Mute Children Demonstrate Speech Methods at Rotary Luncheon
A Boulder state school for the deaf blind and mute showcased instruction methods to Butte Rotary Club. Students performed a musical program and classroom scene while President H J Menzemer urged Montana legislation to expand care for feeble minded children noting 2000 in the state and only 400 in Boulder schools. He described manual finger spelling and lipspeech aided by piano rhymes and showed a blind pupil playing piano. A Boy Scout fundraising report was heard and Judge Lanner urged support for youth development programs citing reforms in education and law.
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State School For the Deaf
Boulder
H. J. Menzemer
Butte Rotary Club
Rotarians
Menzemer
Montana
United States
Boy Scouts Committee
Charles Austin
Boy Scout Movement
Judge Lanner
State Supreme Bench
Washington, D. C
Janitor Examination At Post Office For Butte
The United States civil service commission announces a janitor exam for laborer in custodian service at Butte. Salary $660 yearly plus bonus for year ending June 30, 1920. Open to men and women. appointing officers may specify sex. Age limit 20 to 50.
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United States Civil Service Commission
Butte
Preference for Military and Naval Service Entitlements
Ply to persons entitled to preference on account of military or naval service.
Rapitch Fined for Disturbance in Police Court
Rapitch found guilty at arraignment on a disturbance charge. Joe Williams of the Pacific hotel testified that Rapitch broke a hotel window while intoxicated. The court imposed a ten dollar fine. Another man pleaded guilty to drunkenness and was fined ten dollars. A third person forfeited a nineteen dollar bond on a similar charge.
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Boze Rapiteh
Joe Williams
Pacific Hotel
Rapitch
Grimes
State Department Needs Complete Reorganization
Secretary Lansing told the Senate the United States has risen to economic preponderance due to the war and that the state department especially its trade section must be reorganized to promote foreign commerce. He said this growth came through no self effort.
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Washington
United States
Lansing
Senate
Germany
State Department
Poincare to preside at Sorbonne League of Nations ceremony
Paris reports President Poincare will lead a solemn Sorbonne ceremony on January 30 marking the League of Nations establishment. French teachers nationwide will relay the declarations from the Sorbonne to their classrooms.
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Paris
Poincare
Sorbonne
League of Nations
Women Stand in Police Court Hearings
Yesterday was women’s day in the police court with seven cases disposed of four convictions. Ruby Belmont and May Murray were found guilty of vagrancy and fined twenty dollars each. C J Dalberg pleaded guilty and fined ten dollars. Mabel Rowe’s vagrancy charge was dismissed and she was turned over to county authorities. Rowe was said to be implicated in a robbery in which Ralph Peters is jailed. Jean Avery and Fern Chapman were fined ten dollars each for vagrancy. Chapman used the alias Wilson. An assault and battery case involving Mrs Annie Nelson and Mrs Bess Collins was dismissed at the complainant’s request with an admonition to avoid future trouble.
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Ruby Belmont
May Murray
Chief Murphy
Wyoming Street
C. J. Dalberg
Dalberg
Belmont
Murphy
Ralph Peters
Mabel Rowe
Peters
Silver and Main
Jean Avery
Fern Chapman
Chapman
Wilson
Wallace
Idaho
Annie Nelson
West Park
Bess Collins
Hobson
Barnes Resigns From Cabinet During War Emergency
London reports express regret from pro ministry press as George Nicoll Barnes resigns as minister without portfolio. He stated before the general election his role was for the war emergency and reconstruction only and his departure is not expected to cause an immediate split in the cabinet.
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London
Montreal
George Nicoll Barnes
St Luke's Hospital to Add 300 Beds in Spokane
At the Spokane hospital association annual meeting last night authorization was given to construct a new building for St Luke's hospital. The facility will house 300 beds and construction is set to begin April 1.
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Spokane
Wash
St. Luke’s Hospital
The
Hospital Association
Standardization urged for ferries and routes by Spokane meeting
A Spokane conference heard a request to the state engineering department for standardization of ferryboats and equipment and highway approaches. The committee of the Columbia River Ferrymen's association outlined recommendations aimed at uniform design and safety across ferries on the river system.
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Spokane
Wash
State Engineering Department
Columbia River Ferrymen’s Association
Anual
Association Meeting Set For April
A meeting of the association is planned here in April, as stated.
National conference aims to coordinate state food marketing
A three day gathering in New York February 5 to 7 will unite state market officials to coordinate government food marketing. Dr Eugene H Porter says more than 39 states have bureaus and most will be represented, seeking distribution improvements.
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New York
Eugene H. Porter
Porter
Hungary to become monarchy new king chosen after assembly
Budapest January 29 Premier Huszar states Hungary will be a monarchy and a king will be elected immediately after the national assembly convenes. He notes the assembly will be summoned February 16 and will elect a chief of state as its first duty following the Christian party’s election success.
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Budapest
Hungary
National Assembly
Huszar
National Christian Party
Laymen to Confer on Task of Protestant Churches Here
John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Frank Morrison, AFL secretary, named as principal speakers for a national laymen's conference in Pittsburg. The three day gathering opens Saturday to study the Protestant churches of North America at home and abroad.
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Pittsburg
John PD. Rockefeller Jr
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Hennessys Eastward Buyers Headed to New York
Mrs M Boyington and Miss Lenore Clarke buyers from Hennessys depart for New York to study spring and summer mode developments from European market trends. R J Cronin, silk and dress goods buyer, has been in New York for 10 days sourcing new fabrics for the store.
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Mrs. Boyington
Miss Clarke
New York
Rats Grow Extra Coat in Cold Temperatures
In low temperatures rats develop an additional outer covering described as an overcoat that forms rapidly. The finding notes the adaptation appears to protect the animal from the cold and may influence fur thickness and insulation.
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