Jumps Two Stories And Runs Ten Hotel
Charles Swanson a 24 year old street car employee leapt from the Stockholm rooming house to the Thornton hotel last night, then tore furniture and, after partial undress, sought a room. He was jailed on an insanity charge, placed in a padded cell after clambering the bars, and claimed 12 men pursued him. A check for 51.50 from the street railway was found in his pocket. He shows no signs of intoxication or fixed mental illness.
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Charles Swanson
Stockholm
East Park Street
Thornton Hotel
Swanson
Thornton
Yorath
van Orden
Butte
The
Street Railway Company
Ten Years for Real in Statutory Offense Case
Elmer Real of St. Regis was sentenced by Judge Webster in Missoula district court to 10 years at hard labor in the state prison for a statutory offense after pleading guilty. Real will be taken to Deer Lodge tomorrow.
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Standard
Missoula
Elmer EF
Real
St. Regis
Webster
Deer Lodge
Lewis Heads Committee For Progressive Party
New York Dec 20 The executive committee of the progressive party adjourned after deciding to establish publicity headquarters in Washington and appointing committees to push the work. The legislative committee was named with Dean William J Lewis of the University of Pennsylvania as chairman.
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New York
Washington
Progressive Party
William }. Lewis
University of Pennsylvania
Miners Vote Against Card System In Union Referendum
At dawn the Butte Miners union referendum showed 870 to abolish the card system and 765 in favor. A total of 3,460 ballots were cast with late tallies expected before 6 am. Officers said a protest vote dominated by radicals, while conservatives voted earlier and left after casting ballots.
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Butte Miners’ Union
Believes canal question should be arbitrated
Washington December 2 The United States should submit to arbitration the Panama canal controversy declared by RE P Wheeler of New York at the opening session of the American Society for the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes He argued the US has settled larger disputes with Britain by arbitration and should refer a pure question of law on the Hay Pauncefote treaty to an impartial tribunal.
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Washington
United States
Panama Canal
RE. P. Wheeler
New York
American Society For the Judicial Settlement
Great Britain
Cornell Names Miss Scheel the Perfect Woman
Miss Elsie Scheel of Brooklyn is hailed as the most perfect physically among Cornell students by Dr. Esther Parker Sage College examiner. Her measurements rival Venus de Milo proportions and she is noted as an athlete who plays basketball. Pittsburg is noted for higher fuel consumption than any other city.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Cornell
Esther Parker
Sage College
Elsie Scheel
Brooklyn
Parker
Venus de Milo
Miss Scheel
Taft Listens Panama Mission Rationale
President Taft outlined the Panama trip purpose in Jacksonville Florida stating the aim is to judge whether civil government should be established in the zone. The speech occurred during a southbound stop en route to Key West as the party prepared to sail to Panama.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Panama Zone
Taft
Isthmus
Key West
Florida
Union
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Panama
Shakespeare’s Plays Saved in Shorthand History Study
A Strand writer notes shorthand’s long arc from ancient Tiro to modern systems. It traces Tiro’s elder method, Cassianus’s fate, and medieval persistence before Elizabethan revivals by Bright, Bales, and Willis. Shakespeare’s plays mostly appeared from reporters’ notes, causing textual variances.
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Strand
Marcus Tullius Tiro
Cicero
Tiro
Cassianus
Imola
Severus
Elizabeth
England
Timothy Bright
Peter Bales
John Willis
Shakespeare
Shorthand slips and a jailhouse concert tale
A discussion on shorthand errors from Pepys to Rushworth precedes a dramatic prison tale of McFee. He sang nonstop for days in Ayr Castle Prison, ignoring nurses and guards, collapsing unconscious after a 48 hour performance and enduring a lengthy confinement while repeating hymns and Burns tunes.
Anguished Singers Lay Off After Marathon Voice
Angus McFee, exhausted from forty eight hours of non stop singing, is confined to Ayrshire county prison infirmary. He endured two days and nights of continuous song, pausing only to breathe, without solid or liquid refreshment, while performing the famous Glory Song associated with Torrey and Alexander.
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Angus McFee
Ayrshire
Angus
Glasgow
New York Press
Torrey and
Alexander
Appendix disease awareness in past 30 years
A fragment notes that appendicitis as a disease became known about thirty years ago. It mentions growing awareness without additional details about individuals, institutions, or dates. The text presents a brief historical marker rather than a full event.
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M. J. Connors
East Broadway
Anaconda
Mountain View
Connors
California
Orton Bros
Ady
Lewis
Pittsburg
Washington Market
Bell
West Park
Ind
Montana
Hornell
Swift
Goldenrod Creamery
Jonathan
Kernicssy
Keenncsey S
Samuel Pepys
Charles II
Worcester
House of Commons
Charles I
John Rushworth
T. A. Reed
Prussia
Lord Carnarvon
Edinburg
Blackie
McFee
His Majesty's
Ayr
Durance
House of Correction
Black Maria
Harry Lauder
Closs Aealues
Western Outfit Co
West Park Street
Silver Bow National Bank of
Butte City
United States Depository
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