BUTTE GAVE $2,540 FOR IRISH RELIEF

The Butte Daily Post, Butte, 1917-01-20, p.7

Summary

Top-left lead on Butte Daily Post p.7, Saturday 20 January 1917. Report on a public meeting held the previous evening in Butte at which the local committee for the Irish Relief Fund made its official accounting: $2,540 raised by the Butte Irish-American community for famine and Easter-Rising-aftermath relief in Ireland. Body text is too small in the present export to transcribe with confidence — names of committee members, contributors, and the receiving Irish committee are not recoverable at this resolution. The HEADLINE alone is the archive-relevant pull: it establishes that Butte's Irish-American community was sustaining an organised, named, dollar-counted relief operation for Ireland in the months between the Easter Rising (April 1916) and US entry into WWI (April 1917). This is the same Butte Irish-American organisational milieu documented in the 1889 AOH Grand Ball coverage (see [[crossrefs]]) — the AOH and INL chapters that recur across the archive's 1880s–1900s Butte material are the most plausible organisational backbone of any 1917 Irish Relief committee in Butte. Names should be recoverable from a higher-resolution re-pull (Newspapers.com image URL not captured at export).

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  • context_setting
  • ocr_degraded
  • needs_verification

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news_item, public_meeting_report

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Transcription
transcription: partial · confidence low
# BUTTE GAVE $2,540 FOR IRISH RELIEF ## Official Report of Local Committee Made at Meeting Last Evening *The Butte Daily Post, Saturday, January 20, 1917, p. 7, column 1 (top-left lead).* --- **Transcription status: partial.** The headline and deck above are recoverable from the present full-page export. The body of the article (approximately one full column of 8-point newsprint) is not legible at the resolution of the export image. A higher-resolution scan from Newspapers.com or the Library of Congress *Chronicling America* collection is required to transcribe the committee membership, the contributor list, and the named receiving Irish committee. The dollar figure in the headline — **$2,540** — and the framing ("Official Report of Local Committee Made at Meeting Last Evening") are the recoverable facts. *[Body of article — approximately 25–30 column-lines — not transcribed; ocr_degraded.]*

Open questions

  • Who served on the Butte Irish Relief Fund committee in January 1917? Almost certainly drawn from the AOH / Hibernian / INL leadership of the city. Recovery of names from this article would directly test whether person_patrick_j_murphy_butte_aoh (active in Butte Irish-American organisational life from 1889 through at least 1900) was still active and visible in 1917.
  • What was the receiving Irish committee in Dublin? The likeliest candidates in January 1917 are the Irish National Aid Association and the Volunteers' Dependants' Fund — both set up after the Easter Rising to support imprisoned and executed insurgents' families. The two merged later in 1917.
  • Higher-resolution re-pull from Newspapers.com / Library of Congress required before body-text transcription. The image URL was not captured at export time; identify and record on next ingestion of this page.