The Butte Daily Post, 1912-02-27, p.5
The Butte Daily Post, Butte, 1912-02-27, p.5
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An interior page (p.5) of The Butte Inter Mountain, dated Tuesday, February 27, 1912, combining local news columns on the left with a dominant full-column advertisement for the Remington Typewriter Company occupying the entire right half of the page. The left side carries a mix of local news items, wire briefs, and display advertisements for patent medicines, eyeglasses, and Carter's Little Liver Pills. Editorial content ranges from a club installation story to brief crime and death dispatches, with no single story dominating the news columns. The page's overall visual weight is captured entirely by the Remington advertisement, which uses bold display typography and large numerals to present sales statistics.
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- YOUNG MEN'S CLUB IS COMPLIMENTED
- ALASKAN MURDERED AND BODY ROBBED IN SEATTLE YARDS
- SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
- GOOD TEMPLARS OF BUTTE HOLD A BANQUET ON THEIR ANNIVERSARY
- ORDER IS ISSUED
- MRS. LEWIS IS DEAD
- SOME Remington Typewriter FIGURES
- DELICATELY FORMED
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- YOUNG MEN'S CLUB IS COMPLIMENTED
1912-02-27
leadcol 2 · top of the column, largest headline in the news section; sits directly beside the Remington advertisement that dominates the right half of the page
Juxtapositions
- The Centerville Young Men's Club installation story — a local civic celebration — sits immediately adjacent to a full-page Remington Typewriter advertisement touting 750,000 machines in use worldwide, creating a sharp contrast between local community life and corporate commercial scale.
- The brief 'ALASKAN MURDERED AND BODY ROBBED IN SEATTLE YARDS' wire dispatch is tucked below a genteel eyeglasses advertisement for Hight & Fairfield Co., jewelers and opticians.
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TUESDAY, FEB. 27, 1912. THE BUTTE INTER MOUNTAIN. 5
Page header across the top of the page with the date and page number 5; it prints the title The Butte Inter Mountain, not The Butte Daily Post as in the page id and the newspaper field.
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DELICATELY FORMED
Reading-notice advertisement for Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna (California Fig Syrup Co.) at the top of column 1.
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The Cream That Makes Famous Complexions
Boxed advertisement for Newbro's Witch Hazel Cream, Newbro Drug Co., 109 North Main St., column 1.
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NOW ... Glasses
Boxed advertisement of Hight & Fairfield Co., jewelers and opticians, Butte, offering glasses with no charge for examination, column 1.
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ALASKAN MURDERED AND BODY ROBBED IN SEATTLE YARDS
Seattle dispatch, Feb. 27, column 1 lower: the body of Oscar J. Olson, lately of Iditarod, Alaska, found shot on the Northern Pacific tracks; a letter signed Lena, of 207 North Albany street, Chicago, found on him.
SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE.
Short joke (Mrs. Exe and Mr. Exe), column 1.
ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills.
Advertisement for Carter's Little Liver Pills at the foot of column 1.
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YOUNG MEN'S CLUB IS COMPLIMENTED
Catalogued as clipping 1912-02-27_butte-daily-post_young-mens-club-centerville-jerry-d-murphy-president (column 2, top to lower middle): the Centerville Young Men's club's fourth annual installation, naming Jerry D. Murphy, president, Judge Lynch, Miss Anna Sullivan, Jim Brennan, the Kelly brothers, Tim Harrington and Miss Imelda Kelly (recitation).
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GOOD TEMPLARS OF BUTTE HOLD A BANQUET ON THEIR ANNIVERSARY
Column 2 lower: the Good Templars' thirty-sixth anniversary banquet; names Massena Bullard, Rev. C. A. Rexroad, Mayor Duncan, Mrs. A. B. Clinch and Attorney J. J. McCaffery among the speakers.
ORDER IS ISSUED.
Column 2 lower: order on behalf of the Mill and Smeltermen's union requiring the Miners' and Engineers' unions and J. C. Lowney, a director of the Western Federation of Miners, to produce their constitutions in court.
MRS. LEWIS IS DEAD.
Spokane dispatch, Feb. 27, at the foot of column 2: Mrs. Pearl Lewis, wife of Fred Lewis, formerly of Butte, died of bichloride of mercury poisoning.
SOME Remington Typewriter FIGURES
Full-depth advertisement of the Remington Typewriter Company, 105 West Broadway, filling columns 3 to 6, with a drawing of the Remington Visible Model No. 10.
- advertisement