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Harmon’s Histories: Name-calling nun ignites riot at Missoula Masonic Temple
Harmon’s Histories: Name-calling nun ignites riot at Missoula Masonic Temple
Harmon’s Histories: Name-calling nun ignites riot at Missoula Masonic Temple
It was a lovely spring afternoon, April 28, 1925. The temperature was expected to reach 65 degrees. Downtown, at the Missoula Masonic Temple, a former nun by the name of Sister Lucretia was scheduled to speak. More than 200 women turned out for the event, “some in sympathy with her message and some opposed,” according to local press reports.
Harmon’s Histories: UM physicist, students built Missoula’s 1st radio transmitter
Harmon’s Histories: UM physicist, students built Missoula’s 1st radio transmitter
Harmon’s Histories: UM physicist, students built Missoula’s 1st radio transmitter
Root Electric Company at 127 East Cedar (now Broadway) was displaying the Grebe Synchophase radio receiver. The Dickinson Piano Company featured the Zenith Long Distance radio, capable of picking up broadcasts from “as far as 1,500 miles away.” Even the H. O. Bell auto dealership on South Higgins offered the Radiola, priced from “$35 to $425 with convenient terms, if desired.”

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