Boy Killed by Horsekick After Ball Game in Butte
A 16 year old boy, Joe Mahon, was kicked in the face by a horse after a ball game in Butte. Crowd anger rose when hack driver Al Kennedy refused to take him home, but another hack carried Joe to his home. The incident sparked widespread indignation among witnesses and prompted the formation of prairie fire relief efforts and clubs in the village.
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Butte
Joe Mahon
South Wyoming Alley
Joe
al Kennedy
Hack
Hackman
Kennedy
Prairie Fire Club
Subscribe for the Standard Newspaper in Montana
An ad offers home delivery of the Standard newspaper for $1.00 per month. The pitch highlights Montana as the home of the paper and promotes convenient home delivery.
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Montana
Prairie Fire Clu bs Glimpsed From Western Times
A Western traveler recalls prairie fire clubs once common in the West and describes the awe of prairie fires. He recalls Lone Jack, oak sapling landmarks, and isolated farms fighting fires started to clear dead grasses. He compares prairie storms to sea storms for their ferocity.
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The
Boston Globe
Middle West
Lone Jack
Suil
Lightning dangers and statistics from Ainslee's Magazine
Ainslee's Magazine notes the weather bureau collects lightning statistics focusing on effects over identification. It cites 312 Americans struck yearly on average and 2,500 in nine years, with farmers most exposed and July most dangerous.
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Ainslee
Weather Bureau
United States
New York State
Idaho
Arizona
California
Oregon
Nevada
Uitah
Europe
Ducau
Mexico City Progress Brings Wealth and Social Change
The Mexican Herald notes modern Mexico City thrives with faster transport telegraphic links and growing prosperity reaching lower classes. Yet commercialism erodes old family warmth and social hierarchy, replacing the genteel patriarchal culture with money driven society.
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Mexico
Sitay Peetrpal
City
Pareion
Basin picnic draws 2500 tickets and rowdy sports
W A Clarks employees and 2000 friends visited Basin for a day of music, picnicking, and athletic events. 16 fights occurred in minutes amid races and a baseball contest between Butte Reduction Works and Colusa-Parrot. Dancing pavilion, rain shower, and crowd scenes followed with prizes won by Fat Man and Ladies egg races.
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W. A. Clark
Butte
Basin
Great Northern Railway
Dawson
Clark
Centerville
Dublin
Old Basin
Henne
Katie
Iron Horse
Pienie
Welock
Pat Ferry
A. Christiansen
Katie Hogan
Sarah Brown
Frankie Dillon
Allie Dillon
Clark's
Clarence Old
Stewart Mine
James Stater
Inine
Joe Harrington
John Coughlin
Charles Murphy
Garfield Burton
Heys Sack
Wilbur Aiken
Sidney Casey
Mrs. Allen
Frances Doherts
McGuiire
Cutcher
Vrain
Pitchesr MeDonough
Hanley
Layburn
T. Lloyd
H Lloyd
Murphy
Sullivan
Colusd-Parrots
Dean
King
Driscoll
Martha
Seyond
May
Dolan
Hinds
Kohan
Nagle
Picnic notes recount Basin excursion and crowd troubles
The Basin trip took three hours and twenty minutes from Basin to the picnic. One thousand one hundred passengers waited at the depot for trains, while Lt Governor Spriggs escorted Aug Heinze from depot to the picnic preserves. Major Dawson of the Great Northern caused a minor fight during an attempted announcement, then disappeared for some time.
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Basin
Spriggs
FL Aug. Heinze
Dawson
Great Northern
Ac Vilen
Murphy
Colonel O'Leary
Anaconda
Clark
Tom Kilgalion
Tom Bryant
Lark’s Mines
Tom
Mr. Hewett
Absolute physiological death sign by ligature experiment
Dr Theodore Decke reveals a method to test true death by tying off a finger and observing skin color changes in living versus dead. He notes a white ring forms around the ligature in living tissue, while no such change appears after death, based on about one thousand cases including postmortem checks.
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Utica Daily Press
Brown-Sequard
Schiff
Theodore Deecke
Will travel by wagon in bid for Bryan and Stevenson
Nashua New Hampshire and Lowell Massachusetts figures W H Wellman and George W Jocko launch a wagon campaign to stump New Hampshire and parts of Massachusetts for Bryan and Stevenson. They speak nightly in town squares, refuse pay, pledge no party alignment, and plan to visit every city town and hamlet before election day.
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Chicago Chronicle
W. H. Wellman
Nashua
N. H
George W. Jocko
Lowell
Mass
Hamp
Bay State
Bryan
Stevenson
Massachusetts
Wellman-Jocko
Wellman
Mr. Jocko
Railroad Square
Oval
Cleveland
Massachusettes
China
Mr. Wellman
Wellman Hie
Horace Greeley
Parkinson Ball
George W., Jocke
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Mekhinles
Downing a Colored Brute on Broadway Car
Representative William Astor Chanler rode an open car on Broadway New York with a young woman beside him. A burly man harassed the woman and Chanler warned him with a cane. The man persisted, Chanler seized him and threw him into the street as the car sped on.
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William Astor Chanter
Broadway
New York
Chanter
Chanler
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Butte News
Crow i
Chicago
Detroit
North Main Street
J. E. Dawson
Prairie Fire Clubs
City OF
W. A Clark
Pretty Basin
F. August Heinze
Wild of the Basin Progress
Heis
Dennis Driscoll
Willows
Donnybrook
W. W. Duncan
Spartansburg, S
Methodist Episcopal Shurch South
Good Templars’ Hall
New Hampshire
Astor Chanter
Montan
Bossut Pere Et Fils
Grenoble
France
Reynier
PL & L
Flavia
ATA
Hennessy
Wilson Bros
Manhattan Company
Manhattan
Princeton
Oxford
Hennessy’s
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