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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1916
Page
11
A fragment from The Dot Fairyland depicts a dialogue where Tom and a crow discuss a sea gull and snow icebergs, as a series of pencil line drawings are described for turning into a permanent book. The text hints at daily pictures to join a narrative arc, with characters named Alice Brent and a white animal.
The Danish West Indies report fifty lives lost when a fierce hurricane struck Dominica on Monday night. Winds topped 76 miles per hour, rivers swelled, bridges were washed away, and many buildings were damaged or destroyed. Over 200 structures including houses, schools, and churches suffered significant harm.
Wanted male help. The Standard advertises the Parsons Female Employment Office at 148 West Granite. Phone 1088. Say you saw it in the Standard.
A Missoula Montana recruitment ad lists 500 railroad laborers and tearer on foot, with wages from 2.75 daily and up, plus long steam shovel and station work. Also seeks telegraph operators, graduates placed in Butte, short hours, good pay, needs phone 3803. Additional ads seek vacation money sellers, a well dressed traveling man for Montana Hotel Anaconda area, a tailor in Lewistown, and a barber in Arizona.
A collection of early 20th century classified style want ads listing several jobs for competent girls and women. Positions include general housework, cooking, mornings only, wages noted in dollars, and multiple locations in Butte Anaconda and nearby Montana towns. Some entries show contact details such as street addresses and parks for applicants.
Several room rental notices from Butte and Anaconda list furnished rooms with or without board. Options include single and double rooms, steam heat, hot water, garages, and proximity to mines. Contact numbers and street addresses appear alongside amenities and pricing cues.
Real estate listings describe several houses and bungalows for sale in Butte and nearby areas. Properties include five and six-room modern bungalows, a thirteen-room house with boarding potential, two good-sized houses by owner, and parcels with acreages. Terms range from small down payments to easy installments, with locations near Granite and Daly streets, Wilson Park, and Oregon Avenue. Real estate firms and private sellers advertise prices from about 1,460 to 4,100 dollars. Contact details listed for multiple agents and owners.
Classifieds list multiple rental offerings including 10 Locust Anaconda 400 Maple Anaconda 2 Priest Anaconda and a well appointed seven room home with garage and references. Also noted are a modern room house at 117 Chests Nut Anaconda and a bare room rental at Granite Butte.
Classified notes show multiple trades in Butte including assayers and chemists at 108 N Wye Goodall Bros and 38 8 Main St Helene Tout & Worth, public stenography at 56 E Broadway, paper hanger Diconnaton and MercER, tile realty firm 6? away, dyeing services Parisian DyeMoose with guaranteed antistantion, and a cabin for rent later in the column.
Missoula Cobban Investment Co offers to trade a good ranch property for a lodging house. A found pair of mules one black and one dove color is unclaimed. owner may retrieve by calling 125 Minahst. Also buying second-hand furniture and vehicles. inquiries at corner Cherry and Commercial, Anaconda, and rental needs via phone 323.
Moving to new store at Cedar and Park sells new and second hand furniture at low prices. Also multiple rental listings for 3 room houses and furnished rooms in Anaconda and Butte with addresses on East Commercial Washoe Park Parkside and Park areas.
Several listings for housekeeping rooms in Butte with addresses including 514 8 Wyoming, 740 W Park, and 415 Monroe. Ads note modern rooms with kitchen access and a night housekeeping position. Also mentions a free room for rent and furniture for sale at 1 Bow.
Classified notices include a mixed bag of offers and requests from early 20th century Montana. WANTED partners for a scheme with cash references, hotel road house listings in Great Falls with furnished rooms and $800 electric plans, a Great Falls confectionery and cigar store, a bake shop sale, a 22 room house with steam heat offered for $2000, and boarding house inquiries. Also entries for sale of up to date bakery, and misc housing and rooming requests.
Multiple loan and financing notices dominate this fragment with firms such as J I Hellbronner Co, The Bailey Land Co, Simon Bank, Wilkow & Smith Co, McRae & Solveson, and Land and Investment Co offering real estate secured loans at various rates. Also ads for furniture time checks, mining stocks, and salaries collateral, along with rental notices, a registrar notice for Montana State School of Mines, and miscellaneous advertisements for rooms, shipping and sewing machine rentals.
For sale notice lists a standard wagon car and two wagons with harnesses for 125 dollars at 181 West Park Street. Also offered is a high bred Holstein bull one year old and a pair of horses with limited details.
President signs the child labor bill in Washington with Secretary Wilson Senator Robinson and Rep Keating present. He pledges pride in the enactment and notes the long struggle and impact on the health vigor and happiness of the nation.
Ossining New York and Batavia scene three death penalties as two men, Joseph Hanel and Jan Tybus, die for murders in Sing Sing and Batavia. In California Kosta Krophold is hanged for killing a Malville officer at Folsom prison. A Virginia Minnesota IWW levy proposal follows a statewide vote plan led by Joseph Storr.
Paris reports that about 500000 German troops in the Verdun area have been disabled since the Feb 21 offensive. German wounded and prisoners in Verdun and near the Somme exceed 43000. In Chicago Miss Edna May Grove sues former Northwestern math professor Charles Ross Dines for 80000 alleging breach of promise to marry. New York notes rising infantile paralysis cases while officials expect the epidemic to wane. The United States has 2000000 women farm laborers.
Auction notice for 930 acres of prime bench land with first class water rights. Land is level, fenced, suitable for wheat and potatoes, yielding about 60 bushels per acre. Also offers 160 acres slow land with fencing and housing. Sullivan and Peterson, Anaconda.
Multiple ranch and alfalfa land listings in Montana with details on acres and irrigation. Includes mentions of 400 acres alfalfa, 3,000 acre stock ranch near Helena, various prices and terms, and contact addresses in Anaconda and Helena for inquiries. Contains several misspellings and abbreviations from a historical ad page.
A fragmented archive item lists sale ads for insurance, furniture, automobiles, buggies, harness, mining gear, showcases, and ceiling fans. It also notes a lost item search for money near Willow Glen, a keys find at Fair Drug Co, and a grayed horse with a reward. The mix reflects typical small ads and notices from Anaconda to Butte.
Bay You Saw It notes an sewing machine offered for $1 by Brownfield Canty Co at 8 W Park St Butte with contact info including 308 Pare 46 Anaconda and a Pekin Noodle Parlors cafe at 17 Main Street.
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