Education Board Divided On School Plans And Healers
The education board debated converting the old Miles City heating plant into a laundry at a 12000 dollar cost and approved continuing a gym at the Helena Valley Girls' Vocational School for winter recreation. They backed the institution's management led by W H George amid a heated dispute over physician changes and a fatal anaesthetic incident involving Lottie Rumsey.
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A. C. Door
Boys’ Industrial School
Miles City
Girls’ Vocational School
Helena Valley
Edith Kassing
Board of Examiners
Kassing
State Normal School
Dillon
George
Lottie
Wife Divorces Millionaire in Des Moines Court
Mrs Lettie Fitch wife of Fred W Fitch millionaire hair tonic maker was granted a divorce in district court in Des Moines Iowa today A property settlement is said to have been arranged out of court Fitch had pursued a divorce action started in Reno Nevada months ago and it is to be dismissed
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Iowa
Lettie Fitch
Fred W. Fitch
Fitch
Reno
Nev
Extra dividends exceed 5 million for workers at firm
Extra dividends totaling over 5 million are paid to about 200,000 employees, topping prior bonuses. The payout ranges from 16 to 40 percent of annual salaries based on service length, with other firms like The Mutual Bank and Fulton Trust offering 10 percent to staff.
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The
Mutual Bank
Fulton Trust Company
France Raises Visa Fee for Americans in Paris Frontier
Paris reports a new flat visa charge of 10 dollars per year for Americans residing in France to cross the frontier. Previously the annual visa cost 3% francs, about 15 cents, paid at prefectural police. The United States maintains the 10 dollar fee, prompting France to align passport facility charges with the foreign country’s charges for French citizens.
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Paris
France
United States
Four Die As Train Hits Auto At Crossing Near Kellogg
Four persons were killed when a Rock Island passenger train struck an automobile at a crossing near Kellogg Iowa last night. The victims include Miss Helen Dodge of Des Moines, a Mr and Mrs Brown, and Arnold Morris of Newton.
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Associated Press
Kellogg
Iowa
Rock Island
Here
Helen Dodge
Des Moines
Brown
Arnold Morris
Newton
Invite America to 1926 Disarmament Preparatory Commission
The text discusses how peace and strength should guide disarmament measures with limits on land, sea, and air forces. It outlines standards for measuring armaments, whether a nation arms for defense or aggression, and how to distinguish military from civilian aviation, plus the value of regional security and the need for a large U.S. technical staff if sent. It quotes a League of Nations invitation signed by M Selago and notes U.S. consultation with President Coolidge and Kellogg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department
Coolidge
Kellogg
Army
Navy
M. Selaloga
League Council
Council of the
League of Nationg
United States
Geneva
Bulgaria
Finland
Germany
Netherlands
Poland
Rumania
Servia
Soviet
Russia
League
Council
Ftig
Canines Prowl Goops and Kill Prize Chickens
Canines prowled a pen on Aberdeen Street early yesterday morning, scratching in and loosening the entrance. They killed 11 prize Ancona cockerels and crippled six more from a 20-bird pen belonging to Jean Ordan, a leading Butte chicken fancier, wiping out years of selective breeding worth about 250 dollars.
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Jean Ordan
Aberdeen Street
Colorado Scene of New Gold Rush
Advices from Pueblo report a rush of miners to Mangraves creek in the San Isabel forest near the Sangre de Cristo range after a reported gold placer strike. Americans and Mexicans stake claims along the creek bottom as Colorado’s mining belt, including sites near Thomas creek, continues to attract prospectors.
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Associated Press
Pueblo
Mangraves Creek
San Isabel National Forest
Sangre de Cristo Range
Dowager Queen Margarita Improves Amid Illness
DOWAGER QUEEN Margarita at Bordighera Italy was reported better this morning as pulmonary pleurisy eases. Doctors said the ailment is following its normal course and the patient showed subsidence of fever.
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Queen III
Associated Press
Bordighera
Italy
Margarita
Toys made in Czechoslovak homes delight children worldwide
Children in all parts of the world enjoy the $43,000 worth of toys made in homes of Czechoslovak every month.
Debts Plague Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Rail
Testimony before the interstate commerce commission shows the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railroad never escaped debts after 1917. President H F Byram described $4,000,000 in unpaid audits and said bankruptcy followed failure to meet $48,000,000 in June 1925. Receivership had been anticipated and reorganization plans blocked by New York bankers.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
H. FE. Byram
Interstate Commerce Commission
Byram
Herman L. Keekern
Wisconsin
Chicago, Terre Haute & Southwestern Railway
St. Paul
Mr. Eckern
New York
Butte Elks Welcome Grand Lodge Official Visit
Butte lodge of Elks entertained two prominent visitors, Charles E. Johnston and George L. Steinbrenner, with remarks praising local leadership and a new hall. Johnston urged patriotism and law observance, announced a national membership rise, while Steinbrenner backed the state lodge group and Flathead Lake site. The lodge voted to renew its Christmas hospital visit and plan a New Year banquet with a dance from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte Lodge of Elks
Charles E. Johnston
Montana
George L. Steinbrenner
Ssoula Lodge
Johnson
Butte Lodge
Grand Lodge
Steinbrenner
State Association of el Lodges
Glacier Park dynamite blast kills Great Falls man
Burrel Bruner of Great Falls, aged 87, was killed in Glacier Park when a camp fire sparked percussion caps and detonated 88 sticks of dynamite in a box as he held a sack with 12 more sticks. He stood by the box while blasting stumps for road work near Glacier Park Station for a tourist hotel project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Great Falls
Burrel Bruner
Glacier Park
Bruner
Glacier Park Station
Stolen Jewels From Producer's Home Worth Forty Thousand
Jewelry and tapestries valued at 40000 dollars were taken from the home of motion picture producer B P Schul berg today. His car is missing and police seek James Crawford, the chauffeur, for questioning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Los Angeles
B. P. Schulberg
James Crawford
Seattle market reports record fur auction demand
Demand for mink beaver lynx and silver fox dominated the last monthly Seattle exchange auction for 1925. Over 10 000 skins were offered with buyers from New York Chicago St Louis and Pacific coast cities in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Seattle
New York
Chicago
St. Loui S
Mitchell Guilty Court's Verdict
The court finds Colonel Mitchell guilty on the 96th article of war for prejudicing good order and military discipline. The trial moves to the war department for review before final action by President Coolidge. Major Gullion urges swift dismissal to protect the army and national defense.
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Mitchell
Capitol
War Department
Adjutant General of the Army
Board of Review
Judge Advocate General
Davis
Coolidge
Army
War
Navy
National Defense
Itchell
Army General Staff
Navy General Board
Gullion
Sherman Moreland
Frank R. Reid
Tlllinois
Mr. Reid
Army Air Service
Daughter Fails to Save Mother in Chicago Tragedy
Miss Lillian Nemic, 20, leapt before her father Alo's Nemic, 48, to shield her mother Anna, 46, as he fired a shotgun. The attack fatally wounded Anna and he killed himself minutes later after a quarrel over the daughters attending amusements.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Lillian Nemic
Alo's
Nemic
Michigan
Anna
Murder of Husband Charged to Widow Olson
In Greeley Colorado on December 17 Mrs Bertha Olson was charged with murder in an Information filed in district court by Deputy Sheriff William Tegtman. The body of her husband John Olson, a wealthy Colorado and New Mexico lumberman, was found December 6 with a bullet wound in a pasture near Fort Lupton. Mrs Olson, arrested three days later with her son and daughter by a previous marriage and five other persons, has remained in custody as others were released.
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Greeley
Col
Bertha
Olson
John Olson
Colorado
Newexico
William Tegtman
Fort Lupton
Northwest Weather Disturbance Dampens Northwest Thursday Night
A dominant north Pacific disturbance brought cloudy skies inland to the Rock Mountains and along the coast, with light to moderate coastal winds. Temperatures were mild across the region, remaining above freezing except in the Dakotas and farther north in interior western provinces where it stayed colder.
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Feovpo
Aessa
Pegiomeo Sedicavese Eose
Bee Pemnadold
Edeccadges
Ie Miles City
Los Angeles
SNOW
Portland
Vee
Salt Lake City
Vita
San Francisco
Oreo Vy Tue
Pisses
Spokane
North
Pacific
Rock Mountains
Dakotas
White Cargo Receives Warm Broadway Reception
A packed house cheers Leon Gordon's White Cargo at the Broadway. The primitive drama set on the African west coast follows Whitzel and Langford, two white men, and Tondeleyo as they face tropical temptations and moral peril. Whitzel's forewarnings and a fanatical twist end with Langford sent home as white cargo.
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Leon Gordon
Whitzel
Earl D. Dwire
Langford
James Ryan
Tondeleyo
Isabelle Herbert
England
Montana lawmaker seeks three federal buildings
Washington December 17 Representative Leavitt a Republican from Montana introduced bills to authorize federal buildings in Glendive Havre and Lewistown costing 100000 dollars each the measure aims to expand federal presence in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Associated Press
Washington
Leavitt
Republican
Glendive
Havre
Lewistown
Mont
Cowboy Grit at Imperial Theater Tonight and Tomorrow
Pete Morrison and Betty Goodwin star in Cowboy Grit a Western series feature shot in West with dramatic nature scenes. A standout moment shows Morrison leaping from Lightning to bulldog a horned steer to save Goodwin as she faces danger eliciting cheers from the audience.
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Imperial Theater Tonght
Pete Morrison
Are Goodwin
West
Betty Goodwin
Pell
Lightning
Pete
County Jail Term Imposed On Woman
Josephine Ward was found guilty on a vagrancy charge and sentenced to 90 days in the county jail. Frank Mitchell, arrested with Ward, pleaded not guilty and awaits a hearing set by Justice of the Peace RE Henried.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Mitchell
Josephine Ward
Justice of the Peace RE
Salmon Notes and Socials Highlight Week
The Modern Priscilla club met at Mrs. Charles Mack’s home. Dinner Bridge winners were Mrs. F. W. Bellamy Dan O’Connell and Mrs. D. L. Nichols. Mrs. George W. Davis left Salmon for Veronica Oregon. George W. Oliver from New Jersey seeks saddle horses for shipment east, with James Meyer accompanying. J H Stemmer toured as district highway engineer. Henry Campbell returned from Lincoln Nebraska. Mrs. Campbell stayed and improved. Mrs. A F Tage wintered in Salmon at Mrs. D Matlock’s, planning another Jersey cow carload. BE M Yearlan from Eugene attended to business.
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Salmon
Priscilla Club
Charles Mack
Dinner Bridge
J. F. Adams
F. W. Bellamy
Dan O'Connell
D. L. Nichols
George W. Davis
Veronica
Ore
Lawrence Green
George W. Oliver
New Jersey
Mr. Oliver
James Meyer
Newark
United States
J. H. Stemmer
Henry Campbell
Nebraska
Campbell
Lincoln
A. F. Tage
Leadore
D. Matlock
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Lottie Rumsey
State Board of Charities and Reforms
R. H. Dyer
Sheridan
Dyer
Twin Bridges
C. H. Foot
Frank Eliel
John Dietrich
Foot
Eliel
Dietrich
Pat Carney
Car
J. H. T. Ryman
May Trumper
Erickson
Davidson
Sidney Lanner
Butte
AIR Probe
Morrow
Dwight Morrow
Wall Street
White House
Eth
James Kavanaugh
America
Council of League
Thomas Creek
Cripple Creek
Silverton
Ouray
Soum Swat
Cornelius Ignatius Montague Smith
Agnes
At. Paul Road
Butte Elks
Wein
Charleston
Weins
Salmon News
Thomas Meighan
Ireland
Blarney Castle
River Shannon
Lake of Killarney
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