Butte Notes Highlight Local Ads And People
Butte area items include assayers and piano firms like McClure Bros and Montana Music Co, notices of pianist tuners J G Bates and Dr. Bertha Mackel. Local visits, new licenses, railroad time changes, and Death of Thomas Rooney feature in this edition along with a polemical blurb on the Equitable Life assurance company for business readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McClure Bros
Orton Bros
Fred Orton
N. Main
J. G. Bates
Montana Music Co
Bertha Mackel
A. FE. Tabor
Great Falls
Butte
L. M. Hughes
Heionaig
Elegant 60 Cent Business Lunch At Thornton Cafe
A Thornton cafe advertises a new elegant business lunch priced at 60 cents. The offer highlights quick service and value for busy professionals seeking a mid day meal.
Late Society Notes Highlight Local Visits and Meetings
Mrs. O B Totten of Helena visits Mrs J B Halford in town. Mrs Thomas F E Fitzgerald and family travel to Chicago to visit friends. J A Probst, with Hi Henrys minstrels, visits brother Frank Probst and cousin Clara Allred at the Rice residence. The First Baptist Woman's Missionary Society met at Mrs George L Lander's Colorado street home to study the Bible with papers read by several members and refreshments served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. B. Totten
Helena
J. B. Halford
Thomas FE. Fitzgerald
Swn
Chicago
J. A. Probst
Hi Henry
City
Frank Probst
Clara Allred
Rice House
Woman's Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church
George L. Lander
Colorado Street
Mary Patton
Keneth Campbell
M. Prentice
H. T. Swenson
Thornton Cafe and Rooms Ad Quietly Describes Rates
An old advertisement notes a fine business lunch for 60 cents at Thornton Cafe and offers elegant outside rooms at 2 dollars per day.
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Thornton Cafe
American in English Army Faces Boer War Amid Montana Ties
The story centers on R. D. Sherwin of Butte Montana who left New York to join the English army as a volunteer to replace his brother, William, drafted to fight the Boers. He serves as Trooper No. 320 D Troop Transvaal and hopes to return home soon. The piece notes his loyalties and service while not his own country’s cause. Also mentions local notices of piano sales and the death of Thomas Rooney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonner
Great Falls
Butte
Warm Springs
Rose Bennett
Martin Schlenger
Montana
Renshaw Hall
Theorthwest
Thomas Rooney
Rose Mine
St. Paul's Hospital
Johnson
Rooney
South Africa
United States
King Wayward
New York City
R. D. Sherwin
Sherwin
Uncve Oam
London
Nisa
Wiliam
D. Sherwin
Transvaal
Johannesburg
Life Under Sea Scenes of Indescribable Beauty
A Chicago Post feature describes night hawks hunting during a thunderstorm and a curator’s study of their nesting. Francis Herrick’s account follows a night hawk and her chick as the parent feeds with fireflies and protects the fledgling, observed by Herrick from a wattled enclosure at dusk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Chicago Post
Francis Herrick
Herrick
Death of John Travis Attributed to Heart Failure
John Travis former employee of the Never Sweat mine died at the Leinback house on East Park street Friday afternoon. A coroner's jury, convened at Sherman’s undertaking rooms, returned a verdict of heart failure after hearing the evidence.
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John Travis
Never Sweat Mine
Leinback House
East Park Street
Johnson
Sherman
Thornton cafe offers 60 cent Business Lunch 606
Local cafe advertises a Business Lunch for 60 cents at Thornton with additional sale items noted as clothing for boys and children at cost at Boucher's located on 45 East Park Street.
Call for Delegates to Spanish American War Veterans Meet
War veterans urged delegates from Spanish American War Camps to attend the 1st annual Montana department meeting in Butte on October 23 at 7 PM. The gathering at Carpenters Union Hall aims to elect department officers and conduct other business. Each camp receives two delegates per 50 members or fraction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
A. W. Y, Association
Department of
Mont
Carpenters’ Union Hall
West Broadway
Department Council of Administration
F. Lloyd
Be Low Cost Boys and Children's Clothing at Bouchers
Advertisement notes low priced boys and children's clothing at Bouchers located at 45 East Park Street under supervision of commander B H Cook assistant adjutant general.
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B. H. Cook
Gray Wasps Nests and Their Paper Making Process
The Louisville Evening Post describes gray wasps gathering weathered wood fibre to make their paper nests. It details collection from worn posts, chewing to pulp, forming delicate cell walls, and the precise thickness controlled by the wasps with their feelers as they dry into fine paper.
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Louisville Evening Post
Miles and Sampson in canned beef dispute
The article contends General Miles was not honest about canned beef as a ration. It cites a June 17, 1898 letter directing 10,644 pounds of canned roast beef be issued from army subsistence stores to General Nunez, implying Miles knew of its ration status and approved large-scale use for allies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles
Wampa
Nunez
Tampa
Opening of Carey Act canal seen by state officials
A state land commission and guests depart Helena for Craig to inspect Montana’s first Carey Act irrigating canal near Augusta. Governor Toole plans to join in Craig. opening slated for Monday with about 15 attendees including many judges, senators, and state officials. The party may be altered by a railroad wreck. The group will tour and watch water turn into the big ditch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
State Arid Land Commission
Craig
Dearborn Canal
Augusta
Great Northern
Toole
A. B. Keith
John B. Read
J M. Kennedy
F. J. Lange
Great Falls
Paris Gibson
Missoula
Thomas C. Marshall
Col. McLeod
Old-Timer Paul Weidert Killed by Team Near Lewistown
Lewistown reports the death of Paul Weidert a Fergus county old-timer killed when fleeing horses pulled him under wagon wheels two miles from Lewistown. Witnesses absent his wife nearby heard him fall. Weidert had lived in Fergus county two years after earlier mining in Last Chance and Alder gulches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Standard
Great Falls
Lewistown
Paul Weidert
Fergus County
Weldert
Helena
Last Chance
Alder Gulches
Two Forgeries. Two Men Sentenced in Helena Court
In Helena on October 5, John Patrick Fitzgerald a colored man pleaded guilty to forgery for passing a bogus check at the I X L saloon and received one year in the penitentiary. John Novasell admitted forging a check raised from 21 to 24 and also drew a one year sentence. Ed Tremont charged with second degree burglary pleaded not guilty after being arraigned for allegedly stealing 375 from Joe McGrath at a Matin Street lodging house. trial set for October UA.
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Standard
Helena
John Patrick Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
John Novasell
American Smelting & Refining Company
C. J. Wage
Cascade county institute closes after four day session
Great Falls reports the Cascade county institute in session for four days ends with all teachers and instructors departing tonight or tomorrow. The meeting is described as the best ever held in the county for harmony and attendance.
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Standard
Great Falls
Cascade County Institute
Letter Carriers Appointed in Washington Area Listings
Sheldon L. Lewis named letter carrier at Pensons, George W. Pogue in Townsend receives $6, Lee Degenhart of Philipsburg gets $6, James O. ONeill of Butte awarded $8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard
Washington
Sheldon L. Lewis
Butte
Pensons
George W. Pogue
Townsend
Lee Degenhart
Philipsburg
James O. O'Neill
Paris Census Reveals 800000 Workmen Across Trades
The census counts 1 216 classes of labor across metals textiles chemical and building sectors in Paris. Textiles and chemical trades number 257 and 286 respectively while building lists 203 classes. Overall, more than 800000 workers are estimated in the city.
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Paris
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Butte News
East Broadway
Telephone
Jewelers
J. C. Rodgers
Anaconta
D. C. Buchanan
Pony
Harvard
Joe Bradley
Harmiton
Finten
J.mclaughlin
Twin Bridges
Stromberg- Mullins Co
John Ducie
Anaconda
Hanson
J. R. E. Sievers
West Park
Havana
Antilles
W. B. White
Adventist Church
Aluminum
Dakota Streets
Henry Richards
Mary A. Pendray
Patrick Leahy
Nellie Riley
Louis Hoff
Frances Marco- Vick
Grand Ballet
Richards & Ellis
Equitable Life
Equitable
New York
Late Society Notes
Brother
K. D. Sherwin
Uncle Sam
England
Lot
King's Army
Boys’ and Children’s
Boucher’s
N. Main Street
James Dempsey
Sacred Heart Church
LIFE
Travis
Humphrey
Humphrey's Homeopathic Medicine Co
William and John Sts
Alger
Sampson
Institute
Brownfield-Canty Carpet Co
Reece
CT Arar
A. Booth Cash Grocery
Montana Cash Grocery C
Corner Park
Peabody Cigars
Soc
Ellis Paint Co
Quartz St
Carder Bros
Ivery Men
Alexander MacAulay
South Main Street
Butte, Mont
Phone
Montana Book Ca
N. Main St
Montana Book Co
Klein
Mgr
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