Butte Parade Celebrates Nation's Birthday with Colorful Pageant
A vast Fourth of July parade in Butte featured dozens of civic groups, veterans, youth organizations, and floats from local firms. Participants included Rotary, GA R posts, Camp Fire Girls, Girl Scouts, Redmen, Pocahontas, and many businesses, with Miss Liberty floats and a civil war salute giving way to festive celebration. Jack Duggan led as marshal with aides L P Saders, Al Livingstone, and C F Staples guiding the march amid bands, banners, and a carnival of color through Main Street.
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Butte
Rotary Club
Butte Exchange Club
GA. R
Shiplap
The
Republic
Howard Pierce, Inc
Howard Pierce
Gregson
Gregson Springs Company
Lincoln Post
Abraham Lincoln
Pocahontas
Redmen’s Auxiliary
Woodmen of America
Park Street
Camp Fire
Knights of Pythias D. 0. K. K
Anaconda Company
Tom Angell
Rialto
American Theaters
Engineers’ Union
Salvation Army Life Saving Division
Zenithtroon No
Kiwanis and Exchange Clubs
Montana Power
Shiner and Occili Furniture Companies
Butte Auto Supply Company
Montana Electric Company
Western Creamery
P. O. News Stand
Bradford's Dairy Inn
Joe Russell
Butte Fruit and Produce Company
Mellor Produce Company
Barnes and Daly
Sweet Brothers
Ward-Thompson Paper Company
Stewart and O'Connor
Northwest Coal Company
Western Fuel Company
Clara J.R. Mills
Gertrude Pitkanen
Leonard
Butte Mines
Montana State Band
Butte Municipal Band
Old Fame Town
Mayer Ignition and Battery Company
American and
Rialto Theaters
Knights of Columbus
Uke
Howard Pierce Auto Company
Miss Franklin
Gamer's Shoe Company
Honeymoon Express
Metropolitan
Henningsen
Buttermilk
Jack Duggan
L. P. Sarders
al Livingstone
Charles F. Staples
Parade Prize Winners From Butte Celebration
First prize one hundred dollars for Miss Quality the Hennessy company's white airplane with grass base. Second fifty dollars for Symons Dry Goods garden float. Third twenty five dollars for Miss Franklin a decorated boat driven by Mrs. Howard Pierce. Additional honors for Miss Liberty and other displays.
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Hennessy Company
Miss Quality
Symons Dry Goods Company
Howard Pierce, Inc
Miss Franklin
Howard Pierce
Miss Liberty
Chamber of Commerce
The
Forest Service
Butte Hospitals
Gregson Springs
Gregson
Brownfield
Rialto Theater
Montana Power Company
Montana Hardware Company
Weinberg’s
Atlantic Cafe
Gamer’s Confectionery
Winter Garden
Patriotic Exercises at Butte Courthouse
Large crowd of women and children gathered at the courthouse for Independence Day in Butte. Senator Mantle spoke on liberty and the Constitution, praising reduction of taxes and government economy as Montana officials pledged to serve the people.
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Butte
Lee Manas
J. A. Poore
J. Bruce
Sam Treloar
Senator Mantle
Senator Mantie
United States of America
Commonwealth of Montana
John E. Erickson
United States
Abraham Lincoln
Daley Kills Wife Then Guns Self in Hotel Room
Police disclosed that 28 year old Peter Daley, a disabled World War veteran, shot his wife Eva Daley in their hotel room and then killed himself. A revolver with two empty chambers was found near the bodies. Jealousy was cited as the motive by investigators.
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Associated Press
Eva
Peter Daley
Whenolice
Daley
Prison executioner nets $2100 for 14 executions
John Hulbert of Sing Sing prison completed a banner year in the collection of fees for executing convicted murderers. He received $2100 for 14 executions, up from $? for nine in the previous fiscal year.
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Ossining
N. Y
John Hulbert
Sing Sing Prison
Hulbert
Moving picture film circles globe after international transfers
A film moved from this country to overseas destinations in the last year would travel the globe approximately seven times, highlighting extensive international circulation and reach of the pictured motion pictures.
Butte pilot lands plane to save dangling stunt man
Pilot Hesser steadies a fluttering craft to a soft field while keeping detached stunt man Anthony Kelly from plunging after a failed drop into Lake Avoca. Kelly, hospitalized, survived despite rope fatigue and near misses with wires as authorities plan his return to New York.
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Anthony
Butte Aviation Field
Hesser
da Ling
Kelly
Lake Avoca
J. W. Hesser
Anthony” Kelly
Lieut. Hesser
Air Field
Heyser
St. James Hospital
New York
Milwaukee
Butte
Portland
Metals Bank
Mildred Brimacombe
Richard Brimacombe
Mustering for War: Washington’s Admonition in wartime prep
Secretary Davis cites George Washington to press a modern muster system for national defense. General Pershing warns that peace costs burden the next generation without adequate military preparedness. General Hines explains the wartime mobilization plan as a skeleton army spread across the country and overseas.
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Second Corps
Davis
George Washington
Washington
General Pershing
Hines
Record Crowds Stampede Ends Fourth of July Rodeo at Gardens
A record 7,000 fans packed Columbia Gardens for preliminaries of the Fourth of July rodeo before a stampede led to two riders being removed by Sheriff deputies. The crowd pressed fences and buildings as events continued, with finals and more features planned for today.
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Columbia Gardens Ball Park
Jack Dugap
Pat Holland
Pat Lee
Dutchell
Pendleton
Sedel
R. Ingersoll
Orce
Blast injures firemen in Spokane blaze
Five firemen were injured when the American Paint and Paper Company building burned at 10 o'clock on July 4 in Spokane. The blast shattered front windows and gas explosion blew glass onto the street. Estimated loss was $50,000, but none of the injuries were serious.
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Associated Press
Spokane
American Paint and All Paper Companys
Spirit of America pageant draws 7000 in Butte
The audience of seven thousand attended the Spirit of America pageant in Butte with a high praise for enunciation and device effects. Projections, lighting, and fireworks were arranged by local firms and individuals, and the show covered six episodes from colonial times to World War I. Grand finale featured Miss Liberty and the Elks drum corps. director Evans called it the most effective pageant in 35 years.
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Jones Supply Company
Horace Casey
Frank Casey
Wiliam Griffith
Dan Kalem
Rialto Theater
Montana State School of Mines
James
Rockies
Montana
Meriwether Lewis
William
Clark
Sacajawea
Davy Crockett
Grant
Sheridan
Sherman
Lee
Barbara Frietchie
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
W. A. Clark
W. A. Clark, III
Walter Carnes
William Howard Taft
Joe Duffy
President Wilson
General Grant
General Foch
Winifred McHugh
Liberty
Marcia McMahon
Mary McGrath
Stella Driscoll
Genevieve McCarthy
Elks
Spirit of America
Butte
West
President Coolidge Meets Birthday Boy Jimmy Walker at Lynn
The 13 year old Jimmy Walker visited the White House offices in Lynn and rode with President Coolidge to Marblehead. The boy presented chocolates and birthday wishes and received cake, a mouth organ, and a silver pencil before being sent home. News came with greetings by mail and wire.
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Mr. Coolidge
Lynn
Sanders
Marble Head
White House
Jimmy Walker
Jimmy
White Court
Priceless Relics Robbed From Vatican in Saint Peter’s Basilica Heist
Thieves gathered sects precious to the church after raiding a Vatican room and escaping with half a dozen portable objects. Among the loot were a sapphire and diamond ring on St. Peter’s statue, a golden mass service from Cardinal Merry del Val, a golden cross from Cardinal del Volpe, and a silver diamond ornamented vessel once owned by Pope Pius IX. They also took a ciborium but abandoned it as it proved silver.
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Cardinal del Volpe
Pius IX
Borah Defends Coolidge Economy On Independence Day
Idaho Senator William F. Borah praised President Coolidge’s economy program in a Coeur d Alene address. He urged continued fiscal restraint and warned against relaxing spending cuts, saying only one nation is more taxed and business would benefit from a strict economy.
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Associated Press
Coeur D'Alene
Ida
United States
William F. Borah
Idaho
Coolidge
Washington
Borah
Congress
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Copper Street
Butte’s
Atlantic Seaboard
Symons @arden
Hennessy
King Tut
Tate
Franklin
Tana
Intermountain Transportation Company
Kenoffel'’s
George Bruffy
Heath's
Dunlop Tires
Butte Independent Milk and Cream Company
H. Peters
Butte Buick Company
John Berkin Auto Company
Montana Cadillac Company
Broadway Gorage
Standard Motor Company
Butte Auto Delivery
Everett's Garage
Eager Repair Company
George Spillum Cigar Company
Bartie
N. Fayne
Marking Wholesale Company
Butte Floral Company
Woolworth’s
Parade
Buick
Butte Kiwanis Club
Montana Battery Company
Everett Battery Company
United Spanish War Veterans
banner—Butteridge
John J. Burke
Edward Softley
Fred Henningsen
Merle Davis
Joseph A. Warne
E. J. Barker
Ray Lavelle
W. F. Love
Stunt Man
Lake Shore
Ball Park
Mork
East Park ST
Monty Sworth
OR Monty Back
Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
Presidents
Vatican
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