The Big Store With Little Prices in Butte Adverts
The Big Store With Little Prices proclaims a statewide reputation for low prices and bold advertising, stressing that their value message reaches customers beyond Butte.
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1900
Page
8
The Big Store With Little Prices proclaims a statewide reputation for low prices and bold advertising, stressing that their value message reaches customers beyond Butte.
Our fall stock of Carpets Rugs and Lace Curtains has arrived and you can search every store in the city and you will fail to find values equaling those we offer.
The advertisement describes Morris chairs with oak styles, French polish, reversible cushions, velour upholstery, and hair filling. A picture shows chairs for $9.75 this week, regular $12.50. A 30 inch wide couch, 6 feet 4 inches long, deep tufted with five rows, spring edge, mahogany frame priced at $15.00.
Thomas Pascoe, brother of George Pascoe, tours Butte's early days from 1873 when the town was a cluster of dugouts and tents. He recalls the rise of Butte from a mining camp to a major city and notes his ties to Colorado Springs and Los Angeles civic roles.
Butterick patterns and the Delineator issue for October are on sale at Hennessy. Local shoppers can browse new sewing patterns and fashion plates, with the retailer highlighting seasonal designs and price details.
Charles R. Sutton of Helena arrives in Butte while A J Holloway of Boulder and Sydney Lamatine from Livingston are in town. Congressman A J Campbell visits Livingston. Alderman E B Lamme comes from Gallatin county. Frank Rinehart seeks medical waters at Hunter's Hot Springs. Mrs Byrn, of Woolman and Main, not the one linked to a bogus indorsement. Professor Miller plans a balloon ascent at gardens at 5. Ex Governor Rickards learns of Mrs Rickards illness in San Francisco. governor may travel there. John R. Ryan jailed for loud talking, resisting an officer, and armed with a 38 caliber revolver. Several marriage licenses issued. Sutton’s theater announces a full vaudeville and film program focus on the Chinese war with new acts.
A banker and cashier from St. Marys Ohio, J R Piper, vanished after dining at the Fountain Hotel in Livingston and walking into Yellowstone National Park July last. Relatives scoured the park with park scouts and soldiers but found no trace, leading to doubts about his fate and noting other disappearances in the park this year.
An ad touts a bridal ring and declares the bride will be pleased with a well designed piece. It promotes a new line of ladies pocketbooks and finger purses from $1.00, claiming best city value and daily additions of jewelry novelties.
Butte fans travel to Anaconda for the last Butte versus Anaconda game of the season. Bus leaves Butte at 1 30 p m and returns from Anaconda at 7 40 p m. Round trip fare is one dollar.
In early Ohio river steamboating Commodore Mc Cullough of Cincinnati funded a grand palace side-wheeler the Flora Bell to outpace stern wheelers. The ship failed to win local trust or cargo, burned coal worth about 1000 to earn perhaps 200, becoming a famous public frost. The tale circulated as Cincinnati society attended the National theater on Sycamore street amid its highborn crowds.
A theater evening unfolds as the Commodore enters to murmurs. The Flora Belle owner is spotted as Bertha the Sewing Machine Girl drama plays out a scene where a rich lover proposes, the heroine rejects marriage for love, and the Commodore finally shouts Buy the Flora Belle.
A report describes Cuban beliefs in cures by eating dirt for certain diseases and fears of moonlight. Superstitions include charms worn as amulets, owl omens, and butterflies as signs. Cuban women favor herbal remedies. Thermometers are common in homes to check fever before doctors arrive.
Ex Governor Bradley of Kentucky rejected a charge that 219 pardons for taking human life were issued during his four years in office. The record shows 229 such pardons, a higher total than stated.
A Brooklyn cat named Dewey lets homeless cats eat in his yard after his meals. He meows to summon visitors, then shares meat with the hungry fringe of back-fence dwellers, selecting guests while driving away others. Dewey also likes clean linens and lawn skirts as beds.
A Philadelphia artist notes the Gibson girl has evolved over decades as American women grow taller broader and heavier. He cites modern habits such as walking without hats and playing golf along with prioritizing vitality over antique beauty rules, arguing today’s woman appears more handsome than the past portrait of ideal beauty.
A fragment notes that frames of portraits present a different problem, suggesting unresolved decisions or debates about presentation or display standards without detailing specifics.
An 19th century account describes punishments in China including the wire shirt iron netting, cangue collars worn for months, and brutal torture during trials. Methods feature binding, beating, and bone-breaking racks with judges present and no juries. Prisoners are carried away unable to walk.
From Germany comes a design for a thermo electric motor that converts heat energy directly into motion using iron and nickel thermo electric couples. The device resembles an electric motor but generates its electricity from heat, with gas jets heating one junction and circulating air cooling the other.
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