Butte Schools Back Prize Essay On Kindness To Animals
City Superintendent R C Young urged principals and teachers to promote a prize essay contest on kindness to animals. The local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals offers three medals for sixth seventh and eighth graders, with prizes based on a 40 to 1000 word limit and no teacher help. Essays must be submitted by December 21 and may be printed in city papers. The German Progressive society meets Friday at 2 p.m. at Elk hall with Henry Mueller and Charles Drews presiding.
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R. C. Young
Lam
Society For the Prevention of
H. Rosenzweig
West Broadway
German Progressive Society
Elk Hall
Henry Mueller
Charles Drews
Virginia City Resident Amanda Briggs Dies at 62
Amanda P Briggs aged 62 died yesterday leaving Virginia City community. Her remains are at Richards undertaking parlors for arrangements.
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Amanda P. Briggs
Virginia City
Richards’ Undertaking
New Defender Under Construction for America's Cup Challenge
News from Bristol reports progress on the defender for the America's Cup. Sail production by Ratsey and Herreshoff workers proceeds with luff to leach cloth in the modern style. Steel spars, interior diaphragms, and a forward topmast setup are planned, with nearly 199 tons of lead keel metal staged for casting.
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New York
Bristol
Thomas Lipton
Syndicate
Hathaway
Ratsey
Herreshoff
Lapthorne
W. Butler Duncan, Jr
Columbia
Absinthe Influenced Maniac Trial Notes in New York
Clarence Peck aged 25 living at 160 West Forty-eighth street and employed by Equitable Assurance consumed thirty five measures of absinthe driving him into a ravings mania. The incident is reported from New York on December 6.
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New York
Clarence Peck
West Forty-eighth Street
Equitable Assurance Company
Absinthe-fueled assault ends in hospital restraint
A man in the Tenderloin, after heavy drinking, attacked people and threw arcade machines at 1247 Broadway. Three attendants restrained him until police arrived. he calmed after a straightjacket was applied and he was sent to Bellevue hospital.
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Broadway
Jones
Howard
West Thirtieth Street
Bellevue Hospital
Oakland Vigilance Groups Form Over Brutal City Attacks
The Oakland police race to curb a spate of violent crimes against women. Mrs Elizabeth Case lies in critical condition after a brutal assault on her West Oakland doorstep. Two similar attacks in Fruitvale were reported within a week, injuring Mrs W R Curtis and Mrs Silas Fitzinger. Suspects, teenage boys in custody, have confessed.
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Oakland
Dec
Elizabeth Case
West Oakland
Fruitvale
W. RB. Curtis
Twenty-seventh Avenue
Silas Fitzinger
Hanover Street
Curtis
Fitzinger
Case
Brave Jewish Captain Fights Back in Army Feud
Fontainebleau December 6 Captain Coblentz again faced anti Semitic taunts by engaging in a field of honor with Captain Gillet an officer who had opposed him. Coblentz wounded Gillet in the chest leaving him bed bound for days while remaining defiant against postponing the duel. Previous sword wounds from a November duel were cited as he defends his stance and seeks respect within the Ecole Militaire.
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Fontainebleu
Coblentz
Gillet
Turfman Lebaudy
Ecole Militaire
Great Engineering Fent Proposal for Gibraltar Tunnel
Washington December 6 The state department has received a report from George H Murphy consular clerk at Magdeburg Germany on a proposed tunnel from Europe to Africa under the Strait of Gibraltar. French engineer Berlier pledges feasibility and a 1907 completion if built from both ends. Length twenty five miles with twenty miles underwater. Total cost over 22 million pounds for the tunnel and about 42.5 million dollars for the Spain to Algiers link. French press criticizes overestimated earnings and traffic.
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Washington
State Department
Europe
Africa
Strait of Gibraltar
George H. Murphy
Madgeburg
Germany
Berlier
Spain
Morocco
Mont Cenis
St. Gothard
Arbere
Algiers
France
Oil strike near Buchanan ignites excitement in Niles region
In Buchanan five miles west of Niles Michigan a fissure near a dam yields seven gallons of crude oil per hour. The oil crowns a rich find attracting crowds. The property is owned by Chicago millionaire Charles A. Chanin. Separately in Hartford City Indiana 214 wells were completed in November with 49 dry holes and 3 300 barrels daily production.
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Niles
Mich
Buchanan
Charles A. Chanin
Chicago
Hartford City
Ind
Standard Oil Company
Western Oil Men's Association
Toledo
Manley Denies Offer for Internal Revenue Commissioner
Augusta Maine December dispatches report Joseph H. Manley, Republican state chair and national committee member, as a candidate for internal revenue commissioner to fill a vacancy. Manley says no offer was made, he was surprised, and his current aim is to be speaker of Maine's next house with no opposition for the post.
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Augusta
Ince
Washington
Joseph H. Manley
Republican State Committee
The
National Committee
Internal Revenue
Wilson
Manley
State Committee
Maine
House of Representatives
Pillow Cases For Sale At Three Hour Auction
Three hour sale features pillow cases made of fine muslin 36 by 45 inches with corded handkerchief border ready to use valued at twelve percent.
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Monarch
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Michhigan
Symons
Butte
Melton
Black
Castor
Oxford
Richelieu
Derby
Valenciennes
Oriental
Point de Venice
Point de Paris
Children’s Union Suits
Elderdown
Geqnom'sts
W. Butte
Adler
Ark St. J
Afen
Jack
Devette Flannel
W. Park St. Butte, Ment
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