Annual Show by Butte Joshers at Broadway Theatre
The Butte Joshers prepare for their fifth annual show at Broadway theater Friday night. Rain or shine the 8 o’clock curtain rises on a packed program of local talent and lighthearted acts. The organization also distributed holiday provisions to 472 Butte families, funded by patrons and liquor dealer support, as part of Christmas charity.
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Butte Joshers' Club
Broadway
Hnnce
Rumber
Chet
Butte
Dutte
Sia
Sage
Rialto Welcomes Men in Uniform
Rialto theater management announced that soldiers and sailors in uniform visiting Butte during the holiday season will be welcome guests. Any performance through January 2 allows admission upon presenting oneself at the door.
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Rialto Theater Management
Butte
Butte Rialto to Install New York Style Orchestral Lighting
Ralph Ruffner manager of the Rialto theater in Butte returns from a three week trip to New York and Chicago. He confirms the Rialto will host top photoplay productions and may add a symphony orchestra to test public demand. He notes New York houses feature grand orchestras and costly lighting, suggesting Butte could mirror that sophistication.
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New York
Strand
Rialto
Tivoli
Butte
Strivin
Butte Theater Mix Of Short Reels And Main Features
The article notes three standard theaters in Butte offering similar mixes of fillers and the main feature with lower admission. It reports the manager’s positive impressions after visiting East and a New York trip noting many uniformed men and camouflaged transports, and that downtown has no first class moving picture house while better venues are in the suburbs.
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Tinito Theater
Butte
Taim
Riaile
Ruffner
New York
Chicas
Sevon
Death by own action verdict in Saunders inquest
At an inquest Coroner Lane and a jury ruled John H. Saunders died by his own action. Saunders a past deputy sheriff and theater porter, was found last Sunday having swallowed a large amount of laudanum and shot himself through the head after leaving a social gathering. His body remained at a local undertaking establishment awaiting relatives’ advice on burial.
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Lane
John H. Saunders
Saunders
Butte
Witneses
Forces and Kiev Reinforcements Enter Odessa Battle
A volunteer army holding Odessa near the Crimean front is said to have received reinforcements from Kiev aboard an armored train. Street fighting on December 20 left over 200 dead, with about one third civilians and several schoolchildren among the wounded.
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Odessa
Kiev
Butte Boy Recalls Cantigny Frontline Service From Europe
A Butte boy now serving in Europe writes home about American forces capturing Cantigny and holding it for later attacks. Ti Varker Jr of the Second Field Battalion Signal Corps describes a 16 day ocean voyage and travels through France including Toul and the front line trenches. He recounts Soissons, St. Mihiel, and the Argonne as American troops pursued retreating German forces into Germany, noting narrow escapes and a shelled telephone dugout episode.
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Butte
Europe
Cantigny
Ti Varker Jr
Second Field Battalion
Signal Corps
Luxemburg
J Varker
Mountain View
Big Pond
France
Toul
Soissons
St. Mihiel
Argonne
Germany
Soldier recounts shell blast near Soissons and escape
A veteran recalls a near miss at Soissons as an ammunition train exploded nearby and shell fire knocked him vulnerable. He details pausing to fix a telephone, a near miss from a six inch shell, and sprinting to a cave with a comrade. He ends by sending holiday wishes to his parents in Montana and notes future tales to tell.
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Soissons
Fate
Feant
Montana
Five Die As Freight Crashes Into Passenger Train
Five passengers were killed and 27 injured, 10 seriously, when a St Louis & San Francisco freight train collided with a stationary passenger train at Norge, Oklahoma near Chickasha. The crash telescoped three coaches as frozen pipes delayed the passenger.
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Chickasha
Okla
St Louis
San Francisco
Norge
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Rialto Animated News Review
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