Butte Notes Highlight Local People and Holiday Merchants
McClure Brothers assayers and Orton Brothers piano shop promote high end instruments while J G Bates tunes Montana Music Co. visitors include W W Norton and W H G Trevor with weddings and travel notes. A county jail sentence for vagrancy and hearings for petty larceny are reported along with stock offerings of Butte Mine Exploration. The Butte Hotel touts remodels and rates as Christmas items and local deliveries promote holiday goods.
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McClure Bros
Orton Bros
Joseph Ferrell
Pony
Butte
Cox
W. Sutton
West Quartz
Montana
Harry W. Turner
New York
J.T. Carroll Lumber Company
Arizona
Platinum Streets
Orton Bros. Piano and Musical Merchandise Sale
The Kimball piano billed as the people’s favorite and a variety of musical instruments offered at low prices with easy terms. Located at 219 North Main, the sale promotes holiday presents and solid gold rings priced at 75 cents.
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Vo. C, Jones
Wisdom
Thornton
W. W. Norton
Helena
Orton Bros
219 North Main
MeJigger Seeks Best for Himself in City Scuffle
A Philadelphia Press item portrays MeJigger as a self serving figure who pushes to have the best of everything, while MeeJigever notes the rest also desire greater gains. The dialogue frames a petty local quarrel over perks.
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Philadelphia Press
County Poor Farm Contract System Extended For Another Year
The county commissioners extended the care contracts for 1902 granting medical attendance to Dr Ignatius Donnelly at 250 dollars monthly and care for inmates to Mrs Wate Godfrey at 4 dollars per capita weekly. Dr O Leary was hired for contagious diseases at 250 dollars monthly while former county physician Dr Sheeran earned 470 dollars monthly. Mrs McDonald continues as matron at 3.75 per inmate weekly. bids and opposition to the system were noted.
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Ignatius Donnelly
Wate Godfrey
O'Leary
Butte
Bord
Clark
Peoples
Donnelly
Godfrey
Haggerty
Commissioner Peoples
George F. Danzier
E. Dodge
Mary Kearney
Louis Bernheim
T. J. Sullivan
Musicians at Suttons New Theater Quit Over Union Clash
Tensions between the Musicians' Union and manager Dick Sutton over pay led to the orchestra being discharged. The final performance of The Burgomaster with piano accompaniment occurred as the union seeks control of the house orchestra, threatening further boycotts and blacklist measures.
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Suttons New Theater
Musicians’ Union
Dick Sutton
New Grand Opera House
Opera House
Sutton
Silver Bow Trades and Labor Assembly
Musician's Union
Sutton Family
Grard
Union of Red
Robbery Report Leads to Arrest on Galena Street
James McDonald told a Fast Galena street officer he was robbed while visiting Carrie Garrison. Garrison was arrested along with the man and they were taken to the city jail. McDonald said he was robbed of thirty dollars.
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James McDonald
Galena Street
Carrie Garrison
Shay
McDonald
Jailer Counts Cents After Prisoner Speaks on Bonds
A jail scene ends with a man answering dollars or cents to a jailer question. He provides 20 cents to a lobster for breakfast while McDonald urges the woman’s restraint. McDonald must post bonds for court, leaving his gold watch and chain with the jailer.
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McDonald
Inter Mountain league meeting urged to back Butte club
Iaser McCloskey calls a meeting tomorrow at Finlen hotel for stock formation to back the Butte baseball club. J R Wharton plans a park and will take 10 shares at 100 dollars. Projected 50 more shares at the same price would solidify finances. Bob Perham has retired from baseball and is working in Boulder.
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McCloskey
Bob Perham
Perham
Toulder
Indian Religious Dance Reported by Cheyenne Chiefs
Major Stouch opposes temperate dancing among Indians while Governor Jenkins reports a Cheyenne request to permit a religious ceremony. George A. Lorsey of the Field Columbian Museum observed the ceremony and sent a detailed letter describing its features and study results.
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Darlington
Oklo
Kansas City Star
Major Stouch
United States
Jenkins
Steven
George A. Lorsey
Field Columbian Museum
Chicago
Jerusalem to Get Water From Ain Salah Pipeline
A London Times correspondent notes Jerusalem will receive a nine mile pipeline from Ain Salah to supply 400 skins of water daily via fountains and pumps. Ancient aqueducts and tunnels, dating to Solomon, will feed the modern system with eleven or twelve historic fountains restored for public use.
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Baltimore Sun
Holy Land
Jerusalem
City of David
London Times
Ain Salah
Solomon's Pools
Solomon
Times
Berlin Impressions From An American Visitor
A New York Times correspondent writes from Berlin describing Germany as a large reform school with pervasive police control. She notes strict rules and the culture of not transgressing any prohibition, contrasting police oversight with citizens’ docility and limited travel, and humorously imagines Eden in Germany guarded by officers.
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New York Times
Germany
Berlin
Empire
Italy
Switzerland
Garden of Eden
Snake
Hunt
German Versicherungs Reach Cited At Empire
The report notes that 17,000,000 people in the empire are insured, describing Germans as cautious by nature.
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Empire
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I. A. Heilbronner
E. Broadway Buite
Butte Hotel
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China
HN A LY
Buck
Brownfield-Canty Carpet Co
West Park
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Guetedel
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Ruedele
Ceylon
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Montana Cash Grocery
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Montana Sts. Butte
Pipestone Springs
Wm. E. Casey
Hot Springs, Arkansas
R. Burket
Pipestone Springs, Mont
Golden
Fosselimian Drug Store
East Park St
DR. Chung
W .Gualena St
Wont
the Buite Undertaker
W. Park
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Lee Mantle
Chee. Schatstein
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Haskins
A. B. Clements
Charles St. Leonard
Weinze
Henry Mueller
James BH. Montesth
Daly Bank and Trust CO
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W. Dixon
John D. Ryan
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K. Lewis
J. H. Vi
Fayette Harrington
A. White
Silver Bow
Mont
Capital
Prine
Europe
Moncy
Warran
Hochelga
Montreal
Canada
State Savings Bank
Main and Park
John A. Creighton
G. W. Stapleton
T. Hodrens
D.reetora
Jon Creighton
Omana
G W. Btapieton
Aytt. Barrett
B. D. Leavitt
Bemyer
M Tiodgens
J. O Higens
First National Bank
Andrew J. Davis
James Talbott
George Stevenson
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