Uncle Dick Sutton Returns to Butte Theater Venture
Dick Sutton known as Uncle Dick returns to show business in Butte Montana opening the Lulu Sutton theater to entertain crowds. The longtime impresario built a Tom show empire after the Civil War, bred bloodhounds, faced rising costs and sparse early support, and finally settled in Butte to revive his career.
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Dick Sutton
Uncle Dick
Butte
Montana
Dulce Far Niente
Lulu Sutton
United States
Nat Goodwins
Wilsie Jamses
Eva
Montana Street
The
Standard
Miner
Dancing star Bryce recalls Vernon Castle tragedy and war
Edgar Bryce, once Castle’s favored student and veteran of the British flying corps, survived a 2000 foot crash in Texas that killed Vernon Castle. Now recovering in Butte, Bryce performs at Columbia Gardens while his friend’s memory remains central to his career.
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Castle
Texas
Bryce
Edgar Bryce
Butte
France
Vernon Castle
British Air Service
United States
Gregson Springs
Columbia Gardens
Photographer Thirl Seeks Higher Crags For Aerial Views
A. J. Thirl, longtime Glacier National Park Service man in Montana, has spent years filming Rocky Mountain goats and sheep from lofty peaks. He now plans to join Uncle Sam as an aviation photographer while continuing his Thiri’s Aerial View Service postcard business from Polson on Flathead Lake.
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A. J. Thirl
National Park Service
Glacier Park
Thiri
Rockies
Polson
Montana
Singapore
Jake
Mountain Gulches
India
New Orleans
Mississippi
Singapore Jake and the Kelly Diamond Hoodoo Death
Singapore Jake Montana clairvoyant dies after a dramatic chase as the Kelly diamond’s hoodoo curses Marty McGraw and a Denver posse. Jake swallows both diamonds to escape and flees toward the mountains pursued by McGraw and lawmen. The final pursuit narrows to the dangerous Three Cross ranch near Scudder lake.
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Singapore
Jake
Kelly
Plummer
Road Agent Fame
Mexico
Montana
King” Kelly
Rocky Mountains
Kelly Diamond
Marty McGraw
Denver
McGraw
Marty
San Francisco
Butte
Singapore Lake
Platte River
War thrift drive to award 86 Montana women trips to state fair
Montana war thrift managers plan a melon cutting contest for 86 women, two per county, to win free trips to Helena for state fair. Paul R. Flint leads the project with $500 in prizes for the four largest sold war savings certificates, while county winners are hosted by Helena residents and travel expenses are funded by local war savings groups.
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War Thrift
Montana
Paul R. Flint
Malta
War Savings
Helena
Harry W. Turner
Butte
Flint
Ensign
Miracle
War Savings Organizations
Candidate pledges unusual wartime platform in Musselshell county
A candidate for nomination in Musselshell county outlines a patriotic plan including four hours daily in Red Cross rooms, remitting all government war work fees, and donating 40 to the flagpole fund. He also swears he has never smoked a cigarette.
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Musselshell
Red Cross
Concrete Ship Faith Completes First Voyage
The A. H. W. McNab of Lloyds Regis ter reports favorably on the Faiths first voyage from San Francisco to Seattle. She weathered rough seas with no water in the hold and hairline cracks in the walls as the only signs of bad weather.
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A. H. W. McNab
Lloyds Register
Faith
San Francisco
Seattle
The Kelly Diamond Sinks with Montana Clairvoyant
Jake fell from his horse trying to grab the saddle horn and vanished into Scudder Lake. Three watchers saw him strike the water and fail to surface. The Kelly diamond is blamed for misfortune as the lake yields its hidden dead and the clairvoyant’s bones.
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Jake
Scudder's Lake
Kelly
Scudder Lake
Montana
Repose
Kelly Diamond
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Tom
Dick” Sutton
Inter Mountain
Lee Mantle
John Maguire
Anaconda
Missoula
Great Falls
John Considine
Tim Sullivan
New York City
Sullivan-Considine
Grand Opera House
Broadway
A. J. Thiri
Thim
Scudder’s Lake
Three Cross Horse Ranch
Nagers
National War Savings Campaign
Great Falls Brick & Tile Co
Montan
Ist Nations Bank
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