Gallatin County Wins State Debate Championship Again
May 12 Missoula. Gallatin county high school claims its third straight state interscholastic debate title. Captain Llewellyn Luce earns best debater honors for the winning team while Custer county high school fields a rival. The motion urged immediate steps toward Philippine independence with U S guarantees for a decade. The event opens the eleventh annual interscholastic meet hosted by the University of Montana.
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Missoula
Montana
Gallatin County High School
Llewellyn Luce
Custer County High
Philippines
United States
Gallatin County
James Stotesbury
Lee Park
Liew
Gliva Luce
Custer
Gertrude
University of Montana
University of Missoula
State School of Mines
Butte
State Agricultural College of Bozeman
Annual Triangular Games Open Intercollegiate Meet
Missoula May 12 The annual triangular games among the university agricultural college and school of mines open at Montana field tomorrow afternoon. Since 1910 the university has been beaten only once. The meet totals show varsity 258 Aggies 210 miners 36. Web Jones cannot run due to injury. Ed Craighead and Pete Ronan also hurt but will compete. Aggies debut Jolley Gatton Street, Gallatin county champs, miners' dark horses led by Sheedy.
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Missoula
University
Agricultural College
School of Mines
Montana Fleld
Varsity
Aggies
Miners
Montana
Web” Jones
Ed Craighead
Pete Ronan
Craighead
Ronan
Jolley
Gatton
Street
Gallatin County
Annual Entertainment in St Lawrence Parish
The St Lawrence Parochial school pupils will present a year end entertainment in the school hall this evening featuring a playlet, a three act operetta The Toy Shop and a musical program. Leading roles include Pierce Carney as Puck and Irene Kelly as Rag Doll with Jacks in the Box by Joseph Farthing and Hugh O Keefe. A boys chorus will sing and Erin's Wisdom portrays home rule in Ireland.
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St. Lawrence Parochial School
Father Batens
Pierce ‘Carney
Puck
King of the Fairies
Irene Kelly
Rag Doll
Joseph Farthing
Hugh O'Keefe
Jacks
Erin's Wisdom
Ireland
Shriner Parade Lights Atlanta Night Pageant
About 20,000 Shriners from temples across the United States marched through Atlanta in oriental costumes for the annual night pageant. The imperial council of the fraternity began its meeting tonight, with officials forecasting further developments from the convention.
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Atlanta
Mystrcc
Imperial ‘Council
Imperial Council
Harvard to endow Hill professorship in railroading
In Cambridge Massachusetts May 12 a professorship of railroading for Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration was announced nearly funded. The Hill chair honors James J Hill with $125000 needed and $100000 pledged toward the goal plus plans for a further $250000 endowment for railroading instruction. Howard Elliott Robert Bacon and Thomas W Lamont spearheaded the plan.
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Camphage
Mass
Graduate School of Business Administration
Harvard University
James J. Hil
Hill
Howard Elliott
New York, New Haven
Hartford
Robert Bacon
France
Thomas W. Lamont
New York
Protest Against War and Duncan Board Resolutions
The national committee of the Socialist Party adopted resolutions in Chicago on May 12 protesting war with Mexico and calling for reimbursement of damages claimed at Seattle by U.S. sailors. The report cites Victor Berger, former Milwaukee congressman, narrowly missing defeat in a related race.
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Chicago
Mexico
National Committee of the
Socialist Party
Seattle
Wash
United States
Victor AL
Berger
Milwaukee
Rmance
Stes RN
Rane
Sears Hs
Double murder and arson in Kreger family home
Coroner reports in Pearl River district that Mrs Kreger strangled her one year old daughter then set fire to the Kreger home, killing four and injuring in a related fire department incident. The case centers on a Cleveland household tragedy with a separate rail accident injuring forty women returning from an event.
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Edward Kreger
Pearl
McDougal Torpedo Boat Destroyer Sets Speed Record
Rockland Maine May 12 The torpedo boat destroyer McDougal broke all speed records for her class during Standardization trials today She reached 127 knots an hour on her first run and the average of five full speed runs was 1156 knots.
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Rockland
McDougal
Montana Nears Boston Battleship Returns From Vera Cruz
The battleship bearing the bodies of three New England men who fell at Vera Cruz is expected to arrive tomorrow in Boston. The crew embarks on a solemn return as memorial rites are prepared.
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New England
Veracruz
Real Estate Transfers From Butte and Nearby Areas
Real estate transfer notices list Butte area properties including Lot 20 and Half Lot 19 Block 21 Gallatin addition and multiple transfers among Abigail Harrington Catherine O Grady Charles Patterson Annie Schneider Celso Fath D R Roach Mabel F Potter Wright Sample Selah Dyas with prices 1 dollar and references to placer claims and additions in Clark Chunk and Hornet additions.
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Peter “Peterson
Horth
Gallatin
D‘ Aition
Abigail’ Harrington
Catherine O'Grady
Hornet Additon
Charles H. Patterson
Annie Schneider
Donald Clode
United States
Celso Fathlot
Range
Lyman F. Boyce
D. R. Roach
D.R. Roach
Mabel F Potter
Dorlon Fine
Fawin A. Lawto
Wright
Clark
Selah Kk. Dyas
Chunk
Feats of Men at Arms Astonish King’s Guard
Yorkshire Evening Post reports Corporal Major Grainger among second life guards performers at the King’s visit. He wins best man of arms in dismounted display with feats such as slicing a broom handle without cutting paper, juggling wood props, and slicing through suspended objects with a sword while an apple held by a trooper remains intact.
Farly Tudor Carvings Unearthed At Red Lion Hotel
In Colchester England during repairs to an unused dining room ancient Tudor relics were found. The oak carved panels ran along the front of the building with carved Gothic joins and decorative detail. Also uncovered were two finely carved mantelpieces and an old battle axe.
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Colchester
England
Red Lion
Tuberculosis blamed for major Nes Perces deaths shift
Dr John N Alley, superintendent of the United States sanatorium, links 9 percent of Nes Perces deaths in the past decade to tuberculosis. Since Lewis and Clark’s era the tribe declined from 8000 to 1300. Current TB death rate runs about 40 per 1000, double the U S rate, tied to life on reservations after the move from open plains.
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John N. Alley
United States
Fort Lapwal
Idaho
Lewis and Clark
Northwest
Alley
Plains
Board discusses new teachers rules and adult English classes
Butte school board debates changes for new teachers and measures for English instruction for foreign adults. Surveyors cite population shifts with 2500 Italian 1200-1500 Austrian 1800 Finnish plus Scandinavian groups. Proposals include adult language classes, backward pupils, and revised school insurance.
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Butte
Finland
Maury
Pinlander
Tim
Joor
Pacific Banks Board Pushes Branches to West Coast Cities
A San Francisco conference of Pacific slope bank representatives approved a unanimous resolution to establish branches at the San Francisco federal reserve bank and in Seattle Portland Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. The measure serves as a recommendation to the Twelfth district directors to be chosen.
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San Francisco
Federal Reserve Bank
Seattle
Portland
Salt Lake City
Los Angeles
Pacific Slope Banks
Directo
Empire Bank Purchases Water Works Bonds at Par
The Empire Bank and Trust Company bought the $90,000 water works bonds yesterday at par plus accrued interest and a $975 premium. Several bidders competed, making the issue attractive to financial institutions.
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Empire Bank and Trust Company
Final Tributes for Vera Cruz Sailors From New York
New York observers report a public tribute ending as relatives of three of the seventeen sailors and marines killed at Vera Cruz today claim the memorial marks.
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New York
Vera Cruz
Judge Defends Mann White Slave Act Scope
Des Moines May 12 Judge Smith McPherson told the grand jury in the southern district of Iowa that federal judges agree the Mann act covers crossing state lines for any immoral purpose not just commercial use. He took exceptions to magazine articles and editorials suggesting disagreement on the act’s scope.
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Des Moines
Smith McPherson
United States
Towa
Medical women seek drastic health laws to curb infant mortality
In Sioux City Iowa today Iowa medical women at their convention urged drastic health legislation to reduce infant deaths and prevent wasteful spending on trying to bring healthy children into the world.
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Siouxcy
Iowa
Two Disastrous Storms Hit Pittsburg and Allegheny Valley
May 12 Pittsburg and the Allegheny valley were struck by a second severe storm in hours with wind rain and electrocution risk. Kittanning suffered roof loss factory and apartment damage with many injured and several deaths. McKeesport also endured damages and injuries as Hagerstown is noted in the coverage.
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Pittsburg
Allegheny Valley
Kittanning
McKeesport
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