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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1902
Page
12
Butte store advertises wholesale prices on new pianos and organs and offers shopworn and second hand instruments at half their value. The notice urges quick shopping for bargain hunters and highlights the sale as a public advert.
Saturday shoppers flocked to a piano sale as all new pianos on the floor were priced at wholesale buyouts. Stock includes shop worn and returned pianos from closed out out-of-town agencies with many units under 200 dollars and payment options offered to entice quick purchases this week at 219 North Main Street.
Orton Bros promote Curious Complexion Cream as a natural skin aid that cleanses pores without coating or chemically altering the skin. The ad claims it opens pores and stimulates natural oils, unlike common cosmetics, and cites Doull Bros of Butte Montana and Salt Lake City Utah as manufacturers with a trademark "D." available at druggists.
The article profiles Cheridah Simpson in Kies Dedo and Flora Zabelle Latinized as an Armenian soubrette, detailing her rise from Constantinople to American stages. It notes her father's scholarly career, her early chorus work, and leading roles in San Toy and The Messenger Boy, plus upcoming engagements with Frank Hennessy's Liberty Belles at Broadway. Also mentions Hammerton Knox as a villain in a burlesque plot and the Liberty Belles' Florida hotel finale.
Chicago report explains Jessie Bartlett Davis as opera singer narrowly avoiding arrest after a contempt protest over failing to produce books of Lincoln Bartlett company. Writ issued against Lincoln Bartlett and bookkeeper. Davis not attached. Case stems from alimony dispute of $200 monthly. Bartlett claimed Lincoln Bartlett company stock owned by sister, Mrs Jessie Bartlett Davis. Orton Bros. ad at end notes organ and piano values.
In Munele Indiana on September 29 Mrs Perry Reutfrew aged 35 fled her home with her husband ill of fever and her children to her parents. She shot herself through the heart and died immediately. Her body was found by her aged parents. The husband, informed of the tragedy, is hourly expected to die.
Mr C F Given of Sussex N presides over The He Club praising Peruna as a reliable remedy for colds and catarrhal afflictions. Julian Weisstadt of Buffalo testifies that Peruna cured his bronchial catarrh and restored his voice after a severe cold, saying he now uses it regularly.
The alleged murderer William Hooper Young, a former Butte resident, recounts his role in the Annie Pulitzer case. He claims meeting in Butte and New York partner Eiling, describes taking Mrs. Pulitzer to a room, and says he moved the body or disposed of it after a struggle. His statements include family background and the complicity of his mother and stepfather.
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