Anaconda News Labor Celebrates US Annual Holiday
Large crowd at Washo park celebrated Sankey day with contests and keen competition. Prizes awarded for best dressed, baby beauty, and various races, with Oliver La Lond winning for most union fashion.
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1913
Page
3
Large crowd at Washo park celebrated Sankey day with contests and keen competition. Prizes awarded for best dressed, baby beauty, and various races, with Oliver La Lond winning for most union fashion.
The final concert of the summer band series is tonight on the city common. The Anscondu band will perform seven selections before the contract ends after tonight’s performance. The program includes Windbow Grove, Rakes in Toyland, Gypsy Baron, Goal-Bye Boys, First Heart Triohs, Sorrenting Overture, Pique Dame March, and American Repu.
Mrs. Clarke of 413 West Seventeenth Street New York City requests information about her uncle James O'Reilly who left Wachare County Cavan Ireland about years ago and was a former resident of Anaconda. She last heard from him while living in this city. O'Reilly was married with three children. Mrs. Clarke was formerly Miss Mary A. Carrollai.
The Grand and Alcazar present a program emphasizing a Paris organization of pickpockets as the main feature, revealing underground establishments and blind enterprises used in the traffic. Also shown are two comedies The Treasure of Captain Kidd and The Adventures of a Watch with They Were on The Honeymoon along with Pathe's Weekly No 42 and a Tennessee Moon song performance. The Anatonds invite Deer Lodge racegoers to ride daily from Gregory Springs to the Milwaukee railroad at no charge, with a fire tax noted and a 1:16 p.m. departure.
The Venddotes of United Strait Company reportedly carries the most powerful wireless outfit yet installed with a main two kilowatt set and a one kilowatt auxiliary. Both can run from ship mains or storage batteries. The system powers emergency lights and operates in all weather, marking a milestone in shipboard wireless capability.
In a Washoe Park showdown the Electricians rallied to beat the Carpenters 15 to 7, completing their undefeated run. Crandall homered for the Carpenters as Morris struggled late, while the Electricians seized control with timely hits and strong pitching by Gebeau.
Various brief notices stream through the page including meetings of Odd Fellows and Anglers, school supplies, tavern and piano ads, a city visitor from the Tilleten mines, and a small assortment of names and addresses, all in short ad-like lines.
A fragment from a historical ad lists groceries and prices including flour, turkey red winter seed wheat, corn meal, coconut, beans, jars, oil, gasoline, and canned goods. Entries show brand names and unit measures with era style spellings and typos. The readable items reflect a general grocery spectrum and bulk purchases.
In Wrante, Sept 1, aviator Pegoud, who on Aug 29 leapt from 900 feet, executed a long upside down glide before returning to an upright position. Spectators watched as the monoplane tipped earthward then recovered, proving a test toward safer aircraft design and self-righting capability.
A southbound railroad train on the Decorid Branch derailed two miles from Maynard as the engine left the rails and coaches slid down a 10 foot embankment. Three persons were killed and several injured. The train traveled 39 miles per hour, an unusual speed for the line.
J B Loughran, 47, an Ireland born immigrant and Butte blacksmith, drowned while bathing near Whitehall. He built a successful forging business with Wikefield & Loughran, was Democratic ward candidate in 19M, and left a wife, four daughters, three sisters, and one brother. His home was at 72 West Broadway.
Cairo, Sept. 1. Dr. F B Gordon, a prominent physician, was shot and killed by Harvey Fields, an insurance solicitor. Fields said Gordon operated on his mother about ten days earlier and that her death was Gordon's fault. Fields claimed the attack was to avenge his mother's death. He stated in custody that Gordon had previously attacked Mrs Fields in his office.
Funeral services for Dr. Bennett will be held Wednesday at 2:00 PM in the church with Rev. Edward Laird Mills presiding. Bennett, long aMontana church leader, died after a stroke and paralysis. His death follows the loss of his son Douglas and daughter Sara in Missouri, and another son George who died in Anaconda.
Desalde and Edwards opened the new bit last night with clever dancing including the Kid waltz Texas Tammy and the Apache dance. The pair drew strong applause as the program impressed and another full show was announced for tonight. The National Federation of Post Office Clerks met here, adopting affiliation with the American Federation of Labor, with officers to be elected and the convention to adjourn Wednesday.
In San Francisco the ninth biennial convention of fettes garriers was interrupted to allow about a thousand delegates to join the Laker day celebration. After the morning meeting, postmen from California marched in a parade, followed by a banquet.
In the Third Judicial district of Montana Deer Lodge County the court orders show cause why the administrator may sell the real estate of John Townar deceased. A hearing is set for August 24 1913 at 9:49 am in the district court to determine if public or private sale is proper for the estate. A copy of the order must be published weekly for four weeks in the Anaconda Standard.
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