Butte Notes Show Local Visitors and Arrivals at Thornton and Finlen
A long list of visitors and arrivals at Butte hotels fills this item with names and hometowns. Readers learn lodging at the Thornton and Finlen, with guests from Dillon Helena Missoula Virginia City Great Falls and more. Also noted are illness updates and local promotions at stores and theaters.
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Orton Bros. Y Shaw
Wisdom
Aterday
L. F. Stowell
Billings
Thornton
S. T. Taylor
Helena
Butte
Divide
A.T. Walsh
Missoula
Thornton. EL
Belgrade
Finten
W. H. Thomas
Virginia City
Schillings
L. Robertson
Three Forks
J. I. Garwood
Florence Avenue
J. W. Carney
Dillon
John Webb
Butters
E. Compton
Roy Compton
Livingston
Finton
M. Kerwan
P. J
Mien
Great Falls
B.C. Sheet
Boze
al Holter
Silver
Bradlee
Mueller
Mayme Riley
Miss Capron
Lewistown
Hugh MacMean
Dillon and
Mew
Ac TL. Jones
Virginiaity
Hornton
T. J. Jones
Garden Avenue
Rockvale
Cal
J. Eaton
D. Hooker
W Merman
A. St. Germain
Ke Geneill
TS. Mentrum
Frank C. Lavigne
Fire breaks out in Storey Building basement
A basement fire in the Storey Building at 124 West Park Street started by unknown causes at 3 last night. The fire was extinguished before spreading to the main structure. A few boxes and trunks were damaged in the basement area.
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West Park Street
Police Chief Returns to Butte After Chicago Visit
Chief Jere J. Murph returned to Butte last night from Chicago where he was called due to the serious illness of his daughter Sister Colman. He remained to see her and found her much improved.
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Police
Jere J. Murph
Butte
Chicago
Colman
Chinese Man Arrested In Drug Charge After Raid
A Chinese man named Chug Hen was arrested by officers from the Juss use department and the United States revenue department. He was charged with dealing in drugs after authorities seized Mercury related substances from a house where he was found selling.
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Chug Hen
Department of Juss Use
United States Revenue’ Department
At Butte Playhouses Variety Tonight
New vaudeville and Car Myers appear with Ansoma May Allison in Her Inspiration and Harold Lloyd in a comedy empress. Tom Mix and Pathe News Onphes Williams star alongside Hartt ry Norma Constance Talmadge and Robert Harror in The Missing Links with Broadway showings. Mme Schumann Heink Priday Draw Egan also featured.
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Ansoma May Allison
Harold Lloyd
Tom Mix
Mr. Logan
USA
Pathe News
Milwaukee Knights of Columbus expand wartime relief effort
The order runs first aid and nursing classes at church clubs and supports home care for the sick while maintaining an insurance fund and a $3,000,000 bond portfolio. During the war it donated $11,600 to the Knights of Columbus general fund as Mrs. Rittman tours the West to energize peacetime activities.
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Order
Chicago
Margaret Siegfried
Red Cross
Milwaukee Court
Church Club
Home Cai
Genernal
Knights" of Columbus
Rittman
Plan Unusual Honor for Late Colonel Roosevelt
London reports a memorial service for the late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt at Westminster Abbey. Premier Lloyd George seeks to hold it as Parliament is in session to allow all members to attend. The Duke of Connaught supports the plan and the Archbishop of Canterbury is expected to officiate.
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London
Theodore Ronevelt
Westminster Abbey
Lloyd
George
Duke of Connaught
Roosevelt
Queen Mai
Diably
Erbury
Harding of Ohio speaks at McKinley Day banquet
Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio, speaking in Cleveland, criticizes the national government’s drift with the president absent and no clear authority. He says the fault lies not in Wilson’s foreign policy but in Congress being taught to do nothing and being left without leadership.
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Cleveland
Natio
Washington
Warren G. Harding
Faul
Wilson
Congress
Nner
Colonies of Germany A Question in War Claims
The article argues that colonies of Germany pose a question in war claims. It states the chief asset of Germany would be eliminated when guardianship was entrusted by the League of Nations. It notes the guardian nation could not treat those colonies as its properties.
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Germany
League of Nations
Freedom of the seas tops debate at Paris peace talks
Delegates at Paris discuss contraband and the right of neutrals to move goods during war. Experts suggest the League of Nations may decide contraband rules, tying sea freedom to disarmament and revised maritime practice. Final settlement likely to go to commissions before league decisions.
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Paris
Peace Congress
Wilson
League of Nations
League
American Members Name Polish Peace Commission Visit
Paris January 28 The American members of the peace conference commission to visit Pax land were announced Maj Gen Francis J Kernan and Prof Robert H Lord of Harvard University The duo serve as the American peace commission expert on Russia and Poland.
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Paris
Paxland
Francis J. Kernan
Robert H. Lord
Harvard University
Russia
Poland
Armenia Delegates Back Paris Peace Conference Strategy
Armenian representatives in Paris last night voted to push a resolution at the peace conference. The measure opposes recognizing Armenia as a nonentity and rejects admitting rebel delegates. It states Armenians will join the allied effort when opportunity arises and fight alongside the allies on the French and Syrian Caucasus fronts.
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Paris
Armenia
Parla
Ant
Ite
Germany
Turkey
New American Dreadnought To Lead Wilson Vessel Convoy
The New Mexic freeboating battleship arrives at Brest to convoy the steamer George Washington back to the United States with President Wilson aboard. A fleet of American torpedo boat destroyers will join the escort as Vice Admiral Wilson raises his flag on the New Mess.
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Brest
George Washington
United States
President Wilson
Wilson
Auto Industry Sees Boom Ahead Despite Short-Term Problems
Chicago reports say the automobile business faces early 20th century optimism with leaders predicting a long boom. John N. Willys, head of Willys-Overland, foresees rapid growth as demand rises for trucks and cars, while George M. M. of Pierce-Arrow cautions about brief troubles but future expansion. Farmers may buy $10,000,000 in motor trucks within ten years. Labor costs and living costs are noted as pressures alongside rising demand.
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Chicago
Dealtion
John N. Willys
Willys-Overland
George M. m
Pierce-Arrow Motor Company
Policy on Sick Soldiers at Army Hospitals
The Surgeon General announced that the War Department will keep wounded and sick soldiers in military hospitals only until they can return to their former occupations. Hospitalization is not the aim for indefinite care. Retention depends on medical recovery and suitability for vocational training or industrial opportunities.
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Washington
Ireland
War Department
Federal Board
Lee
Minneapolis Sleuth Farmer Bags Wallet Thieves
Minneapolis January 28 reported a farmer and self styled sleuth, Wes Johnson, catching two pickpockets during a city visit. He kept $125 in a belt wallet and was robbed once before recovering the two wallets and detaining the suspects, who now await charges in jail.
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Minneapolis
Wes Johnson
Tomson
Johnson
Western Army Demobilized Now In German Demobilization
A London report states by January 18 the western German army was moved to demobilization centers. About half a million of the eastern army's 690,000 are also slated for demobilization. The notice also cites an arrest order for Bolshevik agitator Karl Radek in Berlin and resignation of Dr. Georg Michaelis as Pomerania president in protest. Coal shortages risk cutting electric power to industries across Greater Berlin, except for food and public services.
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London
Germany
Karl Radek
Berlin
Georg Michaelis
Pomerania
Stettin
Dr. Liebknecht
Greater
Americans to receive five German guns from Spandau rails
Coblenz reports that five artillery pieces on railway cars are en route to Vieng from Spandau and will be turned over to American forces under the armistice terms. Ordnance experts value each mounted gun at about $130,000, with additional war materiel including several types of German bombing planes.
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Coblenz
Jan
C Vieng
Spandau
Rimes Sold in Baseball Trade Shifts Lineup
Co-President Timrkey of the Bt Louis Nee Jonals announced the sale of first baseman Charles Grimes to the Little Rock Ark club.
Identification of Palisades victim traced to Florida widow
Jan 28. The old young woman found on the Palisades was identified as the daughter of George Packwood of Tampa Florida a widow of a major in the American army who died in France last October. Prosecutor Thomas J. Huckin said a coroner’s inquest proved she killed herself with chloroform after marriage without parents knowledge.
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Siday
Palisades
George II
Packwood
Tanpa
France
Thomas J. Huckin
Bergen
Huckin
Biford Ellsworth
New York
Isworth
Hue
Plisades
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Ohio
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Si Lyon
Idaho
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the House OF Good Hardware
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Bruce Scenic Knowles Orchestra
Parks Organ
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Carthy
East Broadway
Lyon
Swift
Montana
Wilson's Majestic
Ean Kato
Miller Millin
George H. Wood
Tampa
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