Flag Day Observed in Butte with Patriotic Ceremony
Butte residents marked Flag Day with ceremonies at the Elks lodge and public buildings. The program featured speeches on the flag’s history, prayers, and musical tributes as hundreds joined in singing The Star Spangled Banner. The event reflected a renewed city spirit after recent troubles.
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Butte
Butte Lodge
United States
Joseph L. Wolfe
Chaplan
P.E. Geagan
William Dee
Joseph R. Jackson
Mae
W. W. Walsworth
Russian Advance Pushes Toward Czernowitz Front
Russian war office reports an 20 mile advance toward Czernowitz after crossing the Dniester. Horodenka and Zale Szczyky taken, Sniatyn captured 20 miles from Bukowina capital. Across Galicia to Bukowina no halt in the offensive as Austro German forces retreat. 1,780 officers and 320,000 men, 130 guns, 260 machine guns seized. Berlin claims German lines repulsed with heavy losses. Verdun bombardments continue with few infantry attacks. Italians repulse Austrian attacks on Potina front. Austrians shell Italian positions. German auxiliary cruiser Hersmann sunk southeast of Stockholm. 12 merchant ships sunk. Lloyd George expected as British war secretary substitute for Kitchener. Austro-Hungarian submarine reportedly sinks Italian cruiser Principe Umberto with troops aboard.
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Associated Press
Czernowitz
Dneister
Horodenka
Zale Szczyky
Prath
Sniatyn
Bukowina
Pripet River
Russia
Galicia
Russian War Office
Verdun
Thiamont Farm
Canada
Zillebeke
Belgium
Teutons
Berlin
Sayville
Vienna
British In Persia Enter Kerman to Maintain Order
A Reuters dispatch from Teheran reports General Sykes leading a British column into Kerman, the main town in Southeastern Persia. The move aims to maintain order in the British sphere amid minor disturbances blamed on German and Turkish emissaries.
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London
Reuter
Teheran
Sykes
Kerman
Persia
Mail Bar Girl’s Coming British Open
In 1914 a Butte mother blocked her daughter’s return to the United States explaining British wartime policy. A letter from County Cork showed hopes German forces would win Verdun and Allies be defeated. British censors opened mail and passport seizure curbed the young woman’s travel. A brother of similar age faces travel hurdles. The piece notes a spike in US paper output to over 204 million dollars.
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County Cork
Ireland
Verdun
Con
Jors
Butte
Connors
United States
England
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Palm Beach
Hale
Rome
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Hildren
Homen's
Suk Hove Tong
Phoenix
McCall Patterns
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B.C
Uroche
Champagns
Pecesores Dos
Tichelien
UNION
Merode
Carter
The
Teanstairs
ELKS
Walsworth
Continental ‘Congress
Hylaeas
ArStrican
Hag
Helen ‘Tallon
Hestra
Amerty
Barano- Licht
Potina
Schio
Hersmann
Balti
Stockholm
Daytroyers
Sweden
Denmark
David Lloyd George
Earl Kitchener
Mr. Lloyd George
Ze Rose
Rinsing Umberty
Ensors
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