Delegates Debate One Big Union Plan At Convention
United Mine Workers organizer C W Hustin warned the convention that a mass union scheme would fail mirroring Knights of Labor. James H Fisher pressed for recognizing the Soviet government and withdrawal of troops, with the next meeting set for Great Falls in October.
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United Mine Workers of America
Hustin
Knights of Labor
United Mine Workers
Tom Campbell
American Federation of
Mr. Hustin
James H. Fisher
Russia
United States
Great Falls
Mrs Hartnett Dead After Cork Births and Family Ties
Mrs Patrick Hartnett died Monday at 31. Born in Cork Ireland she is survived by a husband a mother in Ireland and six brothers Michael John Dennis Sullivan of this city Jeremiah Sullivan of Chicago Peter Sullivan of Joliet and Patrick of Cork. She is also survived by three sisters Mrs Ahern of Boston and Mrs O Leary and Mrs Kelly of Cork. The funeral is set for tomorrow at 9 am at St Marys church with mass and Holy Cross cemetery burial.
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Patrick Hartnett
Cork
Ireland
Michael
John
Dennis Sullivan
Jeremiah Sullivan
Chicago
Peter Sullivan
Joliet
Patrick
Ahern
Boston
O'Leary
Kelly
St. Mary's Church
Holy Cross Cemetery
Butte Electric Railway seeks fare raise at state hearing
The Butte Electric Railway requests higher fares citing 1919 passenger decline and higher operating costs. Hearings at city hall closed in under three hours with little opposition. The commission will review testimony and company data on property valuation, while noting penny handling and safety concerns.
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Butte Electric Railway Company
City Hall
State Public Utilities Commission
Gardens
James Bent
Wittenberg
Noted Lecturer Dr Alice Masaryk Arrives in London
Photo by International Film Service shows Dr. Alice Masaryk daughter of Czecho-Slovakia's president arriving at Marylebone hospital Cavendish square London. She is noted for organizing hospitals sanitary stations and public works in the new republic and for work with the Czech army medical department.
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International Film Service
Alice Masaryk
Czecho-Slovakia
Marylebone Hospital
Cavendish Square
London
England
Alice Maaryk
New Republic
Fast Lusitania and Mauretania transatlantic records
The record passages include the Lusitania from Queenstown to New York August 16 to 20 1908 completing in four days five hours and Mauretania from Queenstown to New York September 11 to 15 1910 covering four days ten hours and forty one minutes.
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Lusitania
Queenstown
New York
Mauretania
French Offer Triggers Army Surplus Sales in France
Washington reports that Paris offered 300 million dollars for American army equipment in France already costing 1.6 billion. A sales organization in France will dispose of the property as delays in army size and manpower caused five months of postponement. Hare, director of sales, cited 50 million in meat and 100 million in canned vegetables among stocks awaiting sale. He testified to a House subcommittee investigating wartime expenditures of the Quartermaster Corps.
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Washington
France
War Department
Sales Hare
House
Wi Department
Hare
Quartermaster’s Corps
First Issues of New Weekly Arrive in Butte
The American Lesson Weekly official publication for returned soldiers arrives in Butte. General Pershing telegraphs warm wishes for the paper. Lieut. Col. D. Gay Stivers of Butte is named on the organizing committee alongside other notable officers and soldiers.
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Butte
New York
Pershing
France
D. Gay Stivers
Stivers
America
United States
Serv
Tangled Threads Ends at Ansonia in Butte
The play Tangled Threads at the Ansonia ends its run in Butte today after three days praised by theater fans as one of 1919’s artistic productions. Also on the bill today Billie Parson in Wanted Baby and Eddie Polo in The Missing Bullet with Tom Moore in The City of Comrades and a Man of Might episode tomorrow. Hog prices climb to record highs in Chicago markets with values at 422.60 per hundredweight amid European demand. Wisconsin industrial commission orders minimum wage increases for workers over 17, announced today.
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Bessie Barrigcale
Ansonia
Butte
Billie "Parson
Eddie Polo
Tom Moore
Comrades
Chicago
Europe
Industrial Commission of Wisconsin
Illustrated Daily News Debuts With Photo Offer
Capt Joseph M Patterson known as Captain Pat of the Chicago Tribe launches the Illustrated Daily News in New York as a pictorial daily. He offers 10000 dollars for a photograph of New Yorks prettiest girl with stage and professional beauties barred. Early sales look promising.
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Betsy Gor
Home Baking Company
Olympia
Butte, Montana
Captain Patterson
Calkins
Arnation ‘Mills
Puget Sound Country
Middle West
Gingsion
Carnation Milk Products Company
Seattle
Wash
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