Butler Community News and Social Notes
Social notices from Butler report J L Fisher and family attending events and visits including a Walker Latham wedding and Thanksgiving gatherings. Miss Myrtle McCann directs a Thanksgiving program with praise for her teaching but calls for more parental cooperation. Local visits include Miss Maude Hoyte, Mrs. James Wall, the Yeomans family, and others. A billiards/ball game preview for Butler Loyal Sons vs Hume High School on December 7 1911 at 7 45 pm in Loyal Sons Hall over Electric Theater.
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J. L. Fisher
Odd Fellows
Butler
Myrtle McCann
Miss McCann
Maude Hoyte
Spruce
Walker-Latham
Richard Wall
St. Louis
James Wall
A. E. Yeomans
Dollie Martin
Denver
Col
Butler Loyal Sons
Hume High School
Hume
Loyal Sons
Grand Canyon Gold Lures Prospecting Across Colorado River
Gold deposits in the Grand Canyon region attract syndicates seeking to mine bed gravels and black sand enriched with gold and platinum. Operations extend from Lee's Ferry to Utah cliffs, with dredges hauling sand and gravel up to sixty feet deep. Profitability remains uncertain due to natural barriers and high risks.
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Weaver
Colo
Grand Canyon
Colorado
Colorado Canyon
Great Abyss
Eastern Capital
Lee's Ferry
Marble Canyon
Utah
Eliifa
Lee’s Ferry
Nature
Hobo with desire to work in Chicago court
In Des Plaines Street court Judge Maxwell encounters a hobo named Slim with $700 in cash a $350 cashier’s check and a $500 bank deposit as he claims a thrift for work. Slim explains he works each winter and saves by “hitting a rattler” then plans to travel to Wisconsin. The judge forgives the fine and allows him to go. Lester Ladd a 52 year veteran bellboy celebrated his 68th birthday in San Diego after a long career in hotels across New York Chicago St Louis and other cities.
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Chicago
Maxwell
Desplaines Street
Joseph N. Norman
Piedmont
W. Va
West Virginia
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Des Plaines Street
Slim
Scott
Rockefeller
Morgan
Judge Maxwell
Wisconsin
Palmer House
Morton House
New York
Atlantic
Savannah
Tampa Bay
Tampa
Chickena Break Up Court In Norwich Trial
In Norwich Connecticut a rooster and a hen acted as reluctant witnesses in a chicken theft case, crowing and cackling so loudly that Judge Heed had to suspend the superior court session. The two witnesses were expelled from the room.
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Norwich
Superior Court
Golden Medical Discovery for Biliousness and Indigestion
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is presented as a liver invigoration and stomach tonic, aimed at bilious ness, torpid liver, and dyspepsia. The advertisement claims it contains no alcohol, lists ingredients on the bottle-wrapper, and is produced by the World's Dispensary Medical Association of Buffalo, N.Y.
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Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo
N.Y
Keepsake Cake Recipes and Marriage Licenses
A list of traditional fruit cake and dessert recipes including Fruit Cake with raisins currants citron and spices, Cream Chocolate Cake with a two-part method and frosting, Milk Crackers with a stiff dough method, and a Wedding Cake recipe with nuts figs and fruit. Also notes on folding egg whites and baking times, and a brief Marriage Licenses section.
A Terrible Blunder to neglect liver trouble
A vintage health ad urges immediate action for liver and bowel trouble. It promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills to prevent indigestion jaundice or gall stones, claiming they regulate liver stomach and bowels and boost health. Sold for 25 cents at F T Clay’s.
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Dr. King
F. T. Clay’s
Dr Pierce's Invalids' Hotel and Institute Claims Miraculous Medical Powers
The article touts the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute at Buffalo as able to diagnose diseases by mail without patient examination. It describes specialist staff, eclectic treatments, and devices such as violet light therapy and iridescent light baths, promising cures for chronic diseases, especially in women, and urges readers to write for advice.
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Pierce
Invalids
Muifulo
Mall
United States
Invalids' Hotel and Sur- Fheul Institute
J. R. V. Pierce
Eee Caneep
Hovel
Hudalo
Lavalids
The
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
BR. V. Pierce
Ab Buffalo
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Rich Hill
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St Madison
Butler Loo
Hanesa City Accommodation
A. m
St. Louia
K.C. Mail & Kx
Southweat Limited Indep Om Kanene
P.m
Southweat Limited
C & Joplin
Wall & Kx
Nevada
Jerry Puseen
Denot Notater
Intratate
E. Uw. Vandervoort
Pacific
Miami
Victor Smith
Stewartsville
R. D. Bond
J. D. Chappell
J. K. Berry
T. J. Everett
Albert Allen
Mary Allen
Bethel School
Allen
Miss Allen
Presbyterian Church
H. M. Meinen
N. J. Martin
W. Critchfield
Morris Cemetery
Mr. Critchfield
Marion Shillinger
Tygard
Family
Basket Ball
Aere and
Colorado River
the Commoner
Martin Lawson
Appleton City
Delly Futts
RC Latham Cote Eset
Reas Butler
Myrtle Walker
R Duran Bete
Velma Houston
Nate
Rich
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