Butte High Hosts 1917 Basketball Double Header
In 1917 Butte and Anaconda high schools met in a gymnasium opening day double header. Butte beat Anaconda 35 to 17 while the Butte faculty team won 35 to 19 over Anaconda teachers. The event featured Bernie Bierman and Walter Scott in rough play.
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Bernie Bierman
Golden Gophers
Minnesota University
Butte
Bernie
Butte High School
Anaconda
Anaconda High
Butte High
Bierman
Mike Danahey
Munsey
Fillinger
Schauss
Auten
Utterback
Scott
Frazer
Mitchell
Montana
Walter Scott
School of Mines
Sadie
Virile Health For Men Past 40 Zo-ak Ad
A New York physician develops Zo-ak a gland activator formula said to boost virile health and vigor for men past 40. The blue and orange boxes are marketed with a one month trial and a money back guarantee. Available through Rainbow Pharmacy Missoula Drug Co and other outlets with a free physician booklet.
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New York
Rainbow Pharmacy
Great Falls
Missoula Drug Co
Missoula
Leiden Drug Co
Lewistown
Zo-ak
Zo-ak Co
45Th St
MN. Y
Butte High Captures First Cage Title in 1916
Butte high school won its first cage title after a preliminary contest with faculty and later secured the 1916 17 crown under coach Capt T G Cook who also led basketball and track. Players included Wilbur Zundle Lip Crowley Larry Myers Butter Driscoll Steve Sullivan and Sanford Ladie. Bierman coached football.
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Purples
Butte High
Butte High School
Butte
T. G. Cook
Wilbur Zundle
Lip” Crowley
Larry Myers
Butter” Driscoll
Steve Sullivan
Sanford Ladie
Bierman
Cook
Merkle Brothers Highlight Long Baseball Run and Nevada Stars Honor
The Merkle brothers Art of Butte and Horace of Portland built long sports careers with baseball and now golf. Nevada Stars from Virginia City won a 1896 junior tournament in San Francisco, defeating Alameda Alerts 3 to 1 in front of ten thousand fans at Central Park. The victory sparked celebrations in Reno and Carson City as bands and cannons greeted the champions home.
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Merkles
Art Merkle
Butte
Horace
Portland
Ore
Nev
Nevada Stars
San Francisco
Nevada Boys
Pacific Coast
Alameda Alerts
Old Central Park
San Francisco Examiner
Alameda
Alerts
Nevadans
Horace Merkle
Alamedians
Nevada
Virginia City
Reno
Carson City
Battery B
Merkles Remembered: Conquering Heroes of Virginia City
Two bands paraded through Virginia City as a banquet at the International hotel followed by a grand ball at Piper's opera house celebrated life for the Merkles. They gave up ball playing long ago and now relish many banquets in a four decade span since their 1896 ball debut.
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Virginia City
International Hotel
Piper’s Opera House
Merkles
Piper's Opera House
Dempsey Dines With Montana Olympian Chuck Staples
In New York last October Jack Dempsey hosted Charles Staples at his cafe. Staples recalls Dempsey asking Montanan questions about his boxing era while share diners spoke of the past as wine flowed.
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Charles
Chuck) Staples
Montana
New York
Jack Dempsey
Chuck
Dempsey
Jack
Staples
Civil War Widow Mrs Solomon Redd Celebrates 90th Birthday
Mrs Solomon Redd of Polson, last surviving Civil War widow in Lake county, marked her 90th birthday. Born in Livingston county Missouri, she married Solomon Redd in 1866, who served in the Union Army from start to end and died at 92 in Polson two years ago. The couple moved to Polson in 1910 at the opening of the Flathead Indian Reservation. they raised six children, now five living, with twelve grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren.
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Solomon Redd
Polson
Lake County
Redd
Livingston County
Grand Army
Redds
Elja Lou Redd
William Redd
Gene Hall
Tacoma, Wash
Charley Redd
Albany Mo
Nanny Mahoney
Iowa
Flathead Indian Reservation
Treasure State News in Brief
LAND COULEE Frank Berkey arrives as Montana Power Co. manager succeeding C. Moffet. BOULDER J Carter Williams of Boulder on university debating team. FORT BENTON Courthouse interior redecorated under A L Mulkins. jail quarters refinished. RONAN Hot lunch season ends. 8 000 meals served. service to resume late October. MYSMWAM Hysham volunteers form fire dept. Leslie Jenkins elected fire chief. Ernest Fenton recording secretary. GERALDINE Elizabeth Goldhahn and Ethel Anderson open seed loan office branch to serve Fort Benton applicants. TURNER Epidemics hit. mumps affect many schoolchildren. GERALDINE Boy Scouts troop 28 reorganized. Earl M Doll scoutmaster. CORVALLIS Ravalli county high track meet set for April 30 at Hamilton. one act contests April 28–29. tennis May 7–8. RED LODGE Albert C. Roberts fined 50 for pheasant poaching. nine pheasants seized. DILLON Lima child skeleton found on ash pile. body believed Chinese child from Salmon, under investigation. CORVALLIS Primary rhythm band chosen for county concert. 35 students chosen. band led by Jane La Munyan and Georgie Scott. GREAT FALLS 44 Boy Scouts plan to attend National Jamboree June 30–July 7 in Washington. cost $150 per scout.
Man Known as Gus Caren Ends Tooth Pain With Hammer
An elderly Mexican man named Gus Mares, in a desperate attempt to relieve a painful tooth and mounting dental bills, used a hammer and a tool to knock out his own molar. While half asleep he bit into the pain, struck once, then again, and later woke to find the tooth missing, aided by his cat.
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Uamuat Mares
Gus
Mr. Mares
Supreme Court orders Valley County tax on private state land in Fort Peck area
Montana Supreme Court orders Valley County officials Archie G. Bruce and Stephen Weber to assess taxes on private property located on federal land in the Fort Peck area. They must show cause on April 16 if they fail to comply. The move follows a Valley County petition arguing firms on government owned land should pay state taxes, reversing a prior attorney general ruling.
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Montana Supreme Court
Valley County
Fort Peck
Archie G. Bruce
Stephen Weber
Valley County Board of Commissioners
State librarian Barbour resigns over ill health
A. K. Barbour Jr. resigns after long service as state law librarian since 1905. Mrs. Adeline Clark, his longtime assistant since 1921, succeeds him. John W. Ross of Red Lodge is named to the post of assistant librarian.
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Barbour
A. K. Barbour Jr
Adeline Clark
John W. Ross
Red Lodge
Lancaster man alive after false death report landslide
A Lancaster Ohio clipping claimed Anthony Eramo of CCC died in a landslide and prompted relatives to send $7. His son then told callers that he was alive and unhurt, debunking the rumor.
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Anthony Eramo
CCC
Ohio
Lee
Lancaster
Eramo
Governor Approves Six State Department Personnel
Governor Ayers has approved the personnel of six state departments under a law that requires approval within 30 days or the appointees are removed. The approved departments include highway Patrol board of health purchasing engineering board of equalization and board of nurses examiners.
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Ayers
Highway Patrol
Board of Health
Purchasing Department
Engineering Department
Board of Equalization
Board of Nurses Examiners
Generating a Cultural Elite Across Generations
A passage notes that only a small number of individuals in any generation possess the true genius for propagating culture, suggesting a rarity of such influence and a high bar for cultural leadership across nations.
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Montana Sports
Joe L. Markham
Montana State Athletic Commission
Mose LaFontisse
Tom Walker
Doc’ Monahan
Maurice Thompson
Doc’ Flynn
Frank Walker
Shelby
Dan Tracy
Park Hotel
Philadelphia
Dan
Philly
Joe Mudre
Charley
Joe Mercer
Joe
Rememr
Dempsey’s Place
Madison Square Garden
BOOTE
S. C
Bar
Wyandottes
Orpingtons
Austin Whites
R. I
Brnimas & White Langshans
Turkey
Sem Hatcheries
Worthington, Mian
Jeb
Anaconda Sales Company
Moni
Walter T. Scott
Treasure State’ News
Land Coulee
Frank Berkey
The
Montana Power Co
C. Moffet
Boulder
J. Carter Williams
J. H. Williams
State University At
Ronan
Pablo
Hysham
Leslie Jenkins
Ernest Fenton
Geraldine
Elizabeth Goldhahn
Ethel Anderson
Fort Benton
Turner
Boy Scouts of America
Earl M. Doll
W. K. Carley
Harry Knedler
Frank Joyce
H. J. Preshinger
Harold Magnuson
Corvallis
Hamilton
Stevensville
Albert C. Roberts
Joliet
John Sanderson
Roberts
Kenneth F. Roahen
Billincs
Roahen
Dillon
Lima
Salmon
Jane la Munyan
North Central Montana
Washington, D. C
R. D. Cook
Kayoes
O. K
National Parks Airways
Salt Lake City
Denver
Los Angeles
National Parks Airways Office
Pal
Salt Lake City, U
Oscar Pepper
Old Kentucky
Oscar
Frankfort Distilleies
Louisville
Baltimoss
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