Eagles Picnic Promises Big City Event at Nine Mile House
Butte Aerie No. 11 of the Fraternal Order of Eagles gears up for a full day on August 26 at Thompson Park Nine Mile House. The program features multiple dashes for all ages, boxing bouts by Patsy Sullivan’s midgets, tug of war, and a large band with dancing. The Eagles drill team will parade Friday night under Captain Frank Knabler, with the Bunkum club in uniform assisting. Transportation is arranged by car for 59 cents each way from Broadway and Main, featuring the bus line’s Miss Montana.
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Order of Eagles
An- Thompson
Thompson Pak
Big Eagles
Eagies
Eagles
Don King
Jack Rowe
Patsy Sullivan
Frank Knabler
Bunkum Club
E. S. Sullivan
Bunkum
James J. Brett
Owen Shields
EB. A. Sullivan
Fred Agenten
M. J. Hartnett
John Rowe
Broadway
Main
Germans Reopen Hartz Mines After Ruhr Occupation
In Saxony the Hartz coal field, dormant for five years, is being reopened due to the French Ruhr occupation. The 20 mile long field holds mines with one mine estimated to produce about 14,990,000 tons of coal.
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Eisleben
Saxony
Hartz Mountains
Ruhr
Hartz
The Beauty of Health and Lydia Pinkham’s Compound
Newspapers praise health beauty as essential for women and urge Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for women’s ills amid signs like dark circles headaches backaches and melancholia. The ad-style piece promotes the remedy as proven by a high success rate.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
New Shipment Crab Meat and Canned Goods Sale
New shipment offers crab meat guaranteed fresh with offers including Heinz dill pickles No 2 cans at 30 cents Farmhouse chow chow at 60 cents and Van Camp's tomato soup three cans for 25 cents.
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van Camp
Riot of Beauty Flower Show Shines In Butte Exhibit
Large turnout at the Chamber of Commerce for the annual Rocky Mountain Garden club show far exceeds last year with 300 entries planned and space for 50 more. Floral displays from 14 divisions draw crowds as judges deliberate long. public hours extend to 10 tonight.
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Editorial Association
Rocky Mountain Garden Club
Butte
West Quartz Street
Fire Department
Montana
Floral Park
Anna Winecoff
Atherton
John Toy
Montrose
Co. L. Berrien
Silver Bow Park
A. W. Filton
Homevale
William Cotton
Charman
Shelby Seeks Local Bank Move from Dunkirk to Shelby
Formal bid to Helena seeks moving the First State bank of Dunkirk to Shelby Montana twelve miles from Shelby on the Great Northern line. Dunkirk bank capitalized at 20000 serves a town under 100. Shelby lacks a bank and wants a local clearing house for business, not loans, in the wake of postwar era. The town previously had two strong banks before the July 4 boxing match between Jack Dempsey and Tom Gibbons.
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Great Falls
Helena
Dunkirk
Great Northern
Shelby
Jack Dempsey
Tom Gibbons
City Ways and Means Hears Possible Tax Levy Decrease
City hall meeting of the ways and means committee examined figures for this year’s tax levy and discussed the issue at length but did not reach a final decision. The report indicates a possible slight decrease from last year’s 23% mile figure.
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Ways and Means Committee
Man Hurls Shoes at Police Car During Arrest
John Kolo, dragged from under a bed in the 600 block of East Broadway, hurled his shoes at a police automobile in front of his home late last night. Neighbors heard a disturbance as Officers Morrison and Harvey arrested him after he swung at them.
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John Kolo
East Broadway
Morrison
Harvey
First tragedy performed by Thespis in Athens
Ancient note records the dawn of tragedy with Thespis acting in Athens around 650 B C, marking a foundational moment in theater history.
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Thespis
Athens
The Birdman of the Coast to Coast Mail
A vivid travelogue chronicles a coast to coast air journey from Pony Express days to the new fast mail train. The narrator describes night flight over shadowed earth, awe at lights of Omaha, and the pilot’s skill steering through clouds and cumulus drift toward Council Bluffs Cheyenne and California.
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Omaha
Father of Waters
Iowa
Council Bluffs
Cheyenne
Rockies
Sierras
California
Dixie Lahood Clinches Victory in San Pedro Bout
In San Pedro California on August 23 Dixie Lahood defeated Pico Ramios in the third round of a 16 pound match. Macey of Los Angeles beat Ashton Gonza of New Orleans in a four round bout. Frankie Monroe of Los Angeles and Frankie Malone of San Francisco fought to a 125 pound draw.
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Associated Press
San Pedro
Cal
Kiddie Macey
Los Angeles
Ashton Gonza
New Orleans
Frankie Monroe
Frankie Malone
San Francisco
Dick Lahood
Butte Mont
Pico Ramios
Casualty Rate on English Railways in 1922 Revealed
London reports that out of 1,186,479,000 passengers carried on English railways in 1922 only five were killed in accidents. The fatality rate stands at one death per 237,000,000 passengers.
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England
London
Daily movement of two hundred thousand cars and twenty five thousand cabs in New York streets
A traffic snapshot notes that about 200000 automobiles and 25000 taxicabs ply New York streets each day, illustrating scale of urban mobility and taxi demand in the city.
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New York
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