Butte Tragedy Involving Ada Whatson Aged 11
Ada Whatson 11, and her sisters Lilly 12 and Sarah 18, rode with two men, James Richards and James Wilcox, leading to a runaway crash at Main and Woodman Streets. Ada suffered a fractured skull base and neck injuries. Richards and Wilcox were bruised. The father Sol Wharlon, nicknamed Broncho, vowed to kill the men but was persuaded to go home. The sisters are nieces of former Sheriff Reynolds.
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Main
Woodman Streets
Ada Whatson
Lilly
Sarah
James Richards
James Wilcox
Center Street
Sol Wharlon
Hennessy's
Centerville
Bennett
Woolman_ street
Sarah Whatton
Ada Wharton
Richards
Wilcox
Hughes
Woolman Street
McDonald
Donnelly
Murray & Freund's Hospital
Reynolds
Montana Music Co Gives Free Sheet Music With Purchases
Montana Music Co offers 20 000 pieces of standard sheet music as free gifts this month, with ten pieces included for each purchase over one dollar. The program aims to reward customers and boost sales.
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Montana Music Co
Hat returns and goods listings from Butte descriptions
Fedora hats in black or brown from Boucher. Meals for ladies and gentlemen offered. Woman's Exchange at 111 West Broadway. For rent a four room house and furniture for sale at 110 East Granite. Butte listings provide local shopping and housing notices.
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Boucher
Woman's Exchange
West Broadway
Granite
Butte
Orton Bros. Offers One Third Off Sheet Music
Orton Bros. announces a 33 percent discount on all sheet music and music folios for the next 30 days, inviting musicians to stock up on scores and arrangements at the shop.
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Orton Bros
Thomas Strikes Back Colorado Rebuffs Indiana Requisition
Indiana requests Clinton Oxman of Princeton and J Mayer Greene of Chicago in a real estate fraud case. Colorado Governor Thomas refuses the requisition, citing legal steps and retaliatory tension with Indiana Governor Mount who had earlier refused Becham’s request for ex Governor Taylor.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Mount
Covernor Thomas
Colorado
Indiana
Clinton Oxman
Princeton
J. Mayer Greene
Chicago
Denver
Campbell
Beckham
Taylor
Music Shop Offers Guitars Mandolins and Banjoes
Montana Music Co advertises high grade guitars mandolins and banjos at reasonable prices. Featured brands include Martin Washburn Regal Maurer and Bay State. Christmas gifts praised with selective listings and local appeal.
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Martin, Washburn
Regal
Maurer
Bay State
Montana
Mussic
Mandoline and guitars at Orton Brose
Mandoline and guitars priced from five dollars upward offered at Orton Brose.
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Orton Brose
Burglars Loot West Park Street Home For Silverware
Thieves entered the residence at 827 West Park Street while Mr Weirick and family were away on Saturday night and stole silverware and other valuables valued in the hundreds of dollars. Police believe they have traced the crew responsible.
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Mr. Weirick
West Park Street
Five Policemen and a Vig Arrest Pig on Fifteenth Street
Five policemen seized a large pig on Fifteenth street between Locust and Spruce yesterday morning. The animal, described as a big fat black fellow, turned up in a fashionable neighborhood and resisted departure as several servant girls tried to shoosh it away.
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Philadelphia Record
Fifteenth Street
Locust
Spruce Streets
Imprisoned in a City Scene Parker Captured by Police
A pig trespasser smashed marble steps, resisted, and was pursued by officers. Police dispatched to Fifteenth Street Station faced a stubborn intruder as more men arrived. After a prolonged chase, the pig was finally cornered and wheeled to the station house by officers including a South Carolina veteran.
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Fifteenth Street
South Carolina
Parker
Man Falls in Saloon Incident at Park Street
Hans Baker, carried to the city jail by Patrolman McConnell, suffered a severe head cut after falling down a stairway from a back door at a Park Street saloon. City physician Dr. Alexander treated Baker. injuries were painful but not life threatening. Police investigated with limited details.
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Hans Baker
McConnell
Dr. Alexander
Baker
Fast Park Street
Slot machine marbles stir St Joseph schoolrooms
An improvised marble slot machine has appeared in several St Joseph schools, built from cigar boxes and nails to form a sinuous path with three holes. Players win by dropping a marble through the center hole. losses keep the marble. Teachers ban the device as promoting gambling.
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St. Joseph
Lions Bolted From Cage After Ill Trainer Enters
A Porte St. Martin theater incident in Paris shows six trained lions fleeing a cage when a nervous trainer, wife of a veteran, enters with a club. The door wasn’t secured, the beasts escaped through a rear exit to a cellar, and were only coaxed back after a week.
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McClure
Porte St. Martin
Paris
New Use for Cannon Balls in Rock Quarries
A historical note describes how obsolete cannon balls became valuable in rock quarries. Workers drop small balls into clefts to loosen blocks, then progressively insert larger ones until the block frees. The rolling aid replaces wooden rollers, allowing movement in any direction.
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New York World
United States
Poetic Friction with Oxygen Theory Surfaces
The New York Press notes a theory by Lumeden suggesting sighing signals oxygen needs. Mental distress leads to chest rigidity until more oxygen is demanded, with sighs acting to obtain essential supply. A future scientific maiden may discard smelling salts for an oxygen smelling bottle.
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New York
Lumeden
Let the Standard Aid You in Renting Homes
A 15 word Per Rent advertisement costs 15 cents for a single insertion. Try it with the Standard.
Northern Montana Office Listing Ad Rates
Northern Montana office of the Standard is in the Bach Cory Block Great Falls opposite the Park Hotel. Advertising rates furnished on application.
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Montana
The
Standard
Bach-Cory
Great Falls
Park Hotel
Explain Why Mrs Edwards Must Speak or Suspicions Grow
In Great Falls the Edwards death case remains unsolved as chemical tests fail to show poison and the coroner's jury cannot assign cause. Mrs Edwards, kept under suspicion, refuses interviews while public opinion splits over her innocence and alleged affair with a woman of the half world.
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Great Falls
John Louis Edwards
Helena
Louis Edward
Mrs. Edwards
Edwards
Great Falls Notes and Local Transactions
W. I Irwin of Stockett spent Sunday in Great Falls. Rafter fined five dollars for riding a bicycle on the sidewalk. R D Whitten returned from a surveying trip near Chateau. F Stork Poo bought the northeast quarter of section 8 township 18 east range east from H H Dimock. Conrad Investment bought ranches and stock of F P Cowell B Potter and J M Laughmin for 35000. County treasurer Gelsthorpe sent 5523.04 to state treasurer for Cascade county government funds. Martha Lee bought lot 11 and west half of lot 4 block 23 in the first addition to Great Falls for 1800. Edith Simpson sold northeast quarter of northwest quarter of lot 4 block 3 in sixth addition to Great Falls to Edward F Blackhouse for 500. Samuel S Wolffsohn Pan American exposition commissioner visited, conferring with A J Shores and George H Blanton, Great Falls commissioners.
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W. «. Irwin
Stockett
Great Falls
Laude Rafter
R. D. Whitten
Chateau
F Stork Poo
Township 18
Worth
Henry H. Dimock
Conrad Investment Company
F. P. Cowell
B. Potter
John M. Laugh- Min
Dupuyer
Gelsthorpe
Cascade County
Martha Lee
Hiarlow House
Flest
Creat Walls
Edith Simpson
Edward F. Blackhouse
Samuel 8 Wolffsohn
A. J. Shores
George H. Blanton
Trustees Seek 15000 Subscription to Keep Schools Open
The district faced a crisis after a year of court action left the area strapped. Trustees, to avoid school closure on January 13, urged subscriptions totaling 15000 while awaiting legislative tax power. With funds needed to pay off a loan and sustain operations, they redirected 1000 from district salaries to practical teaching, canceling the Great Falls List Year teachers institute.
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Supreme Court
Great Falls
Death of Judge M. C. Larkin in Barker
Judge M. C. Larkin died in Barker at age 37 after years of rheumatism. Pneumonia was the immediate cause. He left a single relative in the state, Mrs. Jenry Daniels. The notice also advertises Hunter's Hot Springs with a Northern Pacific round trip offer from Helena and Springdale for 10 dollars valid three days with two days lodging and bathing, extendable 15 days.
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Great Falls
M. C. Larkin
Barker
Judge Larkin
Jenry Daniels
Hunter's
Hot Springs
Montana
Northern Pacific
Helena
Springdale
Belt Notes from Belt Montana December News
Local brief with multiple items: Dick Wright pleads guilty to assault in the third degree and pays a fine. A railroad switchman suffers a minor injury. Belt Rod and Gun Club elects officers and plans a Christmas live bird shoot. Various residents and visitors are noted, including new moves, resignations in public schools, and a store extending evening hours for Christmas shopping.
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Belt
W. FE
Boston
Kentucky
Dick Wright
Frank McGowan
Highwood
Justice DesCoomb
Wright
Dr. Vidal
Belt Rod and Gun Club
Matt Richardson
D. Spogen
R. D. Cole
P. EF. Peterson
J. 8. Flynn
J. J. Kinney
P. Bh. Peterson
Will Good
R. M. Morris
Huunters Hot Springs
al Phippen
Monarch
McLaren
Iowa
M. H. Grafton
Martha Kearns
W. BP. Tolman
L. Crane
Ned Creek
Chicago
Draining the Zuyder Zee shows Dutch plan to reclaim vast gulf
The Dutch cabinet proposes a bill to drain the Zuyder Zee at a cost near 100 million dollars. Early estimates put the expense at 10 million, but experience suggests higher outlays. The project envisions a 25 mile sea wall across the gulf, creating four poldered lands and an Ysselmeer lake with locks, draining up to half Rhodes Island in 30 years.
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Zuyder Zee
Gulf of the Zuyder Zee
Terra Firma
Wilhelmina
Gul
Zuyder Zoe
Yasel
Ysselmeer
Rhodes Island
Counties clash over teachers institute in Great Falls
Miss Craven, county superintendent, reports Helena instructs holding a teachers institute despite most district trustees voting against attendance. Great Falls trustees stand by earlier decision to bar Metz teachers from participating, arguing financial prudence and public good. Attorney Freeman questions the legality of a board meeting while stressing fiscal responsibility amid strained school finances.
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Aireut Falls
Craven
Carleton
Helena
Nolan
Great Falls
Metz
Gormley
New Disease Among Boer War Invalids Named Puttee Paralysis
Doctors report a new illness among Boer War veterans returning home, termed puttee paralysis. Tight puttees wrapped around the lower legs may press nerves, causing weakness and paralysis in feet and toes during recovery from fever. Initially called enteric feet in early cases.
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New York
South Africa
Puttee Paralysis Linked to Long Marches
Investigation finds enteric or typhoid fever largely caused by the puttee. The tight wrapping and movement of the legs in infantry marching led to a condition described as puttee paralysis. Loggins may be kept in use and puttees likely abandoned in future.
Opera Bouffe Finances in Guatemala’s Paper Money System
A New Orleans importer describes Guatemala’s currency chaos with dollar notes, debased soldos, and interdepartmental value gaps. Shops use metal tokens and self printed paper notes to bridge change, while private treasuries flourish in a country seen as chaotic yet prosperous for merchants.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Guatemala
New Orleans
Civil ‘Department
Prorietor
United States
Treasury Department
Bohemian and Silesian Laborers Fill Swiss Shortage
Swiss industries face a labor shortage so severe that workers are imported from Bohemia and Silesia rather than Italy. The movement underscores regional wage pressures and cross border recruitment trends affecting industrial output.
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Switzerland
Italy
Bohemia
Silesia
Musical Instruments Price List Starts From Low Figures
Mandolins and guitars from $38.50 up Violins and banjos from $5.00 up Mon
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Montana Music Co
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