State Good Templars Celebrate Jubilee in Montana
The Good Templars of Montana mark fifty years since the grand lodge founding with events in Anaconda and Butte. Delegates from multiple lodges attend a convention featuring a drill contest and social program, while reports from lodges are reviewed and officers elected tomorrow. The movement promotes youth service as Montana edges toward prohibition.
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Good Templars
Grand Lodge
Butte
Anaconda
Montana
North Star
North Light
King
Butte City Lodge
Walkerville Lodge
Rocky Mountain Iodge
South Side
Butte City
F. H. Sarles
W. Williams
A. Bendstein
G. Carson
Joe Morris
W. H. Williams
Walkerville
Philipsburg Ready to Pay Miners Well
William Hynes known as the Manganese King of Philipsburg arrived in Butte with Fred Babcock and Maden. They report a bright future for the Philipsburg district but fault a few agitators. Miners are paid 4.50 dollars a day and operators are willing to meet this rate while seeking boarding house rate reductions from 45.41 to 35 dollars monthly, a change outside operator control.
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Fred Babcock
Burlington
Philipsburg
William Hynes
Butte
Hynes
Maden
Courthouse Globe Theft Spurs County Innovation
The commission seeks a new method after extensive thefts of incandescent globes marked Silver Bow County. A consignment arrived yesterday and may save the county several dollars weekly. The impropriety prompts officials to curb the loss of county property.
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Silver Bow
Man petition seeks name change to Mayer in district court
After marrying under Mayer and conducting business there, Nicholas Badovinac asks the district court to change his name to Nicholas Mayer. Judge Jude Dwyer is set to hear the petition on September 15.
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Mayer
Austria
Nicholas Badovinac
Nicholas Mayer
Jude Dwyer
Two Boys Adopted by Local Judge as Kinship Care Continues
Thomas and Andrew Supanic, ages 5 and 7, were formally adopted yesterday by Frank Cash Jr in Judge Dwyer’s district court. The boys are Cash’s cousins, their mother is dead, and their father cannot care for them. Cash plans to send the boys to St Ignatius Mission School.
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Thomas
Andrew Supanic
Frank Cash Jr
Dwyer
Department of the District Court
Mr. Cash
St. Ignatius’ Mission School
Quiet Days Light Work for Clerk Walker in Court
Clerk Walker of the federal court notes a slow period with little demanding work. He quips that the department lacks real hard cases and his appetite would improve with more to do, joking about going fishing during quieter days.
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Walker
Federal Court
Governor Ferguson Faces Senate Impeachment Trial
Governor James E. Ferguson must decide by Saturday if he will stand trial on 13 impeachment charges after testimony was completed. The House committee asked who lent him over 156000 to settle bank debts, but he again refused to name the lender.
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Austin
Texas
James EB. Ferguson
State Senate
House of Representatives
F. Co. Fuller
House
Poland China Hog origin and breed history in Ohio
The Poland-China hog, traced to Butler and Warren counties Ohio in 1816, emerged from Shaker imports and mixed white and white with black spots pigs. Named Poland-China and Magees, debates over Chinese and Polish ancestry led to retained branding. Ohio and Central associations formed in 1877 and 1880, merging in 1966 as National Poland-China Record Company.
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Butler
Warren
Ohio
Society of Shakers
Warren County
Philadelphia
National
Swine Breeders’ Congress
Poland-China Record
Central
Poland- China Association
Poland-China Record Company
Visitor Reminded of Home While In London
A countryman travels to London to visit relatives and enjoy sights. He stays until his hosts, a married couple, tire of hints. They urge him to return home, but he replies he will send for his wife and children.
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London
Alabama Enfranchises Women as 18th State in 1920
Alabama becomes the 18th state to grant women the vote since the 19th Amendment’s nationwide adoption, marking a milestone in the suffrage movement and completing nationwide state level enfranchisement after 1917.
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Alabama
God's Law and Man's at Rialto with Viola Dana star
An English fox hunt sequence in God's Law and Man's features Viola Dana at the Rialto today through Sunday. The chase follows Lord Charles Drummond's fatal fall in a great hunting park of wealthy New Yorkers. Also shown is The Gold That Glittered, an O Henry tale of a South American revolutionary and a boardinghouse landlady romance.
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Paul Trent
Purchase
Rialto
Dainty Viola Dana
Charles Drummond
Floyd Buckley
John H. Collins
Ameia
Miss Dana
New York
Italians Press Advance From Tolmino To Adriatic
An AP war summary reports the Italian offensive pushing from Tolmino toward the Adriatic head, achieving 13 000 prisoners and 30 guns, with Trieste targeted by Italian warships while Austrian resistance remains stubborn and costly. Canadian forces repulse counter-attacks near Lens and gain positions, as British forces advance near Ypres and in Belgium.
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Associated Press
Tolmino
Adriatic Sea
Belgium
Lens
Verdun
France
Triest
Vienna
Selo
Adriatic
Ypres
Flanders
German Crown Prince Attacks Northwest Verdun Front
Tuesday night and Wednesday morning report heavy counter-attacks by the German crown prince against newly won French positions northwest of Verdun. German forces repeatedly re-entered and then relinquished the ground to French General Petain's troops. Further attempts to recapture on the north and northeast Verdun front were repelled by French artillery and rifles.
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Verdun
Petain
Great Show at the Peoples Hippodrome
Six supreme vaudeville acts headline the bill at the Peoples Hippodrome this week with the Pathe News and a Universal comedy. The management guarantees the excellence of the entire show.
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Pathe News
Universal
Peoples Hippodrome
British Air War Trials Amid Belgian Front and Ship Losses
The report notes man positions in Belgium and ongoing heavy air combat. British forces claimed 17 German airships down on Tuesday, yet 12 of their own aircraft failed to return. British shipping losses by mines or submarines remain low, with last week showing 15 vessels over 1,600 tons and eight under that tonnage sunk.
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Belgium
Naval Attack on Trieste Reported After Isonzo Fighting
Vienna reports repulse of heavy Italian assaults on the Isonzo front. Civilians killed in a naval attack on Triest. Austrians captured 3,000 prisoners on August 19.
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Triest
Vienna
London
Isonzo
War Office
Total of twenty ships sunk in week
London report shows twenty ships lost in the week, with fifteen steamers over 1,600 tons sunk and three under 1,600 tons, plus two fishing vessels. The totals compare to the prior week’s fourteen large ships, two small vessels, and three fishing boats.
Borrowing Foreign Words Causes Trouble in Russia
Petrograd August 22 Amusing incidents arise from foreign origin political terms in Russia. Officers often misinterpret the words and soldiers misunderstand. A south southwest front unit mistook coalition for contribution and protested bribes at ministers. Another phrase monarch heeded as monk sparked divisionwide panic over a monk on the throne.
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Petrograd
Russia
South Southwest Front
Prince Looff
Nicholas
San Francisco lawyers disbarred over Chinese smuggling ring
San Francisco attorneys O P Stidger and Henry C Kennah were disbarred from practicing at all U S immigration stations nationwide following a labor department action based on Solicitor John B Densmore's expose of a Chinese smuggling ring. The partners allegedly controlled 85 percent of Chinese legal business at Angel Island immigration station for years.
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San Francisco
O. P. Stidger
Henry C. Kennah
United States
Department of Labor
John B. Densmore
Stidger
Kensch
Angel Island
Mob Hangs Charles Jones in Marshall Texas Jailyard
A mob of farmers seized Charles Jones from the Marshall jail and hanged him to a tree after his arrest on a charge of entering a white woman’s room. In England Samuel Wesley, after 25 years, reproduced from memory an oratorio of about 800 pages he had composed earlier in life, claiming the score appeared vividly in his mind.
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Marshall
Texas
Charles Jones
Jones
England
Samuel Wesley
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