Butte Baseball Craze Defies Montana Political Theater
Butte embraces widespread baseball activity with city employees and locals forming teams. The Boston Journal’s claim that Montana uses baseball to settle politics is disputed. Helena and Butte lead the state league with Helena winning 18 of 23 while Butte has nine wins as Marcus Daly backs the Daly faction.
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Butte
Court House
Montana
Boston Journal
Daly-Clark
Helena
Anaconda
Great Falls
Clark
Marcus Daly
Daly
West
Weekend excursion fares from Northern Pacific offered
The Northern Pacific will sell round trip tickets on Saturdays and Sundays to Pipestone for 1 dollar Whitehall for 1.50 and Lime Spur for 2 dollars with final return by the following Monday.
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Northern Pacific
Pipestone
Whitehall
Lime Spur
Stock Offering Notice From Denver and Rock Island
The company direct office at No. 15 West Broadway Butte invites stock buyers. Open evenings. Stockholders are mostly miners working for Block.
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Denver
Rock Island
West Broadway
Butte
Block
Advertising and Illustrations by Standard Publishing
Notices indicate the Standard Publishing company offers various cuts for advertising and illustration use and invites correspondence for productions and requests.
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Standard Publishing Company
Waterloo widow, 98, becomes world’s oldest bride again
At 98 years old in Waterloo New York a widow who has had three marriages wed again in a simple parlor ceremony to Samuel Decker. She first married Thomas Preston in 1835 and became a widow at age 68 before a 1878 marriage to Albert Brainerd ended with his death about a year ago. Clergyman Rev Pulaski Smith officiated and the bride told a reporter she has rheumatic pains but is otherwise pretty smart.
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Waterloo
N. Y
Thomas Preston
Albert Brainerd
Samuel Decker
Pulaski Smith
Magee Baptist Church
Brainerd
Western visitor confronts New York streetcar conductor
A Western woman on a New York visit nearly falls as the conductor yanks the car forward. She scolds him for starting early and, after a heated exchange, lunges at his head but misses. The hat spins away and the rider regains composure as the car stops.
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New York
Policeman’s Cottage Bricks Secret in Chicago Tale
In northwest Chicago a police officer lives in a neat cottage. The story hints at how he secured the foundation bricks, implying a clever or notable method behind his cozy home’s construction.
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Chicago
T. G. Heine M D Physician and Surgeon
Dr T G Heine physician and surgeon advertises practice in Hye and Butte with specialty in ear, nose and throat and diseases of women. Office hours include morning to noon and afternoon to evening at room 41 Hen Ba Butte.
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T. G. Heine
Hen- Ba Butte
The Policeman Who Built A Brick House Brick By Brick
A policeman quietly saved bricks from streets and rail yards to construct a home for his family. Day by day he gathered 2 to 12 bricks, turning a circulating joke into a real brick house built one brick at a time.
A Quiet Man Outsmarts a Boastful Guest
A country house tale recalls a boastful guest named Mr. Bumpsher who tries to boss conversations. A quiet man bets sixpence his will is stronger and proves it by forcing Bumpsher from a corner without a second command. Laughter redounds as Bumpsher yields and avoids the quiet man thereafter.
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Twndon
Mr. Bumpsher
Willy Nilly
Bumpsher
Parrot Sings for Help on Chicago Elevated Train
A green parrot terrified passengers on a Metropolitan elevated train near Halsted station. Guards and riders searched for a human owner as the bird cried for help. The parrot was found under a rear seat and later turned over to the last article department. a woman claimed she forgot the bird at Halsted station.
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Logan Square
Metropolitan Elevated Road
Halsted Street
Marshfield Avenue
Peculiarities of Bugtish From Pearson's Weekly
A ragged school lesson on homographs and homophones describes lead as metal and lead as a verb. Five year old Jerry uses week in a sentence and then a week old baby. The anecdote highlights language quirks and classroom humor.
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Pearson's Weekly
Jerry
Hat that promises hair from vapor secret in crown
A Massachusetts inventor touts a derby style hat with a hidden metal receptacle in the crown. A chemical soaked pad releases vapor when worn, claimed to stimulate new hair growth on bald scalps.
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New York Tribune
Massachusetts
The French Conscription System and the 20th Year Draft
The article explains compulsory military service in France from birth registration to the 20th birthday. It covers the mairie declaration of sex, the drawing of numbers, the revision council, medical fitness, and the one year dispensation for certain trades, with details on the fe uille de route and transport.
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Medecin de Letat Civil
Mairie
Marine Infantry
France
Councils of Revision
Council of Revision
Paris
This Is Who the Man About Town Lives on the Fat of the Land
A New Orleans Times-Democrat piece sketches a well connected man who eats at upscale restaurants and uses clever tricks to get fresher fare. He questions a waiter's fish, orders half Julien potatoes, and tests crab freshness with a live specimen.
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New Orleans Times-Democras
Jeff
Minneapolis Girl Weds in Sacramento by Mistake
Miss Lora FF Marsh of Minneapolis married Los Angeles resident RB Johnson in Sacramento California after her wedding dress was misrouted from Minneapolis. She wore travel attire, received an engagement ring on return trip, and planned to wed in San Francisco but altered plans due to Johnson’s business duties.
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Minneapolis
Lora
FF. Marsh
San Francisco
Johnson
Los Angeles
Sacramento
Cal
Mareh
California
Mr. Johnson
Mr Johnson
Bast
Miss Marsh
R. J. Johnson
Comic exchange from Lustige Blaetter about marriage humor
In a humorous fragment from Lustige Blaetter a father jokes with his son about a suitable wife. The dialogue lists traits from beauty and musical talent to wealth, ending with the punchline that marrying the son would drive the girl to madness, which the father oddly approves.
Pather Now Fred and Harry Debate Saving Daring Week
A father asks sons Fred and Harry to invest $1 in a week. Fred says he doubled his money. Harry says he lost his, having traded with Fred and seen Fred win.
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Pearson's Weekly
Pather
Fred
Harry
Father
San Francisco suit over hug damages seeks five thousand
Mrs. Hirt sues John Holdersbach in San Francisco alleging he hugged her during a visit, breaking one rib and causing damages totaling five thousand dollars. The complaint states she was alone when Holdersbach called and chatted with her guest, an old friend, before the injury occurred.
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Clenrly
John Holdersbach
San Francisco
Mrs. Hirt
Holdersbach
Sud
Tea and Coffee Prospects in Anam and Madagascar
United States Consul John Covert at Lyons reports rising tea exports from Anam to France, with 1898 imports at 42 262 pounds and total French tea demand surging from 1 147 655 pounds in 1892 to about 1 884 832 pounds in 1898. He notes Anam tea rivaling Chinese quality and expanding colonial farmers, plus Madagascar coffee potential and a 1904 forecast of 1 573 000 pounds for coffee.
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State Department
United States
John Covert
Lyons
Anam
Madagascar
France
China
Ceylon
Paper City of Netley Houses Wounded Soldiers
A paper hospital at Netley near London uses papier mache to create 45 convalescent huts behind the main hospital. Each 46 foot long hut holds 10 beds with spring mattresses and space for a kit and a mess table, forming a fragile paper city for recovering troops from South Africa.
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South Africa
Great Britain
London
Netley
Netley Hospital
Golf Dilemma in Detroit Free Press Note
A humorous diary style line from a Detroit Free Press page shows a speaker debating golf versus lounging on a hotel plaza with a companion. The quip plays on the ambiguity of social leisure in a relaxed urban setting.
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Butte News
Butte Baseball Crazy
Boston
Dazed
Simon Bank Jeweler
N. Main St
Butte, Mont
War Office
Trousseau
Lustige Blaetter
Taffeta
Torchon Lace
Valenciennes Lace
Prain
Japan
Foglish
Detroit Free Press
Piagza
Courtney’s Cash Grocery
FE. Park, Butte
Hall
Snake River
Erate
Ies
Teringeton Swend Carlson
Gant
Tom Moore
Anaconda Copper Mining Co
Lumber Department
Ole
Mili
Hamilton, Mont
Otice
Arizona
Birch
Anacogda
BIG Blackfoot Milling Company
Bosner
Mont
Missoula
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