City Wins First Encroachment Suit In Butte
The city of Butte won the first encroachment case against W A Clark & Bro for obstructing streets. Judge Booker fined $50 plus $10 per day for continued encroachment and allowed a $700 appeal bond. Attorney Meyer appealed. city attorneys pledged swift action in similar cases as taxes fund major improvements including storm sewer work.
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Butte
W. A. Clark & Bro
Booker
William Meyer
Mackel
Meyer
May
J. K. Hesler
Clark Bros.’ Bank
Gow
Wincle Saws Sailors Taught Trades in Navy Vocational Plan
Chicago July 14 Details of a plan to provide naval enlisted men with three hours daily schooling as part of a vocational program were outlined by Secretary Daniels. The courses target 20 trades including drafting electrical engineering war architecture and civil engineering to fit men for civilian life after enlistment. Daniels noted recent enlistments exceed any two month period since the Civil War and pledged to open a solid career path in the Navy.
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Chicago
Tary
Daniels
Paific
Navy
Naval Academy
Annap
Soc
Wanderer notes of aviator Maroney flight over city
The Wanderer reports Maroney’s aerial exhibition yesterday afternoon. He flew from the race track uptown looping over timber butte before returning to the track. Many did not hear of the planned flight, but Maroney has given fine exhibitions and draws public interest in his movements. A humorous moment follows as an old man mistakes a passerby for his wife in a new street gown.
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Mackel
Maroney
Timber Butte
Indignant Response to Family Charge of Self Care
A woman defends her independence against a family friend’s accusation that she cannot care for herself. She cites meals at a cafeteria, trips between apartments via the automatic elevator, and grooming routines as proof of her capability, insisting she can manage her own dress and hair.
Faces in the betting ring reveal race meet strain
Worries linger among bettors as suspense grips the betting ring, described as harsher on nerves than a funeral. Citizens appear unusually tense during race meets, reflecting the high stakes and anxious atmosphere surrounding the events.
Swell Time and Early Rising River Trip
A speaker recalls a long weekend with work on Saturday night, waking at 5 AM Sunday, donning a dun colored suit, and paddling 25 miles down the river to wade in the water, describing a brisk outdoor outing.
Sunday Musings and City Street Odds
A collage of humorous vignettes and observations from city life. The speaker recalls cold Sundays, long treks, ant visited sandwiches, carpenters and taxis, fruit stalls, jokes about aging and luck, and a note on gambling during air races. The tone is wry and lightly satirical.
Mass clam farming pioneer plants million clams per acre
Andrew Kerr a biologist and M I T graduate pioneers sea farming at Plymouth harbor planting White and Ichabod flats with a million clams to the acre. His shore crops show enormous yields with oysters and scallops long cultivated.
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New York Times
Atlantic
Andrew Kerr
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Plymouth Harbor
Mr. Kerr
Kerrs shellfish farm pioneers Atlantic coast practice
The article notes Kerrs shellfish operation as a forerunner on the Atlantic coast. It explains that clambakes and chowders thrive when clams are grown in soft sand rather than gravel or rocky areas. The shellfish spend less energy on shell and more on adding weight and meat.
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Mr. Kerr
Atlantic
Home of Hawaiian graft investigator dynamited
In Hilo Hawaii on July 14 special guards were assigned to witnesses in the Hawaii county graft probe after an attempted bombing of Deputy Sheriff Edward K Simmons home where he and his wife slept they escaped serious injury The inquiry led by US District Attorney Robert W Beckens followed the confession of Auditor Charles K Maguire who admitted peculations totaling eighty thousand dollars and received a five year penitentiary sentence.
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Hilo
Hawaii
Hawaii County
Edward K. Simmons
United States
Robert W. Beckens
Charles K. Maguire
State Troops Called For to Quell Strike Disorder
Lexington Ky July 14 Disorder marked the attempt of the Kentucky Traction company to operate cars with strike breakers today and as a result an appeal has been made for state troops. One car was filled with passengers but everyone was ejected by the strikers. Another car was burned on the tracks and the company abandoned its efforts. Many arrests were made and a number of strike breakers and deputy sheriffs were badly beaten. The men struck Saturday for higher wages and recognition of their newly formed union.
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Lexington
Kentucky Traction Company
Floods in Transylvania Cause Eighty Deaths
Central News dispatch from Budapest reports floods across the Maros-Torda district in Transylvania Hungary killing about 80 people. Fifteen villages are destroyed as waters reach five feet in places.
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London
Maros-Torda
Transylvania
Hungary
Budapest
Pankhurst and Kenney Defy Government at Meeting
London July 14 Emmeline Pankhurst and Annie Kenney militant suffragette leaders defied authorities by attending the weekly Women's Social and Political Union meeting. Kenney was arrested amid clashes. Pankhurst escaped then was tracked to a taxi and captured after a dramatic chase through crowded streets. She addressed the crowd insisting she is a rebel and would rather die than submit.
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London
Emmeline Pankhurst
Annie Kenney
Women
Spccial and Political Union
Miss Kenney
Pankhurst
Audienc
Edward Carson
Aviators' Bodies Found With Wrecked Machines
Versailles France July 14 The charred wreckage of an aeroplane with the incinerated bodies of two aviators found near Neenacourt on the Paris to Granville line The dead flyers include Percin inventor of a new monoplane and his son a mechanician Their monoplane capsized for unknown reasons and the fuel tank exploded pinning them under the motor
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Versailles
France
Neenacourt
Paris
Granville
Percin
Maxwell Dies. Rail Conductors Leader in Cedar Rapids
W J Maxwell grand secretary and treasurer of the Order of Railway Conductors died at his home in Cedar Rapids Iowa today after several weeks illness. He was 54 years old and had served the conductors order for 15 years.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
W. J. Maxwell
The
Order of Railway Conductors
Ironclad guarantee on affordable tools
The vendor touts real satisfaction from using good tools available at low prices. They promise ironclad guarantees and protection against loss from poor tools, urging customers not to pay higher prices elsewhere.
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W. A. Clark and Brother
Wincle Sam
Khemceeys
Kenmmessys
Limoges
BY the
Way
Massachusetts
Italy
Sicily
California
Heywood
Prd
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