Swede Murphy testifies in Washington clash over money slang
Swede Murphy, the Populist figure turned Republican sheriff candidate, confounds Senator Hoar during a Senate inquiry by using western slang for money. The exchange reveals misunderstandings over terms like mazuma kale and spondulix as Murphy defends his vernacular.
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Murphy
Prim New England Statesman
Senator
Percival J. Cooney
Sheriff
Butte
West
Helena
Washington
Swede Murphy
Senator Hoar
New England
Montana
Hoar
Man Secures Marriage License Then Proposes by Wire
Walker Tilden Smith of Butler Missouri in the hardware trade obtains a marriage license to wed Marie Ambrose of Spokane Washington who is in Butte. Bill Ingham of the Ingham hotel vouches for Smith and arranges the long distance wedding plan with Ambrose agreeable to travel to Miles City for the ceremony.
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Ferguson
Custer County
Walker Tilden Smith
Butler
Billings
Marie Ambrose
Spokane
Wash
Butte
Smith
Bill Ingham
Ingham Hotel
Primary and local incidents across Montana and beyond
The state reports 11 143 registered voters for the August 29 primary. Axel Holmquist pleads not guilty to shooting and killing three, including his brother and estranged wife. Thomas Curry dies in California at 72, a Montana banker pioneer. Angler Lewistown Strickland catches an 11 1/2 pound trout in Spring Creek, measuring 28 1/2 inches. Harold Anderson alias Eugene Milton escapes Silver Bow jail by sawing bars and lowering away on blankets. A Montana Elevator Company elevator burns, 3 000 4 000 bushels grain lost. Bozeman hosts Montana Wholesale Grocers association convention seeking freight-rate cuts on sugar. Grass Range holdings bought by Charters Land company in Grass Range area with 50 000 capital. directors J H Charters Lillian Charters Forrest E Charters. Deputy Sheriff Forrest Charters of Grass Range shot at Lewistown courthouse when his revolver discharged. he survives, gravely wounded. son of J H Charters who is a state senate candidate.
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Lewistown
Fergus County
Butte
Axel Holmquist
Alfred
Anna
Great Falls
California
Thomas Curry
Montana
Hol Strickland
Spring Creek
Butter Harold Anderson
Eugene Milton
Silver Bow
Suffolk
Montana Elevator Company
Bozeman
Montana Wholesale Grocers’ Association
Charters Land Company of
Grass Range
J. H. Charters
Lillian Charters
Forrest E. Charters
Forrest Charters
Butte Veteran Faces Puzzling Benefit Paperwork
A Butte veteran received a letter demanding a copy of his wife’s birth and proof she is his mother in law’s daughter. He questions the logic of the birth certificate request while the clerks note the odd passage for a national weekly comic column.
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Butte
Snipe Hunting by Tenderfeet Ends in Prank Reversal
In a western camping tale, Tenderfeet lure a Connecticut native on a sniping hoax. Oscar pretends ignorance, then uncovers the joke and hoists the pranksters by arranging a mock mountain lion scare with a local rancher.
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Oscar
Connecticut
Colorado
Fellows
Lincoln oil gamble advances toward pay sand horizons
Gordon Campbell-Kevin Syndicate No. 2 pitches 680 acres of Montana oil land as the Lincoln well nears pay sand, prompting rapid subscriptions and forecasts of large profits. The author touts previous syndicate gains and urges Montana unitholders to join No. 2 before open financing ends.
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Lincoln
Kevin Pool
Gordon Campbell
Montana
Syndicate No. 2
No. 2 Syndicate
Syndicate No. 1
No. 1
Gordon Campbell-Kevin Syndicate
KEVIN
Toole County
Gordon Campbell-Kevin
Handa
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Hale
Crete
Withug
Ordon Cain Lincoln
Kevin Pay Sandons
Discovery
Cat Creek
Discovery Well
Kevin Syndicate
DPAR
Campbell
Venture
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