Christmas Day Tales From Butte Reflect Small Town Feats
A Butte Christmas pageant of mishaps and humor unfolds with a boy losing a 15 pound turkey to a sleigh heist on Granite Street. A Missouri parishioner disrupts a church sermon with his cheerful exclamations while another passenger tumbles from a Walkerville streetcar clutching gifts.
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Butte
Granite Street
Walkerville
Shay
Walkerville Line
Hull
Uee
Ella and
Sinbad Mones
Jennial, Sucte and
Tivoli Brewer'es
Montana
Laundres
Ladies' gold filled watches sale at ten dollars and up
A classified notice offering ladies' gold filled watches with prices starting at ten dollars and rising. Potential buyers are directed to inquire for available models and current stock.
Santa urges Overland club men to marry during Christmas
The Overland club in Butte hosted a Christmas rally with 200 guests who enjoyed games, songs, and a Santa speech. Santa urged single members to marry and raise families to experience true Christmas joy, quipping about future visits and presents for children. Real sterling silver tea spoons were offered at $4.
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Overland Club
Butte
Santa Claus
Yuletide
Santa
News Service Change Along Northern Pacific Trains
The Northern Pacific Railroad plans a new news service run by the railroad itself under FG Tourtelott and A Odine to replace the old newsstands. Station news stands will offer newspapers from across the country at principal stops between St. Paul and Portland. Passengers boarding at Butte will access the latest Standard issue immediately.
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Oon
Northern Pacific Railroad
FG. Tourtelott
A. Odone
Butte
St. Paul
Portland
Northern Pacific
Good Day at Gun Club Range and Royal Carriage Noted
A crystal clear day yielded strong gun club scores with the magautrap showing good results in a general shoot held yesterday. Burges topped the day followed by Walker and Kimball and prizes noted in a casual report. Also from the London Chronicle comes details of the king's new coronation state carriage a grand landau open for parade with eight cream horses expected to draw the royal cortege through London.
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Burges
Walker
London Chronicle
London
Westminster Abbey
News service changes on trains and biased surname study
The piece notes the decline of the old news agent on railroads notably the Northern Pacific and references a British study tracing complexion to surnames. It analyzes 14 561 East Aberdeenshire schoolchildren linking hair and eye pigmentation to fishing community surnames and origin districts. It lists surnames with blonde to dark tendencies and red hair associations.
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London Daily Graphic
British Association
East Aberdeensire
East Beotland
Wallace
Pirie
Grant
Park
Birne
Cordiner
Cruiksank
Stephen
Birachan
Buchan
Paterson
Whyte
Rennie
Scott
Thompson
Trade secret in litho labels for hotels abroad
A casual visitor in London Chronicl notes a New York lithographer showing labels for European and Egyptian hotels, surprised hotel keepers send them overseas. The proprietor hints he supplies secondhand trunk and bag dealers with them, claiming a well labeled bag is worth at least four...
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London
New York
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Butte News
Arold Town
Missouri
Weph White
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Sterlity
Weinbere Free & Epstein
Pythian Castle
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Hennessy’s Clothing
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Charece
Dintog
Christ
Magautrap
Blue Rocks
Soren Ss
Tasse i Ceresse
Spearsegsege
S&b
Kimball
Clark Smyth
St A
Goddard
Wogehdgl
Rock Springs
Cottonwood Coal Co
Utah Avenue
Boucher's
Newbro’s
Scotts
Troy Butte Butte Anang
W. A. Killien
W. Broadway
the Buite Undertaker
Practical Undertakers and
Pimbalmers
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James T. Finlen Drug Co
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