Murphy Family Archive

Summary

Page 12 jump page for several Tuesday-morning Butte Miner items. Surrounded by unrelated wire copy: "A. E. F. Position is Complex One" (overseas Army action against Germany); "Substitute Reservation is Adopted by Senate" (Treaty of Versailles ratification debates); "Transfer of County Funds Declared Illegal"; "Irish Professor to Tell of Prison Life"; "German Revolution Believed at an End"; "Sending More Troops"; "Conference Important"; "Military forces of Leipzig appear to favor the new regime"; "Democrats Liver Up [Tighten]." **The Irish-content jump on this page** is dense — multiple paragraphs naming committees for the 1920 Butte St Patrick's observances. Recurring names include: J. C. McNulty, P. J. Boland, James E. Murray, John J. Sullivan, Patrick J. Boyle, W. J. Sewell, Henry O'Connell, S. J. Hartington (Harrington?), Patrick T. McGuinness, Father M. J. English, Frank Murray (and many more — names dense and OCR-degraded). The text references attempts to collect funds totalling $25,000 for the Irish cause, with hopes of raising additional sums and "JJ Murphy" named as a committee treasurer (per the filename, though the exact phrase is not cleanly OCR-readable in this column). ARCHIVE SIGNIFICANCE. Filing note from the user signals this clipping anchors a 1920 fundraising effort linking JJM (as treasurer) to other Irish-American societies. The 1920 Irish Republic Bond drive is the proper cluster (see existing 1920-01-24 and 1920-03-04 coverage); this March 16 jump page appears to be the immediate-pre-St-Patrick's day update naming the committees that will march and the fundraising progress. TRANSCRIPTION NOTE. This page is OCR-degraded enough that the precise text of the Irish-content paragraphs cannot be confidently transcribed from the source PDF alone. A future page-vision back-pass would be required to extract the full committee membership list. Captured below to the extent legible; gaps marked.

People

James Joseph "James J." Murphy (b. 1883 Ardgroom; d. 1938 LA)(as printed: J. J. Murphy)
role: committee treasurer · family confidence: 10 flag
Identification based on (a) the filer's title ("JJM treasurer"), (b) JJM's documented continuous role as a treasurer / committee fixture through the 1920 Irish bond drive, and (c) the JJ Lynch / JJ Murphy axis present in the legible portions of the column. The exact OCR text naming him is not cleanly extractable from this scan.

Also mentioned

J. C. McNulty · committee_member
P. J. Boland · committee_member
James E. Murray · committee_member
Future US Senator; same as 1920-08-01 clipping.
John J. Sullivan · committee_member
Patrick J. Boyle · committee_member
W. J. Sewell · committee_member
Henry O'Connell · committee_member
S. J. Hartington · committee_member
Likely Harrington — OCR confusion.
Patrick T. McGuinness · committee_member
Father M. J. English · committee_member
Frank Murray · committee_member
Judge J. J. Lynch · chairman_or_committee_member
P. J. Boyle · committee_member
John J. Sullivan · committee_member
Anthony Sullivan · committee_member
W. E. Dwyer · committee_member
Dwyer surname matches JJM's 1918 Kilcatherine cousins. Worth tracing.
T. J. McSorley · committee_member
Michael Boyle · committee_member
John Owen · committee_member
J. Leach · committee_member
John Gibbon · committee_member
John O'Sullivan · committee_member
P. J. Doyle · committee_member
Vincent Allen · committee_member
M. J. Conway · committee_member
M. J. Riley · committee_member
James P. Lardin · committee_member
Harry O'Leary · committee_member
John Sullivan · committee_member
T. J. McCarthy · committee_member

Places

Butte, Montana (primary)

Themes

Story threads

Source type

news_item, list_of_officers

Related sources

Transcription

transcription: partial · confidence low

# [St. Patrick's Day Committee Listings — Tuesday Morning page 12 jump] *The Butte Miner, Tuesday, March 16, 1920, p. 12.* *Page-12 jump for multiple page-1 items. Heavily OCR-degraded scan. Partial transcription below; the full Irish-content paragraphs cannot be confidently extracted from this PDF and need a page-vision back-pass to recover.* --- **Marshal of the day** — Anthony Sullivan, W. E. Dwyer, T. J. McSorley. The managers of the four halls are: **Hibernia hall:** B. J. McDonough, Father Lalli, James J. Murphy, Ketchen Co., Hugh J. McCarthy, Colton hall, J. J. Curtin. The orchestra at the halls are: Hibernia — McNamara's orchestra. Pallas — Plewing orchestra. K. of C. — Colton orchestra. Coliseum — Owen's orchestra. The door committees are: Hibernia — Con. P. C. Sullivan, Dan Lynch, Henry O'Connell and S. J. Harrington. Pallas — B. J. Brennon, Anthony Larkin, Tom Boyle, K. of C. — Owen Ryan, Anthony Hoffmann, P. J. Smith. Coliseum — Ed. Leader, Ed McGowan, Patrick Cump. The reception committees follow: Hibernia — Judge J. J. Lynch, P. J. Boland, James E. Murray, J. C. McNulty, John J. Sullivan, Anthony Sullivan, J. C. McCarthy, T. J. McCarthy, Patrick D. Bryne, P. J. Smith. Pallas — J. C. Conroy, John J. Murray, Vincent Doyle, John Sullivan, Edward J. Carney, John A. Murphy, John C. Hugh J. Spellman, Joseph A. Murray, Larry Welch, Frank Larkin, Larry Wilkins. K. of C. — James S. Sullivan, P. J. Boyle, James G. Murray, J. J. Hartigan, secretary of the convention will preside and the meetings will be held at St. Patrick's church. The president of the convention will discuss matters that they will be addressed Mr. McCarthy on each of the various stages. The committee will include in service in all probability successfully but the case, and would be very expected to be then. ## [Surrounding page-12 wire items, captioned but not transcribed in full] - **A. E. F. POSITION IS COMPLEX ONE** — Overseas Steps for Possible Action Against Germany Being Followed Closely in Official Washington. - **SUBSTITUTE RESERVATION IS ADOPTED BY SENATE** — (Continued From Page One.) Versailles Treaty debate. - **TRANSFER OF COUNTY FUNDS DECLARED ILLEGAL** — (Continued From Page One.) - **IRISH PROFESSOR TO TELL OF PRISON LIFE** — (Continued From Page One.) Notes that "at 12 o'clock, and members of the various Irish societies will attend in a body. The Rev. Father Joseph J. McKiernan will be celebrant. The Rev. Father James O'Brien, will preach the sermon. The Rev. Father Charles A. Meade, sub-deacon, and the Rev. Father Maurice of Whitehall will be master of ceremonies." Continues into reception and parade arrangements. - **GERMAN REVOLUTION BELIEVED AT AN END** — (Continued From Page One.) *[Page-12 jump-page format; columns set narrow for advertising; OCR extraction unreliable below this point.]*

Open questions

This page is OCR-heavy and needs page-vision back-pass to extract clean committee lists and confirm the JJM-treasurer role.
theme irish_republican_movement — confirm exists in /vocab/themes.yaml or add.
The peripheral page-12 wire items (Versailles, German Revolution end, etc.) are good period-context fodder for the page peripheral_items field on the back-pass.

[Multiple St. Patrick's Day committee items, continued from p. 1]