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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1923
Page
5
Orton Bros offer rental planes for use in distributing fine writing materials and office supplies at the P O News Stand. The notice advertises availability of planes for transporting commercial stationery to customers and stockists.
If the carrier fails to deliver the Standard to you by 17:80, contact the Butte office at 422 or the Anaconda office at 47. A special messenger will deliver the paper to you at once.
Registration for the 1923 24 term at Central High School in Butte begins this morning with Father Leonard, principal, requesting all freshmen report for registration. Sophomores juniors and seniors will be registered Thursday and classes start September 10. Funds are being raised for a new Catholic high school, which Father Leonard hopes will be ready next fall.
Efforts to locate Eva Clinedexter or Eva McDonald in Butte intensify after a Wichita family letter says her dying father wishes to leave her money if she is found. People with information are urged to contact police or Mrs. B Wolfe Route 8 Box 8 Wichita Kan.
A reader from Danville describes five years of kidney pain and sleepless nights, noting improvement after Foley Kidney Pills. The ad claims quick relief from back ache, rheumatic pains, and kidney and bladder trouble, urging Paxson & Rockefeller as distributors.
The United States moves fast to help Japan after the quake and tidal wave. President Coolidge appeals for Red Cross donations while the navy dispatches seven destroyers with medical supplies and food to support relief efforts.
Major General Summerall in Honolulu cables the War Department with a summary of food, clothing, and equipment ready for immediate shipment to Japan for relief work if requested. A substantial amount of supplies might be sent, and Consul General Yamasaki convened a Japanese meeting to form a relief committee tonight.
Summer fashion watchers have extended the wearing period for Palm Beach suits and straw hats in Butte to Sept 15 due to warm early September weather. Elsewhere in the East and Middle West, straw hats face earlier decrees with Sept 1 as a typical cutoff, and Chicago treats a straw hat as a potential target after that date.
Coroner John Murphy calls an inquest at 2 PM after witnesses say J. K. Hutchinson, a longtime Butte resident, was killed when he slipped under a moving freight train about 17 miles southwest of Butte on Saturday morning. The investigation seeks to resolve questions surrounding the death and whether foul play or accident caused the fatality.
A worker named Hutchinson tried to cling to a moving train near Salt Lake yesterday after being shipped there with his mother Mrs. Dan Tracey and half-brother John Tracey. The man was struck by about 20 cars as the train rolled at 26 miles per hour, his body cut in two.
August opened cool but midmonth warmups lifted the monthly mean to 63.3 degrees. Weather records show the average for August has been exceeded ten times in the past 25 years, with historical means listed from 1913 to 1922 including 69 degrees in 1922 and 74.68 in 1921.
Matthew Simonich of 1820 South Washington street died in a Chicago hospital from injuries received in an accident. He was 26, born in Butte, a former serviceman, and well known there. Survived by his mother Mrs. Frank Zalogar and brothers Joe John and Jack. Body to be brought to Butte for burial.
Kobe dispatches report widespread destruction from the quake that hit Saturday the most severe blow in Japan's history. Tokyo and Yokohama are virtually ruined hundreds of towns on the Izu peninsula leveled by fire and tremor and casualties cannot yet be estimated. Yokohama is isolated and burning, with a police chief in Yokohama wirelessly appealing for help saying Yokohama is a sea of flames.
The project to install automatic telephones will not be completed for another fifteen years, delaying the anticipated modernization of the local communications network. Officials cited funding and infrastructure challenges as the primary reasons for the extended timeline.
Rome reports Italy may submit the Graeco Italian dispute to the international court at The Hague if the League is deemed incompetent. The court would rule on principle without reference to the current conflict.
The body of Ralph Ryan a 13 year old son of Mr and Mrs Tim Ryan of 1704 Hobson street who was killed by an accidental shotgun discharge while hunting hawks at their Piedmont area ranch was brought to Butte for burial. The shot struck him in the forehead killing him almost instantly.
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