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Advertising and early rail era memories shape Anaconda history
The piece reviews how local merchants can boost trade through advertising, notes the rise of big city stores, and recounts historical events in Anaconda Montana such as the 1884 first train arrival, Marcus Daly and the Anaconda company, plus excerpts from old newspaper clippings about early rail and town development including Dillon to Melrose and Glendale trade prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anaconda
Butte
Kempland
Marcus Daly
Anaconda Company
Winston
Doddridge
St. Clair
W. B. Doddridge
W. J. Hemphill
W. P. P. St. Clair
Charles Atking
L. O. Leonard
Stuart
Judge Knowles
Thomas L. Napton
Messrs
McCaskill
Hoge
Chewhall
Read
Waterbury
Winston, Dickinson and Savery
Daly
Mather
Viands
Knowles
Irvin
Melrose
The
Tribune
Dillon
Birch Creek
Big Hole
McCarty
Ano
Glendale
Hecla Smelter
Dr. Tanner
Hecla Consolidated Mining Company