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Library of Congress1936

Image 2 of The Hardin tribune-herald (Hardin, Mont.), August 21, 1936

PAGE TWO Early Newspapers Colored by Tides and Prejudices of Gold and Copper Camps War Vigilantes and DalyClark Feud Were All in Their Stride PRESS HAULED BY OXCART OVER PLAINS NOTED MEN HELPED EDIT TOM BAKER LEADING NEWSMAN OF TIMES Strong Southern Leanings At Virginia City Moved Montana Post to Helena Miner Deficits Cost Clark High His Control of A P at Butte Forced Daly to Publish At Anaconda By W W CHEELY A few weeks following the dis covery of gold in Grasshopper Creek Bannack a printer with a small army press and a shirt tail full of type appeared in Bannack unloaded his outfit and announced that he had come to the new gold fields to establish the first news paper in the territory which was then Idaho He immediately pro ceeded to get out his first and only issue of the Bannack NewsLetter a small poster size sheet In this work he was assisted by CoL Wil bur F Sanders who wrote the salu tatory and several other editorials Stampede Follows A few days after the publication of the Initial issue of the Bannack News Letter came the news of the phenom enal strike by Bill Fairweather

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Library of Congress1954

Image 4 of The Hardin tribune-herald (Hardin, Mont.), October 7, 1954

Hardin TribuneHerald Thursday October 7 1954 4 ESTABLISHED 1907 OFFICIAL PAPER BKJ HORN COUNTY County 350 Published every Thursday and entered NATIOMAI EDITOIIAI April 4 1925 at the Postoffice at Har i I I Tq T 4m din Montana for transmission through 1 I 7 r the mails as secondclass matter under the act of Congress March 3 1879 EBiTORIAL Newspaper Week National Newspaper Week is Oct 1 to 8 and if we tend to boast a little just now perhaps we may be in dulged For the newspaper which regularly devotes it self to bring news and the interpretation of news to your homes has a message of its own We believe that mes sage worthy of some attention The American newspaper occupies a unique place in the world Its freedom to print is guaranted by the Constitution It has been considered from the begin nings of the Republic and from even before that an essential instrument in the lives of the American people Its basic purpose has been and always will be the same To tell the happenings of the day Here the func tion is of particular importance in regards to the hap penings of government which

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Library of Congress1961

Image 1 of The Hardin tribune-herald (Hardin, Mont.), October 19, 1961

w f VOL 54 NO 42 Denny elected president of state School Boards Sam Denny chairman of the Board of Trustees of School Dis trict 17H since 1953 was elected president of the Montana School Board association at the annual convention of that organization in Havre last Friday and Saturday Denny was vice president of the group the past year When he completes his current term next spring he will have a record of 15 years of service on the local School Board He says he has only missed a meeting or two of the state association since that tmei Last May he was Mon tanas delegate to the convention of the National School Board as sociation in Philadelphia The new state president has been active in many other community affairs in Big Horn county He is Jbl Sam Denny a director of the Big Horn Soil Conservation district and the Fed eral Land Banks Wyola district He is also currently a member of the Federal Home administra tion committee and is a past ASC committeeman He is also a Past Master of Sts John Lodge No 92 A F and A M Mr and Mrs Denny returned Sunday from

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Library of Congress1956

Image 2 of The Harlem news (Harlem, Mont.), May 4, 1956

The Harlem News JOHNSONS PUBLISHERS Frank R Norberg Editor NeR Johnson Manager Maxine Johnson SecyTreai Ulate Iitil as secondclass matter at the post office at Harlem Montana July 13 1908 under the Act of March 9 1879 Nail ON A L EDITORIAL J A S C 3 T N VTATE PREsWi rns433CHiniH SUBSCRIPTION PRICES One year in county 300 Six months 175 One year outside county _ 359 Six months 200 One year in Canada 450 Payable in Advance Just Along for the Ride Most merchants of a town are interested in seeing their town expand Yet it is surprising to see the number of merchants who deliberately stop a town from expanding They do this indirect Ay of course They do not realize what they are doing I have long maintained that a town that is filled with alert aggressive businessmen is a town that will progress and expand lit cant miss These businessmen never miss an opportunity to Wiring about this expansion They exploit their town and their businesses They do this mainly by advertising in their local newspaper because they realize this will not only help them di rectly but will aid them more indirectlyby having a

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Library of Congress1927

Image 3 of The Wolf Point herald (Wolf Point, Mont.), April 22, 1927

Official Proceedings Of The County Board Adjourned Regular Board Meeting December 28th 1926 The board met at 10 SO a m with all members present The board spent the forenoon discussing county business At 12 p m the hoard recessed to meet at 130 p m At 130 p m the board resumed Motion made by Weinrich seconded by Leeson that Wm Powers of Rainville be appointed as agent to represent the county in trying to get Senate bill No 4825 and amendments r substitution passed by Congress All members voting Aye Motion made by Leeson seconded by Weinrich that the county superintendent of schools be granted thirty days leave of absence from the state after January 1st 192V Motion made by Leeson seconded by Weinrich to approve of the security bonds of Behlan Bros ferry men at Culbertson Montana amount of 200000 Motion made by Leeson to allow Mrs Hannah Carter of Froid 500 per month additional aid until May 1st Seconded by Weinrich The clerk read the proceedings of Nov 15th Dec 678 Motion made and seconded to approve of the proceedings as read by the clerk Motion made and seconded to recess until 1030 a m Dec

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Library of Congress1935

Image 7 of The Wolf Point herald (Wolf Point, Mont.), August 9, 1935

I 1935 bint Herald ant to Make Them n Bht Ji I I hr checks la nt to Make Them fOU BY THIS NEWSPAPER rin the distribution of hundreds o f dollars in warded FREE Lription Campaign Just Starting I married or single and boys and girls mis city and surrounding territory It pts are guaranteed compensation for knnot lose Read this announcement me coupons below and send them in rood start is the battle half won lls Easy The Rewards Big ard Is Listed Below Ie I mouth Sedan OORRetail Value 69000 Camrud Motors esired E THE ABOVE AMOUNT 0000 IN CASH AND ITS Isevelt McCone and Eastern Valley Counties itlt Herald Wolf Point Montana Telephone 59 Second Major Award Vacation Trip to Pacific International Exposition San Diego California nWMwBBiI Vacation trip to California Pacific International Exposi tion in San Diego This trip is sure to be a source of enjoy ment to the winner of the award Think of being able to spend a weeks vacation visiting the Exposition then to Long Beach and the beaches Then to Hollywood visiting the movie lots seeing your favorite stars at work as well as hundreds of other sights well worth

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Library of Congress1929

Image 4 of The Poplar standard (Poplar, Mont.), November 14, 1929

POPLAB MONTAXA poplar Staniiarh And Continuation Of Qfte Srncktnn bulletin CARPENTER DELGER PUBLISHERS THE BEST IN NEWSPAPER JOB PRINTING BEBVICE Subscription Prices29o Per Year Entered as second elans matter on May 10 1910 at the poet office at Poplar Montana under the Aet of March 8 1879 LETS PREPARE With Fire Prevention Week only a short time past it is probably unnecessary to comment further upon the need of utmost precaution in this direction during the coming months especially However from now on is the season when fire losses are most apt to occur and it comes to mind that it would be ad visable for the fire department to be particularly vigilant Several months during which the city has been fortunate in avoiding serious fires have perhaps lull ed the majority into a sense of security in this re gard Experience with fires convinces that such an attitude encourages them While the weather permits and before a real need arises it would be well for Poplars volunteer fire men to reorganize and familiarize themselves with the equipment and processes of firefighting Why not repost the members and have a practice alarm to get everything working smoothly before a fire

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Library of Congress1943

Image 6 of The Poplar standard (Poplar, Mont.), December 9, 1943

PAGE SIX The POPLAR STANDARD Aad Coat insat ion Of Hl BROCKTON BULUTIN Offistal artnyspsr of Bomsvek OsuAy Dtnh Dslgsr Psbttabsr Edgar Erickson Editor Th Bert la Newspaper And Job Printing Berries Subscription 200 Per Year Entered aa a cond claa matter on Muy IS Ilo at the post office at Poplar Montana unJr the Act of March 3 I7 REALISTIC DEMOBILIZATION PROGRAM In mr peace luv me latil civilian tin not become effective soldier overnight the nrimd force earefttllv train them into the world best Thi requir month of conditionin ontcrMly mc cannot exiHri our fighter to begin function ing u civilian the mom lit the war i over A any mother who ha hail a on home on furlough know a cll i needed for re ad jutmcnl Kaliic undcrtanding of thi i the core of the demobili zation plan brine advocated to interested Senate committee anti the American Legion by the National Aociation of Manufac turer It would provide Clothing allowance of SIOO uMn discharge three week furlough anti transportation to ami from home for those not to be demobilized immediately full bac ay up to SIOO a month and full family allowance for the first three

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Library of Congress1955

Image 4 of The Poplar standard (Poplar, Mont.), March 18, 1955

Page Four THE POPLAR STANDARD and continuation of THE BROCKTON BULLETIN NATIOMAITioiTOtIAI 1 Entered as Second Class Matter on May 10 1910 at the Postoffice at Poplar Mont under the Act of March 1879 Subscription 300 Per Year 400 Per Year Outside Poplar Trade Area Outside of State of Montana 500 GLENN E BUNNELL Editor and Manager Mr Ethel Marquardt Associate Editor Harry N Downs and Mike M Vukelich Owners and Publishers The Best in Newspaper and Job Printing Service TELEPHONE 3171 WHEN IS COMMUNITY SERVICE NOT COMMUNITY SERVICE A weekly newspaper such as The Poplar Standard makes every effort to be a community service but if that service is to be continued it must show a profit The newspaper has only one way to justify the financial investment of the publisher and that is by sale of space in its advertising columns The Poplar Standard has always been a ready boos ter for any civic or public project and has willingly given much space to help promote the March of Dimes Red Cross Cancer fund drive Christman Seals Easter Seals and many other projects of strictly local nature The Standard too has given space to various church and service

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Library of Congress1963

Image 3 of The Poplar standard (Poplar, Mont.), January 25, 1963

Poplar Montana Ihe Poplar Standard Friday January 25 19G3 3 THE POPLAR STANDARD Newspaper Advertising DOESNT INTRUDE It Goes Where It Is Invited PEOPLE BUY NEWSPAPERS BECAUSE THEY WANT ALL THE NEWS They are as much interested in the advertising columns as the news columns because adveitising is the news of what is avail able in goods and services at the stores they know There are no gadgets to turn off the advertising in news papers Nobody wants it turned off Every survey ever made shows that people prefer to have the newspaper they buy contain adveitising because the Advertising Is News The newspaper is there all day and far into the night It is there for the whole family to read And They Do It is there to be read at the time and under the circumstances When the reader asks to be informed It is there for the house wife to tear out the ads and take them with her when she shops And She Does There are no dials to turn on There is no problem of turning the dial at just the right time There is never a question about whether the advertisers message gets to

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Library of Congress1927

Image 4 of Plentywood herald (Plentywood, Mont.), April 8, 1927

jplrntufannb lisralb PUBLISHED EVEKY FRIDAY C S NELSON Editor and Publisher Entered hb secondclas matter Novemner 13 1908 at the post office at Plentywood Montana a ider the Act of March 3 187S TermsIn Advance per year 200 133 Advertising Rates very reasonable will be furnished upon application What Newspaper Ads Did It was only a few years ago that the retail stores in towns and the smaller cities did the bulk of their weeks busi ness on Saturday While the other five business days might have paid expenses the merchant depended upon the Satur day sales for the major portion of his weeks profit Needless to say the aver age merchant would have been exempt from excess profits taxes in those days The newspaper is given credit for dis covering the possibility of scattering the Saturday peak load over the six business days of the week and it was newspaper advertising which has achieved the pre sent more equitable distribution of the weeks business Saturday is still the merchants busy day but now he is onl a little less busy on the preceding five days This is only one of the many services performed for business by newspaper ad

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Library of Congress1903

Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), April 30, 1903

Literary News and Notes Marjie of the Lower Ranch is the attractive title which lias been given to the story which lias hitherto been an nounced as A Ranch Romance by a Real Ranch Girl J lie 0 M Clark Publishing Company will issue this book in September Miss Cairo M Clark who is at the head of this re markably successful bouse will be the guest of Miss Frances Parker the author of Marjie on her fathers ranch in the Rears Paw Mountains Montana in May The Columbia Club of Portland which has been studying ttie Maine writers this season recently listened to a sketch of the life of Kate Putnam Osgood of Boston one of the sweet singers who went out from the historic old town of Fryeburg including a des cription of the beautiful village which was her home and the Saco valley as a setting to the famous war time poem Driving Home the Cows which was given in closing by Mrs K S Osgood whose husband is a cousin of Kate Put nam Mrs Hiram L Cox was hostess Tiie Open Air Number of Leslies Monthly justifies its name by some re markable outofdoor articles

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Library of Congress1933

Image 6 of The Western news (Libby, Mont.), December 14, 1933

The WEDDING WVRCH MURDER _v til 1 MONTE BARRETT y s U u u S m WKU SERVICE Sy Tin BoUsMtrriîl Co n iVî SYNOPSIS Waiting In the ministers study while the wedding procession is being mar shaled Jim Franklin about to be mar rled to Doris Carmody Is stabbed to death Callis Shipley one of the brides maids is obviously In a state of anxiety CHAPTER IContinued O 2 Without waiting to be Informed he knelt beside the bridegrooms body Then with a low shh of expelled breath he turned a startled counte nance to Peter again Jim Franklin he ejaculated Look here Doctor The medical examiner knelt beside him and with swift fingers laid back the vest and shirt that covered the wounds Franklins death had been caused by two knife thrusts one a longjagged tear across the groin the second a smooth deep wound between the ribs at or near the heart This second wound was about three Inches wide and at either end a small blue bruise half the size of a dime stood out against the white skin Sergeant Klldays glance darted about the room questlonlngly The knife Isnt here Sergeant Nick Royce Informed him

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Library of Congress1940

Image 6 of The Western news (Libby, Mont.), March 28, 1940

Hie TAMARACK t il Published weekly by the Students of Libby High School THE STAFF MONTAN Raymond Rubard Eleanor Rodgers Eilen Stuhlreiter Editor in Chief Assistant Editor News Editor Feature Editors IE OUNDIO 9 June Hunter Celia Nolop Gilbert Earle Carole Staley Elizabeth Rubard Keith Powell Ardyth Keller Lois Pilcher Virginia Eldredge Sports Edlti Cub Report Typtet t Advteer d s ÄÄS right pains is a valuable asset and helps us to attain the goals which we seek Courage enables us to make unafraid and undaunted pro EDITORIAL We Learn to Rule by Learning to Obey Announcements have been made on the average of twice a day for the past two weeks pertaining to the newly enforced ruling that there be absolutely no talking from 830 until 900 and from 1230 to 100 in the study hall Subconsciously of course each of us has heard this announcement but we either dont think a laxity that should be curbed or else we just arent in the habit of obeying an even more serious fault Obedience is the first step in characterbuilding Upon the foundation laid through obedi gross We must have courage to do the right thing at the right time

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Library of Congress1944

Image 7 of The Western news (Libby, Mont.), January 27, 1944

REXFORD WgMM MMMXXXXM M KtXMMXXMWœ The honor roll for the upper grades has the following nqmes Ienore Logsdon Lloyd Knapp Ma rie Hammons Donald Darling Eve lyn Wnite Jack Fleming Donald De Shazer Hugh Knapp and Rose Logsdon ixwer grades Robert Fleming Shirley Kins Jerry Knapp John Leib Vernon McCully Benjamin White Pauline Farr Pauline White Upper attendance Perfect grades Hugh Knapp Robert Knapp Joe Logsdon David Leib and Ma rie Hammons Perfect grades Kins Arnold Tony Torres Benjamin White Gladys Hammons Pauline White j Lower Hammons Kay John Leib ichard Torres attendance Arthur Jerry Knapp Torres Ri Mrs Ralph Burlingham of Libby visited at the E W Butts home last week Bruce Leighty returned last Wed nesday from Butte where he was in ducted into the army Bruce will leave early in February to train in a ski troop division Mrs Carl Iverson and children of Columbia Falls visited at the Monte Gaertner home the fore part of last week Announcement was made recent ly of the birth of a daughter to ML and Mrs Wesley Lobshur of Moose Pass Alaska Mrs Lobshur will be remembered as the former Anna Smith of Rexford Mrs M E Anderson went to

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Library of Congress1946

Image 3 of The Western news (Libby, Mont.), January 31, 1946

Seasonal Needs In Hardware TT Alfadin Lamps and Accessories Bath Room Scales r yj I t J9F k Universal I i I I 1 Food Choppers Kitchen Canister Sets 4pieces 125 NOW is the time to get all of those jobs around home finished before 1 spring brings on other problems Paint that Cupboard chair with or FULLER PAINTS and VARNISHES 1 îjij I L Incubator Dairy and Houeshold Thermometers Electric Ranges Water Heaters Now Available I u o i y FOOD COVERS Just received a shipment of Household SHEARS of all sizes from 50c up en Spatulas KOOTENAI MERCANTILE COMPANY EUREKA NEWS Tobacco Valley Grange 1 jl e Tobacco Valley Grange open ed luesday night January 22 with the singing of God Bless America Sister Alverson gave the supper report of the free dance given Jan uary 12 Sister Jean Johnson appointed her committee of home economics for the ensuing year namely Elsie Helms Mary Quirk Rachael Helms Ruby Stevens and Elizabeth Roe Each was assigned her duties for the year gave a hint on caring for small boys trousers she dyes them When cords fad She alwavs runs them through the wrine nronerv creasedShe dLTayed a samole of

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Library of Congress1946

Image 8 of The Western news (Libby, Mont.), February 28, 1946

CaCteSC4CCoaC4CCteC4eeCCCSCC4CCCCCCC4 CICICICICICICCICICICICCICClrrt Shirley Thompson is staying with her grandparents Mr and Mrs Earl Buckingham while her parents arc in California on business Mrs H B Wallace spent several days with her daughter Mrs Dick Smith Peggy Boomer entered St Johns Lutheran Hospital Sunday for ob servation due to an attack of ap pendicitis She was operated on Monday morning and is doing as well as could be expected Patsy Boomer took part in Rain bow initiation Monday evening Mr add Mrs J T Shanholtzer visited at the Fred Robertson home Saturday evening Mrs Floyd Bowen plans to leave by bus Wednesday for Kalispcll Missoula and other points There was a Grange meetnig at Wm Vanderwoods Sunday after noon at two oclock A large crowd attended the card Fermenter Valley _ r party at the Giange hall n ay evening AH report a good time Bessie Wallace Rose Robertson and Eyra Shanholtzer attended Lib by Gai den club at Mrs Mae Gompf s Tuesday afternoom The next meet mg will be at Margarete Weyde meyers and will be potluck Every one be ready with a new hint on housecleaning Someone will win a neat prize 1 COUNTIES MAY HAVE AUDITOR HelenaURAtty

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