School Life Notes and Local Updates
Report from Walter Powers covers a school spelling match won by Miss May Reinhardt, fixture fixes by Janitor Smith, and students skating on a thawed pond. Mentions Jennie Gilbert’s return, Carrie Mellen visiting Butte, Anna Peterson’s absence, and a 2 PM dismissal for Willie Adams funeral. Also a Mont Helena State Board letter discusses bounty payments and filing timing.
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Jennie Gilbert
Carrie Mellen
Butte
Anna Peterson
Willie Adams
Pacific Officers Tour Anaconda for System Inspection
General Manager E Dickinson of Union Pac and superintendent car service E Buckingham led a Southbound special from Ogden for the annual inspection tour of the system. H E Van Housen and J C O Melveny joined from Idaho for condemnation work over the Divide spur. They toured Divide with Lavalle attorney Stapleton and road attorney Shropshire along with commissioners Conlon Wilson and Brophy before returning to the South.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anaconda Standard
E. Dickinson
Union Pacfc
E. Buckingham
H.E. van Housen
Idaho
J. C. O'Melveny
Pocatello
Ogden
Divide
Geoff Lavalle
G. W. Stapleton
J. S. Shropshire
Pat Conlon
Hugh Wilson
P. J. Brophy
van Houeen
O’ Melveny
South
Anaconda Baptist Church Organized. Town Sees Religious Revival
Montana weekly notes a new Baptist church formation in Anaconda and another revival in the town. Diphtheria declines at Belt as public schools reopen amid broader state activity including reading circles in Glasgow and plans for Butte to own an electric light plant.
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Montana
Anaconda
Belt
Glasgow
Butte
Philipsburg
Cuba Crisis Leads to Campos Replacement in Madrid
Jan 18 19 20 items detail the cabinet supplanting Captain General Campos and Arderius with Marin and Pando in Santiago de Cuba. Campos sails to Madrid amid Campos’s resentful stand and his call for strong centralized authority. Weyler named as successor. Also notes Evangelist H W Brown visiting, church meetings, and missions offerings scheduled.
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Maprio
Martinez de Campos
Arderius
Cuba
Marin
Pando
Santiago de Cuba
Campos
Havana
General Campos
Madrid
Gen
Weyler
New York
Martinez Campos
Supreme Command
Key West
Tomy
Spain
Americas
Cuban refugees land in Florida and Key West
The steamer Olivette brought 45 Cuban refugees to Tampa with 120 landed in Key West. Another 300 are booked for the next voyage as beaches and cots are prepared. Arrivals say those who refuse participation in the revolution must flee Cuba or join Spanish forces.
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Florida
Tampa
Fla
Olivette
Cuba
Key West
General Campos
Spain
States
New York
Gold Claims Belong to United States Says Boundary Work
Washington reports Alaska Forty mile Creek gold discoveries belong to the United States not Britain. The British marked the First meridian. Duffield of the coast survey notes only 16 miles of creek are straight line and 23 miles in British water have no gold. Rest of creek is in Alaska. A boundary commission bill exists but awaits action. Rush for Yukon fields begins with 75 prospects aboard Topeka. many more expected to Juneau by spring. German gunboat Sperber sails to Delagoa bay. Baltimore cruiser arrives San Francisco from Honolulu.
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Washington
Alaska
United States
Congress
Yukon Gold Fields
Tacoma
Yukon
Juneau
Wild geese cross unseen seas under Liberty lighting their path
A Scribner's Magazine excerpt by Jaymes H. Morse depicts wild geese navigating stormy seas and dark lands beneath a sunken world of towns. The verse contrasts human fear with the birds’ fearless travel, noting polar currents and vast winds as their company and the remorseless cold as their fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jaymes H. Morse
Scribner's Magazine
Land Recession Shifts Island No 10 Border In Mississippi
The Mississippi River cut a land neck near Island No 10 creating a new island and shifting a ten by five mile strip between Kentucky and Tennessee. The loop at the state line extends into Fulton county with Hickman and Darnell nearby, complicating the boundary and raising questions of territorial belonging.
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Little
Kentucky
Island No. 10
Tennessee
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Mississippi
Fulton County
Hickmat
Darnell
Obion County
Tenn
Paducah
Freeman's early life and the Freeman-Sala notes
Freeman's youth shows love before adulthood and a proposed marriage kept from proceeding by kin and a conscience wary of coal mining income amid reform calls. The piece also notes George Augustus Sala's illness and a London fund, and a caricature of Mr Pope at Parliament with his weight on a moving chair.
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Freeman
Stephens
George Eliot
Quarterly Review
George Augustus Sala
London Telegraph
Brighton
England
London
Pope
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Dillon Market
Walter Powers
Miss May Reinhardt
Department of State Board of Examiners
Helena
Mont
T. J. Murray
Dillon
Bir
L. Rotwitz
Board of Examiners
Per M
Newbro
R. R. Inspection
Faton Pacific
Baby’s Head
Cuticura
Potten Drug & Curmn Comr
Boston
U.S.A
Baby's Syoncex Bie
Checity Pac
Peerless Montana
Boulder
Brown
John H. Cronin
Livingston Herald
Park Country
Ben. Calkins
George King
Curtis
Pleasant Draper
Lena Turner
Draper
Salvation Army
Missoula
Charlie Grano
Eighth Ward
Butts
Colorado Street
Emil
Norell
Havre
Centerville Lodge
H. L. Frank
W. P. Gwin
John O'Rourke
Simon Jacobs
Jacobs
Jim Manskier
Stark County
N. C
Milea City
Smith
Manskier
Clancy Miner
Round House
Great Northern
Ther
Bow
the Dominion Company
Omaha Bldg
Chicago
Wil Sall
Russia
Korida
Czar
H. W. Brown
Wellhcome
Presbyterian Church
St. James Church
Methodist Church
St. Petersburg
Armenia
Germany
Abyssinia
General Weyler Haw
Valeranio Weyler
St. Preterspurg
Moscow
Forty-Mile Creek
Uncle Sam
Delagoa
Capetown
Sperber Haa
Delagoa Bay
Baltimore
San Francisco
Honolulu
Little Kentucky
ALERS
Icycles
Dillon Implement Company
J.T. Cox
W. S. Pyle
Geo. J. Staudaker
Butchers
Veal
Dillon National Bank
Dillon, Montana
C. O. D. Store
Dillon, Mont
Morton
Stov HS
Morton’s
Geo
W. Perkins
Diller
Pat
N. Y
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