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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1925
Page
2
A miscellany of wry observations on Christmas spending timing and social foibles. Wry lines note high costs of gifts and savings, humor about home returns, dating, love near Christmas, coffee drains wealth, bank robbers fleeing, hunters and ducks, and turkeys in markets.
The article recounts a vow made during Napoleon's Kuselan campaign to build a small church if God spared John Gaertner, a French explorer with Napoleon's army at Moscow's burning. Financial hardship delayed the plan until 1885 when Mary Anna Huber completed St. Anthony's Catholic chapel, one of the smallest churches in the world, built of native Vi.
The article recounts St Anthony's Chapel dedicated to John Gaertner with an 11 by 17 foot layout, four stained glass windows, a tall belfry, cross, eight pews and multiple altars. It notes maintenance by the Huber family until 1924, then by St Anthony's Chapel association of Mary Anna Luther's 63 grandchildren. It mentions Gaertner arriving in 1848, Oldenburg families building a log church on the site, services funded by $853, and a later description of West Africa prisoners and post release status.
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