Wounded Soldier Recalls Hospital Ordeal and Daring Dinner
In a wartime memoir, LIEUT. J. Harvey Douglas recounts healing a fractured arm, limited care, an improvised splint, and a risky night in a hospital ward. He describes a bold posttreatment dinner with Moodie Gray Tilley, a French captain, and others, cooked on a small stove using hides of spirits, ending with hopes of postwar reunion.
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Mya
Tor
Moodie
Ewan
Barnes
Paris
Ludwig
Watking
Gray
Tilley
Half Potato Penholder Talk Sparks Hotel Lobby Memo
In a cracked lobby quip, a sidewalk philosopher riffs on hotel registers using half potatoes as penholders. He estimates five hotels reuse halves a week, calculating 82 whole potatoes from one hotel yearly and 260 potatoes across five hotels, then questions the bushel count.
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Hoover
Butte Hotel
Murky dawn follows after red hot night
The city woke slowly after New Year revelry. Festive debris and last night’s echoes lingered as businesses closed for a holiday. Theaters drew record crowds in the afternoon while many slept through the morning. Parcel Woon and Chile United States accord noted at Butte postoffice.
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Parcel Woon
Chile
United States
Butte
Hooverize by Taking Advantage of Our Specials
Newspaper style ad listing discounts on Cascade flour Raisin cookies Hills Bros coffee Durkee Ice Cream and Dr Prices extracts. Highlights include Raisin cookies per shipment at 25 cents, Hills Bros coffee per pound with an order, two packages of ice cream and vanilla and lemon extracts priced at 25 and 25 cents respectively.
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Hills Bros
Durkee
West
Dr. Price
condemned men set for hangings on January morn
Frank Fisher John ONeil and Sherman A Powell are slated for execution at the county jail yard Monday January 14, with no minister request yet. The old jail kitchen is being demolished to clear space for a new hall. The three men face the dawn of a new year awaiting their fate.
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Butte
Frank Fisher
John Oneill
Sherman AL Powell
Dan
Teap
Powell
Sam V._ Stewart
A. Green
Nell
Albert Routeau
Stage Will Bring Back Related Christmas Boxes
War department reports Christmas gifts packed in coden boxes for expeditionary forces in France are arriving in New York. Boxes weigh seven pounds and include material for troops. Senders will be notified to claim boxes unless addressed for embarka tion and must endure rough handling during transport.
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France
Andromes
Trench Candles Not Wanted by the Red Cross
Report from Maj M D Murphy states trench candles or ration items cannot be sent to Europe via the American Red Cross. These items may be useful in trenches but are unnecessary this year. Existing supplies are available for local Red Cross chapters and distribution.
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THE
RED Cross
Europe
Amerie
Ted Cross
M.D. Murphy
France
Epworth League Plans For Butte Meeting And State Convention
Epworth leaguers of Butte will hold the year’s key meeting Friday at Mount Methodist Episcopal church Walkerville to plan for the upcoming Montana Epworth Leagues convention in Butte June 21 to 24 expected to draw about 400 young people. The Zedler Symphonic quintet will perform at the high school auditorium as part of the Lyceum course with Susa Emma Bruce Beek. Nicolai Zedler, a master of musical interpretation, will guide the group using his cello and a self built reed organ to render harmonies akin to larger orchestras.
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Epworth Leaguers
Butte
Eworth Union
Mount Methodist Episcopal Church
Walkerville
Montana
Epworth Teagues
Epworth Teague
Young Society of the
Methodist Epichureh
Zedler
Lyceum
Susa Emma Bruce Beek
Nicolai Zedler
Sheriff Hosts New Year Dinner For Prisoners In Butte
Sheriff John K. O'Rourke prepared a special New Year's dinner for county jail prisoners amid quiet revelry in Butte and suburbs. Officials logged several calls but judged it a calmer night than usual with minimal incidents.
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Sala
Sherite Melia
Butte
Cary
Sherif John K. O'Rourke
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