Butte Notes Holiday Visitors Fill Local Inns
Butte hosts a holiday influx as visitors from Idaho Falls Dillon Billings Missoula and Helena spend Christmas in the city. Names include J B Gray Andrus Samason Moore Taylor Anaconda and more with several staying at the Thornton and Acoma. A prominent metallurgist from France registers at the Thornton as newspapers and magazines offer current reading at the P O stand.
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Orton Bros
J.B. Gray
Idaho Falls
Butte
Andrus
Dillon
Thornton
Fart Williams
Basin
SW. Samason
Billings
Schilling
North Main Street
H. F. Moore
Philipsburg
Ralph D. Casey
Frank Riggett
Missoula
Sternberg
John L. Taylor
Anaconda
Nate
Alder
Acoma
Zonker
Cascade
Frank W
A.M. Chamber
Jackson
Murphy
Southern Cross
Franke Donnelly
Acon
Gus Vioyd
Camp Lewis
Lega
A. E. Everett
Salmon
Thagna
Paris
France
Montana
Saturday Evening Post
XJ. Rowlands
Welfare Board Calls for Workers to Aid Troops
New York dispatch reports the Jewish Welfare Board issued a nationwide appeal for men and women welfare workers teachers and entertainers to serve American troops at camps abroad and on transports returning home. Col Harry Cutler chair notes under manning after armistice and emphasizes peace needs equal to wartime. In Los Angeles Lieut Col William B E Putviance in charge of recruiting was found dying in a gas filled room at home, died before aid arrived, family says he had been ill.
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New York
Jewish Welfare Board
Harry Cutler
Los Angeles
Cal
William BE. Putviance
Oficer
United States Army
California
Butte Street Car Union Thanks Public for Exact Fare Help
Notice from Butte Street Car Men union division No 391 of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employers of America thanks the public for having exact fare ready to aid conductors and motormen. Wishes a merry Christmas and prosperous new year. Wilbur A Hoar Recording Sec. Leuralhoms Revision Notice. Meeting Butte Chapter No 39 OES Thursday evening Election of officers May Bunt Secretar.
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Butte Street Car Men's Union
Amalgamated ‘Association’ of
Employer of America
Wilbur A. Hoar
Butte
E.S
May Bunt
Fisher shot wife after Christmas Eve quarrel in Rome
Mrs. Fisher, 19, of Spanish descent born in Colorado, admitted g uilt in the Tragedy. She shot her husband Fisher Christmas Eve at their Rome residence after a party with friends Valdez. The couple quarreled. she then allegedly attacked him in an hotel room with possible 45 caliber revolver. Eyewitnesses observed the scene and the arrest followed in the county jail.
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Award Fisher
Fisher
Rome
Platinum Street
Colorado
Rs. Fisher
Jackson
Dolly
Fisher Must Be Name in sordid jailhouse exchange
Investigators questioned a small dark woman as Fisher asserts she killed her husband after he mocked her and flaunted another woman. The scene involved a frightened prisoner and a shocked observer. The extent of her injuries remains unclear, with reports noting a bullet pierced the chest and exited the back suggesting fatal complications may follow.
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Fisher
Lerday
Christmas Eve Revel Ends in Comrade Shot in Croatian House
A violent Christmas Eve gathering on 421 Av eonda road in Croatia ends with Ely Chuturala wounded by a gunshot and Tom Gachesa jailed for a stabbing attempt. Five others present, including Ely Grbich Mile Manilovich and Mike Gachesa, are named in accounts of knives hidden by guests and a chaotic, drunken confrontation.
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Croatia
Austria
Ely Chuturala
Murray Hospital
Duggan Avenue
Tom Gathesa
Chuturala
Tom Gachesa
Ely Grbich
Mile Manilovich
Mike Gachesa
Aveonda Road
Aleck “Truea
Duggan
G Cesa
Guchesa
Anticipates Law Ends Butte Saloon Business
Anticipating the legal closing of saloons in Montana at midnight Monday, Joe Harmon, longtime popular saloon caterer on Broadway near Main, closed his place. He planned to stay open through Christmas if liquor stock held out, but chose to quit rather than run dry. Harmon, a pioneer in his trade, was known for courtesy and broad patronage. He is the first to close ahead of the mandated deadline.
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Butte
Montana
Joe Harmon
Broadway
Main
Harmon
Alwavs
Kate Heines Dies In Butte Hospital
Mrs. Kate Heines aged 60s formerly of Calumet Michigan died yesterday in a local hospital after a period of illness. A resident of Butte for 12 years she was active in women’s lodges and civic affairs. She is survived by her daughter Mrs. James Shrone of Great Falls and sons Joseph and Lawrence of Butte plus two grandchildren. Funeral arrangements have been completed.
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Kate Heines
North Main Street
Walkerville
Thomas Heines
Heines
Butte
Calumet
Mich
James Shrone
Great Falls
Joseph
Lawrence
Germany Returns Six Billion Francs Stock Repatriation
Paris December 25 Havas reports Germany has returned stocks seized from Northern France banks totaling about 6 billion francs. Several safes weighing five to seven tons, left unopened by the Germans and now in Brussels, will be moved back to Valenciennes shortly.
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Paris
Havas
France
Brussels
Valencienny
Christmas program at Central Presbyterian Church
The Sunday school will present a Christmas program at the Central Presbyterian Church Friday evening. Despite the epidemic, the program will follow the usual schedule and remain entertaining. The church choir will also perform next Sunday evening related to the same event. The public is invited to both occasions. December 24 update notes a low sickness percentage among the associated group.
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Central Presbyterian’ Church
Sickness Among Occupying Troops Appears Low
Third Army medical officers report about 400000 occupying troops with nearly 4000 influenza cases across eight evacuation hospitals in the occupied area. The sickness rate runs under 11 percent, compared with 2 to 3 percent in peacetime military conditions.
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Third Army
Christmas Tree Lights Up Coblenz With Army Aid
In Coblenz on December 24 the first illuminated Christmas tree rose in the Rhine plaza before the Third Army headquarters. The 40 foot tree, decorated in red white and blue, was trimmed by army nurses and lit by a portable American plant. A Seventy-third Field Artillery band played while Germans gathered, with plans to repeat the illumination next night.
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Pees
Third Army
Seventy-third Field Artillery
Christmans
Coblens
Plan to reimburse schools for losses due to demobilization
New York December 25 The war department will make equitable financial adjustments with educational institutions that suffered losses from the demobilization of the students army training corps. Maj Ralph Barton Perry of the general staff committee on education announced the arrangement in a letter made public by the merchants association which conducted an inquiry into the subject.
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New York
War Department
Army Training Corps
Ralph Barton Perry
Committee On
General Staff
Merchants’ Association
New Arrival Greeting Newport News Unit Members
Newport News VA reports a military transport arrival with 111 members of the 107th company and two officers aboard the Sewane. The group is welcomed as part of ongoing mobilization efforts by F.M.C.A. workers.
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Newport News
Wee
F.M.C._A
Offic
107Th Ea Company
tangport_Sewane
Christmas Merry in Homes of City Lights and Joy
Christmas spread through Butte with families lighting trees, sharing fruit and cranberry sauce, and songs filling homes. Uniformed service members appeared in celebrations as gratitude for wartime outcomes grew, while disturbances and injuries were noted but did not spoil the season's happiness.
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Butte
Turkey
Lave
Santa Claus
Mexico to Remove Duty on Imports
Mexico City reports the chamber of deputies approved extending the president’s extraordinary financial powers. The presidency is expected to issue a decree lifting import duties on foodstuffs and essential articles until June 30 for a three month period.
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Mexico City
Chamber of Deputies
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