Miners Overrun Power Station in New Waterford Clash
In a Cape Breton strike, about 2,000 miners confronted 24 company police at the New Waterford power plant. Gunfire injured several. William Davis was killed, and the station fell to the miners in 16 minutes. The dispute centers on a 10 percent wage cut and working-condition concessions.
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British Empire Steel Corporation
H. J. McCann
Ee Corporation
Offi
New
Waterford
William Davis
Gilbert Watson
United Mine Workers of America
Baseball Park
MacNeil
United Mine Workers Board
New Waterford
Cape Briton
Senator Smoot Favors Tax Policy and Tariff Stability
Senator Smoot argued taxation should focus on income taxes while abolishing federal inheritance taxes, leaving the states to collect inheritance. He predicted no tariff revision next session and urged avoiding rate changes, noting presidential power to adjust rates by up to 60 percent and deeming current tariff stability lasting.
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Smoot
Charles F Wold Accident Victim From Butte Miner Death
Charles F Wold a prominent Butte resident died in a local mine accident. Born Melrose Montana April 22 1895 he was a World War I veteran and sergeant at a French powder depot. He leaves a brother a sister four uncles and two lodge affiliations. Funeral at Melrose Presbyterian church Sunday at 2.00 under the lodges.
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Charles F. Wold
Butte
Montana
Melrose
John H. Wold
Rocker
John Igrey
Joseph Longley
Rose
Jay Longley
Alaska
Ideya Longley
Arizona
American perfumes shipped abroad in three months near two million
About 1.9 million dollars worth of American made perfumes and toilet articles were sent to foreign countries in the last three months. The shipments underscore strong export activity for consumer goods from domestic manufacturers.
No Gas No Funds Expedition Halted By Police
Two underage youths from Wallace were arrested at the Northern Pacific station after selling their car for a dollar to a California Street resident and planning to continue to Salt Lake on a Short Line train. Age details place the elder at 16 with a younger companion.
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Calpin
van Orden
Northern Pacific
California Street
Salt Lake
Wallace
South Butte
Butte
Poli
Pete McDonald
Chinese Fire on American Gunboat Sparks Shanghai Tension
Reported clashes near Canton Led United States Marines to land on Honam Island to protect property as Chang Tso Lin orders about 1000 troops toward Shanghai to extend his control. No injuries or international fallout expected.
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Shanghai
United States
Honam
Canton
Pampanga
Panton Christian College
Chang Tso-Lin
Nanking
Chang
British Attack at Hankow Riot Fails to Stop Assault
Six Chinese were killed and many wounded as rioters attacked the British concession at Hankow. Volunteers mobilized and held the line after three hours without arrests. Sailors from foreign gunboats aided the volunteers as later coolies mounted another mass assault. A prior dispatch said eight rioters were killed and many wounded by machine gun fire at the British volunteer armory.
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Hankow
Butterfield
Swire
Seattle Prosecutor Frowns On Bourquin Prosecutions
United States District Attorney Thomas P. Revelle said he will defer lingering narcotics cases from Seattle before Judge Bourquin, noting the judge’s known stance against liquor and narcotics enforcement. Revelle avoids criticism and newspaper sensationalism while citing deference to Bourquin.
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Associated Press
Seattle
Bourquin
Court of Montana
United States
Thomas P. Revelle
Bourguin
Reveille
Gentroreran
Shearers to Be Heard in Concert in Butte Tonight
Mr and Mrs J H Shearer present a unique program at First Baptist Church in Butte tonight at 8 with talks and music. The Scottish organist and Canadian soprano have drawn large crowds including 16 000 at Los Angeles and will perform works by Bizet Couperin Rachmaninoff and others along with numbered talks ahead of selections.
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Shearers
Butte
J. H. Shearer
First Baptist Church
Mr. Shearer
Mrs. Shearer
Los Angeles
Graduates Receive Diplomas in Catholic School Program
Graduates from Immaculate Conception and St Johns St Lawrence schools receive diplomas in a ceremony highlighted by performances from students and a sermon by Bishop McGrath praising the Oregon school bill fight. The address urged graduates to pursue happiness through character and hard work, with lists of diploma recipients for girls and boys.
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Letes
Immaculate Conception School
St. John
St. Lawrence’s
Kerry
St. Joseph’s School
Roses
Picardy
Bishop Carroll
Bishop McGrath
Oregon
Supreme Court
McGrath
Helena
United States Supreme Court
Jefferson
Scandinavians Select Butte for Convention
Gust Nelson of Couer Alene Maho was re elected president and Butte Mont selected for the 1927 convention during closing sessions of District No 7 of the Scandinavian Fraternity of America convention. The convention lasted three days. George Erickson and Burman Nelson of Butte were named delegates to the supreme national convention at Detroit in September.
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Associated Press
Seattle
Gust Nelson
Couer
Crop indications are best in years
R G Dunn and company report 17 failures in Montana in May compared with 11 a year ago. Failures include two small country banks and two lumber companies. Moisture is ample, the state soaked recently, spring plowing ahead of last year, with prospects for a 1825 crop to outpace any year since.
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R. G. Dunn and Company
Montana
French Peasant Revives Bar Ren Trees With Air Sun
Justin Christfioreau uses earth magnetism and atmospheric electricity to rejuvenate bar ren trees and cultivate previously unseen crops, reshaping local farming practices.
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Justin Christfioreau
Father Barry of Butte 25th Jubilee Celebrated
The article honors Father Barry of Butte on his silver jubilee after 25 years in the priesthood. It notes his work establishing Immaculate Conception parish facilities, including a school, church, rectory, and sisters' home, with praise from Bishop Carroll and other clergy. It highlights extensive Irish influence, religious education, and praise for Barry's generosity and leadership.
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Norbert C. Hoff
Mount St. Charles College of
Helena
Northwest
Hoff
Christ
Father Barry
Mount St. Charles
College
Diocese
D. P. Meade
St. Patrick's College
Diocese of
Cashel
Ireland
Barry
M. M. English
Montana
Tipperary
Father Meade
Father English
Butte
Father Eng
Immaculate Conception Church
Father McCormack
Ihs
Immaculate Conception
Father Ryan
Tex Bagley Led Officers To Murder Scene In Canyon
William Tex Bagley, 53, led police to the shack where Frank Melvin was killed near Dawson and Durant. He later showed a basement site at 809 South Wyoming where he claimed he won Melvin’s revolver and watch in a card game for “about $35.” Bagley remains jailed as officers confirm Melvin’s gun and watch were in his possession.
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William “Tex” Bagley
Frank Melvin
Dawson
Durant
Bagley
Melvin
Wyoming Street
Murphy
Jack Duggan
Melvin’s
Dawson Canyon
May
Duggan
Mel
Butte
West Granite Street
T. J. Johnson
North Main Street
Ramsey
Tourists Complain Of Cold Weather Delays In High Montana Pass
Tourists at Butte and the Continental Divide express disapproval of snow and chill as tough driving over mountain trails slows eastbound travelers. A near-miss accident near Cabin Creek prompts warnings to drivers about equipment, chains and familiarity with mountain roads. Named visitors include F. M. Olyneaux Allen Okla and Mrs. W. H. Norman Seattle among others, with quirky camp register spellings like Cord 4 Alone and Sand Walkin Cal.
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Butte
Highlands
Spokane
Cabin Creek
Park
F. M. Olyneaux
Allen
Okla
W. H. Norman
Seattle
W. A. Hood
San Diego
H. W. Nieman
Milwaukee
W. Hedberg
J. H. Siltman
Yakima
Wash
Anton Strack
Beach
N. D
Sand Walkin
Cal
Gonzaga Graduates Engineer Edo Jovick Returns
Edward Edo Jovick, a Central class of 1924 graduate, returned last evening from Gonzaga University where he completed his first year in the engineering department as a freshman.
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Gonzaga
Edward
Edo” Jovick
Gonzaga University
Altar Service Details Highlight Ceremonial Beauty
Father Barry presided with Rev. M. J. Hannan and Rev. John Collopy assisting as deacon and sub-deacon during a Mass attended by Bishop Carroll and Bishop McGrath. Altar boys named include Kenneth Pratt James Prendergast Neil Murphy Ray Murphy Bob Corette Florence Carmody William McGowan Edward Bonner Walter Delaney and many others.
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Father Barry
M. J. Hannan
John Collopy
J. F. Schulte
John J. O’kennedy
John O'Malley
Bishop Carroll
John O'Shea
T. J. McCormack
Bishop McGrath
Kenneth Pratt
James Prendergast
Neil Murphy
Ray Murphy
Bob Corette
Florence Carmody
William McGowan
Edward Bonner
Walter Delaney
Walter Cambo
Gerald Healy
Vincent McCarthy
Robert Prendergast
George Lane
Emmett McCarthy
John Freund
John Scott
Bob Thomas
John Franey
Thomas Reiley
Billy Gill
Frank Mitchell
Thomas Duff
Ray Harris
Harry Henderson
John Monahan
Andrew Murray
Michael Reiley
Joseph Crowley
Frank Duff
Bob Mesener
Bartley Casey
James Mitchell
John Lively
Byron Seanery
Jack Sullivan
Paulie
J. D. Flynn
Dan Kelly
Jack O’brien
Driscoll
Jardine to Receive Western Welcome in Wisdom
Secretary of Agriculture Jardine plans a grand western welcome in Wisdom Montana on June 28 after arriving in Butte on June 27. Beverages, fried trout, barbecue steaks, and sourdough fare will be served free, with cowboy races and open-air dancing. Senator Hazelbak er joins from Dillon.
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Dillon
Wisdom
Secretary of Agriculture
Jardine
Montana
Big Hole
Butte
Frank Hazelbaker
Big Hole Basin
Beaverhead
Beaverhead Sportsmen’s Association
Hubert Work
Beaverhead County
Ex Montana Cowboy Given 20th Reprieve From Death Sentence
Walter R. Simmons a former Montana deputy sheriff on Nebraska’s death row for the 1922 killing of Frank Pahl of Spencer has received his 20th reprieve from execution. Gov. Adam McMullen extended the date to July 9 while his attorneys pursue innocence claims. Simmons once faced mob violence in Spencer after his conviction.
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Associated Press
Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Walter R. Simmons
Montana
Frank Pabl
Spencer
Nebraska Supreme Court
Simmons
Adam McMullen
Nebraska State Penitentiary
Pah
Pahl
Norfolk
Ballantine, Mont
Carrolls Visit Sons In Omaha
Mr and Mrs Andrew Carroll of 1028 California avenue will travel to Omaha Nebraska to visit sons Dr Ray Carroll practicing near Omaha and Dr Anthony Carroll finishing internship at St Josephs hospital Omaha and to begin practice at Bonestee & Co next month Another son John serves on a San Francisco hospital staff The couple longtime Butte residents since arriving from Denver forty years ago and Mr Carroll has worked over twenty years at the Anaconda company offices in the Hennessy building.
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Andrew Carroll
California Avenue
Omaha
Neb
Ray Carroll
Anthony Carroll
Ray
Laurel
Anthony
St. Joseph's Hospital
Bonestee, & C
John
San Francisco
Carroll
Denver
Ofices
Anaconda Company
Hennessy
Brother Asmar found guilty of manslaughter in boy’s boiling death
Rene Francois De Vleeschouwer known as Brother Asmar of the Suberdeau orphanage was found guilty of manslaughter for the death of 8 year old Hector Galarneau who died after immersion in a tub of boiling water on January 21. He faces sentencing later. Asmar claimed the scalding happened while changing the boy’s clothes.
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Montreal
Rene Francois de Vleeschouwer
Brother Asmar
Suberdeau
Hector Galarneau
Asmar
Hector
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Rachmaninoff
Martin Peropic
Guilmant
Nesbit
Flora MacDonald
Central
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Earth
Helen Alice Brennan
Cecelia Burke
Agnes Mary, Crowley
Helen M. Downs
Denise Margaret Driscoll
Julietha Lovell Ellerson
Elizabeth Bertha Fahle
Mary Agnes Ferry
Alice Helen, Gelhaus
Marie Leonille Harrington
Marie V. Harrington
Margaret Mary Hoare
Eileen Marie Holland
Mary Phyllis Hull
Catherine V. Lowney
Catherine Eileen Lynch
Eva Irene Lynch
Helen Waltrude Lynch
Nora Lorraine McBride
Eileen Marie McCarthy
Josephine
John P. Regan
Robert Joseph Satterwaite
John F. Sheehan
Vincent Dominic Smith
Dean P. Sullivan
Neal Walker
John Thadeus Whalen
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Germany
France
England
Belgium
Purn
Father M. McCormack
J. F. McGrath
Baker City
Ore
Monsignor Day
Vo. G
N. C. Hoff
John J. O'Kennedy
Michael McCormack
J. O'Malley
M. J. Leonard
Martin Burke
Philipsburg
A. J. Harrington
Missoula
J. F. Shulte
Anaconda
A. Kriesback
Carrolls
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