Butte Adopts New Traffic Code To Regulate City Streets
Butte city council adopted a comprehensive traffic ordinance effective today aimed at reducing accidents. It repeals old laws, incorporates existing provisions, and requires drivers to stop at busy points including Clark Alabama Excelsior with Granite Broadway and Park streets. The judiciary and police committees pushed for further study of recommendations and arterial highways on Montana Park and Main.
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Butte
Police and Judiciary Committees
Judiciary
Montana
Park
Prohibition Front Opens Candidates Record Book
The Women's Christian Temperance Union opened a blue book listing wet and dry candidates for public office in the Midwest. National officers urged state and local units to record every aspirant as friend or foe of prohibition and push planks endorsing enforcement at party platforms. The campaign targets national nomination conventions of both parties.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Ella A. Boole
Boole
Confessions Enter Hickman Sanity Trial
The Hickman murder case moved into the sanity trial as the court heard detailed evidence of the Marian Parker kidnapping and killing. The defense presented Hickman’s written confession and his motive confession to the jury, introduced by defense attorney Jerome Walsh.
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Associated Dress Hall OF Justice
Los Angeles
Marian Parker
William Edward Hickman
Hickman
Jerome Walsh
Girl's Desire for Pretty Legs Proves Fatal
Sadie Holland a 30 year old stenographer in Chicago lost both legs after cosmetic leg straightening operations. Plastic surgeon Dr Henry J Schireson operated two weeks earlier and gangrene developed in both legs. Family physician Dr William Van Doren was called in, and on Friday Dr Paul Magnuson amputated both legs above the knees.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Sadie Holland
Henry J. Schireson
William van Doren
Miss Holland
Paul Magnuson
Butte High Honors 210 Students on Honor Roll
One semestral report lists 210 Butte high school students on the honor roll for the first semester of 1927 28. The 51 students with averages of 1 4 or better and 159 with above average general excellence reflect continued scholastic diligence and involvement in extracurriculars.
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Butte High
Butte High School
J. G. Ragsdale
Ter
Butte Central
Farrell Sees Irish Free State as Trade Field for Americans
James A. Farrell president of United States Steel spoke at a New York luncheon honoring William T Cosgrave. He said Ireland offers room for American capital and management with a stable budget and modernized agriculture, noting Ireland’s calm state and prospects for trade with the United States.
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Associated Press
New York
Irish Free State
James A. Farrell
United States Steel Corporation
William T. Cosgrave
Free State
Farrell
Ireland
United States
Cosgrave Praises Irish Free State Foundations
William T. Cosgrave, leader of the Irish Free State, declares at a banquet that solid foundations laid since 1921—constitutional, international, economic—form a worthy edifice for future generations. He stresses democracy, civil service efficiency, and freedom of worship without religious distinctions.
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Cosgrave
Associated Press
New York
Mr. Cosgrave
Germany urges France to aid Franco German peace push
German Foreign Minister Stresemann told the Reichstag that all cabinet parties back a Franco German understanding and urged France to contribute to real conciliation. He reiterated calls for Rhineland evacuation and said Locarno should clear the path for cooperation among nations, warning France to share in the effort.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Stresemann
Germany
France
Rhineland
Reichstag
Foreign Office
Foreign
Lindbergh Given Freedom of City in St Thomas Welcome
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh received the freedom of the city of St Thomas after a day of honors and fetes. He visited the hospital and Free Masons lodge, attended horse races, and was guest at a chamber of commerce reception. He will fly to San Juan Puerto Rico tomorrow.
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Associated Press
ST. Thomas
Virgin Island
Charles A. Lindbergh
Caribbean
Ecolonial Council
Evans
Free Masons’ Lodge
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Colonel Lindbergh
San Juan
Porto Rico
Maryland Partners in First Partnership Wedding at College
In Annapolis Maryland a courtship of over two years culminated in the first partnership marriage performed in a fraternity cellar on St Johns College campus. Walter W Phillips led the couple as jazz band played and five bridesmaids dressed as women cheered as they reached the first floor.
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Associated Press
Annapolis
Maryland
St. John’s College
Fraternity Brothers
Walter W. Phillips
McAdoo Criticizes Smith in Prohibition Speech Rallying Anti Wet
William G. McAdoo attacked Gov. Alfred K. Smith over prohibition policy in Richmond urging a full campaign to defeat any wet candidate. He argued liquor interests control politics in New York and Maryland and that enforcing the law requires the White House in 1928.
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Associated Press
Richmond
Alfred K. Smith
William G. McAdoo
Smith
New York
Maryland
White House
McAdoo
Centralization of Power Scored by Governor Ritchie
Gov Albert Ritchie of Maryland told the Brooklyn Bar Association that centralized governmental power is a growing evil shared with Europe and that America must defend tried principles. He warned against law creating more law and urged focus on liberty, religion, and politics amid rising industrialism and urbanism.
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Ritchie
Associated Press
New York
Buncombe
Albert
Maryland
Brooklyn Bar Association
America
Europe
Sheriff Warns To Arm Drivers In 1926 Plate Crackdown
Sheriff Angus B. McLeod ordered deputies to arrest all motorists in Silver Bow County without 1928 license plates. He said charges will be filed in justice courts, citing Austin B. Middleton and Tim Downey. He warned drivers to obtain 1926 plates immediately ahead of the April 30 10 percent penalty.
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Angus B. McLeod
McLeod
Austin B. Middleton
Deer Lodge
Silver Bow County
Tim Downey
Butte
Silver Bow
Franco American arbitration pact to be signed next Monday
Word from Paris confirms final terms of a Franco American treaty that renounces war as a policy tool and pledges arbitration on disputed issues. The pact, to be signed on the sesquicentennial of the first treaty, replaces Root and frames future arbitration in line with Washington aims for world peace.
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Associated Press
Washington
State Department
Paris
Senate
United States
Ex-Officer Admits He Is Perpetrator of Brutal Murder
Montreal Quebec February report says Jules Coulombe former Montreal Verdun policeman confessed to murdering Arthur Richard 45 with bare hands and dismembering his body. The torso was found on a shed roof and the rest burned inside a nearby store. Coulombe was jailed after serving a sentence for a minor offense and had lived in the area before arrest.
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Associated Press
Montreal
Quebec
Bureau
Jules Coulombe
Verdun
Arthur Richard
Coulombe
Montana limits tuberculosis in cattle top world record
Dr. W. J. Butler cited Montana's TB free cattle area after testing 105 470 milch cows with only 33 100 of 1 per cent infected. He noted five counties tested and four more under way, aiming to crown Montana with the largest tuberculosis free region globally.
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Montana
Butte Dairies
A. C. Morrow
State Veterinary Department
M. J. Mulholland
Butte
W. J. Butler
Butler
Butte Rotary Club
Daniels
Sheridan
Ravalli
Missoula
Mineral
Lincoln
Flathead
Lake
Sanders
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