NAME COMMITTEE FOR ST. PATRICK'S HOLIDAY
The Butte Daily Post, Butte, 1917-02-16, p.3
Summary
Centre column on Butte Daily Post p.3, Friday 16 February 1917 — one month and one day before St. Patrick's Day. Brief news item announcing the committee named to organise Butte's St. Patrick's Day observance for 1917. As with other Butte AOH / Hibernian organisational announcements in the archive, the committee membership is the substantive content of the piece; the body text is below the readable threshold of the present full-page export, so individual names cannot be transcribed here. The HEADLINE alone records the fact that the committee was named and the date by which it was named (1917-02-16) — anchoring the cluster. Pairs directly with the 1917-01-20 Irish Relief Fund clipping on the same paper (see [[crossrefs]]): both establish that Butte's Irish-American organisational leadership was active and visible in the local press in the first quarter of 1917, between the Easter Rising and US entry into WWI.
Places
- Butte, Montana (primary)
- Montana (context)
Themes
Story threads
Tags
- context_setting
- ocr_degraded
- needs_verification
Source type
news_item, list_of_officers
Related sources
- 1889-03-18 — The Daily Inter Mountain, p.2 — GRAND BALL by the Ancient Order of Hibernians at the Miners' Union Hall on Monday, March 18, '89.
- 1889-03-20 — The Butte Weekly Miner, p.4 — 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.
- 1900-03-22 — The Butte Daily Post, p.3 — DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. / Daly Faction Has a Working Majority. / HARRIS IS TURNED DOWN. / Routes by McArthur For Temporary Chairman — The Platform is Harmless.
- 1917-01-20 — The Butte Daily Post, p.7 — BUTTE GAVE $2,540 FOR IRISH RELIEF
Transcription
Open questions
- Who served on Butte's 1917 St. Patrick's Day committee? Recovery of names would test continuity with the 1889 AOH Division No. 1 Reception Committee (which included person_patrick_j_murphy_butte_aoh and person_dj_hennessy_butte).
- Was the 1917 committee organised under the AOH, the Hibernian State organisation, the Irish National League, or an ad-hoc civic group? In Butte the AOH was the usual organising body for St. Patrick's Day through this period.
- 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.