Official Directory Congressional
Senators Thos H Carter Helena Jos M Dixon Missoula Representative Chas N Pray Fort Benton Surveyor General John S Cone Missoula U S Marshal A W Merrifield Kalispell U S Attorney James W Freeman Helena Register U S Land Office M R Wilson Bozeman Receiver U S Land Office W H Sales Bozeman
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Thos. H. Carter
Helena
Jos. M. Dixon
Missoula
Chas. N. Pray
Fort Benton
John S. Cone
A. W. Merrifield
Kalispell
U. S
James W. Freeman
U. S. Land
M. R. Wilson
Bozeman
U. S. Land Office
W. H. Sales
Montana State Officials and Local District Officers Listed
A comprehensive roll of state officers Helena including Governor Edwin Norris and Lieutenant Governor William Allen. Also listed are Supreme Court members, railroad commissioners, state district officers for the Sixth Judicial District at Livingston and Big Timber, local city officials, school board members, health officer and law enforcement officers with deputies and marshals and ward councilmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin L. Norris
Helena
William R. Allen
Abraham N. Yoder
Harry R. Cunningham
Albert J. Galen
Wilfred BE. Harmon
Supreme Court
Theo. H. Brantly
Wm. L. Holloway
Henry C. Smith
John T. Athey
B. T. Stanton
Dan Boyle
C. A. Morley
W. E. Knowles
Charles McDonnell
A. B. Coit
H. Utermohle
Big Timber
J. A. Bailey
H. C. Allen
F. M. Lamp
O. A. Fallang
J. W. Kirkwood
J. T. Vaughan
J. W. Davis
D. J. Walvoord
Minerva Powell
A. P. O’leary
G. A. Leasby
John T. Esp
John Rye
T. G. Shipton
A. B. Carter
C. H. Dugro
Melville
High School Board
C. T. Busha
H. C. Pound
George Baker
Ll. Patterson
Henry Nicholson
B. O. Forsythe
First Methodist Episcopal Church Service Times
Directory lists David Hardy as pastor with Sunday school at 10 a.m. each Sunday and Epworth League at 7:00 p.m. Worship at 11 a.m. on the second fourth and fifth Sundays and 7:45 p.m. Sundays. prayer meeting Thursdays at 8 p.m. Also St Pauls Methodist Reed Point holds worship on the first and third Sundays at 10:30 a.m. and 8 p.m. on the preceding Saturdays.
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Epworth League
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
Reed Point
St. Mark's Church Schedule Notes Services and Sunday School
St. Mark's Episcopal Church lists regular services on the first and third Sundays at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Holy communion and evening prayer follow the first Sunday schedule. Second Sunday offers morning prayer and litany at 11 a.m. and evening prayer at 7:30 p.m. Sunday school is held every Sunday at 10 a.m. Extra services occur on special occasions and feast days.
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St. Mark's Church
Episcopal
C. Walter McWilliams
Singing Geography Lessons From Old New York Schools
In early New York education pupils learned geography by song using Pelton outline maps and tunes like Auld Lang Syne and Bonny Doon. Teachers led choruses while pointing to map divisions and cities, naming places as verses taught continents and nations, with California listed as the newest state admitted in 1850.
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New York
Pelton
North America
Atlantic Ocean
Gulf of Mexico
Earth
California
Oregon
Utah
New Mexico
Mexico
Pacific
Europe
Widow Yarn Rejects Road Tax In Surprise Vote
A Good Roads advocate visits Widow Yarn to win forty acres for a road project. She challenges him about voting rights and declares she will cast all forty votes against the rock road, then returns to prayer meeting in Harper's Weekly.
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Yarn
Good Roads Club
Rock Road
Charles Dillon
Harper's Weekly
Monte Cristo Play Draws Crowded New York Audience
A lively Brooklyn Life note recalls a full house in a New York theater for Monte Cristo. A man in the audience shouted a quip about Hoboken during a dramatic moment, adding local flavor to the scene.
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New York
Monte
Hoboken
Brooklyn
Silence as a stark figure of speech in Parker’s remark
A terse line presents silence as a potent figure of speech. Parker's comment conveys cold severity and unanswerable ambiguity in a compact, period voice.
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Parker
The Terrors of Frankness and Honest Opinions
A playwright derides frankness as a vice while a humorous anecdote contrasts blunt critique with polite social order. The exchange centers on opinion giving and reception in a quiet room. The child’s absurd eye color reply ends the vignette with a wry note.
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Bridge Drive
Ruskin and the Turners Exhibition in London 1875
The article describes Ruskin's 1875 exhibition in the National Gallery London of facsimiles of Turner's paintings. It notes Ruskin's decade long effort to train a copyist to achieve fidelity, producing facsimiles so close to Turner's works that Ruskin safety signed them to prevent misattribution as originals.
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Ruskin
Turner
National Gallery
London
Kith and Kin Phrase Duel Spices Conservatory Chat
In a London Tit-Bits moment a scene unfolds with papa bursting into a conservatory where Ethel Mr Tomkins and Eva sit. They joke over kinship as Eva tips a sly bite of humor while Mr Tomkins asks for a kith and Ethel replies You kin.
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Papa
Ethel
Mr. Tomkins
Little Eva
Eva
London
Deduction on Willie Withers Critics in Birmingham
In the Birmingham Age-Herald a witty exchange jokes about understanding a neighbor’s child. The dialogue hints at familiarity with Willie’s mother, prompting a playful deduction about knowledge of the boy.
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Willie Withers
Little Willie
Birmingham Age-Herald
Howell and Rowell Engagement Quip Draws Candid Harshness
A witty exchange unfolds as Howell proclaims engagement to Miss Rowell and Powell counters that in her case a nomination is not equal to election. The remark echoes the Smart Set style and public temper.
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Howell
Rowell
Powell
Not at all Flow Brown and wife clash over reading sport page
A light anecdotal item from Detroit Free Press notes Flow Brown and his suffragette wife quarrel over who reads the sporting page first. The couple is depicted in a humorous domestic moment reflecting contemporary gender norms.
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Brown
Detroit Free Press
Time ripens all things. No man is born wise
A quiet maxim attributed to Cervantes about growth and knowledge, reflecting on the idea that wisdom comes with time rather than birth. The quote emphasizes patient development and learning through life.
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Cervantes
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