Butte Plans Grandeur Welcome for Returning Soldiers
City officials led by Mayor W H Maloney map a triumphant homecoming for the first contingent from France. A Rome style chariot and vast floats will greet veterans, with floral arches, orators, maidens in victory song, and displays from Liberty Loan and war work boosters as crowds line the parade route.
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Caesar
Napoleon
Butte
France
W. H. Maloney
Montana
Rome
Chamber of Commerce
Rotary Club
Liberty Loan
Outlaw Killed After Gun Battle Near Glasgow
Curt Dennis brother of Montana railroad commissioner Lee Dennis and Deputy Sheriff Clarence Hall joined Deputy H. H. Seeley in a pursuit of outlaw Lloyd C. Cole. Cole shot at them but was killed when Hall's bullet struck as he neared the Missouri river. Dennis narrowly escaped a rifle bullet.
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Curt Dennis
Lee Dennis
Bad Man
Outlaw
Montana
Clarence Hall
Glasgow
Lloyd C. Cole
Cole
Valley County
Missouri River
Hall
Dennis
Four Thousand Three Hundred Thirty Nine Recalled in October
Four thousand three hundred thirty nine sick and wounded men from the American expeditionary forces in France were brought home during October.
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France
Trial of Kaiser for murder urged by former ambassador
James W. Gerard former ambassador to Germany urges extradition and trial of William Hohenzollern for war crimes. He supports a world war crimes tribunal with charges from murder to arson, and notes Britain France and Belgium have lists of German leaders to be tried.
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Kaiser
J. W. Gerard
James W. Gerard
Marcus Daly
United States
Germany
William Hohenzollern
England
Holland
Gerard
Montana
Daly Estate
Hamilton
Frederick Edward Smith
Britain
International Judicial Tribunal
Hague
Belgium
France
Tancrede Martel
International Court of Justice
Martel
von Bethmann- Hollweg
Frederick William
Ritel Friedrich
von Tirpitz
von Capelle
Rupprecht
Bavaria
Russian
Poland
Lille
Duke of Mecklenburg
St. Quentin
Noyon
Montana Hero Falls in Charge in World War I
In the dark days of last June a Montana officer Lieutenant Herbert K. Jones of Great Falls led a Marine machine gun company toward Paris. He fell dead from a direct wound as American troops pressed forward under heavy German artillery fire. A letter found among his effects expresses his peaceful resignation and asks his family to carry on with pride rather than sorrow.
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Paris
Chateau Thierry
Montana
Herbert K. Jones
Great Falls
Marine Corps
France
Joseph Keppler Montana’s first jeweler retires after 55 years
Joseph C. Keppler, Montana’s early jeweler and friend of Ulysses S. Grant, sold his Anaconda store to Louis Kirschman of Butte. His career began in Bannack in 1864, moved through Virginia City and Glendale, and included posts as Glendale postmaster and Anaconda alderman.
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Joseph Keppler
U. S. Grant
Montana
Joseph C. Keppler
Anaconda
Louis Kirschman
Butte
Alder
Last Chance Gulches
Grasshopper Creek
Rocky Mountains
Keppler
States
Bannack
U. S. Grant Keppler
Denver
Pike’s Peak
Galena
Ill
Sarts
Ulysses S. Grant
Grant
Penne
Colorado
Inver
Virginia City
Glendale
Hayes
Barber wit sparks debate on aging patrons and wartime pricing
A Lewistown barber named Dave laments wartime wane in young customers and rising costs. He derides old married men who keep monthly haircuts while cattlemen defend high prices for massages and soaps as the barbershop economy faces slow demand.
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Lewistown
Dave
Objector gets 20-year military sentence for refusing mop duty
Private Paul A. Oehme a civil high school teacher is sentenced by a court martial at Camp Devens Mass to twenty years in prison for refusing to mop a floor when ordered.
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Paul A. Oehme
Camp Devens
Mass
Keppler Plans to Remain in Anaconda After Leaving City Council
He is a charter member of the Anaconda Masonic bodies and intends to continue residing in Anaconda following his service on the first city council.
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Anaconda
Keppler
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Missouri
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1St National Bank
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von Hindenburg
von Mackensen
Romania
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Fleck
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von Bernhardt
von Boehm
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von Dreicht
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Louvain
Aerschot
Edith Cavelle
Captain Fryatt
Red Cross
International Trial Court
Resdece Natinn
Resdece Natinn of the High Courts of the Allied Nations
United States Supreme Court
William Howard Taft
Elihu Root
Europe
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Berlin
Mander
West
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