Honest John McCloskey A Montana Baseball Pioneer Crippled
The article profiles Honest John McCloskey, Montana’s famed early baseball figure, crippled for life after a Texas truck accident. It recounts his role in founding the Pacific Northwest League with Lucas, managing Butte, and developing stars like Slim Sallee Ray Schalk and Amos Strunk while advancing major league clubs.
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McCloskey
Butte
St. Louis Cardinals
Milwaukee Braves
Cardinals
Slim” Sallee
Giants
McGraw
Ray Schalk
Amos Strunk
Shrunk
Schalk
Brewers
White Sox
The Mountain Men Ride to Victory
Read by James J. Montague at the Rocky Mountain Club Christmas dinner soldiers and Allies. The Mountain Men vow to fight for the nation with rugged pride and a steadfast spirit. They pledge to meet any blow in land and sea until triumph is assured and victory spreads like rainbow light.
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James J. Montague
Rocky Mountain Club of
New York
Delmonicos
United States
Sam
Girl operators save two men from death in jail fire
Quick work by Miss Gladys Pendergast of the Northern Pacific in Manhattan and Miss Mildred Rathburn of Bozeman saved two men from a jail fire after they were arrested for drunkenness and confined in Manhattan town jail. Frantic screams and a rapid response helped prevent a tragedy.
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Gladys Pendergast
Northern Pacific
Manhattan
Mildred Rathburn
Bozeman
Strunk Sold to Red Sox After Montana Accident
Strunk, once mentored by McCloskey and aided by Connie Mack, was handed over for a good figure after an accident. He had not played a game until McCloskey took him in, later joining Bullet Joe Bush and Wallie Schang in a Boston Red Sox deal. McCloskey’s Montana friends lament the accident.
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Strunk
Connie Mack
McCloskey
Joe’’ Bush
Wallie Schang
Boston Red Sox
Center Garden
Fast Company
Montana
Miss Pendergast Averts Jail Fire With Bell Rouse
Miss Pendergast drew attention to a burning jail and rang the Manhattan fire bell. Her quick action alarmed the town and summoned the fire department in time to rescue the trapped men with Miss Rathburn assisting.
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Miss Pendergast
Manhattan
Miss Rathburn
Secretary McAdoo Authorized to Aid Farm Loan Banks
Secretary McAdoo may aid the Farm Loan Board under the revised federal farm loan act hewing to the house passage of the measure providing up to 100 million dollars for support to farm loan banks and related institutions.
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McAdoo
House
Farm Loan Board
Senators Urge Wilson to Block Michigan City Mayor Nomination
Senators Watson and New of Indiana urged President Wilson to prevent Fred C. Miller from taking office as mayor of Michigan City. Miller, born in the United States to German parents, is alleged to be an enemy alien and not naturalized.
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Wilson
Watson and
New
Indiana
Fred C. Miller
Michigan City
Miller
Helena
Clancy
Jacob Grobe
Montana
Bourquin
Butte
Edward Crawford
United States
Thomas H. Carter
Flanders
Rodersburg
William McCabe
Sixth Artillery
France
Billings
Lee Simonson
Chicago
Food Administration
Bozeman
E. L. Currier
United States Bureau of Labor
Texas
A man who avoids vices yet stands as a decent fellow
The subject is noted for abstaining from alcohol, tobacco, chewing, and swearing while being described as a generally respectable man.
Peter Koch of Bozeman Dead at 73
Peter Koch a longtime Bozeman resident and builder of the first permanent house in the Judith basin died in California at age 73. Born in Denmark he arrived in New York in 1865 penniless and later moved to Montana, helping survey the Gallatin and Yellowstone valleys and directing a trading expedition into the Judith basin before returning to Bozeman in the 1870s.
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Gallatin and
Yellowstone Vallies
New York
Montana
Peter Koch
Judith Basis
Bozeman
California
Denmark
University of Copenhagen
America
Missouri River
Koch
Fort Ellis
Judith Basin
Gallatin
Yellowstone
It Is All Right to Laugh and Grow Fat Quote
A pithy maxim on jokey excess warns that laughter and abundance may backfire once indulgence enlarges fortunes or bodies, implying a moral about hubris and consequence.
Various Montana Local Updates Hit From Banking to Snow
Montana towns report new banks planned in Scobey and Plentywood as well as a near completion of Whitefish city hall. Schools reopen after smallpox in Conrad, while the state faces agriculture shifts, labor needs, and snowy protection for winter wheat.
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Whitefish
Lewistown
Scobey
Merchants’ National
Plentywood
Merchants of
Conrad
Great Falls
Montana Live Stock Association
Deer Lodge
Powell County High School
Butte
Butte Dairies
Fergus County Graduate Nurse Association
J. C. Dunn
Helena
Red Cross
Montana
Stanford
Igel
Swindlehurst
Larson
Glasgow
Moss & Moore
Carl C. Nissler
A. C. Birkland
Engineer Corps
Army
Edward S. Sloan
Western Union
France
Malta
Troy
Slavre
Montana Railway Commission
McAdoo
Bozeman
Alfred Atkinson
Havre
Plan to divert large number of men to Montana
The text mentions a plan to divert a large number of men to Montana. No further details or context are provided in the readable fragment.
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Kotas
Montana
Levies New War Tax Proposal Embraces Global Practice
A new war revenue bill to be added as an amendment promises simpler, clearer taxation. It shifts from excess profits to a tax on actual war gains at 10 to 80 percent, aiming for broad congressional and public support by taxing profits earned from the blood of war.
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Congress
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Silver Bow Creek
The
Mountain Men
Judith Basin Country
Edmonson Dental Specialists
Sess
Edmonson
Edmonson Offices
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E. E. Edmonson
Dr. King
Tom
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Hotel
Dakota
Central Ace
Great Falla
Mont
Butte Floral CO
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Sullivan
Frank Lemmer
Central Avene
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White Sulphur Springs
Arry HA. McCole
Great
Falla Montana
S. O. Huseth
Optician
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