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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1913
Page
14
Geneva based Vacheron and Constantin have supplied fine watches for over a century. Tutte has been sole agents for about twenty five years, selling hundreds. Owners praise the watches as the best in the state. A plain bassine satin case houses quality movements, offered in 12 and 16 size, open face and hunting, from $100 and up. Movements can be set in fancy cases if desired.
New fall shoes and ads clutter this item list in Butte. Notes include visits by City Attorney J. T. Blaisdell of Plains, births at local addresses, a quarantine at the Mackey home for Faith Blaisdell with diphtheria, and a range of local business notices from P. O. News Stand to McLaughlin Coal Company. Medical, legal, and accident items mention hospitalizations, a 30 day suspended sentence for Peter Williams, and a mining accident leaving a man with a broken leg. Obituaries include Robert Wayne and Mr Gamwell of Waterloo. A blast incident is described, a school board meeting postponement, and community chatter closes with a Kansas City Star quote.
A meeting is scheduled this afternoon at 2:39 in the assembly room of Butte Business College. Promoters aim for about 300 members and plan an independent group affiliated with the National American Woman Suffrage Association. All interested women are invited to join, discuss, and help shape the organization and its future.
Mike Honno reports his wife left their happy home last Tuesday afternoon with two children and a lodging house in Park alley. He says a quarrel over school preparations preceded her disappearance. He telegrammed her brother in Salt Lake to ask about her, noting she had a comfortable home when she left. The note mentions other unrelated ads and requests for reservations at Pipestone Springs.
In a tense police court session, Booker was fined for beating his former fiancée Grace Williams and ordered to his wife to jail for the incident. Several other defendants faced penalties, including a man jailed for vagrancy and a woman fined for resisting an officer.
The Helena Valley and fairgrounds access offered via courtesy automobile service. Montana Ranches Co provides credentials for rides to and from the grounds during fair week. Call 8746 to reserve and obtain credentials. reservations open evenings until 8:30 at 5 Phoenix Building.
Clyde Knight and John Wickett were arrested near 11 pm by Officer Gilbert on cruelty to animals after a horse was found overheated and whipped on a run from Five Mile house. The pair, tied to Speed way stables, claimed they tried to hold the horse. Additional names appear in a long list of associates, while four were jailed on gambling charges with Titus held on keeper duties and others on pool game participation.
The Empress Theater promotes another big offering this week as autumn vaudeville continues. A matinee features the latest act promising crowd-pleasing comedy and talent, continuing the theater’s run of emphatic hits this season.
The Walter H. Lawrence players present Nature's Nobleman about Jays of '63 in a touring triumph under Sullivan & Consine. It promises high approval here and adds John Gardner Jeannette Lowrie in The American Girl And the English Johnnie, with Smith Volk Crouin and Derkin's Dog and Monkey Pantomime also featured in the city mining news.
Immense Broadway show planned for September with W Savage directing riot carnival spectacle inspired by English and Berlin productions. London and Berlin influences cited, with a large orchestra and extensive set paraphernalia. Cast includes Laura Burt in Whee he Blue Bird, Guy Bates Post, Bert Williams in Robinson Crusoe, Ethel Barrymore’s Ivy Trountman, and Florence Nash in The Little Striker. Also notes on future revivals and touring productions plus local property transfers in Gallatin addition and Shone sale.
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