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In 1906 Butte had five suicides from dynamite alone.
Mohammed Akara, a rug peddler, had his name changed in court to Mohammed Murphy-- "for business reasons."
--From Copper Camp: The Lusty Story of Butte, Montana, the Richest Hill on Earth, by the Writers' Project of Montana (mostly by William A. Burke), published 1943
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