The Butte Miner, 1920-08-17, p.8
The Butte Miner, Butte, 1920-08-17, p.8
Summary
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 when influenza swept plague-like through our community, when hospitals were filled to overflowing with victims, doctors were unable to cope... and nurses simply could not be provided," it was the first-aid men of Butte who stepped in "at financial loss to themselves," doing "heroic work." The speaker ties that civic example to the mines' "No Accident" safety-first results. Atmosphere for the 1918-flu / industrial-safety layer of the Butte chapters.
Places
- Butte, Montana (subject)
Themes
Story threads
Tags
- context_setting
- color
Source type
news_item
Transcription
transcription: partial · confidence medium
[...] "Not alone in [connection with the] mining business has this
instruction been of inestimable advantage. You all remember that
during [the dark days] when influenza swept plague-like through our
community, when hospitals were filled to overflowing with victims,
doctors were unable to cope with the disease and nurses simply could
not be provided, the splendid attitude which was taken by the
first-aid men of Butte in offering their services to themselves [sic]
to the community in [...] which they accomplished the heroic work.
"We have just finished a remarkable demonstration of what may be
accomplished as the result of intelligent effort put forth in
safety-first in the re[sults] obtained in the 'No Accident' [...]"
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[Editor's note: PARTIAL and reconstructed across two narrow columns;
bracketed text is inferred from the column break. Full attribution
and remainder deferred to the post-2026-06-01 vision re-pass.]
Open questions
- Speaker/organisation not captured in the legible portion (likely an ACM or mine-safety official addressing a safety meeting). Re-pass after 2026-06-01 to get the attribution and full text.