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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1901
Page
9
Butte Montana shoppers are urged to visit Lutey Bros. on September 3 as a bustling scene unfolds. The ad emphasizes rising goods but insists Lutey’s keeps prices down and highlights careful buying and quality.
A local grocer advertises berry sugar finer than granulated but coarser than powdered for berries and sliced fruit. Stock is to be closed out during fruit season with a special price under construction. Regular 3 pounds at 2 cents. 4 pounds at a special rate.
Notices offer Dainty peas priced at 3.75 per case or 1.90 per dozen, reduced to 3.00 per case or 1.50 per dozen. Extra fine blueberries are available Tuesday in gallon cans, dozen or each at 6.50.
Local grocery promotes tomatoes with special Tuesday offer featuring two cans at a favorable price. Limited quantity expected to sell quickly.
Advertisement notes Huyler's Cocoa offered in neat half pound cannisters for 85 cents with a special on Tuesday priced at 25 cents per quarter pound.
Yuco advertises its Yuco breakfast product as one of the finest with a money back guarantee. It notes a low price that may seem too good to be true and claims the product is the same as Mic brand but cheaper, offering three 15 cent packages for a limited Tuesday sale.
An advertisement promotes Quaker flour as the best for bread making claiming it yields famous Quaker bread. It highlights price at 2.75 dollars per sack and asserts cost effectiveness as the cheapest option for quality.
Advert says BB butter is irresistible after tasting with heavy sales volume. It lists 2 pounds at 5e and 5 pounds at 1.85, claiming five tons sold monthly.
A speaker advocates socialism and a cooperative commonwealth to end wage slavery and private capital dominance. He argues for public ownership of water works libraries and transit, condemns starvation and capitalist greed, urges labor unity, and cites definitions and historical examples to drum up support for socialist candidates and actions.
Rainy conditions at Columbia Gardens delayed events. No entries in the rock drilling contest. Hammer and shot throws went ahead after crowd fears. 12 runners in a narrow lane. Top prizes awarded to Tony Harris, Dennis Shea, L P Pickett, Vivian Thomas, Allie Dillon, Blanche Savoie, and others. tug of war won by Miners' union over Bricklayers & Masons'.
The Montana State band, a young but rising group under E Stanaway with 23 members soon to 28, composed of workingmen miners and artisans, serenaded friends after yesterday’s parade playing Institute March and Louisiana Rag to big crowds and applause.
Columbia gardens delighted visitors all summer with showers enhancing the blooms and crowds enjoying rides, boats, a living picture show, and a pavilion dance floor. Manager Wharton supervised operations as vendors sold flowers and families picnicked, though one accident near the lake left two women nearly drowning after a wrestling mishap in a boat.
Rescue efforts saved two men named John Gibbons and George Coughlin as heavy rain hit the gardens last evening. About 8:30 pm the downpour threatened to wash out the track and force 7 000 to 8 000 fans to stay overnight, but only a small section on the hill was washed away and repairs restored traffic within about thirty minutes.
William Jennings Bryan joined a labor day parade in Kansas City Missouri where eight thousand workers wore union uniforms made by Garment Makers' union No 47 locked-out workers. He urged action against private monopoly and warned against government by injunction while praising unions and calling for equal justice.
Labor Day in San Francisco drew an estimated twenty thousand union members for a downtown parade. James G. MacGuire headlined afternoon exercises at the Mechanics' Pavilion while an evening ball benefited locked out workers and strikers. Across the bay at Shell Mound Park unions affiliated with the movement also gathered.
Chicago residents marked Labor Day with a three mile parade drawing about 25 000 trades unionists and musicians. Union labels appeared on all garments and even horses were barred unless shod by union farriers. Speakers included Senators Mason and Cullom and Mayor Harrison.
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