Teachers hear about new course in Butte schools
Superintendent Maddock calls a general staff meeting at the high school to discuss an extension university course with the University of Montana. The plan would offer a correspondence program in professional subjects with credits, covering mathematics psychology theory of teaching and school management. Professor Lennes of Montana State University would lecture, with potential evening talks if space allows.
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Butte
University of Montana
E. Maadock
Blot
Tate University
Adeout
Maddock
Lennes
State University
Missoula School
Young Rockefeller Gifts Cancel Mortgage on NY YMCA Property
John D Rockefeller Jr canceled a $200000 mortgage on the West Side Neighborhood House, operated by the Young Women's Christian Association, as a Christmas gift. The property was bought from Rockefeller in Tyng, with $26000 already paid, and he returned the funds after noting his satisfaction with its use.
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New York
John D. Rockefeld, Jr
West Side
Young Women's Christian Association
Rockefeller
Tyig
Theosophical talk on angels and unseen helpers
The Theosophical society hear Annie T Leavitt discuss Guardian Angels and unseen helpers in a lecture on life after death. She argues many fear hell fire and a personal devil, urging comfort and clearer outlooks for souls facing the unseen world. The talk critiques traditional religious fear and emphasizes soothing, hopeful guidance for the dead.
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Unseen World
Annie T. Leavitt
Theosophical Society
Guardian Angels
Theosophist
Doctor Speaker
Teutonic Attacks Succeed In Romanian Front
Petrograd reports continued German assaults on Russo Romanian positions northeast of Rimnik area. The army states the enemy captured Bordestchi village on the Rimnik river and forced back Russian detachments near Zalestst, signaling heightened front activity in Central Romania.
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Petrograd
London
Emerson school to host community singing in Butte
Butte residents will gather at Emerson school Thursday night for a first time community singing directed by Frank P. Lesher. About 50 people are expected as the Mothers club and the Parent Teachers association promote the social event. The program follows a larger singing effort at Superior high school that led to a Christmas festival idea and aims to spread to other city schools under Superintendent Maddock.
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Butte
Emerson School
Frank P. Lesher
Superior High School
Mothers’ Club
Parent‘Teachers’ Association
Maddock
Teutonic troops enter trenches on Transylvanian front
Berlin reports heavy fighting on the Transylvanian front yesterday as Teutonic troops entered entrenched Russo Romanian positions and advanced despite strong counterattacks. Russians and Rumanians are said to be driven back along the front between the mountains and the Danube.
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Berlin
Sayville
War Office
Rumania
Danube
Butte School Kids Return To Fage Books After Break
About 9,000 Butte students resume classes tomorrow as Christmas and New Year holidays end. Superintendent W. B. Maddock says buildings are clean and ready, with three weeks until exams and another light cleanup planned for Easter holidays.
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Butte
W. B. Maddock
Nebraska Dry Federation Drafts Prohibition Law
Lincoln Neb December the executive board of the Nebraska Dry Federation drafted a prohibition law to be filed at the next legislative session. It supplements the constitutional amendment effective May 1 and bans alcohol advertising and sale of flavoring extracts and whiskey tablets. Peace officers may arrest anyone with the odor of liquor and druggists may sell liquor only for medicinal scientific mechanical or sacramental uses.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska Dry Federation
Prohibition Law Contested by Federation Assertion
The federation argued the prohibition law would be workable and protect the prohibitory amendment while asserting that no liquor containing alcohol may be sold and that transportation by common carriers within the state is prohibited with public records required for shipments into the state.
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Federation
Governor General III Honored Amid Ill Health Rumors
London dispatch notes Governor General von Biksing of Belgium, ill with pneumonia at Brussels, receives a sympathetic cable from Emperor William via Amsterdam. The message praises duty and German interests. Retirement due to ill health is widely discussed in German circles in Brussels.
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London
Baron von Overnor
Belgtum
Brussels
Exchange Telegraph Company
Amsterdam
William
von Biksing
Four Eclipses of Sun and Moon in 1917
Washington announces a memorandum from the naval observatory stating 1917 will feature four solar and three lunar eclipses, the most in a single year seen since the early 1800s and not matched until 1985. The January total lunar eclipse will be visible across the United States from 12:60 to 4:39 a.m. EST, with totality between 2:00 and 3:39 a.m. EST.
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Washington
Naval Observatory
United States
Salmon Anchored Drama Off Bald Mountain Camps Maine
Mr and Mrs Charl Hinds and their young son fished off Bald Mountain Camps in Maine when a large salmon pulled Mrs Hind from the line toward the lake. The anchor rope trapped the fish and the line wrapped around the anchor as Mr Hinds reeled up to depart.
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Charl Hinds
Bald Mountain
Maine
Mrs. Hind
Mr. Hinds
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