Butte Native Teresa Trucano Aims At Great Opera
Butte celebrates its own Teresa Trucano a native-born singer who rose from local tutoring under Mme Leipheimer to study in New York. She learned languages and operatic roles while keeping schooling and mentoring. Despite stage and film offers she returns to Butte with a childlike charm and focused drive. Her father Charles A. Trucano serves as Italian consular agent in Butte.
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Butte
Teresa Trucano
New York
Mme
Marie Leipheimer
Miss Trucano
Charles A. Trucano
New Postmaster Is Man of Color in State Capitol
Henry Baker, named postmaster July 1 under a state contract, becomes the first colored person to hold a state official role under the capitol roof. He succeeds A. E. Lynes, a former railroad man, who will focus on farms near Silver. Baker rose from Grandon Hotel waiter to head porter at Placer hotel before taking the capitol post.
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Henry Baker
State Capitol
Capitol
Post Office Department
Postoffice Department
Baker
Helena
A. E. Lynes
Lynes
Northern Pacific
Order of Railway Engineers and Firemen
Grandon
Placer Hotel
Placer
Fort Shaw
M. T
Blaine
Washington
D. C
Montana
Canada
Lorne
Crozier
Compensation board weighs partial foot loss in Gagenstrom case
Joseph Gagenstrom of Great Falls lost his right foot except the heel in an engine accident. The accident board must decide if the remaining heel counts as a half foot, which would reduce his $1 250 award to $625, or if it is less than half, increasing his compensation. The board will rule after study of similar limb injuries and proportional losses.
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Joseph Gagenstrom
Great Falls
Accident Board
A. E. Spriggs
Gagenstrom
Spriggs
Remarkable mobile palace tour through the United States
Dr. Gilbert A. Sterling of New Orleans and his wife travel in a fully equipped six ton Reo Speed Wagon touring car they designed. The $3800 home on wheels includes a kitchen, bath, office, sewing machine and more as they plan a two year cross country journey visiting all points of interest.
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Butte
Yellowstone Park
Gilbert A. Sterling
New Orleans
United States
Sterling
Fossilized snakes found at Arrow Creek field
John Bruckhauser reports fossil finds near Arrow Creek at Square Butte in Kalispell-Lewistown oil properties. He notes numerous fossils including fish frogs clams snails and a gigantic six feet square petrified reptile mass. The site resembles a volcanic crater and hosts many rattlesnakes.
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John Bruckhauser
Arrow Creek
Square Butte
Lewistown
Bruckhauser
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Mme. Leipheimer
Marquis of Lorne
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Marquis
Portage la Prairie
Dillon
Winnipeg
State House
W. J. Rendall
Missouri River
Canadian Northwest
Sun River Crossing
Fort Benton Trail
Northwest
Ottawa
Canadian Pacific
Manitoba
Utah & Northern
Pony Express
Garfield
Guiteau
Kent
Benton Trail
de Winton
McGregor
D. D
Chater
Bagot
Royal Artillery
Jones
Percival
Roe
Sidney P. Hall
London Graphic
Northwest Mounted Police
Hale
Dr. Sewell
Greenleaf
Charles Austin
London Times
Krause
Colonel Kent
Dr. McGregor
Presbyterian Church of Scotland
Lord Bagot
Princess Louise
Sidney Hall
Sewell
Laopardar
Utah and Northern Railway
Ogden City
St. Paul
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