Montanans Urged to Get Into Game in San Diego
A Montana society in San Diego urges residents to support a subscription drive for the Panama-California Exposition. The letter, dated July 10, 1913, asks influential Montanans to back a state display aimed at attracting settlers and showcasing Montana’s resources to visitors and homeseekers.
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Standard
Montana Society Eld
Manans
San Diego
R ‘Ead
Montana
Mann
Morris Binnard
J. Brackett
Cal
Butte to Boise Rail Line Backed By New York Financiers
The long contemplated Butte Boise and Winnemucca railroad to San Francisco is reportedly assured. President Leonard of Boise says first grading contracts will be let this week with actual work starting before August 1. The line would run from Boise west to Caldwell and east along the Boise river canyon, with guarantees from major New York financial houses and local contractors slated to handle initial work.
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Butte
Boies
Idaho
Winnemucen
Nev
New York
San Francisco
L. C. Leonard
Boise
Itnk
Butte, Hoise & Winnemuces
Winnemu
Mont
Montana
Boise River
Grimes Creek
Divide
Kobe Valley
Caldwell
Butte, Botte En Winnemucca
United States
New York City
Leonard
Winnuse
Boise, Winnemucca
Overland
Butte, Boise & Winnemucca Railway Company
Boise-Winnemucca
Butte, Boise & Winnemucca
Ringling Circus to Feature New Joan of Arc Spectacle
Harry Scott advance press agent says the Ringling show arrives August 4 with several brand-new features including a dramatic Joan of Arc tableau. The spectacular presentation follows the peasant girl from her village to battles, with military attire and wall scaling. The circus has traveled as far as Bangor, Maine and is now heading west.
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Harry Scott
Ringling
Scott
Joan of Arc
Bangor
Life expectancy trends across regions and eras
The passage surveys life expectancy by region and era. It notes higher longevity where sanitary science is active, cites Massachusetts as providing reliable statistics with an average life of 45 years, and remarks on Europe doubling life expectancy in 350 years while New York doubled in half a century.
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Swelen
Foot Coolers For Summer Footwear We Have Them
Foot Coolers offers cool, comfortable footwear for men women and children. Ox fords ties and pumps available for hot summer days.
Wanderer Observes In Butte Grocery and Town Life
In a Butte scene near 113 N Main St a wanderer notes a dog and its owner sharing memories from Peoria and Jefferson County. He observes street life from a box in a grocery, comments on window boxes and local efforts to beautify, and reflects on alcohol, small stores, and local business growth amid urban change.
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Bulger
Ike
Dan
Whittier
Peoria
Jefferson County
Thommon
Lane approves act to aid reclamation settlers
Washington reports Secretary Lane approved an amendment to reclamation regulations to help entrymen and landowners secure loans for farm improvements and to file notices with local land officials and project managers after water right applications are filed. The change allows notice of defaults in water right charges to prevent loss of security.
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Washington
Lane
Pioneer charitable leader Alice Roach dies in Butte
Alice Roach, a Montana pioneer and longtime Butte charity leader, died yesterday afternoon at her home after a long illness. Family at her bedside included two sisters, five children, and relatives. the funeral will be at 13 North Wyoming Street with Rev. S C Blackiston.
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Alice Roach
Montana
Butte
Lung Trable
John Noyes
Lyman Sisley
Alice
John
Walter
David
Ned
T. J. Murray
Sxaver
David Meiklejohn
Los Angeles
Roach
Reine 6 Beauty
Off for Kalispell to the Convention
Yesterday and Saturday good roads enthusiasts left for Kalispell where the annual meeting of the good roads association will be held beginning tomorrow. Most go by automobile, some by train. Four large cars from Sheridan joined others here, leaving at about one o clock. More parties arrived earlier. Attendance is expected to set a record with delegations from several cities.
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Kalispell
Firemen to meet at Old Milestown
The State Firemen's Association executive committee canceled yesterday's meeting. Peter Sanger of Butte said Miles City proposed holding the annual meeting during the Fourth of July Roundup, but the event is set for Sept 10 to 11 in that city. If the host city cannot, Butte will take the convention.
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State Firemen’s Association
Peter Sanger
Butte
Miles City
Moet
Sanger
Duke Ludwig Divorced From Ballet Girl Wife
In Munich today a decree granted divorce to Duke Ludwig of Bavaria from his second morganatic wife once a ballet girl at the Bavarian court opera named Antonio Barth. The court blamed the wife for the quarrel. she 40 years his junior. They wed in 1892 after the death of the first morganatic wife, actress Henrietta Mendal.
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Munich
Bavaria
Ludwig of
Antonio Barth
Ludwig
Henrietta Mendal
June Temperatures in Montana Near Normal and Wet
June brought above normal statewide temperatures averaging 62 degrees, one of the five warmest of 19 years, with no extreme highs. Rains were plentiful across western and central counties, totaling 2.39 inches statewide, about three quarters of an inch above normal, though no frost damage occurred.
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Government Weather Bureau
Helena
Bowen
Rosebud
Custer
Dawson
Judith Basin
Tascade
Lewis and’ Clark
Broadwater
Jefferson
Madison
Beaverhead
Yellowstone
Mil
Boston sketches and plays by Gor don company
Eleanor Gordon leads a Boston company presenting sketches and plays with cast members Jeffreys Goodfriend and her son Douglas J Wood. The group plans performances in the city, highlighting local theater work and family collaboration.
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Eleanor Gordon
Boston
Jeff-reys Goodfriend
Douglas J. Wood
Infield Fly Rule Clarifications and German Inventions
Questions address baseball rules about infield fly outs and lists German inventions and discoveries. The baseball item notes that an infield fly can be ruled out by the fielder if playable, regardless of distance to field, depending on outs and bases. The inventions list credits Germans with various historical discoveries and devices, including printing, X-rays, dynamo, and other advances.
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Falamond
Ouffield
A. Haen
Bohenberg
Gutenberg
Jacobi
Rietsch
Koenig
Mergenthale Linotype
Ritter
Roentgen
Runge
Schonbein
Schulte
Schelgger Galvano
Mater
Siemens
Fleetrie
von Guerike
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Joan
Angie
Digan
Diamond Box
Lutey's
Minnesota
Keteria Alwaya
Stair
East Park
Departments, Inc
Hore
Montana Flour Mills Company
Lewistown
Harlowton
Newbro Drug Co
North Main
Enfornia City
Butte-To-Boise
Rois
WinneMeces
Maho
Hutte
Boise & Winnemucen
Rand
Makensi
Stevenson
Mir
Ringling Circus
N. Main St
Park Street
Rene
Whal Anycore
Hood Business
By the
Way
Buttes Pleasers
Tere E. Roach
Bris
Old Milestown
Duke Ludwig
Tental
Advier
Ely
F. A. Ironside
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Bonner
ED Rose
the Jeweler
North Main Street
Mats. Sun
the Fair Drug & Assay Supply Co
DR. Lamb
Galena
Smith Drug Co
Anaconda
Panson & Rockefeller
Allen & Darnell
East Park Street
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