Public health

Sources

• 1896-06-24 — The Anaconda Standard, p.5[3-MONTH-OLD DAUGHTER OF MR AND MRS PATRICK MURPHY DIES]

  Short death notice: the three-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Murphy died on 23 June 1896 and was buried at 2 o'clock the next afternoon from the fam…

• 1908-01-07 — The Butte Daily Post, p.6JOHN BARLEYCORN IS VERY BUSY MAN

  Butte Daily Post (evening paper) account of the **7 January 1908 commission hearing in Judge Donlan's court**, published the same evening — the longest of the t…

• 1908-01-08 — The Anaconda Standard, p.9TWO MENTAL UNFORTUNATES

  Anaconda Standard's next-day account of the 7 January 1908 hearing in Judge Donlan's court — the third of three papers (Butte Daily Post 7 Jan, Butte Miner 8 Ja…

• 1908-01-08 — The Butte Miner, p.12PAT MURPHY FOUND TO BE SICK AND NOT INSANE

  Butte Miner next-day account of the FIRST insanity hearing for Pat Murphy — the one the 24 March Anaconda Standard later refers to as "examined on a charge of i…

• 1917-06-10 — The San Francisco Examiner, p.1HOPE GIVEN UP FOR 193 MEN IN BURNING MINE

  Front-page wire coverage in the San Francisco Examiner of the **Granite Mountain / Speculator mine disaster** in Butte — the worst hardrock-mining disaster in U…

• 1920-08-17 — The Butte Miner, p.8

  A "safety-first" address (mine-safety / first-aid context) that reaches back to the 1918 influenza epidemic in Butte as its moral example: "during the dark days…