Butte Local Notes and Advertisements Roundup
Miscellaneous notes from Butte including rentals for pianos and medical services, cigar promotions, rail travel info and schedules, fashion items, social events and announcements. Mentions Orton Bros Montanaa Music Co Dr Heine Dr. Clifford J G Bates Scott's Stove Works Anna Held cigars Northern Pacific Great Northern through sleeping car Ladies' Home Journal January 1901 Royal Arcanum soiree cryeta springs Duffy's whiskey McCarty family welcomes a baby girl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orton Bros
Heine
Hennessy Block
Dr. Clifford
N. Main
J. G. Bates
Montana Music Co
H. M. Hall
Owsley Kik
Fred Orton
Dr. Heine
Anna
the Oriental
East Park Street
Price & Blum
Pierce Powers
Davis & Welmescary Co
Main Street
Call Scott's Stove Works
Park
Hanson
Northern Pacific
Butte
St. Paul
Minneapolis
J. M. Froelich
W. Broadway
Isabel Gliddon
Harriet K. Burnet
Owsley
Dorothy Block
Great Northern Railway
The
Ladies’ Home Journal
P. O. News
Puritan
M. Hudtloff
Anaconda
Royal Arcanum
Joseph Magan
H. B. Claflin Company
New York
John Maguire
Duffy
Montana Liquor Co
W. P. McCarty
No. 900
Gallatin Street
Wicht and Fairfield Offer Manicure Goods and Jewelry
Wicht and Fairfield advertise manicure sets baby brushes and combs plus pearl and diamond brooches in a wide assortment. The notice highlights a varied stock and suggests shopping for personal care items and jewelry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wicht & Fairfield
The French Foreign Legion’s Harsh Frontline Service and Mental Strain
Paris gossip notes the Foreign Legion recruits from many nations for the world’s harshest service. Flogging and capital punishment prevail for minor offenses, with high insanity rates among legionnaires. Doctors warn many enlistees are mentally ill before joining and cite discipline-related coercion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Cambodia
Indo-China
Lot
Legion
China
Klondike Faces Harsh Realities As Women Seek Work
The Dawson scene reveals many women, often with little means, desperate for honest employment. Firms report few openings in hotels stores and mines while the community considers cooperatives and a reading room to aid self support amid a harsh winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Klondike
Dawson
Montana
Gold Camp
Lfe
Daweon
James McDonald
McDonald Hotel
McDonald
Fairview Hotel
Christmas Cantatas Brighten Butte Churches for Children
Hundreds of Butte youngsters enjoyed Christmas programs and cantatas at Mountain View Christian Grace Methodist and other churches. Mountain View staged Christmas Fairies with a castle scene and Santa Claus house while Grace Methodist featured a large tree and gift distribution. The Christian tabernacle and German Lutheran Church held crowded services with child participants and recitations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Mountain View Church
Christian Church
Santa Claus
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church
South Butte
Mountain View
Welccome
Annie Walters
Jesuan
Ree
Bella Jane Hell
Darca Forent
Clara Bartle Bolo
Vse Hope
Vera Hutchinson
Dot
Helen Sipple
Msks
Cass
Tom, Dick and
Harry
Eve
Pearl
Minnie Morgan
Boys’ Brigade
Blanche Cook
Clara Bartle
Faith
Grace Methodist Church
Feath Butte
Christmas program at Sunday school with Rev Huddloff talk
The Sunday school enjoyed presents and a song service for 55 children followed by a short talk by Rev Mr Huddloff. Friends gathered around the Christmas tree as the town noted the event. The only genuine Rookwood in town and the sole large stock in the state is at Hight and Fairfield's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Huddloff
See Her The Best Fortune Teller Madame Renne
A town advert promises Madame Renne as the best fortune teller offering guidance on love marriage divorce mining matters and business affairs. She invites inquiries at 102 South Montana Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madame Renne
South
Montana Street
Price Range At Hight Pairfield's Store
Silver thimbles priced from 25 to 75 cents and gold items from 4.00 to 7.00 are advertised at Hight and Pairfield's store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hight & Pairfield’s
Christmas notes in Philipsburg and local civic updates
Christmas eve happier for Philipsburg children as churches host trees and programs. Church services, choirs and concerts featured across Episcopal Presbyterian and M E churches. Local lodges elect officers for 1901 with January install dates. Public school teachers visit or stay home due to smallpox precautions. Various residents sold property moved offices to new city hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philipsburg
Western Star
Cora Johnson
J. E. Abbey
Dora Hauck
M. C. Ryan
Eva Durfee
Gussie Ballard
Annie Bowen
Hannaharfitt
Marie Sorenson
Alice Dixon
State Association Institute
Butte
Carrie Craven
Drummond
Francis Miller
Nevada Valley
Smith
Daniel Arms
Granite County
Upper Rock Creek
Clem Mees
George Pooler
M. Farmington
Gallatin
Mary Smith
Olive
Maud‘oonan
Granite School
John Nel
C. A. Kent
Florence Johnson
State University
Missoula
Peter Sweber
W. T. Allison
Rolla
Eunice Plumley
Annie Parfitt
Nellie Fox
Deer Lodge
Harry True
Mamie McRae
Stone
Mamie McIntyre
Paris Cage Daredevil and Other Wild Beast Stunts
A Paris butcher risked his life gambling with lions after drinking wine in a cage with the beasts and their trainer. An Irish girl flirted with marriage inside a traveling menagerie cage with two lions watching, then vanished. Vienna’s Herr Becker spent his final days in a lion cage, dying there. In Salem a 24 year old woman knitted a scarf in a tiger den while the tigers circled. She stayed two hours and wrapped the scarf around the trainer’s neck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Benedict
Herr Becker
Vienna
Salem
Mass
Snake as a Bronx Zoo Rat Catcher Pet
A black snake employed at the New York zoological gardens is famed as the best rat catcher in the Bronx. The reptile, also kept as a family pet, patrols the house with reputed rodent-snaring skill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zoological Gardens
New York
Bronx
Cheapest Postal Service In Japan Due To Low Rates
The article notes Japan offers the world's cheapest postal service with rates under two sen about 125 cents covering letters sent throughout the empire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Empire
Also Mentioned on This Page
Butte News
Standard
Mast Broadway
Telephone
Jewelers
Butte, Mont
Fannie Seymour
Hope
Charity
Ethel Fluke
Tom
Willie Roberts
Hugh Tower
Clyde Rule
Echo
Ray Tower
Luna
Mabel Prout
Christine
Annie ‘Tallon
Violet
Minnie Jane
Lilly
Maud Paul
Sunbeam
Clara Hastings
Evening Star
Bella Jane
Lillie Prout
Carnation
Mabel Youlden
Bella Hatherill
Laura Baden
Nora Pawke
Ellis Rogers
Wynne Tower
Charles Richey
Athol Laity
John Cole
Willie Smetheram
Daisy Beckman
Clarence Dunstan
William Bartle
Harry Tippetts
Ralph Sionle
Hugh Rogers
George Miles
Perry Sholes
Charles Farnham
Kate
Nennie Edwards
Hattie
Pearl Tiddy
Bessie
Leona Sionle
May
Lulu Atkins
Dorcas
Florence Pridholm
Alice
Dora Mitchell
Jessie
Lizzie Hicks
Grace
Etta Paynter
Marion
Carrie Bowden
Maud
Mabel Mills
Clara
Marie Rogers
Beatrice
Grace Boyle
Ruth
Elsie Jones
Edith
Emma Sparele
Annie
Ethel Keam
Mary
Irene Evans
Martha
Lillian Keam
Elmer Albritton
Lillian Tilburn
Ione Bradshaw
Lena Brown
Lena Young
Albert Tilburn
German Lutheran Church
Philipsburg Notes
Snake
Fairfield
North Star
North Star Mills
Marseilles
W. Park Street
Brownfield-Canty Carpet Company
J. W. Morris & Co
Confectioners
West Park St
Fice
F. Barnes & Co
F. A. Ironside
Curtis
West Park Street
DR. Chung
Galena &&T
Butte, Mons
W. Park St
Booth’s
Utah
Wisconsin
Gordon
Dilworth’'s
Crosse «& Blackwell
Uneeda
Jockey Club
Washburn-Crosby
A. Booth
Mell
Petticoat Lane
J. H. Leyson
Cooper
London
J. Fi. Legion
North Main Street
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