Tag · Narrative role
Red herring
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- 1883-03-23 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.3
A short news brief reporting that "the Rawhide Butte copper mines employ 100 men, and [it] promises to be valuable," followed by an unrelated brief about a new …
- 1936-09-09 — The Montana Standard, p.1JAMES MURPHY, MINER, BEATEN TO DEATH
Front-page report. James Murphy, "47. a miner" (so printed), died on the evening of Tuesday 8 September 1936 at St. James' hospital, "the victim of what police …