Butte Current Notes on Local Ads and Trades
A compact listing of local commerce and services in Butte showing piano rentals and sales by Orton Bros McLaughlin Coal Co. and Sherman Music Company, clothing and drink shops, dentists Dr. Cash and Dr. Tait, real estate firms Butte Land and Investment and others, taxicabs, loans, stationery, and a note about Prof. John D. Dawson visiting Virginia City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orton Bros McLaughlin Coal Co
Ind
Blatz
Stacy-Adams
Gamer's
North Main
Block
Nts
Butte Cab and Transfer Co
Bell
Butte Land and Investment Company
West Granite
Sherman Music’ Company
Player Pianos
Sherman “Music” Company
Phoenix Building
Butte
Weather forecast predicts Pacific storms and cold spell
The weather bureau forecasts a series of Atlantic and Pacific disturbances across the country. A low pressure area over Alaska and the Aleutians will drive a Pacific storm west to east, bringing high winds and rain on the North Pacific coast early in the week, with rain and snow inland and colder weather to follow through the Midwest and eastern states by week end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
North Pacific Coast
Weather Bureau
Rockfox
Platea
Ohio Valley
Lower Lake
Alaska
Aleutian Islands
Pacific
North Pi
Middle West
Busiest Railway Terminal and New York Station Capacity
A historical report states the South station in Bose ton Massachusetts is the busiest in the country with the most trains passengers and baggage. It compares the large new Cram Central terminal in New York and notes tracks capacities and passenger flow for both hubs. The piece also mentions upcoming electrification delays and a grand Central capacity projected after completion. A separate notice advertises a Sacred Heart hall meeting and Ansonia watches sale with alarm clocks in Ansonia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boseton
Mass
Cram Central Terminal
New York
News York
New ‘Maver
Hartford Railroad
Boston & ‘Albany’ Railroad
New York Central Railroad
Booth Station
Grand Gentral
South
Grand Central
Grand ‘Centrat
Staton
Post Christmas Services Held Throughout Butte Churches
Post Christmas services were held in most Butte churches yesterday with the sacrament of holy communion administered at several locations. Music by choirs enhanced services at Mount Bethel Methodist Episcopal Walkerville Trinity Methodist and other churches. Watch night services are planned for New Year's Eve at Immanuel Swedish Lutheran St Mark's Lutheran and Swedish Mission. New Year’s Day regular services begin at 11 am. Refreshments will follow the Swedish Mission Church event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Mount Bethel
Hyde in Butte on way to London for appeal
Jamies M. Hyde formerly of San Francisco and defendant in a Minerals Separation Co of London case inspected the Butte & Superior mill and then left for Chicago and London. Attorney Kremer said the Minerals Separation suit in the U S circuit court of appeals at San Francisco will be argued in February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamies M. Hyde
San Francisco
Minerals Separation Company of
London
Butte & Superior
Hyde
Chicago
J. Bruce Kremer
Butte
Kremer
Minerals” Separation Company
Mr. Hyde
United States
Ape
Butte Dresswear House Offers Full Line of Formal Wear
The only store in Butte advertises a full line of late dress clothes and full dress suits priced at 35 to 75 dollars with tuxedo coats and trousers from five to twenty dollars, along with dinner wear, dress overcoats, fur lined coats, silk and tuxedo hats, Tango dress shirts and French pique, and soft pleat dinner shirts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ony
Butte
North Butte mining plans push to greater depth
Boston financier I Davison argues North Butte Mining will deepen work to 4 000 feet with Granite Mountain shaft connected to Speculator. He cites new ore bodies Edith May vein and record reserves, predicting high dividends as copper boom arrives. James J Hill plans St Paul to San Francisco rail by 1915 aiding Montana routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeman I. Davison
Boston
North Butte
North Butte Mining Company
Butte
North Butte Company
Granite Mountain
America
Ite
Amalgamated
Anaconda
James J. Hill
St. Paul
San Francisco
Montana
Helena
Lewistown
Ral
Standard
Great Northern
New Rockford
Fairview
Snowden
Sidney
Rockford
Shiney
Lne
Dawson
Ferns
Moccasin
Burlington Great Falls
White Salt Springs
Tutte
Montana Central
Armstead
Wilmore & Pittsburg
Gilmore
Idaho
Birch Creek Pase
Blackfoot
Southern Pacific
Miner Dies Reading Christmas Letter in Butte
In Butte East Broadway Elwood block miner Al J Sullivan collapsed after reading a Christmas letter he had finished supper. Coroner Drew investigated and attributed death to heart failure. Sullivan lived at Elwood block two years and previously worked in Multan Tal0. family ties include a Montana father and sister, the mother planning to travel this summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia
al J. Sullivan
Elwood Block
East Broadway
Butte
Sullivan
Walsh
Drew
Multan
Talo
Montana
East
Howell Street
Seattle
Destitution in Inland Mexican Towns Reported
Dr. Mansendieck reports terrible destitution in inland Mexican towns as war disrupts crops and mine operations. The Washington state Department plans aid, with the Nogales consulate authorized to draw Red Cross funds to assist Choix in Northeastern Sinaloa where starving residents face hardship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nogales
Ariz
Dec
State Department
Washington
Mexico
Red Cross
Choix
Sinaloa
Tabor
Frederick Simpich
H.C. Mansendieck
Lincee
Mansendieck
Beachey Sets World Aviation Record with Six Loops
Lincoln Beachey looped the loop six times at 3600 feet over San Francisco Bay to set a new aviation record. Earlier he completed five loops on Christmas Day, then performed a remarkable inverted maneuver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisey
San Francisco Bay
Lincoln Beachey
Beachey
Plano Ad Promises Piano Bargains in Park Area
An advertisement from Sherman Music Company of Butte promotes piano and organ sales in Plano Park addition. It touts operas, upright and grand pianos, daily candy offers, and season invites for patrons with emphasis on fresh, bright branding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman Music Company
Phoenix
Butte
Sherman
Plano
Sea Sherman Music Company
Phoenix Building
Big attractions listed for the Empress Theater holiday week
A busy Empress program features A Day at the Circus with a trained animal act and humanlike tricks, dogs and monkeys. The American Comedy Four sing with many encores while John Te Gordon presents What Would You Do a laugh filled playlet. Ned Nestor and Bess Delbers perform In Love in a short musical bit. The Four Ladella Comiques deliver a knockabout act praised for athletic routine. Empresscope offers weekly news in pictures and Lyle Bishop's orchestra plays new musical selections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Four
John Te Gordon
Ned Nestor
Bess Delbers
Empress Cope
Lyle Bishop
Frances Hayes Faces Extradition Battle in Butte Case
Frances Hayes, famed for cleverness, resists extradition to the state. A hearing before a sanity commission may be sought to prove her sanity after a year of nervous prostration. Her mother, a poor widow, writes seeking help while friends assert her former skill as a stenographer and strong mind. Sheriff Driscoll plans to move quickly this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Hayes
Butte Physi
Wellington Dellahay
C.H. Horst
Frances
Highest city on earth and historic curiosities
The text asks which city sits highest on earth, noting La Paz Bolivia at about 12,280 feet, and mentions Quito and Bogota. It recounts a Minnesota memory where a mascot named Major Minna Mascot honored Major Dickinson and the Minnesota fair, linked to Bryan's election, and recalls a blue glass craze inspired by Gen Augustus Pleasanton who wrote in 1871 about blue glass aiding maladies, sparking widespread interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Becaus
Bryan
Augustus James Pleasanton
Hippo Hunting by Sobat Region Shullas
The Sobat region Shullas in North Africa hunt hippopotamuses from dugout canoes using harpoons and barbed spears. Hunters coordinate two or three paddlers while one spearer attaches a rope and float. When a hippo surfaces to breathe, the team closes in and strikes, then retreats to draw the animal away from danger. Upon severe wounding, the hippo may beach to die or attack the hunters, prompting waiting pursuers to respond as the hunt proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sobat
Africa
Hippopotas
Hunter Tales of Hippopotamus Hunts and Trade Routes
The passage describes dangerous hippo hunting where attackers may be harmed as hunters kill beasts for hide and flesh. Hippo hide is dried for sale to Arab traders, then to whipmakers in Omdurman and Egypt. Flesh is dried for Tong, with a taste like coarse meat. Sherman Music Co in Butte promotes a piano trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omdurman
Egypt
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Loncave
Mneave
Rosa
Serer
Sacred Heart Hall
Mayer
Ansonia
West Park
Carol Mount Bethel
J. M. Hyde
the Clothery
Lewintermaster Aanifnge
Park and
Dakota Streets
Davison
HILL
Nea
Henerit Montana Crries
Golden Gate
Farwe
Miner
Pallas Candy Company
Ploral Park Addition
Empress Theater
Narealy
The
Mose Linz
Go-Cart
Bes
Ay Nas
Gregson Hot Springs
Florida
California
Hudson Bay (Ex.) Co
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