Butte prepares for Harding arrival as plans near completion
As Harding visits approach in two days, Mayor Horgan announces final arrangements in Butte. The reception line, souvenir, programs, committees, and grandstand are set, with only decorations remaining. The party will include Dr. Hubert Work and many top officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harding
Butte
Horgan
Dillon
Hubert Work
Work
Charles E. Sawyer
Sawyer
George B. Christian
Christian
Adolphus Adrews
O. M. Baldiner
Joel
Telephone Girls Go Out On Strike in New England
The Associated Press reports that telephone operators across New England except Connecticut walked off the job for shorter hours and higher wages. Rival unions kept some workers at their desks while major cities saw the strongest action. Excluding Connecticut, 12,535 operators are employed, with 6,100 in the Greater Boston area. 7,799 ballots were cast in the strike vote, 6,466 in favor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Boston
New England
Connecticut
Young Girl Shot During Harding Parade in Ogden Utah
A 13 year old girl, Siron Mousigin, was shot twice in a Ogden hotel room as President Harding’s party paraded by. Her father Madoras Mousigin and sister Nvart were detained as authorities investigate competing claims of who fired the shots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Ogden
Utah
Tolay
Harding
Siron Mousigin
Madoras Mousigin
Nvart
Mousigin
Butte School Board Sets Next Year Budget and Shuts Jefferson
The Butte district 1 trustees approved 1 130 845 86 in total appropriations for next year, including 910 000 for grade schools 145 845 86 for Butte high and 50 000 sinking fund plus 25 000 text book fund up 20 000. They abandoned the Jefferson school due to long standing unsafe conditions and will rehouse students in other buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte High School
A. H. Douglass
Jefferson School
Jefferson
Eagles Open State Meet at Lewistown
About 200 members of the Eagles arrive in Lewistown Montana for the state convention. State officers led by William Mulley of Butte and W F Zitz of Helena are present. A large reception was held at the junior high auditorium with remarks by E D Weed and Carey Smith. More delegates arrive on tomorrow’s trains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Lewistown
Mont
William Mulley
Butte
W. F. Zitz
Helena
E. D. Weed
Oshkosh, Wis
Carey Smith
Spokane
Wash
Eastern Shopmen Get Wage Increase
The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad will raise shopmen wages by two cents an hour starting July 1. First class mechanics move from 80 to 82 cents. Grade B workers rise to 77 cents, Grade C to 74, Grade D to 72, and Grade E to 69 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Scranton
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Inmate Under Drug Proves Innocent of Murder
San Quentin June 26. Scopolamin experiments on three inmates led to John L. Farrar, jailed for a Sacramento Chinese murder, being declared innocent. Under the drug Farrar confessed daytime involvement, while other subjects provided consistent identity and crime details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
San Quentin
Cal
John L. Farrar
Sacramento
Eugene O'Leary
John L. Johnson
R. BE. House
Ferris
Texas
House
Farrar
Roy Carver
O’leary
War Department
Johnson
Argonne Forest
Harding speaks on taxation in Salt Lake City crowd
President Harding pledges tax relief while noting federal debt reduction as he addresses thousands at the Mormon tabernacle. He highlights a half billion annual debt payoff, the British-American settlement, and calls the effort a model for government efficiency amid rising local costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Salt Lake City
Utah
Mormon Tabernacle
Harding
Tabernacle
Assembly Hall
Temple Grounds
Maryland
Georgia
Mabey
Smoot
Gillett
Work
Wallace
Heber Grant
Mormon Church
Salt Lake
Great Britain
Mr. Harding
United States
Calcutta Orphanage Building Collapse Kills 39 Children
In Calcutta, a section of the Mohammedan orphanage collapsed during sleep, burying about 100 of 229 inmates aged 3 to 18. Thirty-nine were killed, 33 injured in hospital, 25 slightly hurt as the structure, recently given a second story, caved in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Calcutta
Bank Teller Sykes Captured After Yearlong U S Manhunt
John H Sykes 26 a former Elizabeth City bank teller sought for embezzling 25825 84 dollars from the Flees and Citizens National Bank of Elizabeth City was tracked to a remote Sun River canyon cabin 88 miles northwest of Great Falls He faced a federal indictment and a 1000 reward his loot about 10000 in his possession as authorities closed in on him after months of pursuit
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth City
N. C
United States
Sun River Canyon
Great Falls
R. C. Eberstein
Department of Justice
Butte
John H. Sykes
Sykes
North Carolina
Citizens National Bank
First
Failure of Power Delays Standard 15 Late Edition
Due to a power failure the Standard's composing room and other departments were incapacitated and the B A P railroad and hill works were paralyzed. The paper is late this morning and page count curtailed as the composing room could not set the usual copy in time. Plant operations were delayed about four hours overnight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard
British study Hughes proposal on booze ruling
London June 26. The British foreign office has received Secretary Hughes proposed extension of the liquor search zone to 12 miles and modifications to liquor enforcement affecting foreign steamers. Experts study the text alongside the US Supreme Court liquor decision while Britain weighs feasibility, aiming to balance American views with maritime law and policy. Strong belief persists that Britain will reject the 12 mile limit as before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
London
Hughes
British Foreign Office
United States Supreme Court
Foreign Office
Great Britain
Washington
Paris and Cedric Lose Excess Liquor to New York Customs
In New York on June 26, customs officers seized excess beer wine and liquor from the French liner Paris and the White Star liner Cedric under government seals. The Paris dumped 18 kegs of beer while nearly 4 000 bottles of wine were taken to warehouses. the Cedric yielded 7 391 bottles of beer 90 bottles of spirits and 37 assorted liquors. Dr E K Sprague opened a special office to issue medicinal liquor permits aboard foreign liners as six other vessels wait with excess liquor and several more expected this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Paris
Curran
E. K. Sprague
United States
Custom House
Customs seize liquor from Korea Maru liner in Honolulu
United States customs officers in Honolulu seized and removed 292 quarts of liquor from the Japanese liner Korea Maru. The ship was the first Japanese vessel to arrive since new rules on liquor aboard ships took effect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
United States
Steamer Altamaha Grounded in Gale Near Pensacola
The Mallory line steamer Altamaha bound from Tampa to Mobile with general cargo ran aground two and a half miles west of Pensacola quarantine station near Santa Rosa island. The engine room flooded, two crewmen reported landing at the quarantine station. A Tuesday dawn gale struck the vessel, which lost wireless contact and later grounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pensacola
Fla
Mallory Line
Altamaha
Tampa
Mobile
Pensacola Quarantine Station
Santa Rosa Island
Oklahoma Calls National Guard to Enforce Law
Governor J C Walton declares state of lawlessness and terror in Okmulgee County prompting deployment of the National Guard to restore order and curb unrest across the county and nearby areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
National Guard
Oklahoma governor imposes martial law in Okmulgee county
Governor Walton declares a state of lawlessness and terror in Okmulgee county and places it under martial law. National guard units are ordered out and will take charge tomorrow, with Brigadier General Alva Niles arriving to determine civil authority and deployment in Okmulgee Henryetta Beggs and Slick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Okla
J. C. Walton
Okmulgee County
Aldrich Blake
John Turnbull
Ivan Harris
Alva Niles
Tulsa
National Guard
Okmulgee
Niles
Henryetta
Beggs
Slick
Two Women Die in Storms Across Brooklyn and North Dakota
A brief violent wind storm in Brooklyn's Bushwick and East New York kills one woman and injures several others. In Adams County North Dakota Mrs. Frank Gotch dies from injuries after a tornado that occurred Sunday night, raising the storm death toll to seven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Bushwick
East New York
Brooklyn
Aberdeen
8. D
Frank Gotch
Adams County
North Dakota
Taniled by Wife's Father Charged with Burglary
C Skidmore a former convict linked to the disappearance of Mrs Ernest La Casse is arrested in Steamboat Springs Colorado under an alias. He fled Idaho and Utah with his wife from Oxford Idaho after a skeleton was found near Homestake. Authorities seek ties to La Casse case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Skidmore
Everal Penitentiaries of the
Salt Lake
Butte
Steamboat Springs
Idaho
Skidmore
Law
Oxford
Utah
Colorado
la Casse
Homestake
Woman Barrister Dorothy Brody Ends Life at Home
Chicago, June 26. Miss Dorothy Brody, 31, admitted to the bar three years ago, hanged herself at her father Abraham Brody's home. She had just returned from California where she worked as legal adviser for a motion picture firm. Ill health from overstudy was suspected by her father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Chicago
Dorothy Brody
Abraham Brody
Western Railways Win Grain Rate Increase Authorization
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized western railroads to raise freight rates on coarse grain by ten percent. The change affects corn and other cereal products from Mississippi valley points to the Rocky mountain and Pacific coast regions, while wheat rates remain unchanged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Rocky Mountain and
Pacific Coast States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mississippi Valley
Rocky mountain-Pacific Coast
Western
Commission
Rocky mountain-Pacific Coast Area
Also Mentioned on This Page
Butte Vht
Army
Navy
President's Party
Ogden Hotel
Tarding
NEW Member Claims Commission
Chandler P. Anderson
State Department
The
Hace
Teller
Hill
Pocatello
Western Rails
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!