Best paper of record for this block: The Helena Independent (daily), October–November 1935. The University of Utah Seismograph Stations retyped 49 contemporary clips into one PDF (accessed 2026-08-26):
https://quake.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/1935-Helena-MT-series-News-Articles.pdf
| Date | Paper | What it says (short) | Use |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1935-10-19 | Helena Independent | Sixth Ward took the brunt. Nash Finch office rear torn out. Christie Transfer warehouse “badly shattered, and practically demolished.” | Occupancy + damage. Quoted again in the 2004 NRHP Depot District form. |
| 1935-10-20 | Helena Independent | Christie Transfer and Storage liquor house, west of the NP depot: roof in, walls out, wall onto a whisky freight car; Ray Howe nearly hit. | Neighbor, not 1316. |
| 1935-10-22 | Helena Independent | Nash-Finch employees David Carlton Shope and Bernice Roland were in the office Friday night; escaped before walls crumbled; married in Missoula Saturday. | Named people in the building. |
| 1935-10-31 | Helena Independent | Building permits: “Nash-Finch company; rebuild end walls and repair roof of company's stone warehouse building; $900.” | THE gold line. Stone warehouse. Repair, not replacement. |
| 1935-11-01 | Helena Independent | Christie of Butte in the old Whitmer building, Logan & 13th — west wall onto a truck. | Different building. Do not mix. |
| 1935-11-12 | Helena Independent | NP depot warehouse district: Nash-Finch, A. M. Holter and other warehouses “nearly restored.” | Still standing, back in trade. |
Full quotations and the “what we will not say” rules: 10_EARTHQUAKE.md.
No digitized Independent / Herald / Record-Herald clip was retrieved that says “Nash-Finch will open at 1316 Bozeman” or “stone warehouse completed on Bozeman.” That is a Chronicling America / MTHS newspaper search still owed:
Search strings (run at https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ and at MTHS):
"Nash-Finch" Helena / "Nash Finch" Helena / "Nash Brothers" Helena"Christie Transfer" Helena / "Christie Transfer and Storage""1316 Bozeman" / "Bozeman avenue" warehouse / "Bozeman street" warehouse"Capital Transfer" Helena (from 1949)"Union Mercantile" Helena (company existed; not tied to this address)Chronicling America JSON endpoint 404’d on one query shape this pass; use the HTML search. Do not invent hits.
| Date | Outlet | What |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-08-29 | Helena As She Was @HelenaHistory (Locals / Facebook lineage) | Names 1316 Bozeman as Nash-Finch warehouse, Christie-managed, adjacent to the liquor wreck. Held in Diane SB Nash Finch Warehouse next to Liquor Store at Earthquake.docx. |
| 2026 (July) | KTVH | Capital Transfer closed July 1; began 1949; John Horne last family. https://www.ktvh.com/news/capital-transfer-and-storage-closes-after-76-years |
Not found for 1316 specifically this pass. If a fire clip exists it is in the Independent or Independent Record morgue at MTHS.
Print the October 31, 1935 permit paragraph and the November 12 “nearly restored” paragraph next to the Knudsen liquor-warehouse photograph. Caption: the house that was repaired, beside the house that fell. That is the board story. Original page scans still to order.