Butte Current Notes Local visitors and departures
A string of visitors and residents move through Butte with many shown leaving for cities like Denver Omaha and San Francisco while others arrive from Helena Lima Livingston and Billings. Notable names include J H Sharpe and Abe Goodman with church talks and local travel plans recurring throughout the notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
X. F. Jones
Lima
Butte
Grace Scott
Livingston
R. T. Cook
Halt Lake City
P. J. Stichen
Logan
P. J. Shay
Shelby
Anna Tanks
Omahi
B. Dingham
R. C. Hammond
Denver
John Roletto
Globe
Abe
W. W. Lindsay
C. ©. Morris
Billings
Thornton Hotel
Abe Goodman
Oregon
A.L. Demaris
Richard ‘Thomas
Twin Bridges
C. L. McCausland
C. Rexroad
Robert Baginton
Helena
Mount Bethel
Fred Sutherland
Helen
Long Beach
Cal
Luxton
Idaho Falls
Walkerville
Nellie Byrn
San Francisco
Charles Swanson
Oregon Avenue
California
Joe Mackley
Whitehall
Fred Everinghas
Anna E. Pinkston
Perma
Edward Bolever
Floral Park
Charlotte McCauley
William Richardson
Claresholm
Alberta
Joe Vetters
Meaderville
Reading
P. O
M. E. Jones
Grand
Dubois
Idaho
Mfr
Jones
The
Butte Electric Railway Company
Hunger strike forcible feeding in New York jail
Mrs Ethel Byrne was fed by tube after a hunger strike following a 30 day Blackwell's Island sentence for birth control propaganda. A physician's bulletin said she offered no resistance and accepted food, though unconscious claims by sister Mrs Margaret Sanger were denied. Marguerite Snow to star opposite George M. Cohan in Broadway Jones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ethel Byrne
Blackwell's Island
Margaret. Sanger
Long cold spell heads toward Butte with predicted 50 degree drop
Government telegraph warns of a strong cold wave and protracted cold in Butte. Temperatures show a 55 degree swing from 32 above to 28 below January 1916 and notes millennial mild 1917 compared to last year. Residents urged to bundle up and stock coal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Government Weather Bureau
Butte
Bnow
J. W. Wharton
Butte Weather Bureau
UP Officials Hope To End Week-Long Snow Blockade
Cheyenne Wyoming January 27 Moderating winds and clearer weather plus a westbound train behind a rotary were cited by Union Pacific officials as basis for hope they might end the intermittent snow blockade hampering train operations for a week. A snow plow was used at 5 o'clock today to aid the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
UPE
Cheyenne
Wyo
Union Pacific Railroad
Bank robber Holds Up Morrison Hotel Cafe
An armed bandit held nearly a hundred guests and staff at the Morrison hotel lunchroom in Chicago. He forced the cashier from the cage and stole 50 dollars from the drawer, overlooked 425, and then fled the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bandit
Chicago
Morrison Hotel
Inferno at the Forge A Visionary Metalwork Scene
A dramatic tableau of furnace flames and molten metal. Descriptions of copper pouring, sparks and air vents, cranes and ladles, and Prometheus imagery evoke a fearsome, mythic forge lit by blue white red and green sparks. The piece contrasts hellish power with industrial grace.
Butte Snow Halts Traffic and Heavy Snowfall Intrudes City
Nearly four inches of snow blanketed Butte overnight, with trains and streetcars delayed for hours and sidewalks clogged by the season’s heaviest fall. The cold wave did not yet arrive as snow pounded sidewalks and winter parking increased. rail and car traffic slowed with trains late. Orton Brothers piano ad touts a wide stock, better terms, and bargains on Chickering, Kranich & Bach, Kimball and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Northern Pacific
Milwaukee
Great” Northern
Walkerville
America
Chickering & Sons
Vose
Kranich & Bach
Fischer, Hallet & Davis
Kimball
Orton Bros
Hallet & Davis
Apollophone
Marriage in Jail Stopped for County Jail Wedding
George D. George held on Mann Act charge and Joyce McDonald were near marriage in the county jail before a jailer interrupted the ceremony. A visiting party, including a Justice of the Peace, allegedly sought to proceed. officials say the wedding was halted and George returned to his cell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George D. George
Joyce McDonald
Jatlers
George
Clara J. Hemrick
Hemrick
Broad scheme for defense and aeronautics strategy
A discussion of a national defense plan to mobilize air power, with a cabinet position for aviation, a large training cadre, and a sustained aeronautics program. It envisions a coastal sentinel air patrol, a central aeronautics manufacturing plant, and funding via bond issue. cites conversion times for plants to wartime production and calls for broad preparedness amid foreign policy strains. Also notes remarks by Admiral Peary, Mr Coffin, and Congressman Gardner. Later, Gustav E Almery is reported dead at 49 in Springfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Peary
H. Comn
Arma
Coffin
Obituary Notice for Amand Eweet Aged Resident
Amand Eweet died after a short illness. He was born in Sweden and engaged in mining. Survived by two sons Carl of Lutte and Clarence of Lincoln Neb, and a brother Otto of Denver. He was a Yeomen lodge member. Dan els and Bilboa have charge of funeral arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ama
Alenery
Sweden
Carl
Lutte
Clarence
Lincoln
Otto
Denver
Yeomen Lodge
Danels & Bilboa
Thousand Women and Girls Reported Dead in Dresden
Paris dispatch reports a Dresden arsenal explosion killed about 1000 women and girls. A December 30 letter from a German soldier claims all windows within 12 miles shattered and that authorities kept the news secret with no train tickets issued except for urgent reasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Dresden
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Butte News
Prince
Leys Jeweler and Optometrist
North Main Street
Brein-Bloch
Tonkin
J. H. Sharpe
Theodore Nelson
Ditton
Marguerite Snow
Artcraft
George M. Cohan
Broadway Jones
ETS Telegram
G. Lewis
Economy Shoe Co
West Park Street
Fieauquarters
Butter Tical Co
Great Falls
Styx
Vulcan
Zeus
Hell
Tophet
F.T
Orton Brothers
Reading Music House
Montana
Massachusetts
Dr. C. Brutlat
Mose Linz Main
Riddell
the House of Service
Ephony Phonograph
Inet
Harmony Phonograph
Star Phonograph
Phonograph
Main Street
Butte, Monta
Ardner
Herbert Myrick
Springfeld
Mass
Representative Gardner
Wilson
International Peace League
Union
Myrick
Mexico
Gustav Almery
Gustav E. Almery
South Ari
Newbro Drug CO
Simon
North Main
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