ST. PATRICK HONORED. / Observance of the Saint's Natal Day in Butte. / Procession of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Funeral Guards and Pinotti Miners Witnessed by Crowds — The Ball at Miners' Union Hall a Wonderful and Social Success.

The Butte Weekly Miner, Butte, 1889-03-20, p.4

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Summary

News coverage of the 17 March 1889 St. Patrick's Day procession and ball in Butte. The Ancient Order of Hibernians Division No. 1, with the Butte Funeral Guards and the Pinotti Miners, paraded through Butte; the AOH ball at Miners' Union Hall followed in the evening. The piece opens with a "Catherine Brennan" St. Patrick's Day ode (reprinted from the New York Sun) before turning to local coverage. Committee lists at the end of the article match those in the Daily Inter Mountain ad of 18 March (clip 1889-03-18_daily-inter-mountain_aoh-grand-ball-ad).

Narrative

Butte's St. Patrick's Day celebrations in 1889 include a procession of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Funeral Guards, and Pinotti Miners watched by crowds, followed by a ball at Miners' Union Hall. The coverage opens with a St. Patrick's Day ode by Catherine Brennan, reprinted from the New York Sun. Patrick J. Murphy serves on the Reception Committee; D. J. Hennessy chairs the Committee of Arrangements and acts as Floor Director; Jas. Murphy appears on the Floor Committee. [transcription partial — parade route, mass account, and ball description OCR-degraded; full body text requires manual transcription against fullpage.jpg]

  • “The Ball at Miners' Union Hall a Wonderful and Social Success”

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Also mentioned

  • Catherine Brennan · poet

    Authored the St. Patrick's Day ode reprinted at the head of the article (from the New York Sun).

  • Jas. Murphy · floor_committee

    As in the 1889-03-18 ad.

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  • evidence_primary
  • context_setting
  • ocr_degraded

Source type

news_item, public_meeting_report

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Transcription
transcription: partial · confidence medium
# Transcription — The Butte Weekly Miner, 1889-03-20, p.4 **Source**: The Butte Weekly Miner (Butte, Montana), Wednesday 20 March 1889, p.4. **Status**: Partial — headlines, opening ode, and closing committee lists captured; descriptive parade/mass body OCR-degraded. **Method**: Read against [fullpage.jpg](fullpage.jpg). Headlines and large-type committee lists visible; the body of the article (parade route narrative, mass at the church, ball description) is in a narrow single column that does not render legibly at the available resolution. --- ## Page layout The focused St. Patrick's Day article occupies column 3 (center-left) of the 6-column page. Adjacent content (already catalogued in `peripheral_items`): "THE COPPER TRUST" article (column 2); "DR. SPINNEY" patent-medicine ads (top right); Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder (right); "SANTA ABE / KING OF CALIFORNIA CURE" (right); "JAMES LEFFEL'S IMPROVED TURBINE" (lower right); "CLARK'S Mile-End Spool Thread" (right); **D. J. HENNESSY & CO. — Butte City — Wholesale Agents for Western Montana** (bottom right). "ST. JACOBS OIL" (bottom). Classifieds bottom right. --- ## Headlines (verbatim from JPG) # ST. PATRICK HONORED. ## OBSERVANCE OF THE SAINT'S NATAL DAY IN BUTTE. *Procession of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Funeral Guards and Pinotti Miners Witnessed by Crowds — The Ball at Miners' Union Hall a Wonderful and Social Success.* --- ## Opening ode **CATHERINE BRENNAN'S ST. PATRICK'S DAY.** *(From the New York Sun.)* [A St. Patrick's Day ode attributed to Catherine Brennan opens the article — verse-form, narrow column. OCR rendering too noisy to transcribe verbatim. Reads as a sentimental period St. Patrick's Day verse; the body of the ode would benefit from a higher-resolution pass before any verse-quotation in the book.] --- ## Body (descriptive, glossed) [Body of article: descriptive parade-and-mass account. Parade route, the AOH Division 1 + Pinotti Miners + Funeral Guards procession, the morning mass at St. Patrick's church, and the evening ball at Miners' Union Hall. OCR-degraded at the available resolution.] --- ## Committee lists (verbatim from PDF text layer, where the OCR was clean) The following are the names of those on the various committees: **Committee of Arrangements** — J. J. Harrington, Jno. Gilligan, E. Sheehan, M. Burns, M. E. Crosby, F. Foley, M. McKevitt, P. Doyle, D. J. Hennessy. **Reception Committee** — Patrick J. Murphy, D. Driscoll, John Cadigan, John Downey, James H. Lynch, J. J. McHatton, Thomas Ferguson, Dennis Lynch, E. D. Sullivan. **Floor Director** — D. J. Hennessy. **Assistant** — Ed Sheehan. **Floor Committee** — John McGill, W. Shanley, James A. Cantey, John Gilligan, M. McKevitt, O. M. Nulty, Jas. Murphy, P. Doyle, Jos. Hogan, Thomas Curtis, P. J. Brophy. --- ## What still needs work - The Catherine Brennan ode — needs verse-form transcription at higher resolution. - The descriptive parade/mass body paragraphs — narrative detail for the book's Butte Irish-American civic-life chapter. - The ball description at Miners' Union Hall. ARCHIVE NOTE. The Reception Committee list contains **Patrick J. Murphy** — same name as the 1889-03-18 AOH Grand Ball ad clipping where PJ Murphy is on the Reception Committee. Two days apart; same Patrick J. Murphy. Probably the same as `person_patrick_j_murphy_butte_aoh` per existing record. The Floor Committee list contains a separate bare "Jas. Murphy" — distinct individual at the same event.

Open questions

  • Body of the article describes the parade route and the ball. Worth manual transcription against the JPG for direct quotation in the book — the parade route through Butte and the composition (AOH + Funeral Guards + Pinotti Miners) is exactly the kind of period color the chapter wants.
  • Who were the Pinotti Miners? Italian-American or Irish? Worth checking.