Butte News Notes and Local Births
Rent planes from Orton Bros. If it is for a Dodge Brothers car we have it. Born March 23 to Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Morgan 1963 Roberts avenue a son. Born March 24 to Mr. and Mrs. John H. Orchard 132 West Woolman street a daughter. Missionary Social union of Mountain View Methodist church to hold semi annual meeting this evening at 8 o'clock. Post office announces Anna L. Finnegan appointed postmistress at Collins Mont succeeding C. G. Moulton who resigned. Mrs. Jane B. Ellis recovering from operation at Murray hospital home at 222 South Jackson street.
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Orton Bros
Dodge Brothers
Silver Bow Motor Car Co
Patrick Morgan
Roberts Avenue
John H. Orchard
West Woolman Street
Missionary Social Union of
Mountain View Methodist Church
Popular Science
Motion Picture
True Story
Controversy in Navy Probe Deepens Over War Plans
Washington reports that Capt Harris Laning testified that the navy lacked a coherent war plan and faced chaos. Senator Trammell pressed Laning on a 1918 letter to Admiral Sims suggesting some of Sims recommendations would have been disastrous. Laning argued the letter referred to a later period than Sims’ charges.
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Washington
Harris Laning
Senate
Trammell
Florida
Sims
Bureau of Operations
Laning
Admiral Sims
Martens Files $1 Million Libel Suit in New York
Ludwig A K Martens self-styled ambassador of the Russian Soviet government filed a one million dollar libel suit in New York against the Review of Reviews company editor Albert Shaw and author Arthur Wallace Dunn. Dunn's book The Reds in America is connected to the suit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ludwig Co
A. K. Martens
Supreme Court
Review of Reviews Company
Albert Shaw
Arthur Wallace Dunn
America
Armistice Arranged in Westphalia for 48 Hours
The Han delsblad's Bielefeld correspondent reports a 48 hours armistice arranged in Westphalia to run unless a 24 hours notice ends it.
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The
Hague
the Handelsblad
Bielefeld
Westphalia
Butte Marine Honored by France With Croix de Guerre
Corporal Francis H. McCormick of Butte receives the Croix de Guerre for leading a patrol that destroyed three German machine gun nests during the Champagne offensive on October 3, 1918. He enlisted in 1917, spent 18 months in France, and served with Company Fifty five, Second Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment. The award will be presented May 6 with the Roving Marines in Butte. He now runs cab service at the Leggat hotel.
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France
Butte
Corp
Francis H. McCormick
United States Marine Corps
Champagne
McCormick
Fifth Marine Regiment
Charles D. Bayliss
Marine Corps
United States
Leggat Hotel
Red Troops Drive General From Munster
Maasbode dispatch via London Times says General Van Watter is retreated from Munster behind the Lippe River facing superior Red troops.
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London
Maasbode
Rotterdam
London Times
van Watter
Munster
Lippe
Snell Wins Internal Support Over Moyer in Union Vote
The Butte Stationary Engineers union elected James Snell of Butte as international president with 180 votes to 4 for incumbent Charles H. Moyer. Ernest Mills was named secretary-treasurer. Borsen of Great Falls and McKenzie, audit figures from the former miners union, were nominated as organizers in Arizona.
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Butte Stationary Engineers’ Union
International
James Snell
Butte
Charles H. Moyer
Ernest Mills
Bordsen
Great Falls
McKenzie
Miners’ Union of
Arizona
City council debates bill to eliminate married women from appointive roles
In Butte the city council discussed Alderman McKeon’s ordinance to bar married women with able bodied husbands from city appointive posts. The session also covers paving repairs on Main Street, two new improvement districts, a concrete overlay, and a 38 lamp lighting plan costing about 42,744 dollars. A new dog licensing ordinance, set with fees from five to fifteen dollars and fines up to one hundred, was referred to the judiciary committee.
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McKeon
Judiciary Committee
Clinton
Public Works
Strasburger
Butte
Galena
Galena Street
Ohio
Oklahoma
Stodden
Warning Threat Targets Queenstown Official
A typewritten warning warns the chairman of the district council he will be assassinated if any Queenstown policemen are shot. The surface note cites no perpetrator and offers no motive beyond the threat. Police and officials brace for potential danger.
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Queenstown
France to honor women in politics urged by French publicist
Jean Finot argues in Le Monde Nouveau that peace conference failures stem from excluding women. He cites democratic nations granting female rights and urges France to lead by enfranchising women, noting improved social hygiene and a 60 percent drop in infant mortality in New Zealand after suffrage.
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Paris
Jean Finot
le Monde Nouveau
League of Nations
France
Norway
Denmark
Sweden
United States
Australia
New Zealand
England
Belgium
Germany
Russia
Austria
Denunciation of Cork Lord Mayor Murder by Irish Freedom Unit
At a Thomas Ashe branch meeting in Butte Montana, Friends of Irish Freedom passed resolutions denouncing the assassination of Cork lord mayor Thomas MacCurtin. The document appeals to U S Senators and Congressmen to recognize an independent Ireland and denounces British forces and Lloyd George. Resolutions are signed by church leaders and committee members.
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Thomas Ashe
Friends of Irish Freedom
North Main Street
Cork
Ireland
Standard
Thomas MacCurtin
Sinn Fein
Lloyd George
England
Butte, Mont
Thomas MacCurtain
Erin
Senate
Congress
United States
Republic of Ireland
Walsh and Myers
Evans and Riddick
M. J. Hannan
J. C. Meehan
Patrick Meaney
Mary Kennedy
Mary Henry
Senate panel urges arms aid to Armenia army
A Senate sub committee advising the U S government to supply Armenia with enough arms and ammunition to equip a stable Armenian army issued its findings today after a thorough Near East survey.
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Washington
United States
Republic of Armenia
Senate
Near East
Hoover conference to be held in Chicago within 10 days
A national conference of state and local Hoover organizations will meet in Chicago within ten days. John F. Lucey, temporary chairman of the Hoover National Republican club, announced the event at Hoover Conference in New York.
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New York
Hoover Organizations
Chicago
John F. Lucey
Hoover National Republican Club
Crane announces voyage to China as ambassador sails April
Washington March 24 Charles R Crane the new ambassador to China said he would sail from San Francisco on April 29.
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China
Washington
Charles R. Crane
San Francisco
Divorce Reform Bill Clears Second Reading in Lords
London March 24 The house of Lords approved the divorce reform bill by 93 to 45 after second reading. It follows a royal commission report and would extend grounds for divorce to desertion for three years habitual drunkenness and cases where a death sentence has been commuted to life imprisonment.
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London
House of Lords
Aaron Buckmaster
Royal Commission
Walsh questions election return in Seventh ward dispute
Democratic candidate William Walsh challenged the Seventh ward primary results arguing miscount in precinct B where 335 votes were cast and 319 tabulated. The council adopted the judges report while Walsh prepared court action to recount before official ballots printing.
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William Walsh
Walsh
Seventh Ward
Winslow
Wilkinson
Fitzgerald
Austin
Albert Wilkinson
Jeremiah T. Fitzgerald
Clinton
Saari Rites Planned After Death at Sherman & Reed
The remains of Hannes Saari lie at Sherman & Reed parlors. Funeral arrangements will be announced.
Funeral for Antone Smith Held at Richards Chapel
The funeral for Antone Smith is set for Friday at 2 PM at Richards' chapel with Rev. Co. F. Chapman officiating. Interment will follow at Mount Moriah cemetery.
Funeral plans for John Young announced
The remains of John Young who died March 22 are at Daniels and Bilboa parlors. An obituary notice will be published in later papers.
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Forcella
John Forcella
San Rafael
Cal
Butte
Young
John Young
Daniels & Bilboa
Conserving Health with Sulpherb Tablets
Present day watchwords are conserving health and economy in treatment. Sulpherb Tablets combine sulphur, cream of tartar and herb extracts in a sugar-coated form to restore stomach liver kidneys and blood, available in sealed tubes from druggists. Mrs J J Devlin of New York endorses the tablets.
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J. J. Devlin
New York City
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Martens Again
Everybody’s Grocery
North Main
Dan M’carthy, Prop
Horlick
Instar
Stlll
SNELL
Moyer
West Park
Old Reliable Jewelers
ED Rose
Main St
Park St
MacCurtain
HELP
Armenia
M’carthy
Bryant &C
Lyon
White House
Éantages
John J. M’carthy
Calkins Company
B. E. Calkins CO
BLISS
G. L. Keitz
Nace
A. O. Bliss
Alonzo O., Bliss
A. O. Bliss CO
Washington, D
Undertakers
Gayen Ai
Sherman & Reed
Broadway
Arizona St
Amelia Piper
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church Choir
Thomas Abbarrett
J. H. Wilkinson
Joseph Richards
Warrington Richards
George T. Wade
South
Montana Street
M. J. Walsh CO
West Park Street
East Park St
Reed Pullman
Brownfield
McCarthy’s Sanitary Grocery & Meat
East Broadway
Occident
Swift
Idaho
Yellowstone
McCarthy's Sanitary
Harper
Hinkle
James M. Hinkle
South Main Street
Masonic Temple
Silver Bow Lodge
A. KF
A. M
Enterprise Lodge
Daly Shea Company
E. Park St
Sam R. White
Larry Duggan
Gore deBui
N. Chuios
East Park Street
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