Quaplug Articles Offered for Sale at Government Auction
Notice of a government sale of thousands of demobilization leftovers at the War Department surplus store in St Paul. Items include shoes blankets gloves socks harness and limited canned goods with prices shown for groceries dry goods footwear and textiles among thousands of pairs of reclaimed russet and hobnailed shoes offered in bulk lots with special rates for 500 pairs or more.
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Butte
War Department
St. Paul
Jersey
Must Glean Walks of Arrests Will Follow
Wholesale arrests of delinquent sidewalk property owners threaten action by Mayor Stodden. Suits for injuries from falls have been filed or are pending, totaling thousands of dollars. No current ordinance allows targeting absent owners, but fines exist for noncompliance. Changes to enable city cleaning and cost assessment against property are planned.
Surgeon replaces heart after Austrian heroics in Omaha
A St Joseph's hospital surgeon in Omaha removed the heart of Steve Zakich, an Austrian who had shot himself, extracted the bullet, returned the heart to its place and sewed the incision. Zakich survived long enough for the operation and is now practically out of danger after the bullet had lingered in his heart about 36 hours. Initial observers doubted survival, predicting death within minutes.
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International News Service
Omaha
St. Joseph's Hospital
Steve Zakich
Zakich
Dr King New Life Pills Promote Gentle Laxative Relief
Early 20th century advertisement touts Dr King New Life pills as a smooth acting laxative that delivers quick results. Sold by druggists for 25 cents a bottle, the copy emphasizes calm efficacy without violent purgatives.
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Dr. King
Petrified Cats Found in Beacon Academy Floor
Poughkeepsie reports carpenters repairing the Academy of Music floor discovered two cats entombed beneath the boards. The animals appear to have fought, leaving one ear bitten off, and now their bodies are as hard as flint, with no other parts missing.
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International News Service
Poughkeepsie
Academy of Music of Beacon
311 Phone Calls Per Person Report
The census bureau reports telephonic enumeration from 1917 showing an average of 211 messages per year per person. There were 53,234 telephone systems and 28,827,188 miles of wire, enough to circle the globe 1,153 times. Nearly 22 billion messages were sent, employing 262,628 people, over 65 percent of them women. The Bell system controlled over four fifths of wire mileage.
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International News Service
Washington
Bureau of Census
United States
Bell Telephone System
Shoemaker shot resisting robber in Seattle shop
Luke Sucivich a Seattle shoemaker was seriously wounded when an armed bandit entered his shop and he refused to obey commands after the gun was fired the robber dropped the revolver and fled a neighbor wrestled the weapon away and overpowered the bandit in a hand to hand confrontation.
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Shoemaker
Seattle
Wash
Luke Sucivich
Sucivich
Postponement Denied in California Murder Case
Superior Judge KF McDaniels refused to delay the trial of Mrs. Frederick J. Wilson charged with the murder of Charles Brown. The judge ordered the case to proceed as scheduled, while a chaparral quip about women dressing provided a sharp aside.
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Marysville
Cal
KF. P. McDaniels
Frederick J. Wilson
Charles Brown
McDaniel
Lecture Tonight On Income Tax Law At H M C A
A meeting at the H M C A at 5 PM will feature Hi M Dengler, head of the internal revenue office in Butte, discussing income tax returns on form 1040 A for nets under 5000. He will assist attendees in filling out their returns and address bank clerks and others who prepare returns for others.
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Hi. M. Dengler
Internal Revenue Office
Butte
Dengler
Harry Williams Seeks New Trial in Williams Divorce
A notice filed yesterday states Harry Williams will move for a new trial in Judge Jackson's court in Beatrice Williams vs Harry Williams. The court recently granted Mrs. Williams a divorce and property rights, from which Williams was wholly excluded.
National Essay Contest Invites Butte School Pupils
Recruiting officers in 56 districts will appoint judges to pick top essays from school children nationwide. District winners vie with others to select three national winners who travel to Washington to receive prizes from the Secretary of War. Essays must discuss benefits of joining the U S Army. Grades K through 12, excluding colleges and universities, may enter.
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United States
Butte
Washington
United States Army
New War Brewing Between America and Japan
Helsinki dispatch quotes Bolshevists accusing Germany of playing allies against each other. Moscow Investia prints a leading article warning of a new Pacific war between America and Japan. The piece predicts wider coalitions and global bloodshed as nations mobilize, dragging others into conflict.
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London Daily Express
Helsingfors
Bolshevists
M. Tehiecherin
Moscow Investia
Pacific
America
Japan
Wall Paper News Sheet From Civil War Era
In Pasadena California a relic of 1863 appears. The Daily Citizen of Vicksburg Mississippi printed a July 4 issue on wall paper after a paper shortage. George Schofield’s sister Miss Persis Scho field owns a copy, one of few remaining, with offers from collectors. Schofield, a Fourth Minnesota printer, used wall paper to set type and published the news after Union troops captured the city.
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International News Service
Pasadena
Cal
Daily Citizen
Vicksburg
Miss
Citizen
Persis Schofield
George Schofield
J. M. Sword
Schofield
Minnesota
City Election Judges Named by Republican Committee
The Republican city central committee will meet Friday evening to name five judges and two clerks for each of 16 precincts. Chairman F W Bacorn calls the meeting at Wall & Jackman offices in the Harbor building. Names will be submitted to the city council for appointment as April city election voters.
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Republican City Central Committee
F. W. Bacorn
Wall & Jackman
Harbour Building
Central Committee
E. L. Chapman
Confessed Addicts Sent to a State Hospital
Two young men sought voluntary treatment for morphine addiction and were granted court orders by Judge Lynch to enter the state inebriate hospital at Warm Springs for immediate treatment. Each man said injuries led to his habit and he used six to seven grains daily, with physicians deeming urgent care necessary.
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Lynch
Warm Springs
Two Complaints Filed Charging Bennetts and McAllister
A. W. Bennetts faces grand larceny charges in a complaint brought by B. Bennetts over unsettled business matters. Tom McAllister is charged with absconding with 34.25 in a complaint issued by A. D. Campbell.
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A. W. Bennetts
B. Bennetts
Tom McAllister
A. D. Campbell
Plaintiffs Win Judgment Over Scott for 334.65
Judge Jackson signed a judgment yesterday in favor of Jeremiah Hall and Robert Lawson against L. R. Scott for 334.65 including costs and interest. The plaintiffs' attorneys' motion for judgment was sustained after deliberation.
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Jackson
Jeremiah Hall
Robert Lawson
L. R. Scott
Revenue officials prepare tax check tour in Montana
Deputy Revenue Collector F. L. Mann departs for Billings Red Lodge and Hardin to pursue unpaid income tax matters. Records of the internal revenue bureau will be turned over February 1 to James A. Walsh new Montana collector as Mann completes eastern Montana work to that date.
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F. L. Mann
Billings
Red Lodge
Hardin
Bureau of the Internal Revenue
James A. Walsh
Montana
Mann
Dorcas Society Entertainment At Emanuel Lutheran Church
Friends are invited to the Dorcas society event in the parlors of Emanuel Lutheran Church tomorrow evening. Dr and Mrs F A Hill will be hosts.
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Dorcas Society
Hmmanuel Lutheran Church
F. A. Hill
French war council formed at Paris with top generals
Paris dispatch says Marshal Foch Joffre and Petain plus Major General Buat form the new French supreme war council with nine generals to be named later. Petain to serve as vice president and commander in chief during war. Also notes Japan earns 40 million dollars annually from silkworm silk.
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Paris
Foch
Joffre
Petain
Buat
Supreme War Council
Marshal Petain
Sudden Storm Strikes Pedestrians in Warm Weather Pattern
A sudden mix of rain snow and sleet struck pedestrians yesterday as Montana's warm chinook weather cooled. Temperatures reached around 48 to 50 degrees earlier in the day, then dropped with the storm. Forecasters predict unsettled weather and possible additional precipitation across most of Montana today.
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Montana
Montana Power Company
Butte
Complaints Filed Against Butte Bakeries
City food inspector Margaret Rozsa reports complaints that certain Butte bakeries sell bread labeled as wheat that closely follows the wartime breach in general use. An investigation will be conducted and action taken if law infractions are found.
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Butte
Margaret Rozsa
Seattle visitor arrives to assist ill brother
Mrs. E. G. Windigler of Seattle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shelby Irvine, has arrived in the city to aid her brother Willis Irvine, who was injured in an automobile accident several days ago. His condition is reported less critical, and she will stay until he is entirely out of danger.
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E. G. Windigler
Seattle
Shelby Irvine
City
Willis Irvine
Case Dismissed on Prosecution Gap in Kissock v Wilson
The appeal from justice court to Judge Jackson's district court department was dismissed for want of prosecution yesterday morning. Hull versus Whitehall, set for yesterday afternoon, was continued to today.
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James Kissock
E. O. Wilson
Justice Court
Jackson
Department of the District Court
A. M. W. Hull
Pearl Whitehall
Tanlac lifts rheumatism sufferer after long illness
W E Thomas of San Diego a Tanlac user reports relief from rheumatism neuritis and kidney trouble after six bottles. He says kidney pain disappeared and energy returned with a strong appetite and sleep. His wife also benefited and both urge others to try Tanlac. Sold in Anaconda by Fuller Drug and in Butte by Newbro Drug.
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W. E. Thomas
Third Street
San Diego
Cal
Simpson-Pirine Granite Company
Tanlac
Anaconda
Fuller Drug Company
Butte
Newbro Drug Company
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