomatoes offered at a special Tuesday sale. Three cans for 200 cents. Notable for the unusual low price this year amid a limited opportunity to stock up on quality tomatoes.
An old newspaper snippet advertises Huyler's Cocoa in neat half pound cans for 35 cents. Special offers run on Tuesday with a value promotion for shoppers.
Yuco promotes its breakfast cereal as high quality with a money back guarantee. A Tuesday deal features three 15 cent packages priced at a bargain rate, inviting customers to compare with higher mainstream prices.
A vintage ad touts Quaker flour as the best and cheapest for bread making. It asserts that Quaker flour makes famous bread and lists a price of 2.75 per 100, with a sack size referenced.
Readers are urged to try BB butter noted for rich flavor and high demand. The ad touts two and five pound sizes and claims steady monthly sales of about five tons.
Mose Lafontise of Montana and Tom Tracy of Australia battled 20 rounds to a draw at Park Street Amphitheater in front of nearly 1,000 fans. Lafontise, fresh at the end, landed a sharp left jab and right hands while Tracy absorbed hard punishment and fought on. Referee and timekeepers kept the official score as the crowd called it the gamest bout seen in Butte in days.
MecDonald used clever tactics to outclass his opponent who was knocked around, the bout lasting four rounds with the referee stopping the fight. McDonald was awarded the decision at the end of the fourth round.
Bar Harbor Me Thomas W Lawson says he will place his yacht Independence in the Cup races to defend the trophy against Shamrock. He seeks a fair chance for an American entry and argues the race is international not limited to clubs. He is willing to sacrifice to ensure the boat competes regardless of origin.
Pendleton Oregon August 31 Ed Brisbo has resigned the office of chief of the Indian police on the Umatilla reservation and left for Butte Montana He says friends of Black Horn an Indian whom Brisbo shot while the former resisted arrest several weeks ago are after him Black Horn who was badly wounded slightly recovered and then died last week
A dispatch from Lord Kitchener dated Pretoria reports 250 Boers blew up a train between Watervaal and Haman's Kraal. They fired on the train and set it on fire. Lieutenant Colonel Van Dalure of the Irish Guards was killed. Other casualties were not yet reported.
Lord Kitchener in Pretoria announces Garratt has captured Piet Delarey, brother of the assistant commandant general, as reported from London on August 31.
Colon Colombia reports on August 31 that Bocas del Toro remains quiet. Rebels sit on Provision Island opposite the town while government troops occupy the town. Bananas remain the main export to the United States.
Port of Spain reports 9 500 Venezuelans massed near San Cristobal and Cucuta to aid Colombian revolutionists. Rumors place 5 400 Colombian regulars near Cucuta, raising fears of serious complications on the frontier.
The steamship Mananense, reported disabled 400 miles off Cape Flattery, arrived Port Townsend Wash this afternoon under steam and sail and headed to Seattle for repairs. It was bound to St Michael from Vancouver with a cargo for Dawson. On Aug 25 she broke her shaft and drifted for days until a chief engineer repaired it enough to move about five miles per hour.
Constantinople reports that Bapst, councillor of the French embassy, received a telegram from the porte to the Ottoman embassy for Paris to communicate to M. Delcasse. The message offers vague assurances and asks for a resumption of diplomatic relations to settle disputes.
William Monroe is held at the county jail on grand larceny charges after being identified as the last person who handled a historically valued diamond. J P ONeill, a miner who owned the ring, seeks the jewel as Detective Murphy searches a Colorado saloon for the missing ring amid witnesses and a crowded scene.
Ed Daly of Daly Bros on West Broadway was reported last night to be in a very critical condition. Doctors were summoned at dawn but hopes for recovery were slim. Daly, one of Butte’s oldest saloonkeepers, recently saw Daly Bros dissolved as Larry Daly opened an opposing place.
Salt Lake City Aug 31 David R Gray longtime Southern Pacific general manager in Salt Lake has been appointed general agent for the Harriman syndicate region covering the Southern Pacific Union Pacific Oregon Short Line and Oregon Railway Navigation The post is a new regional role arising from recent railway consolidations.
Harry F Elkes defeats Bobby Walthour and Wil Stinson in a one hour motor paced race at the Manhattan Beach bicycle track. Elkes covers 38 miles and 1 lap in the hour.
Andrew Carnegie donated ten thousand pounds for a new town hall in Motherwell Lanarkshire Scotland. The gift supports civic infrastructure with local impact and marks a notable philanthropic act in the region.
The Discussion reports that Upmann and Co., German bankers in Havana, were robbed of 28000 by the same assailant who recently robbed the Spanish bank. Mr. Upmann declines to comment on the affair.
An Atlanta man repeatedly declined a Treasury Department clerical post offering $660 yearly, citing a current business position paying $10000 annually. Officials call this the most unique case seen in the secretary's office.
The New York Evening Post reports a tale where Italian tenor Emilio de Marchi sang Lohengrin amid riots in Paris. A wealthy Italian offers 5000 to 30000 francs to profane the work with a barber cavatina, but departs when asked for the sum and the door slams shut.
While touring Pekin last August, the narrator and Captain Munthe read a fresh temple inscription over the door. The Chinese official wonders at a people who would write “From ten thousand bitterness wells the eternal peace” amid ghastly death scenes.
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