Uncle Dick Sutton Returns to Butte Showbiz
Colonel Dick Sutton nicknamed Uncle Dick is returning to theater life in Butte. Once a dominant figure in Montana's theatrical scene, he built a fortune after selling out and retiring. He plans to open the Lulu Sutton theater in Butte within days to amuse himself and revive the bright lights.
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Dick Sutton
Butte
Montana
Dulce Far Niente
Lulu Sutton
Standard
Inter Mountain
Lee Mantle
John Maguire
Anaconda
Missoula
Helena
Great Falls
John Considine
Seattle
Tim Sullivan
New York City
Sullivan-Considine
Broadway
Star pupil of Vernon Castle survives a 2000 foot fall and war service
Edgar Bryce once Castle’s favored modern dancing pupil in Butte recounts his life through war service in France and a near fatal crash over German lines. He was shot down but survived behind British lines and received a medical discharge. Bryce now dances at Columbia Gardens in Butte as he recovers.
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Castle
Texas
Bryce
Edgar Bryce
Butte
France
Vernon Castle
British Air Service
British Flying Corps
United States
Tor
Gregson Springs
Columbia Gardens
Montana photographer of wild game to enter aviation
A. J. Thiri, long a Glacier National Park Service man and avid hunter of Rocky Mountain wildlife, plans to retire from the park service to become an aviation photographer for Uncle Sam. He will report to an aviation camp and continues his Thiri's Aerial View Service postcard business from Polson on Flathead Lake.
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A. J. Thiri
National Park Service
Glacier Park
Thiri
Rockies
Polson
Candidate pledges patriotic service and charity in Musselshell county
The candidate for nomination pledges to work four hours daily in Red Cross rooms if elected. He offers to remit all government war work fees and donate 40 dollars to the fund for a new flagpole. He also swears he has never smoked a cigarette.
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Musselshell
Red Cross
Singapore Jake and the Kelly Diamond Tragedy
The tale recalls Singapore Jake Montana's first mind reader and the Kelly diamond curse. Jake drains McGraw of two stones in a Denver saloon, swallows both diamonds, flees by horse toward the mountains, pursued by a posse along the Platte to Scudder lake and Three Cross ranch.
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Montana
Singapore
Jake
Mountain Gulches
India
New Orleans
Mississippi
Plummer
Mexico
King” Kelly
Rocky Mountains
Kelly Diamond
Marty McGraw
Denver
McGraw
Kelly
Marty
San Francisco
Butte
Singapore Lake
Platte River
Statewide thrift stamp contest to send 86 women to fair
War thrift managers in Montana announce a program awarding 86 women, two from each of the 43 counties, all expenses paid trips to the state fair for the top thrift stamp and war savings certificate sellers. Prizes total 500 dollars in four awards. Contest runs through September 5 with county and Helena events and chaperoned visits.
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War Thrift
Montana
Paul R. Flint
Malta
War Savings
Helena
Harry W. Turner
Butte
Atte Fe? Helgna
Miracle
Flint
Ensign
War Savings Organizations
R. Flint
Concrete Ship Faith Cleared for San Francisco to Seattle Voyage
The concrete ship Faith from San Francisco to Seattle completed its first voyage under Captain A. H. W. McNab of Lloyds Registry reporting favorable results. Despite rough weather no water entered the hold and only hairline cracks appeared in the walls as evidence of the trip.
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A. H. W. McNab
Lloyds Register
Faith
San Francisco
Seattle
Montana clairvoyant Jacob Kelly dies in Scudder Lake tragedy
Jake pitched forward to grab his saddle horn and fell into Scudder lake. Three watchers on the trail saw his body vanish below the water. The Kelly diamond, cursed and famed, remains the last misfortune in a tale of Montana's early occult practitioner.
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Jake
Scudder’s Lake
Kelly
Scudder Lake
Montana
Repose
Kelly Diamond
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Tom
Uncle Dick
Nat Goodwins
Elsie Jamses
Eva
Montana Street
Miner
Dick” Sutton
Thim
Three Cross Horse Ranch
National War Savings Campaign
Great Fal Bric & Te Ca
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