Mining City History: In 1911, Butte had no shortage of shopping options
RICHARD I. GIBSON Hennessyâs, Symons, and Connellâs, Butteâs largest department stores, typically all ran full-page ads in the run-up to Christmas in 1911. Each also appears to have generated new original artwork every day of the season, at least in December. While Hennessyâs offered real moving picture machines that âshow pictures the same as in theaters ⦠complete with films, for either oil or electricity, at $2.00 and up,â across the corner at Connellâs you could buy a four-volume leather-bound copy of Don Quixote at $5.85 for the set, or...
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