The Butte Miner, 1924-06-06, p.7

The Butte Miner, Butte, 1924-06-06, p.7

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Page overview

An interior page of The Butte Miner for June 1924, mixing society/entertainment column text on the left with large display advertising on the right. The left portion carries what appears to be a society or women's page column, including references to a Columbia Gardens costume ball and a Murphy-Softley store display for June brides. The right half is dominated by a full or near-full illustration advertisement — an Art Nouveau-style portrait of a curly-haired brunette woman in an oval frame, with florid italic advertising copy beneath it. The overall editorial character is women's society and consumer advertising, typical of an interior feature page of the period.

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Headlines on this page

  • ARDEN
  • Brunette- woven spell of dark mysteries-

Clippings pulled from this page

  • COLUMBIA GARDENS

    1924-06-06

    secondarycol 1 (leftmost) · runs in the left column beneath a section head reading ARDEN; adjacent to the large brunette advertisement occupying the right half of the page

Juxtapositions

  • The Murphy-Softley June bride window display item — describing a bridal and bridesmaid dress on show — runs directly alongside a large cosmetics advertisement celebrating the romantic allure of the brunette woman, creating an unintended editorial rhyme between bridal femininity and commercial beauty ideals.

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[Partial crop of a page. The left edge of the image cuts through the lines of one text column and through a halftone photograph; the right edge cuts through an advertisement; no masthead, date line or page number is included.] ## Column 1 (cut off at the left edge of the image) [halftone photograph, only its right-hand part in the image] [caption, beginning cut off] er" --- [The lines below are the right-hand ends of printed lines; their beginnings are cut off at the left edge of the image.] the bridesmaid. d for the bride Murphy-Softley Thursday and eremony on the g. A great deal n done by the before making in finding just the large and f that popular hy-Softley com- in fitting out institution has [t?]he June brides' in the Murphy- e on exhibition --- [heading, beginning cut off] ARDEN ume ball at the ht proved to be eatest, funniest and girl cos- lowing: Neatest Thomas Cates niest boy and [m?] Carlson and ## Column 2 (cut off at the right edge of the image) [advertisement: oval illustration of a young woman with abundant dark curly hair, her hand at her shoulder; a copyright mark inside the oval at lower right] # *Brunette—* ## woven spell of dark mysteries— *Lyric sheen of moonlight—magic shimmer of Sta[cut off]* *—silken lustre telling of subtle allures—velvet [cut off]* *promising secret intensities—slumbering fires tha[cut off]* *tell new dawns and new sunsets.* [fragment of a second circular illustration at the top right corner, cut off by the right edge of the image]

Peripheral items I've noted

  • [photograph, caption cut off: ends ...er"]

    Right edge of a boxed halftone photograph at the top left of the scan, with the last letters of its display caption (ending er and a closing quotation mark); the image, caption and any names are cut off by the crop.

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  • [headline not on the scan] (Murphy-Softley June brides' store item)

    Catalogued as clipping 1924-06-06_butte-miner_june-brides-store-columbia-gardens-wedding; on this scan only the right ends of its lines survive (Murphy-Softley named three times: the bride's and bridesmaid's garments in the Murphy-Softley window, the company fitting out June brides, the June brides' store); the left of the column and the headline are cut off. The Newspapers.com clipping image (clipping.pdf in the clipping folder) shows the whole item: headline COLUMBIA GARDENS at the foot of the previous column, continued at the top of this one (checked 21 Oct 2026).

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  • [...]ARDEN

    Last letters of a headline (WINTER GARDEN in the clipping image) over a costume-ball item at the foot of the text strip; only line ends survive, naming prize winners Thomas Cates and Carlson (first name cut off); no family or peer name visible.

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  • Brunette— woven spell of dark mysteries—

    Large display advertisement filling the right three-quarters of the scan: an oval drawing of a dark-haired woman over italic copy ("Lyric sheen of moonlight—magic shimmer of Sta[rs]..."); the advertiser's name and the rest of the copy are cut off by the right and bottom edges.

    • advertisement

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