Store-Ore Christmas number highlights ads and notices
Resplendent in red and green the Store- Ore Christmas number for Hennessy stores in Butte Centerville and Anaconda appears with 16 pages and a cover The inside page notes government service discharge papers will reactivate positions The issue features advertising money a leading article and poems and jokes Copper Leashire No 495 L C T M will hold officers election Wednesday evening Dec 5 Nora Shinner Com Rose Pierce R K
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Hennessy
Butte
Centerville
Anaconda
Yesterda
Ad Man
Copper Leashire
Nora Shinner
Rose Pierce
R. K
Red Cross War Fund Report Details Global Relief Effort
Washington reveals a War Council report on the Red Cross activities from May to Nov 1917, noting $85 million raised and $32.6 million net appropriations, base hospital units and ambulances, nursing, refugee relief, and anti disease work in France, Belgium, Italy, Russia, and other fronts, plus civilian aid and memberships.
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Washington
War Council of the American Red Cross
Wilson
Henry P.davison
Charman
War Fund
American Red Cross
Red Cross War Council
Red Cross
War Council
America Cross
Red Cross Iung
America
Europe
United States
France
William G. McAdoo
Red Cross Sanitary Service
Ihs Sanitary Service
Military J
The
Tientsin
Elemen
Red Crow
Grayson M. P. Murphy
Commission
Commis
Ted Cross
Eld
Otr
Army Medical Corps
Army
Neuilly
American Ambulance
Joseph A. Blake
Hospital
Pla
Department of Administration
Paris
Serbia
Italy
Petrograd
Allan
Ambassador Page
Romania
England
Belgium
Switzerland
Russia
Army officer returns to lead Butte recruiting office
Corporal Harlan came back to run the army recruiting office in Butte and expects a busy week enlisting men before December 11 when selective draft rules take effect. William Hendry of the navy recruiting office enlisted W. H. Holmes of Bozeman as a third class fireman and Holmes departed for Salt Lake City. A lumber discussion in Washington covered supply and prices with the war industries board and the federal trade commission.
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ARMY
Harlan
Butte
War Department
William Hendry
Navy
W. H. Holmes
Bozeman
Holmes
Salt Lake City
Washington
War Industries Board
Federal Trade Commission
Joshers Plan Vaudeville Show in Butte Empress Theater
Plans for the Joshers Yule Show in Butte on December 18 at the Empress Theater were announced by Billy Gemmell. The program will feature 22 to 25 professional vaudeville acts with local amateurs excluded to keep the show within time limits. Proceeds fund gifts and food for the needy, with plans for Christmas dinners and distribution of sugar, candy, beans, meats, potatoes, and other staples amid wartime shortages.
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Butte
Billy Gemsmell
Joshers
Empress Theater
Volun
Joshers’ Club
Gemmell
Condemned Men to Ask for Rehearing
Counsel for Sherman Powell, William Fisher, and John O’Neill signified plans to file motions for rehearings. Eleven men were sentenced to hang for first degree murder after the supreme court upheld Jude Dwyer’s verdict on Nov 19. A written motion will be submitted in Helena, with no oral argument per court rules.
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Sherman A. Powell
William Fisher
John O'Neill
Supreme Court
Jude Dwyer
John A. Groeneveld
Fisher
O'Neil
County Attorney Piles Complaints Against Two
The county attorney filed charges against John Norney and R A Urtek. Norney faces theft of lumber from Silver Bow Lumber yard, arrested by Northern Pacific special agent Frank Star. Treas. W J Shattuck to testify. hearing before Justice Ornaby. Urtek charged with defrauding Leggat hotel of room rent. desk clerks Walter Coughlin and A B Morris to testify before Justice Doran.
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John Norney
R.A. Urtek
Norney
Silver Bow Lumber Company
Frank Star
Northern Pcific Railway Company
W. J. Shattuck
Lumber Company
Robert Ornaby
R.A. Uriek
Leggat Hotel
Walter Coughlin
A. B. Morris
Justice Doran
Last graduating at Butte class to be held at school
Members of the class of 1917 at the Butte high school are summoned to a Thursday evening meeting in the assembly room. A special committee will be elected to manage a dance this month and to adopt the alumni constitution and by laws.
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Hutte High ‘School
Soldier Boys Christmas and Standard subscription appeal
Subscriptions to The Standard are urged for soldier boys serving away from home. The notice promises pleasure and comfort from reading the home paper and notes boys will follow local events with relish. In Seattle, Secretary of Labor Wilson leads a federal mediation commission on timber labor issues. his health reportedly improved after illness in Portland last week.
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Seattle
Wee
Pacific Northwestern
W. B. Wilson
Federal Mediation Commission
Wilson
Portland
Ore
Walsh proposes cabinet department of fisheries
Washington December 3 Creation of a department of fisheries with cabinet status and with the reorganized merchant marine as itsag proposed in a bill introduced today by Representative Walsh of Massachusetts.
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Anothets
Washington
Department of Fisheries
Merchant Marine
Walsh
Massachusetts
Lawmaker Seeks Foreign Decorations for U.S. Forces
Representative Linthicum of the foreign affairs committee introduced a joint resolution allowing army and navy personnel to accept decorations from foreign governments allied against Germany. The measure aims to recognize service members with honors from allied nations amid the war.
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Washington
Representative Linthicum
Foreign Afairs Committee
Army
Germany
Menu fragment with mixed dishes and beef items
A fragment lists various prepared foods and cuts including boiled beef and beans, roast beef, fried hash, chicken giblets, sauteed items with rice, braised filet veal, and mashed potatoes. It reads like a wartime or cafeteria menu item list with scattered misspellings and unclear context.
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Committee On Nursing
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Columbia Hospital
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Soldier Boys
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Utah Ave
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