Alls Pleasing At County Fair
A county fair continues with showings and displays drawing local visitors. Exhibits praise the season’s harvest and community spirit while residents note improvements and ongoing contests.
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1906
Page
10
A county fair continues with showings and displays drawing local visitors. Exhibits praise the season’s harvest and community spirit while residents note improvements and ongoing contests.
Visitors packed the Anaconda fairgrounds to view a diverse industrial display. Local firms such as the A.C.M. company, Montana Trnque Fabrique, and Goodfriend Clothiers showcased machinery, blacksmithing, and ornate trinkets while others like the Racing Program and various drug companies drew crowds with their wares and demonstrations. The event featured lively horse racing, with Bally Cannon and other horses highlighting a day of competitive events and notable setbacks.
A fragment from Rochester Morning Herald notes papers distancing themselves from the Democratic choice. It mentions The Union and Advertiser and a Buffalo convention indicating W. Hughes as an opposite candidate or allied stance. The text is incomplete but shows divisions among Democratic newspapers.
The War Department released the Board of Visitors report led by Gen Horace Porter praising West Point Academy. It unanimously states the academy is well managed with high discipline and efficiency.
A dispatch from Oklahoma City reports William Jennings Bryan spoke eleven times in one day in the new state capital. He addressed national issues, praised reform leaders, warned Oklahoma about ratio and influence in the constitutional convention, and drew strong applause. Bryan arrived from Perry, Oklahoma, aboard the Santa Fe line and was accompanied by Chalres By aid and others.
Special Witex to Gresagn Springs Reining June 3 sale proposes roundtrip tickets from Anaconda to Grer son and return at 90 cents. Butte to Greg gon ams recuril offers 69 cents.
Readable fragments describe a sale offering pillows filled with goose or feathered material. Prices appear around 150 to 275 dollars, with various weights and colors mentioned. The text is garbled but conveys a push for inexpensive feather pillows in multiple colors and sizes.
Greig's greenhouses and 108 Hickory street are noted for fine water repairs by Verberckmoes. Schlapps piano tuner operates from music stores. A broad assortment of goods advertised. Two sewing girls sought at 802 To aast street. Residents report city movements and visitors from Butte and Dillon. Banks to close at noon for Deer Lodge county fair. stores align with fair schedule. Shipping, travel, and local business notices punctuate the urban scene.
Fred Warren, Warle Dewey, Elizabeth Spencer, Miss Coolman and Selme Ha lead a lively Margaret performance with a bright musical opening. The spotlight shifts to Nora Thorne at the Mar garet, drawing crowd attention amid strong praise for the adapted novel to stage.
Grace Sterling reports that Countess Mankowski, wife of Court Casini Ignece Mankowski and daughter of shoe-blocking magnate John M. Bixby, was found not insane but incompetent to manage her property by a New York sheriff's jury and a commission appointed by the supreme court. She had earlier been confined in England and rejoined her husband in London before the recent proceedings.
Trials of several antliage began in Sent. at Cavite this morning. Sikoy Montaton Devema and Vilafuerte were convicted and sentenced to oath. Natividad got 9 years for primanment, others to terms of no years each. The slate of wil was rem pete with positive evidence. Hleneluil, Sept. 21 news says Afong a Chinese capitalist died in Cult on Tuesday. All Woodmen of the Work members. Woodcraft invite women to meeting at East Commercial avenue Saturday evening at 8 o'clock. Bank will address. ALL welcome.
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