Swan Song Of The Nez Perces Hero G E M Kelly
Montana aviation pioneer Lieut. G E M Kelly dies saving infantry in a crash during a border scouting mission in 1911. The piece links his sacrifice to early U S Army aviation and recalls the Nez Perce leader Joseph I and the long history of white Indigenous relations in Montana.
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Nez Perces
Joseph
United States Military Service
Montana
G. E. M. Kelly
United States Army
Lieutenant Kelly
England
B. B. Kelly
E. W. Kelly
Tod & Kelly
Great Falls
West
Joseph II
Nez Perce
Cooper
Lewis and Clark
United States
Joseph I
Lewis
Oregon
Ravalli
DeSmet
Hell's Half Acre of Butte Doomed
A historic district of Butte known as Hell's Half Acre, famed as a red light area and inspiration for a Service poem, is being cleared for a modern business block. The three story block housed around 500 women, with courts, board walks and a noted slumming visit by Robert Service. The district drew robberies, murders, and reform attempts, including Mayor Duncan's unimplemented uniform dresses policy, and was shut by Attorney General Ford's enforcement edict on commercial vice laws.
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Joseph
Nez Perce
Salmon River
Broven
Nez Perces
Howard
Sturgis
Miles
Big Hole
Bear Paw Mountains
Hell
Butte
United States
Aphrodite
Alexandria
Duncan
Ford
Homesteader Finds Mate Through Chicago Ad
Edward Corkney, a northern Dawson county homesteader, answered a Chicago widow’s ad seeking a home for herself and her son. After exchanged letters and photos, Corkney completed a ranch house and invited her to pick furniture as they planned marriage. The widow departed for Weldon that night. they married soon after. The lonesome place became a home.
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Chicago
Lonesome Place
Corkney
Dawson County
Dawson
Weldon
Montana Girl on Stricken Vessel and Trial in Egypt
Miss Lala Photiades of Butte survived a sinking after a submarine attack near Piraeus. Rescued at Alexandria she was jailed on espionage charges for months before Greek consular proof cleared her. After recovery she returned to Montana and began lecturing for the Red Cross.
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Alexandria
Montana
Lala Photiades
Butte
Miss Photiades
Miss Phatiades
America
West
Red Cross
Photiates
Paria
Paris
Athens
Australia
Piraeus
Greece
Gets a Commission for J A Livingston Captain in Staff Corps
J A Livingston longtime clerk in Governor Stewart’s office has been appointed a captain on the staff corps and ordered to report to the war department. He is the second officer of the staff corps to be called into service, following Major O Gay Stivers of Butte as the first.
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England
Salisbury Plain
United States
War Department
San Francisco
Brookins
Wright Flyer
Kelly
United States Army
Military Aviation
Glen Curtiss
San Diego
Isaac N. Stevens
Washington Territory
Idaho
Oregon
Washington
Wallowa
Imnaha
Joseph I
Joseph
Young Joseph
J. A. Livingston
Stewart
Livingston
O’gay Stivers
Butte
When You Try You Might Make a Fool of Yourself
A compact reflection on effort and risk, noting that attempting something can expose a person to embarrassment even if they do not fully intend to fail. The saying emphasizes action over hesitation and warns against assuming failure without trying.
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Lieut. Kelly
Philippines
Islands
San Antonio
Union
Presidency
Grant
Hays
Harrison
Garfield
Wallowa Valley
O. O. Howard
Too-hul-hul-sote
Too-hul
Order
Fort Leavenworth
Indian Territory
Colleville Reservation
Wounde
The
Charles M. Russell
Hell's
Service
Robert Service
Congressional Vice Commission
MR. Farmer
Northwest
Bertha Culverson
Edward Corkney
Great Palk
Aan
First National Bank
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