Battle ships sunk and war updates from Europe
Reports state a battleship was sunk by a mine while Germans recapture Hartmann-Wellerkopf from the French. Correspondents say Bulgarians and Germans plan attacks on Satanik as England’s internal affairs quiet ahead of Parliament. Prolonged debate on the compulsion bill is expected Tuesday with Lloyd George and Henderson likely to speak. The Liberal party may meet to decide its stance unless opposition grows.
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England
David Lloyd George
Arthur’ Henderson
Ite
FIRST SIGN OF WEAKENING CONSCRIPTION IN ENGLAND
The Frankfurter Zeitung discusses English conscription, noting its strength and the government’s tenacity while arguing the measure signals pressure from political and alliance concerns rather than changing the war’s outcome. It says England would not adopt such a step without pressing reasons.
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England
Amsterdam
London
Ingland
Frankfurter Zeitung
Burglar and Watchman in Duel Ended by Wounding Surviving
In Denver a burglar and a night watchman dueled after the burglar posed as a fashionable man. The fight ended with the burglar leaping from a second story window and being wounded. He was taken to a downtown hospital after a bullet wound. He refused to speak.
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Denver
Col
Aloy
Clark
Socialists Refuse Decorations From King Ludwig
Severe socialists received the Ludwig cross from King Ludwig of Havania for meritorious services but declined the decorations. The Munich Post notes socialists view welfare work as a sacred duty performed without reward.
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Sayville
Ludwig
Havania
Munich Post
Violation of American Flag by the Bulgarians
Athens reports a Red Cross protest over Bulgarians seizing Red Cross wheat and flour from Monastir storehouse for relief aid. The protest details armed soldiers under Colonel Valkoff looting premises and detaining Mrs. Walter Farwell of Chicago as a camera was smashed. The American flag was removed from the storehouse.
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Athens
Paris
Red Cross
Monastir
Valkoff
Walter Farwell
Chicago
Vulkoff
Suspect Seen Observing Ice Box During Holdup
Detectives Larkin and Lynch pursued leads in a Downtown District holdup case tied to the Pantamericai safe. Witness accounts describe a suspect viewing the ice box area as investigators checked the scene for connections to the Try aay requenter of ibutte and the Histigtcistrict.
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Larkin
Lynch Sathace
Eoden
Ibutte
Theatricals for Soldiers At The Front Planned
The French war ministry, General Vaillant and General Joffre approve theatrical plans for soldiers at the front. Emile Fa bre of the Comedie Francaise leads effort to organize a war road company with Jan 68 p m performances by Paria’s best actors.
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Yaris
Jan
Paria
Vaillenl
Joffre
Emile Fabre
Comedie Française
Agricultural lectures for wounded soldiers in Petrograd hospitals
Under the supervision of the Imperial Museum of Petrograd, agricultural lectures are held in 83 hospitals in and near the Russian capital for wounded soldiers. Able patients are encouraged to visit the museum where weekly cinema projections on agricultural subjects are shown.
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Superial Museum
Petrograd
Early Cowtown Show Recalls Frohman Northwest Tour
A Miles City magazine excerpt recounts Daniel Frohman era theater ventures led by the Jacka Theater Company. The company performed across the Northwest in 1884, including a dramatic train wreck scene near Miles City. Actors such as Sophie Fyfe and Ruexstone are noted, with memories of welcome at Macqueen House and Coxsackie era bohemian life amid Northern Pacific expansion and early Montana culture.
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Daniel Frohman
Janine
Charles FP m
Miles City
Coldam Gordon
John Maguire
Tutte
Jack'a
Roa
Mr. Frohman
Sophie Fyfe
Drury Lane
Heater
London
Kate Wilson
Newton Goithold
Co. B. Welle
Southwest
Northwest
Pacino
Frohman
fSar
Mites City
Monroe
Ware
Rowland Buckstone
Mont Ti
Charles Wheatleigh
Wheatleigh
Erohman
Montana
Yellowstone
Todays
Gil Company
Ruexstones
Dretts
Hovey
Relwar
Rene
Dag
Taeeghig
Thoroas
Mumaia Sementing
Thespis
Northern Pacific
Izzy
Mrs. Fisk
Mimi Maddern
Jeffry Lewis
Macqueen
Return of Hagelbaker Boosts Montana Exhibit Citywide
Frank A. Hagelbaker, secretary and commissioner of Montana expositions, arrived back in Dillon after duties in San Francisco and San Diego. He completed closing the San Francisco exhibit and transferring some displays to the San Diego fair, predicting valuable advertising for the state. He also met A G Mackengle, Utah expositions secretary, to discuss funds for keeping Urals building maintained this year.
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Frank A. Maxelbaker
Dillon
Star
San Franisco
San Diego
San Francisco
San Diego Fair
Hagelbaker
Salt Lake
Manelbaker
A. G. Mackengle
Urals
Lepiane Expected to Surrender Early Today
Fugitive Lepiane, wanted for a double shooting, is believed to surrender early today as police hear he may provide a bond. Friends say Lepiane fears for his business and police consider a reasonable bond likely to secure his surrender.
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Lepiane
Mike Lepaine
Minsell
Lepalne
Getting Colder Along Great Northern Route
A federal department in Butte warned of sudden temperature drops along the Great Northern route affecting perishables in shipments. Trains on No 247 reported a blizzard between Great Falls and Helena as Hoquiam records near 0 F and the era’s last native Gray’s Harbor elder Hyaptulins dies aged 110.
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Great Northern
Frelunt Department
Gre Northern
Butte
Nia
Pointe
Clancy
Great Fails
Great Falls
Helena
Hoquiam, Wash
Jan
Gray's Harbor
Widow rebuts Sir John on French general claim
Paris dispatch reports the widow of General Mousey disputing Sir John French’s claim to credit for saving Viscount Ypres. She asserts Mousey dispatched thirty infantry in a fast, decisive relief of British lines at Ypres, reassuring troops and preventing a German breakthrough before retreat to Calais.
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Paris
Mousey
Ami
Ypree
John Frenc
Yprex
Bettis
Mounss
Wartelen
Zillebeke
Calais
Ypres
Forty-Five Thousand Cash Missing in British Columbia Theft
A British Columbia robbery led to a dawn search as a gang attempted to recover forty five thousand dollars. Police investigated a staged money transfer with two men, Jacnos Mtara known as Australian Mac, and Charles Dean linked to the heist. Dean was acquitted of complicity while Mtara received nine years.
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Bank of Momties
Inink
Westminester
Jacnos Mtara
New
Wesu
Charles Dean
Girl in the Taxi Farce Delights Broadway Crowd
Wilkes Players ignite Broadway with The Girl in the Taxi a spicy farce that drew a full house and set a company performance record Jeannie Mat rises to lead role with strong support from Joseph Kemper and Mixx Crayford among others dazzling as the maid the production praised for special scenery and lively humor
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Wilkes
Klin & Taxieab
Jeannie Mat
Joseph Kemper
Mr. Kemper
Atise
Owen Ae
Aly
Alec Ime
Hiv
Mixx Crayford
Che Maid
New Year Greetings Appealing to Shots at Parapets
Fragmented wartime field notes describe replies to a New Year greeting, artillery activity, and aerial bombardment. Reports mention patrols, reconnaissance by Lt Kent and Sgt Mine, and reinforcements along trenches. Innsworth to Fremont, plans for hotel construction cited amid transcontinental rail concerns. The piece closes with the Dolan funeral notice.
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Manebini
Kent
Mine
Size of Army Must Be Settle to Avert a Crisis
The Daily Mail editorial urges Britain to fund the army fully to defeat Germany. Cabinet talks in progress, with a Tuesday decision seen as vital to national safety amid looming general elections.
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Bunciman
Bow Trate
The
Daily Mail
Germany
Butte Briefs Readouts of Local Visitors and Guests
The item lists numerous visitors and residents in Butte including A Spleth of Bozeman, Witrame of Remnice, Mise Abbie Norris from Helena, Wilkon from New York trip return, VW Foster from Lybandton, Lydia Johnson of Anaconda, William Stichards of Juston, J M Host and family as visitors, Mr. and Mrs H W White of Sting ing am with guests at the Finten, W D Morgan traveling to New York, J Qwenhowse and Wild from Bozeman at the Thornton, and Harold Moore and family at 130 Pine Street with a newborn daughter.
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Witrame
Remnice
Mis Ifield
Frome
Abbie Norris
Helena
Door Lange
Harold Mirrer
Raymond Ox Sheridan
Ue City
Trank
B. Mirrer
Austin Linder
Blaine
Butte
Hf. W. White
Stinging
Finten
W. D. Morgan
Milwauk
New York
J. Qwenhowse
Wild
Bozeman
Thornton, Horn
Hiarold’ Moore
Pine Street
Funeral services for famed reinsman Charles Hayes held
Funeral services were conducted yesterday for Charles Ted Hayes a celebrated horse trainer and reinsman tied to Marcus Daly and W A Cloke Je. The Reverend Chapman led the rites at Etcheards undertaking rooms with old time friends from his Mount Moriah ties attending as mourners.
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Charles
Ted) Hayes
Marcus Daly
W. A. Cloke
Etcheards
Chapman
Emily
Hayes
Wacks
Andi
Mount Moriah
Walsh Murphy and Sullivan Funeral Notices
The notices report funeral details for M. J. Walsh Murphy and Michiel Ke Mullican with interment at St Marys Church and the family plot in the Troly Cros. Also noted is the funeral for Dania icon io wien yesterday with service at the Weld ates Shera Reed.
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Murphy
Pifman de
Cisherman
Sullivan
Michiel Ke Mullican
Amity
Nocthy Weemins
Willy
St. Mary's
Church
Troly
Cros
Io Wien
Stee Antwilt
Kebble Endertaker and Embalmer at 822 North Main Street
Larry Duggan operates Kebble Endertaker and Embalmer at 822 North Main Street, providing funeral services with local phone access listed as 1861.
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Kebble Endertaker
Tmbalmer
North Main Street
Obituary Notice For Mary Brince Alre
Mary Brince Alre died yesterday at the Weldence. Funeral arrangements are to be announced in later papers. Interment will be held at Mountaity Cemetery in a May afternoon ceremony at Chaehead Chapel under Rev. C Fa ating.
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Brince
Alre
Mary
the Weldence
Evans Avenue
Pice
Canerat
Ohaead Chapel
Rev. C.faating
Ty Mountaity Cemetery
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Tion
Grock
Satanik
Phratricals
Yaemie
Elk's Home
Olive
Bohemia
Jeunesse Dotec
Atlantic
Pacific
Bramarck
Ax Milestown
Glendive
Lake Superior
Minnesota
Ernest
New Yorker
Indianapolis News
Pris
Peng
Bisse
Idaho
Joy
Paradise
Hareins
Sills
Napatia
Niagara
K Y
Vistaria
Sir John
Tinge
Shane
Fremont
Undertakers
Broadway
Rigi Mae
Nolan
Dolan
Lloyd Georges
Tors St
Butte Briefs
A. Spleth
M. J. Walsh
Sherman
Larry Duggan
Ind. Fhone
Joseph Richards
Missoula
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