Anaconda Slugger Bert Shills Boosts Montana League
The 1900 Montana State Baseball Association season features Anaconda's Bert Shills, a Wisconsin import who homered heavily and briefly slumped before a pay raise and new clothes from manager "Firecracker Bill" Webb spurred a dramatic late surge. Helena and Great Falls share first-half and second-half honors as Butte, Anaconda, Helena, and Great Falls form the circuit led by W. H. Lucas and John McCloskey.
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Montana State Baseball Association
Git
Montana
Anaconda’s
Bert Shills
Butte
Anaconda
Helena
Great Falls
W. H. Lucas
John” McCloskey
Lucas
McCloskey
Bill
Webb
Shills
Bert
John McCloskey
Copper City
Beville
Mountain View Park
Crowl
Joe Marshall
Dave Searfoss
Joe Tinker
Jack Flannery
Bill” Webb
Bill Webb
John” McCluskey
King of Montana
Fisherman Falls Short of Giant Rainbow Trout
In Helena, Frank Fusick laments a string of near misses at Prickly Pear creek as a rival angler lands a massive rainbow trout. The crowd reacts to Ward’s coin-fine comedy, leading to a league ruling that pennies nickels and dimes won’t be legal tender for fines.
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Frank Fusick
Helena Navya
Frank
Prickly Pear Creek
Mr. Fusick
Mr. Pusick
Pire Mahaffey
Mahaffey
Ward
Thean
League
Fort Peck Dam Facts and Figures Released
Facts on Fort Peck dam in northeastern Montana describe the largest earthen barrier. Location is the Missouri river valley, cost about 75 million dollars funded by the federal government, and the project aims to protect property, supply irrigation for 180000 acres, improve navigation, and create a 175 mile long reservoir. Construction is overseen by the War Department and US Engineers Corps. The dam spans 19 500 feet and rises 240 feet with a base width of 3000 feet. Earth fill totals 90 million cubic yards with rock and gravel riprap totaling 8 million tons. The reservoir shoreline will stretch about 2000 miles with flood area surpassing 250000 acres and affecting about 300 landowners and two settlements.
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Fort Peck
Missouri River
Valley County
Montana
Sioux City
St. Louis
War Department
United States Engineers Corps
Piscee
Great Salt Lake
Shills Hits Four Home Runs and a Triple in One Game
Bert Shills of Butte delivers four home runs and a triple against Hamilton in Hamilton Montana. He belts heaves to center and left fields, with a midgame running stunt by the center fielder. The feat yields Butte an easy victory and cements Shills as Montana’s Babe Ruth.
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Anaconda
Jack Grim
Grim
Bert Shills
Sheboygan
Wis
Wisconsin
Shills
Bert
Bears
Butte
Hamilton
Eddie Hammond
Hammond
Bert Shilis
Babe Ruth
Montana
Embarrassed Umpire Ward Faces Fine and Delay Incident
The 1903 Pacific National League scene at Butte park features Piggy Ward delaying a game by 10 minutes in a staged entrance after being fined $10 for misconduct. Ward had told umpires to "go to" the day before, provoking embarrassment to Umpire Mahaffey and drawing league censure.
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Ward
Butte
Butte Park
Mahaffey
Umps
Butte Montana Not Quite Wide Open Behind Oregonian Feature
The Portland Oregonian article by Stewart H. Holbrook portrays Butte as a mining city with its own character not沼openly vice ridden. It notes 42 churches 275 teachers and a new high school, and discusses streets parks and local commerce while criticizing sensational portrayals of Butte.
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Butte
Portland Orenian
Oregon Publiocation
Park
Main
Apt. L. P. Sanders
New York
Oregonian
Montana
Stewart H. Holbrook
World
Holbrooks
Broadway
Sampson
Sheridan
Chamber of Commerce
Holbrook
Silver Bow County
Portland
Anaconda Hill
China
Montana School of Ines
Butte Business College
Jardine Mine Shows Production Rise in 1936 and Early 1937
Records reveal Jardine Mine in Southern Park County produced bullion and arsenic in 1936 and during the first quarter of the present year. Gold and tungsten output reached about $85,000 with total stockholder disclosures showing a rise to $144,105 in value.
Jardine Mine Readies Bigger Output With New Mill Plan
As of March 1937 improvements raise ore access and prospective treatment. C E Nighman discusses mine plans while officials anticipate a modern mining method cutting costs. Jardine property shows earnings gains despite handicapped production under limited machinery. A new mill building is planned to handle at least 300 tons daily next spring. A miners union wage deal adds 50 cents per day for one year through June 30, 1938.
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C. E. Nighman
Hax
Miners’ Union
Jardine
Jelly Shelf Classics NCE: Strawberry Jelly and Layer Cake
Town markets the jelly season with strawberry jelly and a layer cake recipe. Instructions cover juice extraction from berries, sugar and pectin boil, and baking two 8 inch cake layers with strawberry jelly filling and sugar dusting.
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Joe L. Markham
Montana State Athletic Commission
NAVY
Fort Peck Dam
Schenley
Ondy Schenley
Montana City
Meaderville
Hol
Winca Mente
Soaare le
Bangor
Tillamook
Tana Standard
Butte Ment
Otel Montana
Ainbow
TAX Service
Wm. B. Finlay
First National Bank
Alice Blake
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